Administration - Help
Welcome to the online help. This help is divided into the several administration areas. But before starting to create pages or users you might at first configure the main settings of the website. This settings you find under chapter 1.9 or directly in the administration interface via Configuration->Settings.

### 1. Main area

You enter the main area direcly after your login. The following settings are available in here:

#### 1.1 Page contents

Here you can edit the contents of the pages that are to be shown in your website. Select the edit-icon to edit the content of a page and choose finally "Save" to apply your changes or "Cancel" to discard them. You may edit the contents either as plain HTML or you might use the WYSIWYG-editor.
If a page is not of the type "Page with content", you may find another button edit the specific additional content (e.g. for a picture gallery).

#### 1.2 Pages

Here you define the structure of your website. Choose "new page" to create a new page, "Delete" to delete a page, "Edit" to modify a page or "Lock" and "Unlock" to remove a page temporary from your website without deleting it.
Pages can be of differnt types, a normal "Page with content" as well as a page with additional content e.g. gallery or link-list. An exception is the page type "Link" - this kind of pages do not own a content and are just pointing to a page inside your website or one from the internet.
Important settings for pages:

- Title - the title of the page
- Navigation title - the title for the navigation entry
- Navigation level - defines the navigation level in which the page should be shown (navigations levels start at 0, if the page should not be included you can also choose -1 in here)
- Navigation position - defines the position of the page within the navigation (higher values definer upper positions, lower values lower positions)
- Show navigations levels - defines the navigations levels (if there are multiple), that should be shown on this page. If your website has only one navigation level, you can leave this field empty
- Show in navigation - defines if the page should be shown in navigation (or e.g. if the page is just to be linked to)
- Is main page - defines, if a page should be a mainpage for a website - select this for a single page only
- Not deletable - a security mechanism which allows you to avoid deleting important pages

Other page types (like gallery or link-list) contain additional parameters to be filled.
NOTE: A link for an internal page can be copied from the "Page-link" field of the pages or page content list.

#### 1.3 Page images/files

Here you can mange the images that you want to use within your pages ("New page image", "Edit", "Delete", "Lock"/"Unlock"). These images do not affect extended page types like e.g picture galleries - these pages manage their images theirselves.
Page files behave like pages are images, but these intended as downloads (e.g. PDF files) within the pages.
NOTE: To retrieve the link for an image, copy the text of the "Image link" field and paste it into the desired page content.

#### 1.4 Splash page

Here you can configure a page that becomes temporary the start-page of your website, e.g. to indicate important changes towards the user. This splash page can contain a text and an image. Keep in mind to not activate this page all the time because it may scare off potential visitors.

#### 1.5 Survey page

Here you can configure a page that becomes temporary the start-page of your website, to do a survey or raffle with your visitors. A survey needs a title, a question, a set of possible answers and free definable input fields for things you want to know about the users - e.g. name, email, address... You may also select, if you want to receive notifications via mail.

#### 1.6 Survey results

This page shows a list of the results of the survey page. You may delete results in here.

#### 1.7 Maintenance page

This is a specific page, that can be shown if you want to update your website or do the first installation of it. You may also use an image and a content for this page in here.

#### 1.8 Newsletter

Here you can send a newsletter to users that have the newsletter-flag set. This users shall register themselves on a newsletter page of your site to avoid sending spam!

#### 1.9 Configuration

This defines the basic parameters of your website.

- Website tiele - the title of your website
- Charset - the character set of your website (e.g. UTF-8)
- Description: - the website description
- Search engine keywords: - keywords for search engines
- Website URL: - the URL to your website (e.g. www.mysite.com)
- Revisit interval: - for search engines, e.g. 3days, 5days, 7days etc.
- Enable form SPAM-protection: - if activated, all forms (guestbook, contact, newsletter, form) contain an additinal checksum which must be entered - this prevents computer programs (bots) from sending SPAM through this pages.
- Contact email-address: - the email-address that should be used for contact-pages
- Display counter on main page - your website counts the visitors automatically. If you want this shown to the visitor, you may activate this
- Language - switches the language
- Enable WYSIWYG-editor - defines, if you may edit page contents by the help of an WYSIWYG editor (easier for beginners) or as plain HTML
- Wrap text - Defines, if long lines should be wrapped
- Restrict images - select this, if you want to restrict the image measurement for site images to be uploaded
- Image background color - The background color for images that cannot be strechted to the given measurements (affects other pages types that use images, too)

#### 1.10 Users

There are the follwing user types

- Reporter - a user that is allow to manipulate page contents
- Site owner - a user that can manage the whole website
- Administrator - a user that can manage even system critical tasks

It depends on the way you want to manage your website, if you even need several users. But anyway, a user should have an alias and a password to log into the admistrative area.

#### 1.11 Emails

Here you can have a look at the emails which are genereted by the system. You have also the possibility to delete them in here.

#### 1.12 Themes

This allows you to switch the design of your website (if several themes are available). The advantage of a theme is, that you can change it without taking care of your website structure or its contents (in most cases).

#### 1.13 Logos

Here you may change or restore the main logos of your website..

#### 1.14 System info

Shows you some basic informations about your website (server settings, PHP settings, software settings, visitors count, ...).

#### 1.15 PHP info

Shows the PHP-info. This might be useful for error detection. Not necessary for the normal website duty..

#### 1.16 Edit folders

This allows you direct access to all files and folders of the application and the ability to modify them.
Here you can rename or delete files and folders as well as creating new folders and upload new files. Existing files can be edited in here if they are plain textfiles.
NOTE: You should only make changes here, if you are an experienced user!