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Site Settings Management Feature in Detail
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How to Configure Site Settings:

Describes step-by-step how to configure Site Settings.

  • From the Site Administration Menu select “Site Settings”  option (4a).
  • Click on the Page Style option “View Styles”  to open the Style Selection page and select a Page Style. 
  • Browse the Page Styles listed on the Standard tab.
  • When you find one that you like, click the “Select”  option.
  • Repeat the same process for the Header Style and the Footer Style.
  • Click the Color Scheme “Edit”   button to open Color Manager and configure a color scheme.

  • Select Background and Foreground (Font) colors for each option. You have the choice of manually entering the color’s hexadecimal code or using the Color Palette by clicking on the  icon. 

  • When using the Color Palette to select a Color, click the color then be sure to click the Ok button after making your selection.  The Ok button is located at the bottom of the Color Palette window.
  • When finished with your color selections, click the Color Manager page’s Close button and be sure to answer “Yes” to save your changes.
  • Click the Header Collection “Edit”   button to open Header Collection Manager and select components such as menu bars to be included in your header. 
  • The number of menus and their type is determined by the Header Style that you have chosen.  For this tutorial let’s presume that your Header Style contains a single menu bar which uses drop downs.
  • Highlight Header Menu Bar 1 in the Available Components.
  • Click the “Add New”  button to create a new Record Set for the Menu Bar.
  • Create Menu Topics.  See the chapter of the guide titled Menu Features in Details for an explanation of Menu Builder.
  • Create Menu Items for each Menu Topic.
  • Close Menu Builder.
  • Highlight the newly added Record Set then click the right arrow  button to add the Component and Record Set to the Selected Components list.
  • Browse the Available Components and add the ones you want included in your header such as Site Search, Login, etc.
  • When finished with your Header Collection, click the Close button and be sure to answer “Yes” to save your changes.
  • Repeat the same process for each Side Bar and for the Footer Collection.  The Page Style determines if the template has either Left or Right Side Bars.
  • Enter your copyright message in the Copyright field.
  • Enter a title in the Report Title field that you want displayed on reports.
  • Enter a title in the Admin Page Title field that you want displayed on Administrative Pages.  Typically this is your organization’s name.
  • Enter a title in the Title 1 field that you want displayed in your header as the primary title.  This is typically your organization’s name.
  • Enter a title in the Title 2 field that you want displayed in your header as the secondary title.  This is typically your organizations slogan.
  • Set Use Title to “Text”.
  • Enter your organization’s mailing address, phone, FAX and email.
  • Enter a title in the Page Title field.
  • Enter a description of your website in the Meta Tag Description field.
  • Enter a list of keywords for your website in the Meta Tag Keywords field.
  • Click the Save button to save the collection.
  • Click the Preview button view a sample page.
  • Click the Close button to close the Site Settings Management page.

 


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