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Home Page Manager Feature in Detail
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How to Configure Home Page:

Describes step-by-step, how to configure the Home Page.

  • From the Site Administration Menu select “Home Page”  option (4b).
  • To inherit from Site Settings leave the default radio button option “Site Settings” selected; otherwise select the “Other” radio button and select a collection from the list box.
  • For each option that you want to override from the inherited settings, check the Override checkbox before making the selection.
  • 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, Main Content and Footer Collections.  Note that the Page Style determines if the template has either Left or Right Side Bars.
  • Enter your greeting message in the Greeting memo field. You may enter or paste plain text or HTML into the Greeting memo field.  You may also insert one or more of the Greeting Tags listed below.  Greeting Tags are used to dynamically insert data into the Greeting.
  • Upload a Greeting Image by clicking on the Browse  button and selecting an image to upload. 
  • 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. After reviewing the Home Page, close the Preview page window.
  • You’re finished.  You may click the Close button to close the Home Page Manager page and return to the Site Administration Main Menu.

 


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