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Site Administration

The idea behind this area of the "Admin Suite" is to provide general controls for managing your web site. Click on "Site Administration" in "Admin Suite" and you will be directed to the window shown bellow.

Administrate Homepage

Your Homepage is the page located at www.YourSiteName.com/home.html and is generally the page that someone sees directly after your splash page or if you don't have a splash page it will be located at /default.html. This window is made up of a series of text areas whose placement in the window will correspond with placement on your actual Homepage. With each of these five text areas there is an associated check box that allows you to hide it on the home page. You will probably want to fill these text areas with a mix of HTML structured content and Custom Tags. The three middle columns allow you to specify their width as a percentage of the Homepage width.

Also there are several boarder dividers that can be hidden or have there colour changed (the footer boarder cannot have it's colour changed however). At the bottem of the page you can specify the cellpadding and cellspacing for the table made up by the three middle columns and their surronding dividers. Cellspacing is the space between the table cells (the three middle columns) and cellpadding is the distance from the edge of the cell to the start of the content of that cell.

When you have finshed making changes, don't forget to click "Apply Changes"!!!! If at any point you would like to start over on your Homepage, you can click on "Reset All Fields" to return everything to it's saved value. Once you have applied your changes, click on "Admin Site" to return to the site administration menu.

Administrate Pages

The idea behind this window is to make changes to the format of the site root pages. If you need to make any changes, click on the appropriate "Edit" button, which will take you to the window shown below.

The two options (page name and title image) are for naming your page and you should choose one of them.

If you prefer to have an image for the title instead of the text for the page, you can click on the "Browse" button and choose an image from your hard drive.

Note that a title image replaces the "Page Name" in the page content, but not on the window title.

Next you need to type your "Meta tags".

What is a Meta Tag?

"Area Content" is the next option. This is the basic text that appears in the page you have selected.

Finally, if you are familiar with HTML you can select "Yes" for the "Allow HTML" option. This allows you to enter HTML code in this page’s text fields. If you don't want to put in HTML then select "No" and your text will be properly formatted.

When you entered all your information, don't forget to click submit!!!!!

Once you are done changing the page setup you can either click on "Page List" to edit the page setup of the other pages in this module or you can click on "Home".

Custom 404 Page

In HTML standards, 404 is the error code for when a page on your site is not found. This can result either from a broken link or from a user typing a URL that is not valid into their browser. The "Custom 404 Page" is the page that will be shown when one of these two things happens on your site. Fill in the text area in this window with the content that you would like the user to see when a 404 error occurs. When you have finished filling the text area, don't forget to click "Submit"!!!! If at any point you would like to return the text area, click on "Reset" and you can start again. After you have submitted, click on "Admin Site".

Site Traffic

This window shows line graphs of the amount of bandwidth your site has used by either, year, month or hour. For each of these bandwidth views, you can specify the time period for the stats that are shown with the pull-down lists provided.

When you are done viewing the site traffic, use your browser's back button repeatedly to return to the site administration main menu.

Site Statistics

This window allows you to view the traffic statistics for your web site. At the top of the window is a series of three bar graphs that give you a visual representation of your average daily site traffic by month. Below this there are exact numbers for both average daily and total statistics, again by month. The definitions below should allow you to properly understand what these numbers mean.

HITS

the number of request to the server. It is used the get an overview how your server performs.

FILES

the number of requests which resulted in a files transfer. Sometimes the server can't find the file or the browser just checks if he can use the locally cached version.

PAGES

the number of Pagesviews a user has seen. Every hit that requests a HTML-file is counted as a PAGE.

VISITS

tries to summarize the hits by one person to an VISIT. This is quite tricky process, because you don't really know if a request from the same IP-address is comming from the same user (NAT, Proxies, ...).

You can click on any of the entries in the "Month" category to see more detailed information in the format shown in the window below.

On the left side of the window you have a series of navigational links that are broken up into the categories explained below.

[Overview]

this is the window shown above; it gives you more detailed stats similar to the ones before

[URLs]

this are gives you an overview of which URLs were accessed, other sites that refered to you, and entry/exit pages (first and last pages of a visit)

[User]

gives you an overview of the user that accessed your sites by way of their host, browser and country

[Searchengines]

gives you an idea of what search engines have which of your pages indexed and what robots have spidered your site

[Server Internals]

gives you an idea of what protocols (ie http) were used in requests from your site, what status codes users received in response to requests and what broken links were detected

When you are done viewing the site statistics, use your browser's back button repeatedly to return to the site administration main menu.

Change Password & Email

This window is used to change the log-ing e-mail address of password from one of the site administrators. To do this type in the current e-mail and password for the administrator you want to change. Then you can either specify a new e-mail address by entering it in the "New Email" field and clicking "Change Email" or you can type a new password twice (both the same) into the two password fields and click on "Change Password".

When you have finished making changes to administrator e-mail addresses and passwords, click on "Admin Site" to return to the main menu page.

HTML for Beginners

This window gives you something of a crash course in HTML. Essentially, it tells you most everything you will need to know as far as entering and formatting content for your page. When you have completed reading this section, click on "Admin Site".

Turn Site On or Off

This window allows you to switch you site off and on. The first option in this window is a check box marked "Activate Site", which if selected, means your site will run as usual. If, however, the checkbox is not selected, anyone that is not logged into your site as an administrator will be shown the site down page that contains the content in the text are marked "Site Down Text". When you have finished making changes to these two things, don't forget to click "Submit"!!!! If at any point you want to start the text over, click "Reset" and the text area will be returned. Once you have submitted your changes, click on "Admin Suite".