Configuring Site Settings is the first step to setting up
your new website. Site Settings provide default page settings for each of your
website’s pages. These default settings
can be overridden for any one page or for a group of pages. Site Settings are easily changed and the
changes are instantly inherited by all pages that use them. If you save your changes as a new collection,
you can easily undo them. Feel free to experiment.
See the chapter of this guide titled Page Management
Features in Detail for a detailed explanation of how PortalProdigy assembles a
page and the various components and options available to you. If you are creating Custom Styles you will
also want to see the Guide to PortalProdigy THTML and Page Management for Web
Designers. This guide is a separate
document that is available to licensed users on the PortalProdigy website www.portalprodigy.com .
Start by configuring the default Site Settings Collection
named [Default Site Config]. You may want to create additional Site
Settings Collections for various purposes such as for holiday and seasonal
themes. You may also want to create
additional Collections in order to experiment with the design. Site Setting Collections are inactive and not
used by your website until activated. It may help you to think of Activating a
Collection as telling the system to publish it to your live website. Only one Site Setting Collection can be active
(published) at a time. When you activate
a Site Setting Collection, the previously active Collection is automatically
deactivated. Activating a Collection is
easy. See the Tutorial in the next
section. You can easily rollback changes
by deactivating your new collection and activating a previously stored
collection such as the [Default Site
Config] collection
The Preview option located on the Site Settings Management
page allows you to view how a Collection will appear. So if you want to experiment, create a new
collection and use the Preview option to view it. This will not affect your live website.
