Used by administrative users to configure default page
settings. Site Settings are stored as
collections. These collections can be
inherited by other pages within your website.
Configuring Site Settings is the first step when setting up a new
website.
Site Settings Management feature benefits include:
Centralized control of page settings and page
design.
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Easily manage the layout and style of your web
pages.
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Huge selection of pre-defined templates.
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Ability to add your own custom templates.
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Provides a place to manage commonly used
information about your company.
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Provides tools for Search Engine Optimization.
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Allows you to manage browser page titles which
are used by search engines for page and site rankings.
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Allow you to manage the meta tags inserted into
your pages. Meta
tags are read by search engines and play a role in how they index your website.
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Cascading inheritance model that makes it easy
to implement changes.
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Ability to override individual settings for each
web page.
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Create collections that can be reused for
holidays, promotions, themes, etc.
Some of the components, fields and settings of the Site
Settings feature discussed in detail in this chapter are:
Site Settings Management:
Collection Name
Use as Active Settings Option
Inherit From Settings Option
Page Style Selections:
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View Styles
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Add Style
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Edit Style
Header Style Selections:
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View Styles
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Add Style
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Edit Style
Main Content Style
Selections:
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View Styles
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Add Style
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Edit Style
Footer Style Selections:
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View Styles
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Add Style
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Edit Style
Color Scheme Selections:
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Collection List
Box
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Add New
Collection
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Edit Collection
Header Collection Selections:
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Collection List
Box
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Add New
Collection
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Edit Collection
Left Side Bar Collection:
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Collection List
Box
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Add New
Collection
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Edit Collection
Main Content Collection:
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Collection List
Box
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Add New
Collection
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Edit Collection
Right Side Bar Collection:
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Collection List
Box
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Add New
Collection
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Edit Collection
Footer Collection:
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Collection List
Box
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Add New
Collection
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Edit Collection
Character Set
Copyright
Report Title
Admin Page Title
Use Admin Header Image
Organization Information:
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Title 1 text
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Title 2 text
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Upload Title
Image
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Use Title Text or
Image
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Address 1
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Address 2
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City
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Country
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State/Province
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Zip/Postal Code
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Phone
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Fax
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Email
Search Engine Settings:
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Page Title
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Meta Tag Description
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Meta Tag Keywords
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Script
Save Option
Save As Option
Print Option
Preview Option
Cancel Option
Close Option
Style Selection:
For each Style:
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Thumbnail Image
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Select Option
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View Style HTML
Option
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View Large Image
Option
Add New Style
Cancel/Close Page Option
Style Manager:
Style Name
Add File Options:
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View File
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Upload File
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Checkout File
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HTML Editor
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Document ID
HTML
Thumbnail Image
Large Image
Instructions
Available Tags
Save Option
Save Option
Custom Values Option
Components Verification
Option
Print Option
Close Option
Collection Manager:
Collection Name
Clone Collection Option
Page Style Selector
Available Components:
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Currency
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Custom Structured
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Custom
Unstructured
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Event
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Greeting
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Greeting Image
& Title
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Header Menu Bar
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Login
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Menu
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News
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Product
Categories
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Product Search
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Products
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Quick Jump
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Resource
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Resource Search
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Shopping Cart
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Site Search
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Survey
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Welcome
Selected Components
Edit Component Style
Add New Component Style
Available Record Set
Edit Record Set
Add New Record Set
Save option
Print option
Delete option
Cancel option
Close option
Component Style Verification:
Components Listing:
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Name
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Type
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Add/Update
checkbox
Select All option
DeSelect All option
Register option
Cancel option