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Site Settings Management Feature in Detail
Site Settings Management Feature in Detail
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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.

§         Easily manage the layout and style of your web pages.

§         Huge selection of pre-defined templates.

§         Ability to add your own custom templates.

§         Provides a place to manage commonly used information about your company.

§         Provides tools for Search Engine Optimization.

§         Allows you to manage browser page titles which are used by search engines for page and site rankings.

§         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.

§         Cascading inheritance model that makes it easy to implement changes.

§         Ability to override individual settings for each web page.

§         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:

§         View Styles

§         Add Style

§         Edit Style

Header Style Selections:

§         View Styles

§         Add Style

§         Edit Style

Main Content Style Selections:

§         View Styles

§         Add Style

§         Edit Style

Footer Style Selections:

§         View Styles

§         Add Style

§         Edit Style

Color Scheme Selections:

§         Collection List Box

§         Add New Collection

§         Edit Collection

Header Collection Selections:

§         Collection List Box

§         Add New Collection

§         Edit Collection

Left Side Bar Collection:

§         Collection List Box

§         Add New Collection

§         Edit Collection

Main Content Collection:

§         Collection List Box

§         Add New Collection

§         Edit Collection

Right Side Bar Collection:

§         Collection List Box

§         Add New Collection

§         Edit Collection

Footer Collection:

§         Collection List Box

§         Add New Collection

§         Edit Collection

Character Set

Copyright

Report Title

Admin Page Title

Use Admin Header Image

Organization Information:

§         Title 1 text

§         Title 2 text

§         Upload Title Image

§         Use Title Text or Image

§         Address 1

§         Address 2

§         City

§         Country

§         State/Province

§         Zip/Postal Code

§         Phone

§         Fax

§         Email

Search Engine Settings:

§         Page Title

§         Meta Tag Description

§         Meta Tag Keywords

§         Script

Save Option

Save As Option

Print Option

Preview Option

Cancel Option

Close Option

Style Selection:

For each Style:

§         Thumbnail Image

§         Select Option

§         View Style HTML Option

§         View Large Image Option

Add New Style

Cancel/Close Page Option

Style Manager:

Style Name

Add File Options:

§         View File

§         Upload File

§         Checkout File

§         HTML Editor

§         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:

§         Currency

§         Custom Structured

§         Custom Unstructured

§         Event

§         Greeting

§         Greeting Image & Title

§         Header Menu Bar

§         Login

§         Menu

§         News

§         Product Categories

§         Product Search

§         Products

§         Quick Jump

§         Resource

§         Resource Search

§         Shopping Cart

§         Site Search

§         Survey

§         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:

§         Name

§         Type

§         Add/Update checkbox

Select All option

DeSelect All option

Register option

Cancel option


 

35.1 The Visitor Experience

35.2 Components

35.3 Feature Administration

35.4 Tutorials

35.5 Special Situations

35.6 Troubleshooting



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