The Site Manager is where you edit settings that'll be the same on every page, unless selected otherwise in the other managers. This mainly includes contact information and layout settings.
Website Details - essential details about your website
Add your site name, used all over the site in many ways
Add a logo - choose an image uploaded in the File Manager to represent your brand
Add the name of the website owner, probably you
Add a website email, the default address for contact forms and PayPal forms
Optionally add an address and phone number for your site or business.
Style and Layout settings - how your site looks and feels
Enable your favourite JavaScript library on your site
Pages are essentially holders for menus, content blocks and forms. The Page Manager allows you to create custom pages, each with their own details and functions and controls how content blocks are organised, accessed and presented.
Title and Form - the basics
Create a contact or payment page by adding only a title and relevant form
Add a review form to enable review for the page
Optionally show reviews added to this page
Style & Layout Settings - how the page looks
Change the page stylesheet to drastically alter its look
If a page has content, choose a content block to be displayed as a page header
Select the layout for content blocks on this page, which can be edited in the File Manager
Set the number of content blocks shown before previous & next links are added
Navigation Settings - how users get around the page
Choose where to display the navigation menu
Select how you order content on the page
Select 'Sort Order' to enable drag and drop re-ordering in the Content Manager
Optionally allow users to search content on the page, showing only the relevant content blocks
META Information - how users and search engines find the page
Add a META description to the page for search engine listings
Add keywords that best describe the page for users and search engines
Every page can have its own menu on the left or right. These menus are created in the Menu Manager.
If you're using a unique menu for all pages (this option is set in the Site Manager) your first step will be to select a page before you create, edit or delete any menu items in the Menu Manager.
With one menu for every page, the homepage (page1.htm) menu will be used and you will not be asked to select a page before editing any menu titles, or their links and plugins.
Add Titles to Menus
Your menu items are all organised under 'titles'.
Titles added to navigation menus are simply headings for groups of links or plugins.
You must add a title before you can add any links or plugins.
You can add a title with no links or plugins, either or both.
Add Links to Titles
Choose a title to add links or plugins to it
Choose the title, URL and sort order of your links
Write links to other sites or just select from pages added in the Page Manager
Add Plugins to Titles
Add plugins to any title, then optionally set the plugin options
Plugins are always displayed under the title and any links
The File Manager is divided into seperate managers for images, downloads, layouts, plugins and multimedia. Upload, preview, edit or delete your files. These functions are available for all file managers..
Download Manager - files available as downloads
Upload files to make available as downloads to your users
Delete any unwanted files
Supported filetypes: txt, doc, pdf, zip, tar.gz
Image Manager - images used on your site
Upload images to make available when building your site
Preview all images listed in the manager
Delete old and unused images
Supported filetypes: png, jpg, jpeg, gif
Layout Manager - content block layout modules and stylesheets
Edit layout modules to customise the look of page headers and content blocks
Edit the layout modules themselves (PHP) or just the associated CSS stylesheets
Read more about editing layout stylesheets
Supported filetypes: php, css
Multimedia Manager - videos, mp3s etc used on your site
Upload files to make available to your users
Preview all files listed in the manager using lightbox popups
The Content Manager lets you add 'blocks' of content - these are basically containers for a flexible combination of important stuff like text, plugins, images, forms and more. Content blocks can be added to any page, or existing blocks can be moved to a different page.
Content blocks are displayed according to the layout selected in the Page Manager, and can be a simple box containing a title and description or very powerful and dynamic stuff like plugins. Here's a list of key features:
Members Only - protect content descriptions from unregistered users
Hide important information about your site, business or products
Unregistered users will only see a link to the login page
Enable Reviews - lets users rate and comment on your content
Add or edit the rating value for each block
Enable reviews to let users see and add reviews to the content block
Thumbnail Image - optionally add a resized, watermarked thumbnail image
Select and image from the list and optionally its dimensions
A watermark image is added to all thumbnails if set in the Site Manager
HTML Descriptions - use NicEdit, a simple WYSIWYG editor
Add HTML formatted and styled text
Add customised links and lightbox popups
Add images using an easy file manager
Edit the source HTML directly
Tags - custom keywords for each content block
Tags appear as links in the 'Blog' layout, selected in the Page Manager
Tags make your content more easily searchable for users and
Tags are automatically added to your sites META keywords
Forms - add contact, review or payment forms
Add any form created in the Form Manager
Add payment forms to create a PayPal 'product'
Plugins - add unique, powerful features
Add plugins to new or existing content blocks
Edit plugins options for existing content blocks only
Set unique plugin options for each content block
Dynamic URL - Links to other parts of your site
Add links to any other pages or content blocks quickly
Re-Sort Content Blocks - choose automatic or custom ordering of items
Choose your content sort order in the Page Manager
Select 'Sort Order' to enable custom ordering in the Content Manager (below)
Then drag and drop the content blocks shown in the Content Manager to re-order them
Save or Save as new - update items or copy to new items
The Form Manager is where you create forms to be added to your site, through the Page and Content Managers. Create custom forms and choose what happens when they're submitted. All forms can optionally send an email to the specified address each time it is submitted, containing the user details and all the information submitted.
There are 3 form types: 'Review' and 'Payment' and 'Default'.
Review Forms - enable reviews for pages & content blocks
Add review forms to nearly any part of your site
Review forms contain only the fields 'rating' and 'comments'
No other fields can be added to review forms
All submissions are viewed in the Review Manager
Payment Forms - add PayPal e-commerce buttons to forms
Add payment forms to your pages and content blocks
Add a price, default currency and optionally a tax rate to each payment form
Supports 'buy it now', 'add to cart', plus daily, weekly, monthly and yearly 'subscription' buttons.
Subscriptions support trial rates and staggared payments
The field 'quantity' is added to non-subscription payment forms only.
Add any other fields you want - they're passed to PayPal as options
A submitted form shows a purchase preview and PayPal button
All submissions/purchases are viewed via email or in the Sales Manager
Default Forms - very flexible forms
Create totally customised forms with any fields
No default fields are added to these forms
Choose what happens when the form is submitted
All submissions are viewed in the Form Manager
Optionally display the submissions anywhere on your site
The User Manager is where you can search, contact and delete the
users you've registered account on your site. Only registered users
will have access to 'member only' areas so you can protect important
plugins and content.
Search Users - quickly browse and search your users
Sort users how you like
Limit your search to specific users
Create Administrators - get help managing your website
Add administrator privileges to any user account
Administrators can login to your admin panel and manage your site
You should only do this for well-trusted users
Contact users - keep in touch and provide support
Send emails and messages to your users
Users are automatically notified of any account changes
Edit User Accounts
Easily update any field, like 'name', 'email' etc, if you're users request it
Reset a users password - sending them an email with the new one
Activate or deactivate any user account, to enable/disable login
Delete a user from the website entirely - this cannot be undone
The Review Manager shows you all the comments and ratings added through the review forms (created in the Form Manager), added to your site. Reviews are split into 2 groups: page reviews and content reviews.
Quick Review Search - quickly browse and search reviews
Sort reviews how you like - newest to oldest, by user etc
Limit your search to specific reviews - show only reviews for specific pages or content blocks
Page Reviews - from review forms added in your Page Manager
Check out reviews for your pages as a whole, if enabled
Limit your search to specific pages only
Edit or delete any of these reviews
Content Reviews - from review forms added in your Content Manager
Check out reviews for individual content blocks, if enabled in the Content Manager
The Backup Manager lets you save your database and your website so that you're free to make any changes to your lovely site, without worrying about messing it all up.
3 Click Backup - so easy and fast it's pointless explaining it
Optimise your database
Backup your database
Save your website and database to an archive then download it, if you like
Restore your website - get your site back the way you like it
Restore the database running your website to its previously saved version
Restore the files used in your website to their previously restored versions