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1. Artisteer page Allow Comments Allow Pings Status Make this post sticky Password or Private 94 on a tag link next to the post on your website to display all the posts with the selected tag You can find more information below about tags in the section describing the Tags page Select this if you want to allow viewers to comment on your posts Note this overrides the comments setting in your Discussion options Options gt Settings gt Discussion gt Default Article Settings This is the same as the option Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on the Edit Post page see below Use this to assign a status to the changes you have made If you do not want the changes to be applied and published right away set the status to Pending Review or Draft These status codes are used to describe the state of your changes Draft means you anticipate more changes Pending Review tells other Editors or Administrators that the post is ready for publication pending moderation lf you want to publish your changes immediately set the status to published When you select the Update button your post is published depending on however way status is set You might see the status displayed as scheduled This means that you have scheduled the post to be published at some future date and time Your frontpage or blogposts page displays the articles that have been posted to your website h
2. amp Artisteer e Artisteer net the next time you publish your website from the desktop your content is synchronized so what you see on the web is the same as what you see on the desktop You can make changes e g add pages or posts either on the desktop or web but you should try to avoid using both at the same time Also you should Publish your project frequently from the desktop to make sure that your content is in sync You should also save your projects frequently on the desktop and make sure you keep backup copies of your designs Artisteer net has all the features needed to administer your website but you can also choose to publish your website to your own hosting service lf you use your own host you need to move your pages to a remote location that your hosting service provides Your hosting service will provide the details about how to do this Note this only applies to publishing a static HTML website If you want to use blog features like organizing your post articles by category or moderating comments then you need to publish to Artisteer net or change your project type to another CMS Also if you are using or plan to use a CMS with your hosting service like Wordpress you will need to change your Artisteer project to a CMS template File gt Change Template And also please note that is not the same as using your own domain name which is described in the section covering the Administration tab below From Arti
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4. Add Video From Computer From URL Media Library Add media file from URL Video URL A Title j Insert into Post artisteer net page 64 amp Artisteer ci For an image the attributes are similar to adding an image file from your computer e g Title except you define an URL and a Title Add an Image From Computer From URL Gallery 7 Media Library Add media file from URL I Insert an image trom another web site Image URL Image Title Alternate Text Alt text for the image e g The Mona Lisa Image Caption Alignment Noe Lt Center Right Link Image To None Link to image Enter a link URL or click above for presets The image is embedded and displayed within your page i e not a hyperlink Title is what appears on the page when you hover the mouse over the image Alignment defines how the image will be aligned with other text Link Image To defines what happens when a user clicks on the image Clicking the None button just clears the text box If you do not want the image to link to another page leave this blank Clicking the Link to image button copies the Image URL in the first text field to this box Clicking on the image on your page will open a new page on just the image using the URL address of the original source Same as File URL Use the Media Library tab to add images sound video etc to your posts using the media
5. associated with the e mail address on gravatar com artisteer net page 125 amp Artisteer la Tools Press This Tool Press This is a tool that lets you copy text images and video from web pages Press This is used to create Posts not Pages on your website To use this find the link on the page titled Press This and add it to the bookmarks for your browser refer to your browser documentation on how to do this This step is necessary since you have to run the javascript for this bookmarklet from the current window where you select the content Gy Artisteer St lelcome roadrunner Log Out Home Extras Options Administration al J 38 General Y Writing Lightbox H Import ez 8 al Privacy y Reading G Discussion Export Profile Users Add New 9 Permalinks Media 3 Delete Site Users Settings Data Tools Press This Press This is a bookmarklet a little app that runs in your browser and lets you grab bits of the web Lise Press This to clip text images and videos from any web page Then edit and add more straight from Press This before you save or publish itin a post on your site Drag and drop the following link to your bookmarks bar or right click it and add itto your favorites for a posting shortcut Categories and Tags Converter Use this to convert categories to tags or tags to categories Open your browser to a web page you are interested in and select the content
6. artisteer net page 12 amp Artisteer Lid Before You Begin Artisteer net may appear differently on your screen than it does in the following reference material and tutorials e The size and proportion of your interface may be different from the size and proportion of screen shots provided in the current User s Manual e As the program is updated features may be added or removed If you are using the latest version of Artisteer net you may see buttons and or menu items that have been added or removed since this User s Manual was written e Depending on your operating system and Windows system settings dialogs and toolbars may appear differently artisteer net page 13 HB Artisteer bed E s l Fh g A AR a A E i SA Y A E 25 gt a SE _ L La SA y Y al J L gt TS tf LAT as LL VA SE oe gi gu JL a ST J gt LIT gt SU mt VLA TA LICA TARAA INAFTICTOAOOArF NAT IX ITV hnrvicTrraTtifrr PY VV A j j i VINI D w f fit gt i l T f fai i WA i Q i A i i e y f k we We g l a A y g Y a AMO a NY ull i Ng i AM 4 4 a pa i AI Y Y A A ASI L IS i a i D my IS L m 5 y y ca VA a U A H i wd Gs E LA Ea J a LA El y The option groups in the Artisteer net administration panel are arranged in tabs on the Ribbon bar Above the Ribbon bar is the login area There are four main tabs Home Extras Options and Admi
7. dogs Uncategorized Title Slug post Date Sep 28 2011 00 31 Allow Comments Y Allow Pings Password OR El Private Status Published E Make this post sticky Cancel Update Title Short description of your post Title is the text that appears at the top of your post page and on pages listing your posts e g frontpage or blogpost page Slug Slug is an URL friendly version of the title generated by Artisteer net Slugs are used with Permalinks E g http mydomain artisteer net my dog fred article Date Use this to either backdate the date and time the post was published or schedule a date and time when Artisteer net will apply your changes later Make sure to set the status to published and select the Update button Note this depends on the Timezone option in your General settings Options gt Settings gt General Timezone Categories Use this to assign your posts to categories If you have added the Category link to your content on the desktop your viewers can click on a category link next to the post on your website to display all the posts in that category Content gt Metadata Icons You can find more information below about blog categories in the section describing the Categories page Post Tags Use this to assign tags to your posts If you have added the Tags link to your content on the desktop Content gt Metadata Icons your viewers can click artisteer net page 53
8. lt meta name description content this is my separator page gt On the desktop for pages you can also define this in the page properties You can also define default page tags in your export options File gt Export gt Export Options Use this text box to add the HTML code to define additional meta tags you want included These are important to the search engine rankings for your page artisteer net page 37 Artisteer page Publish Status Visibility Publish on 38 lt meta name author content Bob Smith gt lt meta name contact content bsmith robertsmith us gt On the desktop for pages you can also define this in the page properties You can also define default page tags in your export options File gt Export gt Export Options Use this to show the status of the changes to your post If you set the status to published your changes are immediately added to your website If you change the status to pending review or draft your changes are not published until you change the status back to published The status indicator can also be used to show you and others if the page needs to be reviewed before publishing If you select the Save as Pending button the page is saved and the status is either Draft or Pending Review If you select the Publish button the status is changed to published You may see the status displayed as scheduled Thi
9. published The status indicator can also be used to show you and others if the post needs to be reviewed before publishing Visibility Use this to change the accessibility of your post Your post can be either e Public anyone can view the post e Password protected viewers of your website need to enter a password before they can view the post Private only you can view the post Published on This is the publishing date that appears alongside your post on your website Use the edit link to change this date and time Discussion Allow comments Select this if you want to allow viewers to comment on your post When this option is selected a comment box is added to your post where viewers can enter comments Note your Discussion settings control who can leave artisteer net page 57 amp Artisteer ns Allow trackbacks and pingbacks Author Author Categories Categories Send Trackbacks Send trackbacks to 98 comments and how your comments are moderated Options gt Settings Discussion Other blog writers can write articles and include posts on their blogs that include a reference link to a post on your blog If you set this option Artisteer net will create a special comment on your post which will show which blogs are linking to it This feature depends on this setting your Discussion settings Options gt Settings gt Discussion gt Default article settings and the CMS where the
10. you can modify the contact form to ask for anything you want Any custom fields you add to the form are collected and appended to the comment text Use this page for managing the messages If you decide to delete a particular feedback message there are two edit options you can select in the editor move to spam or move to the trash bin see the Edit Post page below for more information about how to use contact forms and add them to your page or post artisteer net page 50 91 page Feedbacks Messages 0 Bulk Actions Apply From i E Sac artisteer net page 51 G Artisteer se Use this page to manage your Post articles Your ability to create and edit posts depends on your user role Options gt Users There are two views List and Excerpt You can select which view you want by selecting one of the icons to the right of the filter List view displays just the post titles Excerpt view displays the post titles and then a partial excerpt of the post article underneath each title Use the Search Posts search box to find Post articles by their title or their content You can also use the filter on this page to filter the posts shown by either a date range by category or by tag by clicking on one of the tag links next to an article Each post on your website has its own webpage Your frontend or blog posts page displays the posts on your page b
11. 1 Draft Bulk Actions l Apply Show all dates Fitter C Page Title Menu Caption Author T Date E no title Draft nemo 2011 08 31 Last Modified When you create or update a page or post the page can be in set to one of 3 states e Draft The page or post has not been published yet Viewers cannot see the page or post or the changes applied until the page or post is published e Pending View The page or post has not been published yet This is the same as Draft status except the page or post is visible to editors as being in a pending state awaiting review before being published e Published The page or post has been published to your website and is now visible to your viewers You can publish your pages immediately or select a date time when Artisteer net will add your changes to the website You can also set the visibility mode to one of three states artisteer net page 32 amp Artisteer oe e Public Your page or post is visible to anyone when your content is published e Private Your page or post is visible only to those with the same credentials as you e g Administrator e Password Protected Your page or post is visible only to those who supply the password you establish to restrict who has access to the content For a published page or post only those with the correct password can see the content When you hover the cursor over any page title you should notice tha
12. E mail required Website AIM Yahoo IM Jabber Google Talk About Yourself Biographical Info New Password amp Artisteer bie 108 appear on your blog Username cannot be changed but this name can be changed at any time If you have enabled the author icon in your Artisteer project Articles gt Header Author this is the name you want to appear in the citation e g use Nickname instead of Username This is the e mail address used to moderate comments added to posts you have created on the website This is not necessarily the same as the administrator e mail address listed in your general settings You cannot use an e mail address that has already been used by you or another user on Artisteer net Your web site address Your AOL Instant Messenger screen name Your Yahoo Instant Messenger screen name Your Jabber or Google talk name Short description of yourself Use this to change your account password The Strength Indicator can be used to measure the difficulty it would be for someone to guess your password artisteer net page 108 amp Artisteer e Use this page to manage the users invited to participate in using your blog Every user including you is assigned a role Users may have the following roles e Administrator you can change any of the administration options and settings in the blog lf you created the blog you are the administrator If you assign someone else as a
13. Header background and foreground the content of your web page is created in the CMS not in Artisteer What you see in the Preview area is only an example or sample content to help you see the look of the page For example you can define the font style color and size for text that appears in an Article When you create an Article later in the CMS you do not have to define this look all you have to do is supply the text of the Article and your text will appear on your web page in the style that you defined in Artisteer When you create a website or blog project you can directly add or change your content directly in Artisteer and at the same time you can also define a style for the various elements of the page e g Header Layout Menu etc The content you create such as Article text can be published and viewed on Artisteer net but you cannot publish the pages you create to any other CMS e g Joomla Wordpress etc since these CMSs are not designed to handle content in any other way except within the CMS You can reuse your style settings with other CMS templates but not the content If you want to create a template for one of the other CMSs use the File menu at the top of the Artisteer window File gt Change Template When you change the project template you will probably notice that the pages you created before have disappeared Since the content cannot be used with any other template type the pages are hidden
14. categories to tags or tags to categories Changing categories or tags do not delete or modify any artisteer net page 128 G Artisteer e page posts or change the association between the posts and these key words but it can redefine your category hierarchy You should note the hierarchy of the categories shown above lf you convert a parent category e g shepard the child categories e g Anatolian Belgian become top level orphans If need be you can change the hierarchy back to the original format by editing the categories on the Categories page Home gt Posts gt Categories artisteer net page 129 amp Artisteer da Use this page to import content from another CMS If you are importing content from another Artisteer net website first create the WXR file using the Export option on the other site then select the Wordpress button on this page to import the content from your file Make sure that you publish your website on the desktop Home gt Publish so the pages and posts in your Artisteer project on the desktop is synchronized with your content on Artisteer net Use this page to export content to a WXR file that you can use to move your content You can also use this to archive or back up all or part of your website lf you plan to move your content to another Artisteer net site first create your website on the desktop Home gt Publish gt create website then use the Import page to copy your conte
15. wav avi mp4 Mpg mov and wmv Flash files swf flv etc for security reasons cannot be added to your media library but you can embed these videos using an URL reference see the Press This tool Options gt Settings Tools When you add images to your pages or posts you can select them from here Media Library add them from your desktop which also adds them to your library or include them from another website using an URL reference See Home Posts New Post Use this page to add media files to your media library Selecting this choice on the Ribbon bar is the same as selecting the Add New button on the Media Library page see above Note the maximum size of the media file you can upload is 5MB and the maximum space your website can occupy on Artisteer net is 200MB lf you have Adobe Flash player your browser will use this by default to select and upload your image files from the desktop Using the Flash uploader you can select and upload more than one file If you have trouble uploading your files or you do not have Flash try the Browser uploader instead however the Browser uploader will only upload 1 file at a time After uploading your image files the page will display a list of all the images that have been received lf you uploaded a single file you can add attributes to each file in your library The attributes vary depending on the type of file that you uploaded See Inserting Media i
16. websites with ready made layouts which may serve as a source of ideas and a starting point for your website project You have the right to use all images and icons on your website but you may not redistribute or resell any Web Template in any form You are also not allowed to make the Web Template modified or unmodified available for download from any website For more details please refer to the license agreement at http www artisteer com p license agreement The free samples can be downloaded from the official website of Artisteer at http www artisteer com p free website templates They can also be accessed from the Artisteer startup dialog box Online amp offline content editing with desktop software The majority of Content Management Systems require that you edit content online using their simplified HTML editor while in Artisteer you can edit the content offline using Artisteer on your desktop or online using Artisteer net This allows you to work on your website from just about anywhere Various Content Layout options You have control over the number size and position of columns in the articles and posts Free hosting 200 Mb You do not need to pay to have your website hosted and published on the web your web project can start and grow without the overhead expense normally associated with establishing and managing a website artisteer net page 5 G Artisteer A Artisteer exe is the software you run on yo
17. your domain name will not correctly route viewers to your website lf you have more than one website on Artisteer net you need to first select your primary site before you add a domain name On the My Sites page Extras gt Main gt Websites use the drop down list to select one of your websites as your primary site Whenever you add a domain name it becomes associated with whatever your current primary site is If you are uncertain about which site is the current primary site go to the My Sites page Extras gt Main gt Websites Enter your domain name in the textbox under Add new domain and save artisteer net page 131 amp Artisteer e your changes Add new domain http For example youmame com Save Domain Activation Primary Domain Delete a hitpiirnydomainname com hiipi mysite artisteer net Update Primary Domain The primary domain for your blog is mydomainname com The other URLs above will redirect to that domain You should notice that one of the domain names addresses Is selected as the Primary This means that any other addresses that appear on the list will redirect your users to the address that is the Primary domain You can only have one Primary For example by default the domain name you add automatically becomes the Primary address If you type the Artisteer net address below it e g www mysite artisteer net in the browser you are redirected from the Artisteer net addr
18. Media gt Auto embed for more details Add Google Maps to Your Page Use the Google maps icon we to insert a location map into your page This is the same as adding the map thru the editor as described above The attributes you define for the map e g Location name are the same Add a Contact Form to Your Page Use the Contact form icon to insert a custom contact form to your page A contact form can be used to gather information from a viewer or allow a user to send you feedback or other comments without having the information posted on your blog and without using e mail directly When the form is submitted by a viewer the information is sent in an e mail to the author of the page or post and also artisteer net page 42 G Artisteer a page added to a list of feedback messages on your blog You can view your feedback messages using the Feedbacks icon on the ribbon bar Extras gt Main gt Feedbacks Adding a contact form to a page is the same as adding a form to a post article See the Edit Post page below for more information about creating and using contact forms artisteer net page 43 amp Artisteer vo Use this page to create a new page for your website The options on this page are the same as described above for the Edit Page page except Publish Save Draft Preview Status Draft Edit visibility Public Edit Publish immediately Edit Move to Trash Pu blish Publish Save Draft T
19. Note the media library also includes any images you have added to your page or post on the desktop Edit gt Insert gt These files are automatically copied with your project when you publish your website Once the file has been uploaded it is added automatically to your media library If the upload was successful you can add captions descriptions and other attributes to the media then apply these attributes with the Save all Changes button The attributes you can define for any instrument depends on the type of media you have uploaded For example for an audio file the Upload New Media page will look like this artisteer net page 94 Gh Artisteer nh Hide File name Sleep Away mp3 Si File type audio mpeg Upload date October 5 2011 Title Sleep Away Caption Description ES File URL http mysitel artisteer net files 2011 10 Sleep Away mp3 Location ofthe uploaded file Delete Save all changes You can also edit these attributes later from the media library list Refer below to the New Media page for a description of the attributes you can edit for each type of media When you add the media to your page or post there are additional attributes you can set related to publishing in your content Refer to Adding Images Video and Other Media for the Edit Post page above Use the Media Library page to manage the files that you have uploaded Use the delete permanently link to remove files from
20. The page is displayed with the Title you defined and an attachment hyperlink underneath to the actual file followed by the description you added Add Google Maps to Your Posts Use the Google maps icon BA to insert a location map into your post This is the same as adding the map thru the editor as described above under Edit post if enabled from the Screen options The attributes you define for the map e g Location name are the same Add a Contact Form to Your Post Use the Contact form icon E to insert a custom contact form to your post A contact form can be used to gather information from a viewer or allow a user to send you feedback or other comments without having the information posted on your blog and without using e mail directly When the form is submitted by a viewer the information is sent in an e mail to the author of the post and added to a list of feedback messages for your blog You can view your feedback messages using the Feedbacks icon on the ribbon bar A contact form can be useful in many ways For instance typically most websites have a contact page which lists how users can contact you Typically these sites especially large corporate sites post an e mail address but due to the large volume of traffic they often do not have the resources to sort out and process every receipt A site may have different pages and contact forms so user artisteer net page 70 G Artisteer m communication is routed
21. can only use the trial version of Artisteer net All of the options in the full version are available in trial mode so you can create and design a website in Artisteer publish it to Artisteer net and then add more content and widgets on Artisteer net However you cannot save your artx project in trial mode all of your design and content is discarded when you close Artisteer The Artisteer net trial version also provides restricted disk space only 10 MB and the images taken from the Artisteer image galleries will be watermarked You will not be able to use a custom domain name and you will have to activate your blog every 14 days after the first 30 days of usage lf you have already published a website and then purchased the license or an upgrade to activate your website you need to open your artx project and publish the website to Artisteer net one more time The information about the license will be automatically transferred to the system and your website will be activated Trial Version Full Version Free Disk Space 10 MB 200 MB Artisteer Image Gallery unavailable available Custom Domain unavailable available The Usage of Blog free 30 day trial unrestricted After the 30 day trial a notification will be sent to your e mail offering you to purchase Artisteer or continue using the trial version within the next fourteen days When this period expires you will receive another notification artisteer net page 11 12 page
22. different domain to your website on Artisteer net users will access your website with the domain name you provide e g myname artisteer net Once you enter a domain Artisteer will check if the domain is unique or not If this is a unique name the Next button will be activated and you can proceed to create a user account lf you have not used Artisteer net before you will be prompted to enter a username and an e mail address Create Website im artisteer net Create a new Artsteer net account After you complete this all of your web pages will be copied to Artisteer net and a password will be emailed to the address you provided Afterwards you can view your website online at the domain you specified or log into www Artisteer net and make or change various settings related to your site Once your website has been created and published you can create edit manage the content for your site artisteer net page 17 HB Artisteer 13 bin from either the desktop or thru Artisteer net Any time afterwards when you publish your website from the desktop your content on the web and the content in your Artisteer project will be synchronized so you always have the same view of your pages Your First Page Let s look at an example The left side of the picture below shows what your initial page should like in the Preview area The right side shows the basic layout and elements of the page that
23. e g text images or video then select the Press This bookmark in your browser This will open a window you can use to create your Post Any text you select in the browser will appear in the editor window Any images or artisteer net page 126 amp Artisteer bd video you selected will be added to a gallery To include the image or video in your post select the add image or add video icon then select the image or video you want to add to your post Once you have created your post article you can save it as a draft or publish it directly to your website You assign the Post to a category and add tags to make it easier for viewers to find your article in a web search Enter Po st Title Enter Site Title Press This Add ad LA 4 Save Draft Publish Bz u ce pel S S S49 El Categories All Categories Most Used Fl 1st category Fl Uncategorized Add New Category Post Tags Add Choose from the most used tags in Post Tags Path p F Categories and Tags Converter This tool will convert the categories you have created for your website to tags and visa versa The tool is on the Import page Options gt Data gt Import gt Categories and Tags Converter You can also invoke the tool from the Tools page Options gt Tools gt Use This link lf you include Category and Tags icons in your post footer using the desktop Content gt Metadat
24. entered in text e g to icons e g You can enable an option that lets Artisteer correct invalid XHTML e g if you enter HTML copy amp paste or use the visual editor you must make sure that your HTML is XHTML 1 0 compliant otherwise there is no guarantee that your content will appear as you would like Enabling this option allows Artisteer to automatically correct invalidly nested HTML code This is the default category your posts will be assigned to You can override this when you post your article When you create a list of links this is the default link category your link list will be assigned to You can override this when you create the list of links Use this to enable the Atom Publishing Protocol or one of the XML RPC publishing interfaces that allow you to post to your website from a remote web site or a desktop publishing application artisteer net page 115 amp Artisteer Options Front page displays Blog pages show at most Syndication feeds show the most recent For each article in a feed show Encoding for pages and 116 page This is the default page displayed when your viewers enter your web address e g mywebsite artisteer net Note you can pick any page that is in your site but you probably do not want to pick a page that is used just as a menu separator or one that is a child of another page You can also select a page that displays all of your post articles On the desktop
25. in the user s profile not the one in the General settings which is for administration purposes only Once the user confirms their invitation the website will appear in their list of websites Extras gt Main gt Websites artisteer net page 109 amp Artisteer iy lf you have more than one website this only applies to the website you are changing Look to the browser address bar to confirm if this is the website you want to invite the user to e g mysite artisteer net If you want to add the same user or another user to a different website you will need to change your context to the other website e g by changing the domain name in the address bar or Extras gt Main gt Websites gt Select the dashboard for the site you want to switch to Options Site Title Tagline Default Page Title Default Page Keywords This is the name of your web site This comes from the Headline text on your page Header Normally this would be the name of your blog or website but it could be anything Remember with website or blog projects there are two blocks of text on your Header page The first block is the Headline which you can change directly in the header area on the desktop This is some text describing your website This comes from the Slogan text on your page Header Normally this would be a description of your blog or website but it could be anything The Slogan text is the second block of text on your Header Y
26. later want to make changes click on the contact icon again and the existing contact form in the editor will be loaded into the dialog To remove the contact form you need to delete the shortcode in the editor artisteer net page 71 amp Artisteer e LATE E The icon next to each field is used to delete the field Use the Add a new field button at the bottom of the form to add custom fields to your form cc Label This is the text that appears above the field on the form Field Type The type of control on the form e g text radio button dropdown If you select dropdown or radio there are other options displayed on this dialog to allow you to define each option on the dropdown or radio button list When the user selects an option the option label becomes the text returned in the comment Required Should the field be required or not Users will not be able to submit the contact form until all required fields have been entered Above each field are two links that appear when you hover the cursor over the field artisteer net page 72 amp Artisteer de Website Website The Move option lets you rearrange the order that the fields will appear in the form You can also use drag amp drop to rearrange fields The Edit option lets you change the field options Wr hrei ree al Ope When a user submits the feedback form the message is emailed to the author of the page or post Use
27. match inside words so artist will match Artisteer This option is used to prevent spammers from submitting phony comments to your web site The comment is marked as spam as opposed to being held in the moderation queue Use this to show or not show avatars Avatars are photos or images that represent your commenters and you on your blog Avatars are associated with your e mail address If artisteer net page 124 amp Artisteer Maximum Rating Default Avatar 125 page you are also a WordPress com user your avatar is the one uploaded to your profile but when leaving a comment the e mail address must match the e mail address in your Artisteer net profile If you or your viewer are not registered with WordPress com you can still use an avatar but you must sign up for one at http gravatar com When submitting comments you must use the e mail address used to create your account on gravatar com You can restrict which avatars will be displayed on your site by selecting a rating similar to the standard movie ratings in the U S by the motion picture academy If you consider your website to be family friendly you may not want to display any avatars that are rated above G or PG Note the rating for a user s avatar is set by the user when he or she creates the avatar so this setting cannot guarantee against offensive material This is the avatar displayed by default when there is no avatar
28. on the desktop File gt Export Options gt Default Page Tags Use this text box to add the HTML code to define the meta tags you want included These are important to the search engine rankings for your page lt meta name author content Bob Smith gt lt meta name contact content bsmithOrobertsmith us gt This is the default code you want added to a page if you did not specify any meta tags when you created the page on the New Page page Home gt Site gt New Page This is added to your page if no meta tags have already been added to an existing page These can also be assigned on the desktop File gt Export Options Default Page Tags This is the e mail address Artisteer will send messages to regarding your web site administration and maintenance This may be different from the artisteer net page 111 Artisteer page Timezone Date Format Time Format Week Starts On Options 112 e mail address used for the Admin user see Profile page For confirmation of comments posted by users the e mail address of the Admin is used not this one Note notification about the approval of the comments is sent to both the administrator and author the attribute A comment is held for moderation Select your timezone based on the Coordinated Univeral Time Your timezone is the number of hours that differs from the UTC Greenwich Mean Time UTC 0 You can also select a major metropolita
29. options are still configured artisteer net page 103 8 Profile amp Artisteer E 104 en GA General Lightbox gt Import az lll Privacy y Reading h Discussion Export Users Add New Sa Permalinks ES Media gt Tools Fa Delete Site Users Settings Data Quick Look ER Profile Users de Add New Use this to access your user profile logged in account Use this to access a list of users who have specific roles regarding your web site e g backend administrative access There are five pre defined roles you can use to assign specific roles to existing users on Artisteer net Subscriber you can read and write comments Administrator you have access to all of the administration features Editor you can manage and publish posts Author you can publish and manage your own posts When you create new posts as an Administrator you are also the Author of the post Contributor you can write and manage posts but not publish them You cannot upload media files Add New creates a new user account on Artisteer net or you can invite an existing user to join your web site In both cases Artisteer sends an e mail to the user you create or invite Others you invite will see this site now appear under their list of sites Extras gt Main gt Websites but the administrative artisteer net page 104 General Privacy an FI P
30. reference Also note some systems use the permalink to the page with trackback tag tacked to the address e g http www mysite net 201 1 1004 my dog fred trackback Artisteer net websites support pingbacks not trackbacks If you want to link to another Artisteer net site include the link in your post content do not put the link in the send trackbacks to field If the other site accepts pingbacks e g an Artisteer net website or wordpress site and the site is configured to allow pingback to the post the site will respond to the ping and a comment will usually be posted to the other blog You can also find a description of Trackbacks and Pingbacks in the glossary Use this to assign tags to your posts If you have added the Tags link to your content on the desktop Content gt Metadata Icons your viewers can click on a tag link next to the post on your website to display all the posts with the selected tag Note separate the tags with commas otherwise all words you enter here will be treated as one tag You can find more information below about tags in the section describing the Tags page artisteer net page 59 Artisteer page Excerpt 60 When your posts are listed on your frontpage or blogpost page normally the full text of the post is displayed on the page You can override this by providing a short excerpt here which will be displayed instead Note you can also use the more
31. such as edit post edit link etc all have a bulk actions feature This is a drop down box that always appears at the top of a list of elements pages posts links etc Since the list of elements on a page e g links may be quite long you will find that the bulk edit dropdown box is listed at the top and the bottom of every list artisteer net page 14 amp Artisteer bi Use bulk actions to make a change to several elements e g posts at one time Select the elements you want to change with the checkboxes and then select the type of change from the bulk actions list For example if you want to delete several links at once check off the links you want to target then bulk actions gt delete and select the Apply button To make a common edit to multiple items select the elements you want to change e g posts select edit and then the Apply button From the panel select the change you want to apply e g allow comments and then the Update button This will apply the same change to all the elements that you selected When a page includes a list of elements such as the Posts page all the elements are displayed ina table If you hover the cursor next to each table heading e g Name an arrow icon will appear next to the heading showing the sort order of the list Click on this icon to change the sort order For example if you want to display your posts by name in descending or asce
32. tag from the editor menu bar in HTML mode in your article text Just put the tag somewhere in your text All of the text up to where your tag appears will be included in the excerpt Also in your Theme options you can have Artisteer net generate an excerpt automatically however entering an excerpt here overrides this option Excerpts are also used in RSS feeds Options gt Settings gt Reading gt For each article in a feed show Featured Image Set featured image On your frontpage or blogpost page you can optionally display an image next to your post title Use this to set the image you want to display The dialog displayed is the same one you used to insert images into your post except instead of selecting the Insert into Post button at the bottom select Use as featured image The featured image is displayed as a thumbnail next to the post title therefore most of the fields e g description size alignment etc on this form are for your own reference unless you intend to insert the image elsewhere in your pages and posts See the section Inserting Media in your Pages or Posts for more information about these fields and inserting images in your pages or posts Note after you have set a featured image make sure that you update your post on the Edit post page Update button artisteer net page 60 amp Artisteer Edit Image Title Alternate Text Caption Descripti
33. the Email Notifications tab to change the default notification Paren atada a oof bri Gethina ie pei Misel bheii Bi Li he jar dira a Enter new email The default is the post authors e mail address Options gt Users Profile address Change this to redirect the message For example you might use contact forms for different purposes such as submitting questions versus collecting personal data and use different e mail addresses for each form artisteer net page 73 amp Artisteer se What should the Change the subject line in the message This may be useful if you have an subject line be e mail service or plugin that can manage messages by subject artisteer net page 74 Artisteer ie Use this page to create a new post for your website The options are the same as the Edit Post page except Publish save Draft Publish The Save Draft button saves your post in draft status which means that the post has not been published yet If you want the post published right away select the Publish button Status Use this to set the status of the post to either Draft or Pending Review This is intended to communicate the status of the post to yourself or others moderating your posts Draft generally means that you anticipate making changes to the post Pending Review means that the post is ready for publishing but it needs to be reviewed first If you select the Save Draft
34. the library This deletes the file from your library but does not affect the original file and you can upload the file again later Every time you insert media into a page or post e g from New Page or New Post the media is added to the media gallery and also added to the media library Every page or post has a media gallery which is a collection of images video audio files etc attached to the content If you add media directly to the media library i e New Media you can link media from your library to pages or posts without actually including them in the content When you add an image video or audio file etc the file is added to the media library but not attached to a page or post Use the attach link under the attached to column to add the media to the gallery for the page or post See Edit post page above for more information about galleries and how to use them artisteer net page 95 amp Artisteer E The Media Library page lists each piece of media by name who added the media author which page the media has been added to Attached to and how many comments are pending for the page or post the media has been attached to The media in your library can be images sound video and various document types Artisteer net allows you to upload any file type that is Wordpress compatible i e any type you could upload to Wordpress com This includes jpg joeg ong gif pdf doc ppt mp3 mp4a
35. this is shown as your blog posts page in your page folder You can also set this option on the desktop by right clicking on the page name and select Use as Blog Page from the menu When you change blog pages all of the content of your existing page is replaced with your post articles The content is not lost however you can get the content back by changing the blog posts page to another page This sets the maximum number of post articles that will be displayed on your blog posts page Enter the maximum number of posts that you want to show in an RSS feed at any time Full text or summary Full text publishes the entire post to an RSS feed while summary publishes a partial excerpt The default is UTF 8 Character Encoding is the character code used feeds in the storage and transmission of the text in your website UTF 8 is the most common encoding used and it handles a wide variety of languages and character representations Image sizes Thumbnail size When you insert an image into a post and you choose to insert the image in Thumbnail size these are the dimensions that are used artisteer net page 116 Medium size Large size Embeds Auto embeds amp Artisteer be 117 When you insert an image into a post and you choose to insert the image in Medium size these are the dimensions that are used When you insert an image into a post and you choose to insert the image in Large size these are th
36. to different e mail addresses according to the type of request or feedback For example you might use one contact form to allow users to ask questions about a page post or your website and another contact form to collect personal data or preferences and perhaps another form to get feedback How many contact forms you need what data they collect and how the feedback is routed is entirely up to you When the user submits a contact form all of the text information on the form is converted to a comment and sent to the author of the post unless you change the e mail notification in the form options If you have custom fields like radio buttons the option label is used as the text For example if the label for the first radio button is Yes and this option is selected the text in the comment for this field will be Yes To add a form click on the contact icon above the ribbon bar Edit Post Feedback post Permalink http nemo artisteer nev2011 11 02 feedback post Edit Upload Insert e E Bin el F3 b i link b quote ns img ul oldi This displays a dialog for the default contact form The typical form asks for name e mail etc but you can delete these fields and or add custom fields of your own When you are done editing the form select the Add this form to my post button This will generate and insert the HTML code as shortcode for your form wherever your cursor is located in the post If you
37. visible only to viewers who supply the correct password artisteer net page 34 Artisteer Edit 35 page Use the Edit page to edit the full range of features and attributes of your pages Always use the Publish panel to apply your changes otherwise your edits will be discarded Edit Page Page 1 how mysie aristeer nel View Page Layout E Seen Options Page Optons P Show oa Si E Cara Uploadinsen J D AE enmu Cap gt Page 1 B of wm i f im Page 1 nis Des Enter Fage content here ELS LANS Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit Enam pk tellus sit amet congue vulputate nisi erat iaculis nibh vitae feug sapien ante eget mauris Aenean sollicitudin imperdiet arcu vita dignissim est posuere id Read more Publish Preview Changes Remember use the Screen Options to change the options you see on this page Layout This the content layout option you selected on the desktop Edit gt Content gt Content Layout You cannot change the layout on the web lf you want to change the layout you have to make the change on the desktop and then re publish your website Also the editor only shows you one section of the layout at a time The first top section is selected by default the border changes to a solid bar Click on the other sections to select them and display their contents in the editor Note this option appears only if your content la
38. Adjust the gallery settings see Adding Images Video and Other Media and press Insert Gallery Gallery settings Order images by Menu order Order Ascending Descending Gallery columns 3 Insert galery artisteer net page 119 Hb Artisteer bed Add Gallery From Computer From URL Gallery 4 Media Library All Tabs Show Sort Order Ascending Descending Clear Order ic See Jellyfish Remove from Gallery aus Tulips Remove from Gallery Jellyfish Remove from Gallery a Chrysanthemum Remove from Gallery Save all changes Gallery Settings Order images by Menu order Order Ascending Descending Gallery columns 3 insert gallery 3 When you click on the thumbnail in the post a lightbox gallery appears where you can view the images in more detail You can adjust the lightbox gallery settings with Options gt Lightbox artisteer net page 120 Lightbox settings set the default number of columns set the default thumbnail size Set the default Lightbox size Update reset options A I m A alm A f Cai f IC s j w I VA Y ew Nes i Options Default article page o post settings amp Artisteer 121 page Lightbox Gallery Options In case that you vould like to set the default number of columns 3 In case that you would like to set the default thumbnail size Thumbna
39. Edit Same as QuickEdit except you can also change the status of the comment i e Approved Pending Spam Spam Move the comment to the spam bin On some websites the spam bin is sometimes used to hold comments that special plugins like Akismet can learn from to block future soam artisteer net page 81 amp Artisteer 7 comments Artisteer net does not currently support this but it may be added later Note you can use the Bulk Actions to move comments to the spam or trash bins e Trash Move the comment to the trash bin Items in your trash bin may be deleted after 30 days Pages posts and other items stay in the Trash bin for 30 days as well artisteer net page 82 amp Artisteer on Use this to open a new browser tab or window on your website This is what your viewers will see when they visit your website Except note if you have enabled Show Edit on the desktop and you are currently logged in an Edit icon and link will appear next to the page or post title on the page if you have configured this on the desktop Content gt Metadata gt Ilcons gt Edit Selecting this link will open the Editor page in Artisteer net If you are not logged in this link will not appear on the page artisteer net page 83 amp Artisteer E Extras Tab The Extras tab displays additional features you can use to manage your web site s pages and posts Dashboard Websites Main Quick L
40. Image From Computer From URL Gallery 3 Media Library Add media files from your computer Choose files to upload Select Files Cancel Upload Maximum upload file size 5MB You are using the Flash uploader Problems Try the Browser uploader instead l a a Pla Maz a ose Mm Sn Sr eS Sw Mar E fot oa A A ee ee ee ee PRP bel PL LL be Pi LPS I dz File name Artisteer3s User Manualt pdt edz File type application pdf Da Upload date October 5 2011 Title Artisteer3 User Manual Caption Description E Link URL http mysitel artisteer_net files 2011 10 Artisteer3 User Manual1 pdf None File URL PostURL Enter a link URL or click above for presets Insert into Post Delete Save all changes The attributes e g Link URL you define varies depending on the type of media you want to include The first tab is always From Computer Use this tab to upload media files to Artisteer net and add them to your media library After the file is uploaded the file is automatically added to the media library and the post s gallery Use the Insert into Post button to add the media to your post otherwise the file will be uploaded but will not appear in your post content You can also upload files artisteer net page 63 amp Artisteer 7 using the New Media page but they do not automatically get attached to the post added to the gallery until you either attach them from the media l
41. L code as text not a hyperlink and the URL has to appear on its own line If you find the URL has been inserted changed to a hyperlink you need to modify the HTML and remove the code wrapping the URL so what remains is the URL as text Note this option works when the page is requested by your viewers not when the page is updated and published so if you use this option to embed video you should not change it otherwise your viewers may find that videos embedded previously no longer work You can also embed video using the embed shortcode embed width 123 height 456 http www youtube com watch v xisjdjNsc embed This approach has several advantages e t does not depend on the auto embeds option e You can specify the dimensions of the frame You do not have to specify one size e The code can appear anywhere It does not have to be on a line by itself Maximum embed size Use this to set the width and height for the maximum size you want embedded video or audio files i e the video or audio players to be within artisteer net page 118 amp Artisteer bl your posts and pages Note this is the maximum size the actual size of the player in the wndow might be smaller depending on the media Lightbox To insert a Lightbox image gallery into a post page 1 Select the Add Gallery icon Sa in the editor and insert the images from your computer URL or Media Library Upload Insert dl HH J B te E 2
42. Posts The most recent posts on your site e Text The widget allows users to add text video images custom lists and more to their websites e Calendar A calendar of your site s posts e Custom Menu Your custom menus as a widget e Meta Log in out admin feed and Artisteer net links e Recent Comments The most recent comments e RSS This widget displays the most recently published content from any source with an active feed e Tag Cloud Your most used tags in cloud format e Twitter Display Tweets from Twitter Widgets can be placed in widget areas The following diagram shows the widget areas in Artisteer net The content area refers to your page or post content i e text images etc The diagram also shows the style applied by default You can change the default styles applied in your theme options and also change the style applied to the widget when you add the widget to an area On the desktop you can define the number of columns to include in your template Layout gt Columns This option reserves space on your page for sidebars Your options are e 1 column No sidebar e 2 column 1 sidebar e 3 column 2 sidebars artisteer net page 101 G Artisteer bo The widget areas depend on the layout of your template You can add widgets to these areas but if you change the Layout the widgets may not appear on your page For example the primary and secondary areas are your sideb
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44. The content is not lost you can always go back to these pages artisteer net page 22 amp Artisteer B by changing the template type back to website or blog This does not apply to most of your style settings E g Any settings such as the Header background become part of the new template artisteer net page 23 amp Artisteer me There are two ways to write a post elther on the web Artisteer net gt Home gt New Post or using the desktop Artisteer gt Home gt New Blog Post These methods serve different purposes working in Artisteer net requires a connection to the Internet working with content on the desktop can be done offline though you need to be connected to the web eventually to publish your website to Artisteer net Most bloggers are accustomed to working online Editing the page and post content in Artisteer net will not be something new to them as it is very similar to WordPress Normally though like working in Wordpress when you create your content online you dont often see the visual appearance of your pages in the HTML editor even in Visual Mode because the style and the content are not combined Using Artisteer on the desktop gives you more control over the design because in the preview area you see your changes just as your viewers will see the page on your website This is because what you see in Artisteer is the style applied to the content you do not have to visit your
45. To edit a link move the cursor over the link you want to change and select Edit below the link name Visible Ves Visible Seen Options gt artisteer net page 97 Search Links Rating Rating amp Artisteer 98 page Artisteer O MIA Home Extras Options Administration 3 5 68 a gt bn y a a amp amp 2 D B Dashboard Websites Theme Library New Medea Mew Link Categories Widgets Main htedia Limka widget 2h Screen Options Edit LINK Basic Name Artisteer Forum Example Nifty blogging software Web Address http ma artisteer comf Example http fartisteer con Description norm The wil be shown when someone h Edit Link Name Web Address Description Categories p forums don forget hie http i overs over the ink in ihe blogrod of ophonsiy below the ink eg J This is the name of the link as it will appear on your web page This is the URL you want to redirect the browser to Dont forget the http at the beginning of the address This is a short description explaining the link On the Links page you can find links by searching on words within the description In some browsers the description is displayed below the link when viewers hover the cursor over it Note when you add the list to a widget area you have the option of the description the link the Extras gt Widgets gt Widgets including alongside In list see You can manage your
46. a gt Icons viewers can use the links to view articles related to those topics artisteer net page 127 amp Artisteer BE You can create new tags when you add a new post Home gt Posts gt New Post or you can use the Post Tags page to add to the set of tags for your website Home gt Posts gt Tags and then later associate one or more of these tags when you create a new post Gb Artisteer net o Home Extras Options Administration TaT del General Y Writing gy Lightbox Impo az 8 all Privacy gy Reading Discussion Expor Profile Users Add New 9 Permalinks 1 Media Tools X Delet Users Settings Dati Categories to Tags Tags to Categories Convert Categories 6 to Tags Hey there Here you can selectively convert existing categories to tags To get started check the categories you wish to be converted then click the Convert button Keep in mind that if you convert a category with child categories the children become top level orphans Check All IS PF dogs 0 5 terrier 0 A shepard 0 anatolian 0 belgian 0 Uncategorized 3 Convert Categories to Tags The number in parentheses refers to the number of posts associated with categories basically how many times you have used a category Based on how you associate your words to posts you may find in some circumstances that your workflow would be better if you converted some of your
47. accept comments on your artisteer net page 122 Artisteer E mail me whenever Before a comment appears 123 page post Enable threaded nested TT 5 Mm levels deep If the setting is 1 your viewers can only comment on the post and the comments are then displayed in chronological order If the setting is 2 or more viewers can comment on the comments themselves This setting determines the level of comments that viewers including yourself can leave comments for Break comments into pages wal top level comments per page and the ast El page displayed by default This setting determines how many comments should appear on one page and whether or not the comments should be listed last to first or first to last and also on each page whether or not the comments should be listed from newest oldest or oldest newest Comments should be displayed with the E comments at the top of each page Comments left by your viewers are listed in chronological order Use this option to start with the newer or older comments that are left Anyone posts a comment use this if you want a notification sent whenever anyone submits a comment This may not be useful if you have many people posting a lot of comments A comment is held for moderation Use this if you want a notification sent whenever a comment is held for moderation The e mail is sent to the owner of the w
48. achine exploitable link that adds semantics to your website For more information about usage refer to the XHTML Friends Network Use the Advanced panel to define additional attributes of your link Image Address RSS Address Notes Rating Keep this link Display an image next to the link on the page Enter the RSS feed URL for the blog you are linking to Some themes display the address alongside the link Artisteer does not support this Optional information about the link This is not visible on your web page some themes display the links in a blogroll by their rating Artisteer does not support this When you add the list to a widget area you have the option of including the rating alongside the link see Extras gt Widgets gt Widgets Select this if you want to keep the link but not have it displayed in the blogroll artisteer net page 99 amp Artisteer ba private Use this page to create new links for your blog The options on this page are the same as described above for the Edit Link page Use this page to add new link categories You can also add new categories when you create or edit the link New Link Edit Link pages and then later use this page to complete the description Name name of the category When you add a blogroll to a widget area you have the option of entering a title caption above the list for the list If you do not specify a title the name of the category will appear Desc
49. age 78 amp Artisteer a Description Add New Tag 79 page your viewers are redirected to when they click on the tag link Note when you create a post you can also enter a set of tags that are created alongside your post You can enter a comma separated list of words for the tag and Artisteer net will create a tag for each word However on this page you are creating a single tag do not use commas here unless you want the commas included in the tag title Enter a short description of the tag The description is used to explain your tag on Artisteer net e g Tags page but it is not included in your website Click this button to add your tag otherwise your changes will be discarded artisteer net page 79 amp Artisteer e nments Use this page to manage edit and moderate the comments you want to include on your website If you allow comments on your pages and or posts these are the comments left by your viewers This page lists comments for both pages and posts and generally moderating comments is the same for both You can choose to display comments on your blog or pings from other blogs Refer to Trackbacks and Pingbacks in the glossary for more information about pings Your general settings Options gt Settings gt General your privacy settings Options gt Users and your post options Home gt New Page or Home gt New Post determine if comments are allowed who can leave moderate edit or reply
50. an change in the Screen options artisteer net page 102 amp Artisteer bl e Accessibility mode disabled you add widgets to your page by 1 selecting a widget area select the icon next to the area name to expand the list of widgets that have been added to that area 2 dragging and dropping a widget from the list of available widgets on the left to the open area You can also use drag amp drop to rearrange how the widgets will appear in the widget area e Accessibility mode enabled drag amp drop is disabled To add a widget or change a widget in an area you use the links next to the widget name e g Add On the left side of the page are all of the possible widgets you can add to a widget area All of these widgets are the same as those available in Wordpress Below the list of available widgets is the inactive widget area Every time you add a widget to an area there are certain options you can configure for each widget For instance you can apply a particular style such as Block or Post which refer to the styling Artisteer applies to Blocks and Post articles Note if you select Default the style used is what you define as the default in your theme options Extras gt Main gt Theme The inactive widget area is for holding widgets you have configured but do not want to include on your pages In each of your widget areas you can either delete the widget or drag amp drop it to the inactive list where the widget
51. arent page if you want this page to be a child On the navigation menu child pages appear as submenu items This Is the relative order of the page as it appears in the menu bar and in the page folder on the desktop artisteer net page 39 amp Artisteer E Pages E Home Practices ih News dl z3 References Peer Review Contacts Testimonials s Biography Posts El Attorney of the Year El Professional Award El Serving People The order starts from 0 So in the picture above the Home and Peer Review pages both have z order O while the Practices and Contacts pages have z order 1 If you wanted Contacts to appear before Peer Review in the menu and in the page folder on the desktop picture above you would set the Contacts order to 0 and the Peer Review order to 1 Featured Image Set featured image You can insert a featured image to a page post Starting from Artisteer 3 1 featured images for pages appear as featured header images and featured images for posts appear as post thumbnails Note featured header images are available only if you publish your theme from Artisteer 3 1 Slug Slug Slug is an URL friendly version of the title generated by Artisteer net Slugs are used with Permalinks E g http mydomain artisteer net my dog page Revisions artisteer net page 40 G amp Artisteer oo Revisions Comments Comments Google Maps L
52. ars If you define a one column layout neither of these areas will appear on your page o content Default Position Style m Block Style art block hi Article Style art article first footer third footer fourth footer No Style art nostyle On the desktop when you create a new template Artisteer will add widgets automatically to your sidebars to show you how your pages will appear You can change the widgets in your sidebars but you should use the Widgets page on Artisteer net to manage your widgets instead of the desktop There are several reasons for this e On the desktop the only areas where you can add widgets are the sidebars primary and secondary areas In Artisteer net there are several more possible areas where you can place your widgets e lf you add widgets to a sidebar in Artisteer net they replace any widgets you have assigned on the desktop For example suppose your sidebar has a Vertical Menu and later you add a Calendar widget to the sidebar in Artisteer net The Calendar widget will replace your menu it will not be added to the area lf you want the menu to appear on your page you need to add the Vertical menu back to the sidebar using this page in Artisteer net e There are many more widgets available on Artisteer net than on the desktop e Youcan change the style applied to the widget e g block style post style on Artisteer net The Widgets page operates in two ways which you c
53. blog is referencing your article See trackbacks and pingbacks in the glossary for more information lf you have more than one user invited to your website Options gt Users choose the user to be the designated author If you have added Author to your posts on the desktop Content gt Metadata gt Icons the author will be listed alongside the post so viewers can click on the link to display other articles created by the author Use this to assign your posts to categories If you have added the Category link to your content on the desktop category Content gt Metadata Icons your viewers can click on a category link next to the post on your website to display all the posts in that category You can find more information below about blog categories in the section describing the Categories page Enter the trackback URL for the blog page or post you want to link to artisteer net page 58 Artisteer page Post Tags Post Tags 99 Trackbacks are used with older blogs that do not support pingbacks If you want to notify another blog that your post article refers to a page or post on the other blog you enter a special URL here that is used by Artisteer net to send the notification to the other site The URL that you enter here is part of the content on the other blog The hyperlink may be called anything but normally on older blogs that support trackback you will find a link called Trackback URL on the page you want to
54. button the post is saved in whatever status mode you set If you select the Publish button the status is updated to published and your post is immediately published to your website You may see the status displayed as scheduled This means you have set a future date and time that you want Artisteer net to publish your post Visibility Public the post can be viewed by anyone Private the post can only be viewed by you other Administrators or Editors see Options gt Users Password protected To view the post viewers are challenged with a password Only those with the correct password can view the post stick this post to the front Same as make this post sticky option on the Quick Edit panel See quick editing posts above The post is made sticky meaning it is listed before any other posts Depending on how many sticky posts you have this usually ensures that the post always appears on your frontpage or blogpost page artisteer net page 75 Publish immediately amp Artisteer se 76 You can use this to set when the post should be published If you select the Save Draft button your post is not published If you select the Publish button your post is published immediately with the current date and time shown You can change the date and time to backdate the post but also publish it immediately or you can enter a future date and time and then Artis
55. cally to the menu The content in the Header area and the Article section can be changed directly in the Preview area Use the Edit tab on the ribbon bar to edit and style the content you create on your page The other tabs on the ribbon bar such as the Vertical Menu tab and the Blocks tab are used to style the various other elements of your page Note options on the ribbon bar under the Edit tab may be grayed out until you place the cursor within an editable part of the Preview area e g article text The Sidebar area of the page contains by default a Vertical Menu followed by 1 or more blocks If you do not intend to include these elements on your page you can remove them by clicking on each block then the Position icon and No Block or just select the Delete block icon next to the Position icon To remove the sidebar entirely set your column layout to one column Layout gt Columns gt One column artisteer net page 19 amp Artisteer E Subpage 1 o aB No Block Subpage 2 Subpage 3 rm Page 2 LA EE New Block o x El Block Position Enter Block content here Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit Etiam pharetra tellus sit j amet congue vulputate nisi M erat iaculis nibh vitae feugiat Je C sapen ante eget mauris Except for the Vertical Menu and other defined widgets you can normally edit the block content directly e g to create a list of hyper
56. cation for the map e g 123 anystreet anycity anycountry Enter a short description of the location Enter the maximum px width for the area of the map on your post Enter the maximum px height for the area of the map on your post These are options related to how your viewers can interact with the map on your post i e Enable or disable the zoom options Change the map view from street map to satellite view Allow for additional textboxes which viewers can use to get directions to or directions from a particular location Use this to add the map to your post This will add the shortcode to the HTML for your post The shortcode is added wherever your cursor is in the editor Note to remove or change your map you will need to delete this artisteer net page 56 amp Artisteer a code in the editor and then reuse this form to define a new one Comments Comments This is a list of comments if your post allows comments and viewers have left comments on your web site for this post Every time you edit your post you should use this panel to update your post with the Update button If you do not update your post your changes will be lost Publish Status Use this to show the status of the changes to your post If you set the status to published your changes are immediately added to your website If you change the status to pending review or draft your changes are not published until you change the status back to
57. dministrator they can do anything you can do including deleting your website e Editor you can do anything an Author can do and some administrative tasks such as moderating comments managing categories managing links editing pages and editing other s posts You can also edit Posts marked private e Contributor you can upload files and create edit manage your own posts Any posts you create are in draft until an Administrator approves the post for publication You cannot delete your own posis e Author you can do anything a Contributor can do and also publish your own posts without an Administrator s permission You can also delete your own posts e Subscriber you can only manage your own profile Use this page to invite others to participate with your blog You can either invite users that are already registered with Artisteer net or register new users To invite an existing user on Artisteer net you will need to know the e mail address they used to register To create a new user account you will need to supply a new username and e mail address Note you cannot use an e mail address or username if it is already associated with an existing user In either case for existing users and new users an e mail confirmation is sent to the address registered The user cannot edit your blog until he or she confirms the registration with the link sent in the e mail message Note the invitation is sent to the e mail address
58. e dimensions that are used Use this option to automatically embed video files into your pages or posts Artisteer net supports the video embeds for the following services e YouTube only public videos unlisted and private videos will not embed e Vimeo e DailyMotion e Flickr both videos and images e Viddler e Hulu e Revision3 e Scribd e Google Video e WordPress tv e SmugMug When you add video to your page or post using one of the editors see Inserting Media in your Pages or Posts the editor inserts a hyperlink to the video so what your viewers see is a link not the actual video on the page Furthermore for security reasons you cannot upload flash files to your media library but using this option you can embed videos in your content and you can embed flash video from other websites Note this is one way to embed video there are many other methods described on the web but since they are not specific to Artisteer net they artisteer net page 117 amp Artisteer S are not covered here lf you turn on this option there is no need for any HTML code to embed the media All you have to do is enter the URL to the media as text in your page You get the URL from the site you are referencing For example with youtube com when you click on a video normally you will get an URL that looks something like this http www youtube com watch v n TDNLUpg The URL has to be inserted in your HTM
59. e options Extras gt Main gt Theme See Default Horizontal Menu Source and Default Vertical Menu Source below lf you want to create a custom menu use the Menus page Before you can begin you need to create a new blank menu On the Menus page Home gt Menus enter a menu name in the Menu Name field and select the create menu button On the left side of the page are your Theme Locations The caption for this dialog says Your theme Supports 2 menus You can have more than 2 menus on your pages using widgets but what this means is that Artisteer only supports one horizontal menu bar and one vertical menu On this page Primary Menu refers to the horizontal menu and Secondary Menu refers to the vertical menu You use this page to create a custom menu and then assign it in the Theme Locations to either the horizontal menu or the vertical menu Both the horizontal and vertical menu may refer to the same menu Note once set they override any settings in your Theme Options like Default Horizontal Menu Source Below the Theme Locations are your Custom Links Pages and Categories Use these panels to add menu items to your menu artisteer net page 46 amp Artisteer oa Once you have added menu items to your menu you can use drag amp drop on the menu item list to change the order that the menu items will appear on the menu You can also select each item in the list and edit the
60. e pings from other web sites that link to your posts Pings should appear in your comments section if you have enabled this option You can override individual options using the allow pings option on the New Post page Allow people to post comments on new articles This option allows viewers to comment on your post articles You can override this by changing the allow comments option on the New Post page Note on the desktop the Comments setting Content gt lcons gt Comments only determines if the footer area of your post includes a comments link clicking on the link redirects you to a page where you can enter a comment Removing this link does not mean users cannot leave comments If comments are allowed thru this setting viewers can still click on a post article which will redirect them to a page where a comment form appears at the bottom of the page If you really dont want to allow comments turn this option off Comment author must fill out name and e mail Use this option to require everyone who comments on your post to fill in the name and e mail fields of the comment form Users must be registered and logged in to comment Signup has been disabled Only members of this site can comment Automatically close comments on articles older than 14 days This option turns off comments on your posts After X number of days that you specify Artisteer net will no longer
61. ebsite at the e mail address configured on the General options page Options gt Settings gt General An administrator must always approve the comment this keeps all comments in the moderation queue until the administrator of the website approves the comments Until approved the comments do not appear artisteer net page 123 Artisteer Comment Moderation Comment Blacklist Avatars Avatar Display 124 page on the website Comment author must have a previously approved comment this requires that comments left by every first time commenter must be approved before they are added to the website After the first approval they remain approved for every comment left afterwards Hold a comment in the queue if it contains i or more links A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks When a comment contains any of these words in its content name URL e mail or IP address it will be held in the moderation queue One word or IP per line Artisteer net will match inside words so art will match Artisteer These options are used to prevent spammers from submitting phony comments to your web site The comment is held in the moderation queue as opposed to being marked as spam When a comment contains any of these words in its content name URL e mail or IP address it will be marked as spam One word or IP per line Artisteer net will
62. ebsite name artisteer net page 15 amp Artisteer Li Quick Start Guide Artisteer net is a Wordpress based hosting service Unlike other hosting services you can create edit manage the content of your website using Artisteer on the desktop or on the web using Artisteer net To get started you need to create a website or blog project New Project Websites and Blogs LA 7 al oe Website or Blog Samples Online Samples This is the only type of project that will work with Artisteer net Create a Website To get started click the Suggest design button several times and find an attractive theme Then adjust the layout and specific options in the tabs and optionally add edit the content When the design and content are ready click Publish to Artisteer net on the Home tab Home O Suggest Colors al Suggest Background p ES New Blog Post 4 i ti H Browse Suggest Fonts EN Suggest Header ed New Block i a i r La Edit Suggest Design Styles New Options Publishto Publish to Suggest Layout EP Suggest Menu S Page E Delete Page Local FTP tee mer Design Ideas Website Export F When prompted you enter a title for your website and a domain name the domain name must be unique artisteer net page 16 amp Artisteer 7 Create Website Artisteer net Specify Tide and Domain for the new website enter Site Title Unless you later map a
63. eer Artisteer net Front end editing WYSIWYG filling in the Back end editing filling in the WordPress looking content fields on the actual website pages post fields Clipboard copy paste text and images from Clipboard Copy paste or type the text Microsoft Word etc Editing Modes visual mode and HTML mode Editing Modes visual mode and HIML mode Edit tab gt HTML markup display artisteer net page 25 G Artisteer Inserting objects link image video add clip art table Indentation all text first line Extra Content layout and styling options arrange content in columns and apply different styles 26 page Inserting objects link image video audio map Inserting files Extras gt New Media doc docx pdf etc Indentation first line Extra Featured image Working with Meta Data Artisteer Designing Metadata Metadata refers to the attributes of your posts that make the post more descriptive or directs viewers to related content For example you can include the name of the post author and a link that viewers can use to view other posts by the same author Artisteer has several design options under the Content tab to determine the layout of the post headline header footer and the e g Comments link tags link etc The design metadata to appear on the post that you create is automatically applied to all the posts on your website Artisteer net Genera
64. em for search engines artisteer net page 27 amp Artisteer Home Tab The Home tab is used to manage your pages and posts Home Extras Administration Options 28 page E Categories Available 200 MB a y 3 Tags A Used 0 MB 0 gt Menus Feedbacks Posts Mew Post Comments Visit Site Posts Browse Diskspace Quick Look Site The Preview icon displays what your website will look like This is the same as selecting the Visit Site icon except your web pages will appear below the Preview ribbon bar This only displays published pages You can also edit the content in Preview mode by clicking on the content area This is what you should see n Edit Content b i link b quote del ins img ul ol fi code more lookup close lt p gt lt img src http nemo_artisteernet wp content themes nemo_1520 1 images preview p image id preview image gt Enter Page content here lt p gt lt p gt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet adipiscing elit Etiam pharetra tellus sit amet conque vulputate nisi erat taculis nibh vitae f ante eget mauris Aenean sollicitudin imperdiet arcu vitae dignissim est posuere id lt p gt lt p href gt Read more lt a gt lt p gt Update Cancel The Pages icon displays a list of all the pages of your website where you can select and change the page or page options Use the New Page icon to create a new page for you
65. er of comments left for your posts The number of approved comments pending approval and number of comments marked as spam e How much diskspace you are using on Artisteer net e If you allow comments for your Articles a list of the comments received e lf you allow other websites to link to yours then a list of these sites e A list of any draft changes you have made to your posts but not published e A simple editor called QuickPress which you can use to create simple and quick posts to your site artisteer net page 87 G amp Artisteer 7 50232 BReAeRDBS Websites Theme Feedbacks Library New Media Links New Link Categores Widgets Main Media Linki Widgets Screen Options Das Right Mow T QuickPress Tiie 6 Posts 1 Comment 2A Aa Upinadfingert al Ea e E 13 Pages O Approved Content 1 Categor 1 Pending O Tags 0 spam heme with 6 Widgets Tags Save Draf Reset Publish 200MB Space sd 27 03MB 14 Space Used ORTA Recent Drarts no title Recent Comments gallery link hle My Lightbox gallery mo til one question why is the post empty galian View al Wiews all Incoming Links his dashboard widget queres Google Blog Search so that when another blog nks to your site it will show up here It has found no incoming links yet ls okay Use this page to view all of the websites registered for your account on Artisteer net The list includes websites either you have created or you have been invited to pa
66. ermalinks Ei Writing ay Reading a Media Ll Lightbox 3 Discussion 2 Tools amp Artisteer biai 105 options ribbon bar will change depending on their role as described above Use this to access your most basic configuration settings such as how date time values are displayed on your web site your e mail address used for administration notifications keywords and meta tags for search engine optimization etc Use this to decide if your web site is accessible to search engines such as Google or Technorati Use this to change how the permanent URLs are created to access your individual posts categories or other postings See the Permalinks page below for more information Use this to control the editing features when you are writing new posts You can also use this to access the Press This applet and or add protocols to enable Remote Publishing Use this to control how your website will appear to viewers For example you determine which page is your default page when viewers enter your web address This is equivalent to selecting the top page in your page folder on the desktop You can also decide which page your post articles will appear on This is equivalent to changing the Blog Posts page on the desktop Use this to control how media is displayed on your web site Use this to control the Lightbox Gallery options Use this to determine whether or not to allow comments determine what comments shou
67. es back to the default settings when your website was created Page Comments Allow If this option is enabled viewers can leave comments for your page the option should be enabled in the Comments bar for each new existing post If you turn off this option comments will be disabled on all pages of your website Another option i e Allow people to post comments on new articles is used to set the default allow comments value for new pages Options gt Discussion Menu Show Home ltem Typically for a Wordpress blog and Wordpress theme the frontpage of the blog lists the articles posted for the blog The frontpage is normally designated the Home page on the navigation bar and the caption is Home Select this option if you want the first choice on the menu bar to appear with the caption defined below If unselected and the source for your navigation bar is pages this will be the title of your first page Home Item Caption Use this to change the Home choice caption on the navigation bar first choice in the menu If show home item above is unselected this does not apply Default Horizontal Use this to set the source of the menu choices in the navigation bar to MENU Soue either the Categories of your website or the Pages page titles artisteer net page 89 amp Artisteer ind Default Vertical Menu Source Post Thumbnails Use Auto Thumbnails Thumbnail Width Thumbnai
68. ess to the domain you added and the domain s URL is what will appear in the address bar of the browser artisteer net page 132 amp Artisteer bony Enter the Google API Key if you use a custom domain and would like to activate google maps Google Maps E The Google Analytics settings are used to enable and adjust the service Basic Settings and Advanced Settings Settings Please NOTE that Google Analytics is disabled by default To enable the feature 1 Select Enabled in the drop down list which says Google Analytics logging is j i e od Domains Statistic General Goodle Analytics pe x P z Google Analytics Settings a br Basic Settings Google Analytics logging Is Authenticate with Goagle Currently authenticated with Google Deauthorize Google Analyticator 2 Then you should indicate your Google Analytics UID Log in to your Google Analytics Account gt Select the domain gt Click on the Edit link under Settings for the domain you want to find the UID Now click on the link Check Status after Receiving Data at the top gt Your UID looks like UA xxxxxxx x Paste your UID and click Save Changes artisteer net page 133 134 page Home Extras Statistic Options Administration Domains Google Analytics General Google Analytics Settings Basic Settings Google Analytics logging is Enabled gt Click here to login to Google thus authen
69. ew Link Categories Widgets Dashboard Websites Links Widgets Screen Options Media Library AddNew Search Media All 4 images 4 Unattached N Bulk Actions e Apply Show all dates Fiter F File Author Attached to GE Date shutterstock_15990961 myself Practices 2011 09 13 2011 09 13 JPG shutterstock_ 1360526 myself Home 201 1 05 13 y 2011 0913 JPG shutterstock_12763516 myself Home 2071 09 13 2011 09 13 JPG shutterstock_17150008 myself Practices 2011 09 13 2011 09 13 JPG E File Author Attached to Le Date This page displays all of the media that have been added to your media library Underneath each title you have three options similar to editing a page or post Edit Use this to edit the attributes of the media file e g Title Caption etc The attributes you can define vary depending on the media type See Inserting Media in your Pages or Posts section above for a description of these attributes What you can edit here is almost identical to what you can define or change when you actually insert the media in your page or post except artisteer net page 93 amp Artisteer 7 you cannot define attributes related to the appearance size and placement and interaction with the media e g Link URL since you may use the same media on different pages File URL here is the location of the file in your website on Artisteer net This cannot be changed You cannot edi
70. file types jpg jpeg png gif pdf doc ppt mp3 mp4a wav avi mp4 mpt mov and wmv For security reasons Flash files i e swf flv etc are not Supported except for Artisteer s flash files which you can include in your header Use this to create a list of hyperlinks or multiple lists using link categories not the same as post categories A list of links is referred to as a blogroll By default Artisteer includes a sample link list called Featured Links which are links to features on the Artisteer products web site Artisteer com Blogrolls are used to create blocks in the sidebar that are a list of hyperlinks To add such a block go to the Widgets section and drag the Links widget into one of the widget areas then choose a link category This adds the block with a list of hyperlinks for the category you selected Use this to create a new hyperlink and assign the link to a category set Note on the desktop you can add a hyperlink to a page or post with the Edit tab but this is not the same as adding a link to a link list A link list is used to create the content of a blogroll which is displayed in the sidebar i e a list of links to the side or your page or post content You can only create a link list on Artisteer net Use this to create a link category Categories are used to create multiple link lists sets These are not the same as post categories By default your website already includes a ca
71. files you have previously uploaded into your library Use the Show button to display the attributes of the media you can define e g Title and the Insert into Post button to add media to your content Use artisteer net page 65 amp Artisteer te the Save all changes button to keep any changes you have made to the attributes you have defined for the media Add Video From Computer From URL Gallery 5 Media Library AllTypes Images 3 Audio Video Show all dates Fiter gt FlickAnimation Save all changes The Gallery tab appears when you select the gallery icon al or the image icon el in the editor A dialog will appear allowing you to insert images from your computer Browse gt Upload insert using an URL enter URL and other settings or insert image from the Media Library Add to Gallery Note the images removed from the gallery are not removed from the media library You also should have the Adobe Flash Player installed on your browser to be able to select several files at a time Add Gallery x From Computer From URL Gallery 0 Media Library No pictures found in the gallery Please add media files from the Computer the URL or the Media Library The gallery may be useful in several ways if you want to organize your images based on your pages or posts and or you frequently change media in your content if you let Artisteer net automatically
72. generate thumbnails for the featured image associated with your post If you do not specify a particular image Artisteer will select the first one in the gallery Extras gt Main gt Theme Options gt Post Thumbnails if you use the LightBox plugin to display your media For more details about Lightbox see Options Settings gt Lightbox artisteer net page 66 to insert a gallery shortcode into your content following options will appear at the bottom of the dialog Note these options are only amp Artisteer if you want to include a photo image gallery in your page or post you can use the post editor 67 page available if you have more than one media file attached to the post Gallery Settings Order images by Order Gallery columns Insert Gallery Update gallery settings Use this to set the order criteria that the thumbnail images appear in your post e g sort by menu order title date and time or random Use this to set the sort order using the criteria above E g sort on names in ascending order lf you include this in your page or post use this to determine how many columns your photo gallery will be arranged on the page e g 3 columns means you have a table with 3 columns and X number of rows depending on the number of items in your gallery Use this to insert a gallery shortcode in your post This option only appears when the editor is in HTML mode When you select this optio
73. he Save Draft button saves your page in draft status which means that the page has not been published yet If you want the page published right away select the Publish button Status Use this to set the status of the page to either Draft or Pending Review This is intended to communicate the status of the page to yourself or others moderating your content Draft generally means that you anticipate making changes to the page Pending Review means that the page is ready for publishing but it needs to be reviewed first If you select the Save Draft button the page is saved in whatever status mode you set If you select the Publish button the status is updated to published and your page is immediately published to your website You may see the status displayed as scheduled This means you have set a future date and time that you want Artisteer net to publish your page Visibility Public the page can be viewed by anyone Private the page can only be viewed by you other Administrators or artisteer net page 44 amp Artisteer ne Publish immediately 45 Editors see Options gt Users Password protected lo view the page viewers are challenged with a password Only those with the correct password can view the page You can use this to set when the page should be published If you select the Save Draft button your page is not published If you select the P
74. he image on the page Description Enter a description that describes the file The Media Library page includes a search box that you can use to search by description If you use a Post URL this is the text that will appear on the special blog page for this file If you do not use a Post URL and this page is not accessible directly to your viewers the description is still important to search engines since this page is still part of your website artisteer net page 68 amp Artisteer ie Link URL Alignment Size 69 The Link URL defines what happens when users click on the image None The image is not clickable File URL When you click on the image the current page or tab in the browser displays a full sized version of the image The URL in your browser s address bar refers to the image file location on Artisteer net Post URL The image is treated as an attachment to the post When you click on the image a new blog page is displayed with just the image by itself the image title and the description If you click on the image on this page it opens a new page on the actual file same as File URL This Is the placement of the image relative to any text you already have in your post The size of the image as it will appear in your page or post The dimensions and how the picture appears on your page or post depend on the original image size Your media settings also determine the maximum dimensions yo
75. horizontal menu bar an article area with images and text and a sidebar area vertical menu and block and a footer area with some links These are all elements common to blogs However unlike most blog software like Wordpress org you can change the content e g change the article text and style the content e g change the appearance of the buttons on the menu directly on your desktop without any additional software or without having to go to the web This way you can also see how your web pages will look to your users since what you see in Artisteer on the desktop is the style and the content combined On the left side of your first project is a page folder e g Page 1 Page 2 These are normally static HTML pages You pick a page change the content on the page and then style the content with Artisteer You can also add blog posts directly in Artisteer The post pages are automatically set as child pages for one of your static pages This page is referred to as the blog post page This page is used to display a list of the post articles that you create This page might include the full text of the post or just excerpts of the articles Each post is also a separate page so on your blog posts page if you artisteer net page 7 G Artisteer E click on the title you are automatically redirected to the page for that post This is a feature common to all blogs If you choose to use post pages then you need t
76. ibrary or include them later in your post After the file is uploaded you can add attributes which determine how the media appears on the post and what happens when your viewers click on the media In the example above the title is what appears to your viewers as the hyperlink on your post You want to select a title that is self descriptive for your viewers and also for search engines The caption field in this example does nothing for the hyperlink to your document but if this were an image the caption would add text underneath your image on the post The attributes for each type of media are different Use the From URL tab to use a web address as the source of the media Use this tab to collect media resources on the web instead of uploading the files to Artisteer net Remember you have quite a bit of space reserved for your website on Artisteer net but the space is limited When you link to media on the web instead of uploading to your website you are not using any space You have to balance your choice of location based on the availability of the media on the web and the time involved to render your web page in your viewers browser since these images are retrieved on demand from the web when the page is loaded Except for image media Artisteer net always inserts a hyperlink to the media in your page or post You enter an URL to the media e g video document etc and a Title which is how your link will appear on the page
77. il In case that you sould like to set the default lightbox size Medi Update Options Reset Options select a number of columns you would like to display the images in Custom value Choose one of the available thumbnail sizes thumbnail 150x150 medium 300x300 large 1024x1024 and full You can customize thumbnail sizes at Options gt Media Thumbnail size settings are responsible for the size of thumbnails displayed in a post or page Define the size of the images displayed in the gallery thumbnail media large full Use these options to save the adjustments or return to the default settings These settings relate to pingbacks trackbacks and comments These options set the default behavior for your web site See trackbacks and pingbacks in the glossary for more information Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article Artisteer will send out a ping to another web site that you have linked to i e artisteer net page 121 amp Artisteer Other comment settings 122 page hyperlinks included in your post Your link to the other site will be mentioned in their comments section if they have enabled pingbacks Disable this option if you do not want other blogs to be aware of your discussion or you do not want your reference to be mentioned on the other blog Allow link notifications from other blogs pingbacks and trackbacks Artisteer will accept declin
78. ill parse the content and send a ping to the other blog If the other blog supports pingbacks it will respond and normally a special comment will be added to the blog You can ping pages and posts on other blogs if allowed but you can only include pings links in your posts the links in your pages are ignored artisteer net page 139
79. ining several pages into a group that is accessible from the menu using the separator page as the group name or main menu choice Note this creates an actual page for your website but the menu bar has no link to the page so users cannot navigate to the page from the menu bar i e the name is used just to group a set of submenu items However if you artisteer net page 36 Artisteer page HTML Title Tag Keywords Description Meta tags 37 include the page in other places such as the vertical menu there is a link to the page so remember to exclude the page from the menu source if you do want this behavior You can set this option on the desktop right click on the page in the page tree gt gt properties Show in Menu HTML Title Tag defines the title of the document The title element does several things defines a title in the browser toolbar provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites defines a title for the page in search engine results The page title is the default value Your keywords become part of the meta tag keywords in the HTML code for this page lt meta name keywords content sepkeyword gt On the desktop for pages you can also define this in the page properties You can also define default page tags in your export options File gt Export gt Export Options Your description becomes part of the meta tag description in the HTML code for this page
80. ins img ul ol li code more lookup close tags lt p gt lt img src http nemo_artisteer net wp content themes nemo_1520 1 images preview jpg alt image 1d prevewamage gt Enter Page content here lt p gt lt p gt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet cons ante eget mauris Aenean sollicitudin imperdiet arcu vitae dignissim est posuere Id lt p gt lt p gt lt a href gt Read more a gt p gt Update i Cancel M artisteer net page 31 amp Artisteer 7 This page lets you manage the pages of your website You can add or delete pages from here change the order of the pages that appear on your website track revisions and change various other options of your pages Use the Search Pages box to search for pages by title or their content You can also use the filter option to show only those pages created updated this month or all pages created for your site After making changes to a page or posts always save your changes If you are not ready for your changes to be visible to viewers of your blog set your page or post to draft or pending review status and then save your changes Home Extras Options Administration S EF Categories 5 Available 200 MB _ a po Tags gt Used 25 41 MB 12 zA Preview 3 Mew Page Menus Posts New Post Comments Visit Site Es Site Posts Browse Disks pace Screen Options Pages Add New Search Pages All 14 Published Scheduled
81. is inserted and the presentation of a site You can use Artisteer on the desktop to define the design and content You can use Artisteer net to create and manage the content but not the design Excerpt is a term generally used in Content Management Systems like WordPress and Artisteer net It denotes a brief manual description and of a blog post which is used in places where quick summaries are preferable to full content such as search results and archives The manual WordPress excerpt is often confused with the automatic excerpt or with the teaser the part of a post that appears on the front page when you use the More tag While both are related to the manual excerpt they are different from it Automatic excerpt displays the first 55 words of the post s content You can add an excerpt to a post in Artisteer net using Home gt New Post gt Excerpt Subpanel artisteer net page 135 amp Artisteer ka The front end is what your visitors see in a browser and interact with when they come to your website www YourSite com FTP or File Transfer Protocol is rather predictably a client server protocol for transferring files It is one way to download files and the most common way to upload files to a server An FTP client is a program which can download files from or upload files to an FTP server From Artisteer you can either export your pages to a folder or archive i e zip file and or move the files y
82. is an URL friendly version of the title generated by Artisteer net Slugs are used with Permalinks E g http mydomain artisteer net my dog page Use this to either backdate the date and time the page was published or schedule a date and time when the page should be published Note this depends on the Timezone option in your General settings Options gt Settings gt General Timezone Assign a parent page if you want this page to be a child On the navigation menu child pages appear as submenu Items Change this to rearrange the order that you want your pages to appear either on the navigation bar or within a submenu This also affects how your pages will appear in the page folder on the desktop Select this if you want to allow viewers to comment on your pages Use this to assign a status to the changes you have made If you do not want the changes to be applied and published right away set the status to Pending Review or Draft These status codes are used to describe the state of your changes Draft means you anticipate more changes Pending Review tells other Editors or Administrators that the page is ready for publication pending moderation You might also see the status as scheduled This means that you have defined a date and time in the future when this page should be published Select private if you want the page to be visible only to you e g administrator Enter a password if you want the page
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84. item using the button next to each menu choice The edit panel has more attributes you can define about each choice explained below Menu Name Click on this to create new menus Automatically add Normally when you create new pages the top level pages are added by new top level default to the menu When you create a custom menu the menu choices are pages created by you as either custom items and links or a subset of pages and blog categories Select this if you want Artisteer to also add menu items to your custom menu automatically when you create top level pages Theme Locations Primary Menu This refers to the horizontal menu bar Use the drop down menu to select the menu you want to use or leave unselected to use the default menu secondary Menu _ This refers to the vertical menu bar Use the drop down menu to select the menu you want to use or leave unselected to use the default menu Use this to create a custom menu Custom Links URL Enter a valid URL address link to use for the menu item Label Enter the text you want to appear on the menu Pages Use this to select the page links you want to include in the menu artisteer net page 47 G amp Artisteer E Categories lf you have created blog categories for your posts use this to select the categories you want to include in the menu Clicking on this choice will have the same result as clicking on a category link in one of your posts Post Tags If
85. l Height Post Excerpts Use Auto Excerpts Excerpt Length 90 Use this to set the source of the menu choices in the vertical menu to either the Categories of your website or the Pages page titles When your post articles are listed on your Blog Posts page you can either choose to have no image displayed next to the article use a featured image an image you chose to associate with the post when you created it or have Artisteer automatically generate a thumbnail image from the first image in the gallery Use this to set the maximum width of the thumbnail image Use this to set the maximum height of the thumbnail image Use this to let Artisteer automatically create an excerpt from the post content This option is ignored if you have defined an excerpt when you created the post or if you use the lt more gt tag within your post Otherwise a defined number of words are automatically extracted from the beginning of the post text and used as the excerpt There are two ways this can be overridden First when you create the post you have the option on the edit post page to add an excerpt to the post article If this option does not appear on the edit post page check the screen options and make sure excerpts is included in the options You can also override this option by inserting a lt more gt tag On the edit post page switch the editor to HTML mode and position the cursor at the end of the text whe
86. ld be allowed and which should be considered spam how should comments be moderated allow Pingbacks and Trackbacks etc Access general tools such as Press This artisteer net page 105 106 amp Artisteer kad _ Import Use this to import posts or comments Export Use this to export posts comments pages categories and tags You can use the generated XML file to import this content into another Artisteer site A Delete your website An e mail notification is sent to the address of the admin user Options gt Settings gt General to confirm deletion If you delete vesie sie your website all of your pages posts and comments are permanently deleted This will not remove your account but you will not be able to reuse this domain name again e g www myname artisteer net the domain is permanently unavailable Personal Options Visual Editor Use this to control whether or not the visual editor is available when you are editing a page or post If checked only the HTML editor is available e g Home gt Posts select post gt Edit Keyboard Shortcuts Use this to enable keyboard shortcuts for browsing and moderating comments Press down or k up to start navigating and selecting a comment Available shortcuts for performing actions e aapproves the selected comment e s marks the current comment as spam e d moves the comment to the trash bin and or deletes the current comment e zrestores the comment from
87. links but typically the sidebar is used for widgets that you add to your pages on the web using Artisteer net You cannot edit widgets since they are pre defined content areas such as a Calendar or a Search box Widgets can be added with the Layout tab Layout gt Blocks gt Widgets There are several defined widgets you can use with Artisteer net Vertical Menu Search Categories Archives Blogroll You can also add blocks editable to your sidebar with the Layout tab Layout gt Blocks gt New Block a Publish Your Website Once you have defined the layout styling and content of your pages you can use the Publish choice on the top menu or Home gt Export gt Publish to Artisteer net to move your pages to Artisteer net Although it is not shown when you create a website for Artisteer net you are creating a theme as well as the content of your pages Like other templates that you can create with Artisteer the theme defines the styling applied to the way your content appears e g how your navigation menu appears how the text on your pages appear etc You do not work directly with the theme except thru the styling options in Artisteer but when you publish your website your theme and content are published together Every time you publish your website from the desktop your theme and content is synchronized with your theme and content on the web For example if you make any changes to your pages on artisteer net page 20
88. links by creating categories associated with the links When you add a blogroll to your web page you can choose the category of links you want to display in the list On this page select the categories you artisteer net page 98 Artisteer page 99 want associated with the link Note a link may belong to more than one category Also categories of links is not the same as the categories for your posts Post categories are a way of organizing your posts by hierarchical topics Link categories are a way of naming your sets of links and they have no hierarchical order Use the Add New Category option to create new categories for your link lists You can choose to display all of the link categories you have created or just the categories most used in your blog You can also use the Link Categories page to add new link categories Extras gt Links gt Categories New category name Name of the category When you add a blogroll to a widget area you have the option of entering a title caption above the list for the list If you do not specify a title the name of the category will appear Use the Link Relationship panel to define relationships to other websites you may be linking to Rel lf you are linking to someone elses website you can specify your relationship to them This is called XFN XFN stands for XHTML Friends Network This can be useful for search engines or other services because you can define a m
89. m more accessible artisteer net page 80 amp Artisteer 81 page screen Options a il Comments Search Comments AM Pending Approved Spam Trash Bulk Achons Apply show all comment types A Fiter Author Comment In Response To bob Submited on 2011 09 30 at 10 00 pm Testimonials bobswebsite com bobbhotmail com E A E 127 r i 1 recommend Bernard Q roadrunner Sul n 201 1 09 30 at 6 50 pm Practices anyonemany malcom Excelent information o com 7 7 0 0 1 roadrunner2 2011 09 30 at 6 49 om Practices anyone anymail com YN 1270 01 Author Do you handle personal injury Comment E In Response To Buk Actions Apply At the top of the page are five links you can use to change the type of comments displayed All all of the pending or approved comments Pending all of the comments that have not been approved yet Spam all of the comments in the spam bin Trash all of the comments in the trash bin lf you hover the cursor over the text of each comment you should see a menu of actions you can take on each comment The actions are Approve Unapprove New comments are always pending approval unless you have configured your discussion options to automatically approve comments Note you can use Bulk Actions to approve or unapprove several comments at once Reply Reply to a comment QuickEdit Change the content of the comment
90. mportant to understand the difference when you are making changes in Artisteer net A static web site consists of HTML pages where you normally create the pages publish them and then infrequently make changes When you create static web pages in Artisteer what your viewers see on your hosted website is what you see when you created the page A blog is a type of website where you are usually adding or changing the content frequently A blog website can include static HTML pages pages but also pages which include blog posts blog pages Posts are articles i e post content that you or others you invite write and include into your website A blog website usually includes many features that allow you to communicate your ideas e g write articles and interact with you viewers e g allow them to enter comments about your articles A blog also includes many management features that you can use to manage how your pages appear manage what is on your pages and manage options related to moderating your Posts Pages Comments Content and Access Artisteer net is a Wordpress based hosting service and offers many of the same features as Wordpress Some of these features are applicable to any type of website and some are specific to blogs When you create your first Artisteer project what you see is an example website with features common to all blogs The page has a background a sheet a header area at the top with some text a
91. n Artisteer net injects the shortcode gallery into your HTML source wherever your cursor is positioned in the code There are other options you can elect to use by modifying the shortcode See the following link for more details http en support wordpress com images gallery Use this to update the gallery settings for a photo gallery you have already included in your post e g change the number of gallery columns This option only appears when the editor is in Visual mode Inserting Media in your Pages or Posts When you are adding media to your page or post and you click on the Insert into Post button Artisteer net inserts a hyperlink to your media in the editor depending on wherever the cursor is artisteer net page 67 When you select the Gallery tab the amp Artisteer a located note if you are editing in HTML modem this could ruin your code conformance to HTML if the cursor Is in the wrong place Images are always displayed embedded in your blog page Other types of media appear as hyperlinks As mentioned before you cannot upload Flash files to Artisteer net but you can embed Flash files as well as other types of video files from the web except for Artisteer s flash files which you can include in your header See Options gt Settings gt Media gt Auto embed for more details Note on the desktop you can insert your own images in your post or select images from the clipart gallery When you publish
92. n area that is closest to your location When you publish your pages and posis there is a timestamp assigned to your changes If you include a date tag with your posts on the desktop Content gt Metadata Icons Date the date shown on your page is based on this timestamp If you do not change the Timezone for your website the date shown may not be correct for your local time lf you schedule a date and time when your page or post should be published instead of publishing immediately you should change the Timezone to reflect your local time otherwise the content may not be published when you expect Select the format that you would like dates displayed on your web site select the format that you would like clock times displayed on your web site select the preferred day that you would like Calendars displayed on your web site If you add a Calendar widget this is the start day for every week that appears on the Calendar artisteer net page 112 113 G Artisteer bd Site Visibility select whether or not your web site should be accessible to search engines or archivers such as Google or Technorati Each blog post and resource e g image or video has its own web page The web address of that page is called a permalink Permalinks are designed to keep a permanent reference to content on your website For example when you create a post you might revise the content of the article later but you want to create the po
93. n your Pages or Posts for more information about how to define the attributes for each type artisteer net page 96 G Artisteer Links A Blogroll is a list of hyperlinks you can display on your website to make it easier for viewers to navigate your blog or website or jump to other content in other sites already comes with a list of links called Featured Links which are links to various topics on the Aristeer com website This list is only for illustration You will want to change this list when you create your website The Links page displays all of the hyperlinks you have created so far links Horte Extrat Options Administration Ha 8 E E F EP Y Near a Dathboard Webutes Theme Library New Media hitain Medias LINKS Add New Buk A chores Apply View all calegones Fiber Harma URL Artisteer Forum otinicer comp ures Artiateer Hewra ar alear com pny Documenta winieer com p wd How to create a website anales com Support atacar com p supoort Hame URL Buk 4A chong Apply You can display the links by category or search on links by name URL and description O 3 New Link Categories Links Calegores Featured Linn Fasturad Links Festured Lino Caleta 97 page A website or blog project Use this page to manage your Widgets Widgets narm Relationship Relabons hip Use the Add New button to redirect the browser to the New Link page
94. nding order click on the direction icon next to Name on the Posts page Most of the tables also include a checkbox at the top where you can select or unselect all of the items at one time For example the Pages page includes a checkbox next to the Title heading Selecting this checkbox will select all of the pages listed The editor is the same as in Wordpress so the editor is not described below in detail Generally with few exceptions the editor features are all the same for the pages that include the editor The editor has a Visual mode where you can edit the content much like a simple wordprocessor You can also switch to HTML mode but you need a rudimentary understanding of HTML and working with an HTML editor to use it effectively When you have more than one website on Artisteer net you can change the default website when you login Extras gt Websites gt Primary Site This does not change the website you are currently modifying however you can always tell where you are by referring to the first part of the domain name in the browser address bar You can also easily change between websites by changing the URL For example if you are editing mysite1 the URL would be mysite1 artisteer net If you want to make changes to mysite2 just change the URL to mysite2 artisteer net and refresh the page You can also change websites using the Dashboard link Extras gt Websites gt select the dashboard link next to the w
95. nistration The options under each tab are arranged in groups of icons Clicking on an icon in one of these groups e g Pages opens an administration screen Each administration screen contains a working area with specific settings Artisteer a r 3 Home Extras Options Administration a t 5 5 Categories Available 200 MB ES z F Tag Used 23 41 MB 12 Preview New Page Menus Posts New Post Comments Visit Site Posts Browse Diskspace Pages AddNew All 14 Published 12 Scheduled Draft Bulk Actions Apply Show all dates Filter Page Title Menu Caption Author A no title Draft nemo A allow comments allow comments nema Artisteer net serves as the backend for managing your website If you are familiar with Wordpress you should have no trouble using Artisteer net The administration pages are organized differently from Wordpress but the page content and the user interface is very similar For example each page has a screen options link in the top right corner of the page You can use the screen options to customize what appears on the page For example if you do not use the QuickPress tool you might want to exclude it in the future by turning this off in the screen options This is very important because as you are learning how to use Artisteer net you should always refer to the screen options since there may be important features that are turned off by default The edit pages
96. nt from the WXR file Use this to delete your website When you delete a website the content is removed from Artisteer net and the domain name is parked forever and cannot be reused again An email is sent to your site e mail address Options gt General with a confirmation link You have to acknowledge the link to confirm you want to delete the website otherwise Artisteer will not remove your website If you are using another domain name instead of an Artisteer net domain name see Domains below make sure that you update the nameservers for your hosting service artisteer net page 130 Ky Domains GH Artisteer bid 131 Fl l k i j arrg Domains Google Maps Settings Statistic General Google Analytics Use this page if you have or plan to acquire a domain name that you want to use instead of your Artisteer net domain name e g myname artisteer net Your domain name is the web address that your users enter to get to your website e g www myname com There are many places on the web where you can purchase a domain name Follow the instructions on this page Note the registrant is the service where you bought the domain name If you already host your website somewhere but now want to use Artisteer net this would be your current hosting service You will need to contact them to update the Name Servers as described on this page Until you have added the Name Servers to your domain registration
97. nts tag to manage the comments added to your web site Comments are submitted by your web site viewers you can also add comments of your own or reply to comments Use this page to manage the comments submitted Use it to view delete approve unapprove or mark comments as spam artisteer net page 29 G amp Artisteer Use this icon to open a new browser tab or browser window on the first page of your web site This displays only your published pages and posts Visit Site Diskspace This statistic also on the dashboard displays the amount of disk space currently used for your web site If you are a licensed user of Artisteer you have 200MB of space available on Artisteer net The Preview page will show you what your published pages will look like while keeping the Artisteer net Ribbon bar still visible and accessible in the browser Only your published changes are visible as opposed to draft or pending artisteer net page 30 HB Artisteer e GpArtisteer net M o oo Home Extras Options Administration dp i S m5 Categones Available 200 MB E E gTa C Used 5 64 MB G Pages New Page Menus Posts Mew Post Comments Visit Site Site Posts Browse Diskspace Home Practices References Law Offices Of You can also edit the content and HTML in Preview mode by clicking on the content area This is what you should see r Edit Content b i link b quote det
98. o consider other features common to blogs For example do you want your viewers to know who wrote the article or when the article was written Do you want to provide links to related articles Do you want to allow viewers to comment on your articles Do you want to link to other blogs or have other blogs link to yours What kind of built in functionality do you want to include in your pages For example Artisteer net supports several Wordpress widgets such as a Calendar that you can include into your web pages artisteer net page 8 amp Artisteer ios bh Oe E TOO Your Website Project Strategy Design a plan of the website you would like to create Specify the purpose the target audience and design an overall strategy for your pages and content Download and install Artisteer Create a Website or Blog project Artisteer start up dialog gt Website or Blog Implement your plan by adding editing your web pages and posts with Artisteer Create your website on Artisteer net Create Website Add edit your pages on the desktop or on Aristeer net Synchronize your pages and posts by publishing your website again on the desktop Manage your website on Artisteer net artisteer net page 9 10 page artisteer net page 10 amp Artisteer bla Artisteer net shares the Artisteer license This means that unless you are a registered Artisteer user or have an active upgrade period you
99. ocation Name Address Location Description Map Width Map Height Options send Map to Editor 41 Artisteer net keeps track of the changes you have made to your pages select any one of the revisions to redirect the browser to the revisions page From there you can restore your page back to any previous set of edits This is a list of comments if your page allows comments and viewers have left comments on your web site for this page Enter a name for the location you want displayed on the map e g Statue of Liberty Enter the address location for the map e g 123 anystreet anycity anycountry Enter a short description of the location Enter the maximum px width for the area of the map on your page The default width value is 100 of the parent container Enter the maximum px height for the area of the map on your page The default height is 400px These are options related to how your viewers can interact with the map on your page e Enable or disable the zoom options Change the map view from street map to satellite view Allow for additional textboxes which viewers can use to get directions to or directions from a particular location Use this to add the map to your page This will add the shortcode to the HTML for your page The shortcode is added wherever your cursor is in the editor Note to remove or change your map you will need to delete this code in the editor and then reuse this form to define a new
100. on Link URL Alignment Size Revisions 61 page File name i5tock_0000026 24322Medium pna File type image png Upload date September 28 2011 Dimensions 68 52 Stock_000002624322Medium Alt text for the image e g The Mona Lisa http fmysite16 artisteer net files 2011 09f Stock 00000264 322Medium png None FileURL Post URL Enter a link URL or click abowe for presets a None Let Center Right Thumbnail Medium Large a Full Size 68 x 52 insertinto Post Use as featured image Delete This is a list of the revisions you have made to the post You can use these links to compare revisions or restore the post to a previous state Adding Images Video and Other Media You can use the editor to add images video and other media to your posts You can either add media to your post using the icons above the editor or you can add links or embed media directly in the HTML Also refer to the Press This tool described below to find out how to add images and video from other websites into your own artisteer net page 61 G Artisteer E You can also add images and video to posts from the desktop Edit gt Insert gt The source of any images or video you add to a post is from a file on your computer or else from the Artisteer Clip Art library In either case the media becomes part of your Artisteer project and when you publish your website the media is uploaded
101. one artisteer net page 41 Artisteer e Adding Images Video and Other Media You can use the editor to add images video and other media to your pages You can either add media to your page using the icons above the editor or you can add links directly in the HTML Refer to the section below on editing posts Edit Post page for more information Also refer to the Press This tool described below to find out how to include images and video from other websites into your own You can also add images and video to pages from the desktop Edit gt Insert gt The source of any images or video you add to a page is from a file on your computer or else from the Artisteer Clip Art library In either case the media becomes part of your Artisteer project and when you publish your website the media is uploaded to Artisteer net and becomes part of the media library and gallery for the page The HTML in your content is automatically changed to refer to the media on Artisteer net instead of your computer On the desktop video media is always added to your page as an embedded link to the video file on the web Links to media e g video links are not included in your media library or gallery Note for security reasons you cannot upload Flash files except for Artisteer s flash files which you can include in your header however you can add links to video on other websites or embed the video in your page See Options gt Settings gt
102. ook Main Dashboard Websites Theme Feedbacks Media i E Library 59 FB ees 8B Theme Library New Media Links New Link Categories Widgets Media Links Widgets This page is an overview of your web site Use this to view statistics of your web site e g number of pages posts comments etc view comments or quickly create new posts This page displays a list of all your web sites under the account you have logged into on Artisteer net Use this icon to change options related to all the pages and posts on your web site such as allowing or disallowing Comments changing the appearance of the horizontal menu or sidebar s and footer Use the Feedbacks icon to display a list of all feedbacks Use this to display a list of the media in your media library The media library is a central location where you can upload media i e images video files etc to Artisteer net The media library can be used to include media in your pages or posts When you add media to your web page or post from the artisteer net page 84 amp Artisteer ms New Media Es Links Y New Link Categories 85 desktop the media is automatically added to the media library when you Publish your web site The media library also allows you to search for media by date or by name Use this to add media to the media library The media you can upload is the same as the formats supported in Wordpress allowed
103. ormation Meta is also the HTML tag used to describe and define a web page to the outside world search engines In the article Post Meta Data meta refers to information associated with each post such as the author s name and the date posted Navigation is the term used to describe text on a page that when selected redirects you to a corresponding page elsewhere on the website Navigation may sometimes be referred to as the menu links and hyperlinks A Page is often used to present static information on a website A good example of a Page is information you would place on an About Page Most websites contain pages and posts Unlike pages posts are time oriented In Artisteer net posts are placed on a Blog Page which is used to display the post articles added to your website Posts are time oriented articles that you write to populate your blog A slug is an URL friendly version of a title This is generated automatically by Artisteer net but you can change it to be anything you want Slugs are used with permalinks and they are useful for making your URLs more readable particularly to search engines artisteer net page 137 amp Artisteer boty e g http mysite artisteer net 201 1 09 20 all about dogs A tag is a keyword which describes all or part of a Post Think of it like a category but smaller in scope A post may have several tags many of which relate to it only peripherally Like Categories Tags are u
104. ou can change the text the same as the Headline text see Site Title above The title you enter here becomes part of the lt title gt tag in the HTML code for this page The title is used by the browser toolbar e g tabs as the bookmark title for the page if added to the browser bookmarks and in search engine results Note that Default Page Title refers to the HTML lt title gt tag and It does not change the page name heading that appears in the content field This is a comma delimited set of keywords to describe your site The list is included in your web page as a meta tag element artisteer net page 110 Artisteer page Default Page Description Default Meta Tags E mail address 111 lt meta name keywords content poodles dogs gt This is the default list of keywords for your page if not specified when you created the page on the New Page page Home gt Site gt New Page This is added to your page if keywords is not already defined in an existing page These can also be assigned on the desktop File gt Export Options Default Page Tags This is a description of your page The description is included in your web page as a meta tag element lt meta name description content this is a page about dogs gt This is the default description for your page if not specified when you created the page on the New Page page Home gt Site gt New Page This can also be assigned
105. ourself later or you can use the Artisteer s FTP client to move the files To use the FIP client you must configure certain settings in your Export options File gt Export gt Export Options gt FTP Server Note this is only needed for static HTML websites If you are hosting your website on Artisteer net you only need to publish your website from the desktop A hosting provider is a company or organization which provides usually for a fee an infrastructure for making information accessible via the web This involves the use of a web server including web server software such as Apache and may involve one or more related technologies such as FIP PHP MySQL and operating system software such as Linux or Unix Artisteer net provides 200 Mb of free disk space to store your website Developed by Netscape and Sun Javascript is a client side programming or scripting language It s used to create interactive and dynamic effects on a web page as well as handle and manipulate form data JavaScript is a separate language from Java All modern browsers support Javascript with the exception of most text based browsers e g w3m artisteer net page 136 amp Artisteer esa Artisteer net supports the Lightbox image gallery which is a JavaScript application used to display large images Meta has several meanings but generally means information about In WordPress and Artisteer net meta usually refers to administrative type inf
106. owever only a certain number of posts will appear on this page see Options gt Settings gt Reading gt Blog pages show at most Older posts are shown on separate pages accessible from links on the bottom of the page Select this option if you want the post to always appear at the top of the post list Depending on the number of sticky posts you have this normally means the post is always displayed on the frontpage Note this option is only available under quick edit Select private if you want the post to be visible only to you e g administrator Enter a password if you want the post visible only to viewers who supply the correct password artisteer net page 54 HB Artisteer E Edit Use the Edit Post page to edit the full range of features and attributes of your posts Remember the screen Options determine what is available to edit on this page Also always use the Publish pane on this page to apply your changes otherwise your edits will be discarded Edit Post MyPost Permalink http mysite artisteer net 2011 28 post Edit View Post Get Shortlink A ai Tl ABH El sual HTML b i link b quote del ins img ul ol li code more lookup close tags Editor Below the Post title is the editor you can use to change your content on the web This is the same editor used in Wordpress The editor has two modes which you can change from the tabs Visual works much like a simple word processor HTML use to enter you
107. published page to see how it will look to your viewers For example suppose you decide the text in your articles should be red On the desktop when you create your article you should notice that the text you enter for the article content appears in red However to create an article on Artisteer net like other CMSs you use the online HTML editor to enter the text Unless you apply a different style to the text the text appears black in the editor because black is the default color On your web page the text will be red but you will not see this in the editor You will not see the text in red until you preview your web page artisteer net page 24 amp Artisteer pa Let us compare the options of 1 desktop editing and 2 online editing Home Edit we E we 7 T ur mn A de Cut Paragraph Aria 3 GE E Zj F EE Row E l ES Video E 7 Copy E cet udal E Tabie gt Paste B Z U Ax xX A Be Content Styling Hyperlink Image Clip HTML ds hal i icc Layout a Art OK Button Clipboard Style and Font F Pafagraph Ca Content Insert Source Pages P O st pee gt Pagel E n pe El Page 2 9 2 2011 Author 4dmin Edit AO E e ne Posts Wed LeU MO wi DEL y Alls j in Y a aan i WO LOTMITensS y El Post Add New Post Visual HTML B 7 ae itis 4 SS Ss Pra aia Paragraph U A a F Slug Custom Frelels Adding Content Artist
108. r content with HTML tags Across the top of the editor is a set of icon links you can use to e insert media such as images video music document types e g pdf files e adda google map into your page content e add a contact form to your post Get Shortlink Use this to create a shortened version of the Permalink URL Most of your pages on your website are indexed by a number The URL is hidden from you because Artisteer net uses Permalinks see the Permalinks artisteer net page 55 Artisteer page Slug Slug Google Maps Location Name Address Location Description Map Width Map Height Options send Map to Editor 96 page below for more information Permalinks may become relatively long depending on how they are formatted Long URL addresses are not always useful depending on the context where they are used There may be some instances where you need to use a short URL For instance if you are using Twitter you are limited to URLs of a certain length You may also find a Shortlink useful if you are providing the URL as text instead of a hyperlink such as in an email message where the text may be subject to reformatting such as injecting line breaks in long lines Slug is an URL friendly version of the title generated by Artisteer net Slugs are used with Permalinks E g http mydomain artisteer net my dog fred article Enter a name for the location you want displayed on the map Enter the address lo
109. r website After you artisteer net page 28 Artisteer page New Page j Posts F New Post amp Categories Tags Comments 29 have added new pages use the Publish feature on the desktop to add the pages synchronize your content to your Artisteer project Use the Menus icon to create customize and manage the menus on your website The Posts icon displays a list of the post articles that have been added to your web site Use the New Post icon to create new blog posts for your web site After you have added new posts use the Publish feature on the desktop to add the posts synchronize your content to your Artisteer project The Categories icon is used to manage the Categories of your blog Use this to add delete or change Categories Categories are used to organize your posts This makes it easier for your viewers to find particular posts by subject Also each category has its own RSS feed so viewers can subscribe to and get updated on topics of interest to them The Tags icon is used to manage the Tags of your blog Use this to add delete or change Tags Tags are keywords you can use to further organize your posts so your viewers can more quickly find relevant articles Unlike Categories tags have no hierarchy There is no inherent organization such as parent and child tags Search engines inventory your tags so they are very important to attracting viewers to your website Use the Comme
110. re you want the excerpt to end then add the more tag using the editor menu bar When displayed everything up to the lt more gt tag will be displayed for the excerpt From the start of the post this is the number of words that will be included in the excerpt artisteer net page 90 amp Artisteer a Excerpt Balance Apply Excerpt Tag Filter Allowed Excerpt Tags Default Sidebar Style Primary Sidebar Secondary Sidebar Top Sidebars Bottom Sidebars Footer Sidebars 91 Use this to make sure that the excerpt is not too short This is the minimum number of words of the remaining content that are acceptable for exclusion from the excerpt For example if you have a short article and the excerpt includes all but the last 5 words of the article if this were set to 5 then the whole article would be displayed Use this to strip HTML tags from the excerpt content For example you could use this to remove certain text formatting so your excerpts all have a consistent appearance This is the list of acceptable tags Any other tags that appear in the excerpt are stripped from the HTML code Use this to apply a default styling to the widgets in the Primary widget area Each widget can have a different style applied Block the styling you defined in Artisteer for blocks Post the styling you defined for post articles e g text Simple text bare bones widget styling When you add a widget to a
111. ription some text describing the list category This will not appear on your website This page is for managing the widgets on your pages Widgets are built in tools you can use to enhance your blog pages On the desktop there are five built in widgets you can add to your pages Layout gt Blocks gt Widgets There are other widgets available on Artisteer net Use this page to set where the widget should appear on the page Desktop built in widgets e Vertical Menu The source for the vertical menu can be pages you can select which pages to include categories or a custom menu Extras gt Widgets Widgets gt Select the Vertical Menu widget in the sidebar area gt Source e Search A search field for searching the content of your website e Categories A list of post categories you created for your website Each link redirects you to a page listing all the posts for that category e g all posts about dogs artisteer net page 100 amp Artisteer ld e Archives A list of post articles archived by date Each link directs you to a page listing all the posts for that timeframe e Blogroll A list of links you created for your website When you add the blogroll you can select the link category you want to include e g all links about dogs Widgets available on Artisteer net e Archives Categories Search Vertical Menu see above e Links Your Featured Links e Pages Your site s Pages e Recent
112. rticipate with see Options gt Users You can also use this page to change the Primary Site which is the default site you are working with when you login to Artisteer net Changing the Primary Site does not change the site you are currently working on To change the current site select the Dashboard link next to the site you want work with or change the subdomain in the address bar of your browser Artisteer net is a Wordpress based hosting service With self hosted Wordpress sites you can have several themes installed and you change the appearance of your website by changing which one is active by default Each theme you add to a Wordpress site has specific theme options which apply to how that theme works Remember when you create an Artisteer net project you do not work with the artisteer net page 88 amp Artisteer aba theme directly but there is a theme created based on your style design and published with your pages Although Artisteer net only supports Artisteer themes and there is only one theme associated with your website the Theme page has been included to be consistent with other Wordpress sites using Wordpress themes created by Artisteer Consider the Theme page additional options you can use to enhance your website Whenever you make changes to these options always select save changes at the bottom if you want to keep your changes Use the reset to default button to revert your chang
113. s means the changes to the page have been scheduled to be published by Artisteer net at a future date and time Use this to change the accessibility of your page Your page can be either e Public anyone can view the page e Password protected viewers of your website need to enter a password before they can view the page e Private only you can view the page Use this to backdate your changes to a particular date and time or schedule a time when Artisteer net will apply the changes later Note this depends on artisteer net page 38 Discussion Allow comments Allow trackbacks and pingbacks Page Attributes Parent Order Artisteer nt 39 the Timezone option in your General settings Options gt Settings gt General Timezone select this if you want to allow viewers to comment on your page When this option is selected a comment box is added to your page where viewers can enter comments Other blog writers can write articles and include posts on their blogs that include a reference link to a page on your blog If you set this option Artisteer net will create a special comment on your page which will show which blogs are linking to your page This feature depends on your Discussion settings Options gt Settings gt Discussion gt Default article settings and the CMS where the blog is referencing your article See trackbacks and pingbacks in the glossary for more information Assign a p
114. sed to manage features of your website thru settings in the back end administrator of Artisteer net You can create content for your website e g text and images thru either the desktop or the web but you should avoid using both at the same time Whenever you publish your website from the desktop Artisteer will attempt to synchronize the content between the web and the desktop so you will see the same pages posts and everything else Just remember that whenever you make changes to your content on the web or on the desktop you should re publish your website from the desktop each time This keeps the web and desktop synchronized When you save your Artisteer project on the desktop you are saving both the theme and the content in your project file e g myproject artx Artisteer net is not only where you host your website but it also provides the backend to manage your site Once you publish your website and have a user account you can go to www artisteer net log in and begin adding arranging and moderating your content You can also add or set features related to how viewers can interact with your web pages e g allow comments In the following sections the manual often refers to blogs and static HTML websites For the purposes of this manual both terms refer to the same type of website Artisteer makes no distinction artisteer net page 6 G Artisteer M between a static HTML website and a blog but it is i
115. sktop Content gt Metadata gt lcons this is the title that appears alongside your post if you have added this post to the category This is also the title of the page your viewers are redirected to when they click on the category link Parent Use this to organize your categories in a hierarchy Description Enter a short description of the category The description appears underneath the category title on the page your viewers are redirected to when they click on the category link Add New Category Click this button to add your category otherwise your changes will be discarded artisteer net page 77 G amp Artisteer 7 Tags are a set of words you choose to associate key ideas or topics related to the content of your posts Tags make it easier for viewers to find your website and your post articles using search engines The words you choose for tags are not organized in any way though they could also be the Same words you used to define your categories and they may be very general or very specific For example suppose you have a blog about automobile repair Some of your articles might be about engines and so the tags may go from very general to very specific depending on the article like engines toyota 4 cylinder 1 6 liter DOHC 2007 Categories are often defined as a hierarchy Tags however are not defined in a hierarchy They are usually used as search mnemonics For e
116. st and you may want other users or yourself to link to your post from other blogs If a CMS in general dynamically kept changing the URL address of the pages to your website it would never be possible to make sure the references from other blogs was correct To solve this problem a Permalink is created every time you post your article As long as the article remains on your blog other authors can make references to your posts and the URL addresses are guaranteed to be valid Permalinks are created automatically but usually they are not always self evident To make them more readable to you and search engines and other services you can change how Artisteer net creates the link Options Common Settings Use this option to configure how your Permalinks are created for all of your posis Default an ID number is assigned to each post Day and Name the URL includes the year month day and post slug title Month and Name the URL includes the year month and post slug title Numeric a numerical value is assigned to the URL Custom use the Custom Structure option to define a custom link based artisteer net page 113 amp Artisteer fe on the position of tags that you can arrange to form the URL year 4 digit year e g 2007 monthnum 2 digit month e g 02 for February day 2 digit day e g 30 hour 2 digit hour of the day based on 24 hr clock e g 15 for 3 pm Yminute 2 digi
117. steer you can either export your pages to a folder or archive i e zip file and or move the files yourself later or you can take advantage of Artisteer s FTP client to move the files To use the FTP client though you must configure certain settings in your Export options File gt Export gt Export Options gt FTP Server You will need to get these settings from your hosting service After you have configured your settings you can then export your files using the Home tab on the ribbon bar Home gt Publish gt Export HTML website to FIP folder This only applies to static HTML type websites where you want to use your own hosting service If you are using Artisteer net your pages and content are copied automatically to Artisteer net every time you publish your website artisteer net page 21 G amp Artisteer FIP Server fS C55 Options RN T Protocol ia Host Port Pe li User Name OOo O Uy Password Po To Remote Directory Lp WN pa rls iva AS SA oe NE Laue TAN NENA As a as NT F KT VA SN AI my sm Ue Laa Sus A A rn Tt rr A JN MA A WIN f Ea AN ff m Y f a Co E i A G Y VWIINI UY VV N LI Ny 1 NJ IV IVS I OIII IG LUO Od a G w as E WE du y E pa TRA UNS NM When you are creating a CMS template e g Joomla Wordpress etc you are creating a style for how your content will appear to your users but not the actual content Except for a few things like the
118. sually linked to a page which shows all posts having the same tag Unlike Categories Tags can be created on the fly by simply typing them into the tag field Tags can also be displayed in clouds which show large numbers of Tags in various sizes colors etc This allows for a sort of total perspective on the blog allowing people to see the sort of things your blog is about most Many people confuse Tags and Categories but the difference is easy Categories generally don t change often while your Tags usually change with every Post Trackbacks and pingbacks are two protocols that do essentially the same thing but in different ways They help you and other blog authors keep track of the posts on other blogs that are referencing linking to your blog For example someone may write a post on a topic that is based on an article on your blog so they include a hyperlink in the post that refers back to your post Or you may write a post that covers a topic on another blog so you include a hyperlink to another post or page In either case you or the other blog author may want to know who is writing about their blog and using links to posts on their blog Links to your content from other blogs may increase your page ranking in search engines however you should use care when you link to other sites since many sites and search engines have particular rules to prevent soamming or loading up the rank of a page Trackbacks are used on older blog
119. systems These blogs use a special trackback URL You have to find this URL in the page content on the blog you want to reference and then add it to the trackback attribute where you create your post that refers to the blog The trackback URL you supplied is used to notify the other blog when you publish or update your post If successful a special comment is added to the other blog for the post you are linking to artisteer net page 138 amp Artisteer by Artisteer net websites do not support trackbacks If another blog uses a trackback to send notifications to Artisteer net they will be ignored When you create a post do not use the send trackbacks to field to send trackback notifications to another Artisteer net site Pingbacks are similar except you do not have to use a special URL to link to the other blog All you do is include a hyperlink or can be just text in your post to the other blog s page or post Artisteer net does support pingbacks If you link from other Artisteer net or wordpress sites and you have allowed pingbacks on your post or page a special comment will be posted notifying you that another site has linked to your page or post Like other comments you can choose or not choose to publish these comments on your website If you want to reference another blog from your posts add a hyperlink in your article to the other page or post of the blog When you publish your page or post Artisteer net w
120. t a menu appears underneath the title edit quick edit trash view Edit and Quick Edit are described below View lets you see what your page currently looks like on your website The Trash option is used to remove pages you no longer want Above the list of your pages you should see a Trash link This link only appears if you have pages in your trash bin If you later want to restore one of your pages click on this link move the cursor over the page you want to restore and select the Restore link that appears below the page name However if you Permanently Delete the page or the trash bin has been emptied you cannot restore the page Quick Edit Use quick edit from the page menu to quickly configure common attributes of your pages Always use the Update button on this panel otherwise your edits will be discarded E Title Author a Date QUICK EDIT Title Page 1 Parent Main Page no parent oe Slug new page 3 Order 0 Date Isep we 22 2011 2231 10 Template Defautt Template e Password OR E Private Allow aes a Status Published Cancel Update Page Title Short description of your page Page Title is what appears as the heading for your page and the menu choice for the page in your navigation menu horizontal menu artisteer net page 33 amp Artisteer a Slug Date Parent Order Allow Comments Status Password or Private 34 Slug
121. t minute e g 45 second 2 digit second e g 10 postname normally the postname with hyphens separating the parts of the name post_id the unique ID assigned to the post Ycategory text name of the category the post was filed in author text name of the author of the post tag text name of the tag associated with the post When creating a custom structure make sure to include the slashes before between and at the end of the string of tags so the URL is created properly Note changing the structure of your Permalinks affects both old and new links Search engines often index sites based on the Permalinks so if you change the structure your old links may become obsolete Optional Use this to customize your Permalinks by changing the prefixes used in the URLs artisteer net page 114 amp Artisteer sae Options Size of the post box Formatting Default Post Category Default Link Category Remote Publishing 115 The Category base and Tag base prefixes look like this Mysite com wp category_base category_name Mysite com wp tag_base tag_name The default names are category and tag Use the textboxes on this page to change the default Note you can change the base names but you cannot remove them altogether Choose the number of lines that you would like for the content box that appears for entering post articles see New Post page Use this to automatically convert emoticons
122. t the files themselves e g edit video If you are working with an image file you can use the Edit Image button directly beneath the image to rotate scale or crop the image However you cannot directly manipulate the image Delete Permanently This removes the media from your library and Artisteer net but does not remove the source e g the source of the file on your computer View A special page is created for every media instrument you add to your blog These may or may not be accessible to your viewers depending on how you define the media links see File URL and Post URL below for each file in the library You can filter the list by date or search for media based on the description you enter for each file The table displays the title wno added the media the page or post where the media has been added to the gallery the date the media was last updated and if there are any pending comments for the picture remember if you set the Link URL to allow users to open say a picture in a special page on your post and you allow comments on your page users can leave comments for the picture Every time you add an image video audio file from your computer etc the file is uploaded to your website on Artisteer net and included in your media library Only the files that you have uploaded to Artisteer net are added to the media library Media that you link to on the web such as images or videos are not included
123. teer net will schedule and then publish your post later You must use the publish button not save as draft to have the post published on the date you entered Note this depends on the Timezone option in your General settings Options gt Settings gt General Timezone artisteer net page 76 amp Artisteer i Categories are a set of words you choose to classify your posts The words you choose for categories are typically arranged hierarchically For example you might have a category about dogs and subcategories called terriers and shepards and possibly sub classifications for terriers and shepards and so on If you have a post article about dogs in general you might assign the post to the dogs category Similarly if the article was specifically about terriers you might assign the article to terriers and dogs Using categories to classify your posts makes it easier for your viewers to find posts related to topics that interest them You can add new categories to your website with the Categories page When you create a new Post you choose which of these categories should be associated with the article You can also create new categories on the Edit Post page then go to this page later and complete the description of the category Add New Category Name Use this as the title for your category If you have added a link to categories on the de
124. tegory list called Featured Links which is a list of Artisteer web addresses artisteer net page 85 amp Artisteer he Widgets 86 Use this to access the Widgets area This area is used to manage features in your sidebar Every web site comes with a number of built in widgets such as a Search widget or Calendar widget which you can add to your sidebar Although Blocks appear in the widget areas Widgets are not the same as sidebar Blocks Widgets are based on built in features Some widgets are available on the desktop when you create a new website or blog project Vertical Menu Search Archives Blogroll Categories Other widgets are available only on Artisteer net e g Calendar Tag Cloud On the desktop you cannot change the content directly since the content is either a built in feature or based on entities like post categories or link lists which are created on Artisteer net Blocks are free form content you can add on the desktop Layout gt New Block You can change the position of blocks in the sidebar on Artisteer net or delete them but you cannot add them After you add the block to your design on the desktop you can change the title and add content such as hyperlinks text and images artisteer net page 86 amp Artisteer 7 The Dashboard is an administration page It shows you basic statistics about your website e Number of Pages Posts Categories amp Tags e Numb
125. the menu choice Specify the CSS class for the menu item and define custom styles for this CSS class in Artisteer gt Export Options gt CSS Options artisteer net page 49 amp Artisteer 7 When you use a contact form on your page or post the information you get from viewers is collected and sent by e mail to the author of the page or post The information collected is also added as a feedback message to your blog The feedback you collect from users becomes part of your blog but not displayed on your website like viewer comments Note although this is referred to as the Feedbacks page the messages collected sent and displayed on the page are not necessarily feedback comments from your viewers since custom contact forms can be used for many different functions such as polling users on their preferences or getting personal data such as e mail addresses You can use the Feedback page to monitor and manage these messages As an administrator you can view all the feedback messages sent even if you are not the author of the post You can filter the list by date or search on the comment text author e mail address IP address which is collected automatically or any custom fields you have added to the contact form since they are collected as text and appended to any comments Typically a contact form will ask for a name an e mail address and comment All of these fields are collected and included in the feedback list however
126. the trash bin or activates the Undo artisteer net page 106 Artisteer page Use HTTPS Name Username First Name Last Name Nickname required 107 action when that row is selected e u unapproves the selected comment placing it back into moderation e fr initiates an inline reply to the comment press Esc to cancel the reply e q activates Quick Edit Note that those first three actions and most common actions use the three left most keys of the home row of a QWERTY keyboard It is recommended that you shift your hand to the left so that your index finger is on d instead of on f as is normal Available shortcuts for performing bulk actions e X checks the checkbox for the selected comment e Shift x toggles the checkboxes e Shift a approves the checked comments e Shift s marks the checked comments as spam e Shift d deletes the checked comments e Shift u unapproves the checked comments e Shift t moves the checked comments to the Trash bin e Shift z restores the checked comments from the Trash bin Use this option to always use a secure connection when you are making administrative changes to your web site This is your logged in username This is display only usernames cannot be changed Enter your first name Enter your last name Enter an alternate name This is useful if you want another name to artisteer net page 107 Display name publicly as Contact Info
127. ticating Google Analyticator with your Analytics account licking the above link will authenticate Google Analyticator with Google Authentication with Google is needed for use with the Authenticate with Google you to select your Analytics account through a drop down instead of searching for your UID If you are not going to use the statis Google Analytics UID UA 25603753 2 Enter your Google Analytics UID in this box The UID is needed for Google Analytics to log your website stats If you are having in the above field After returning from Google you will be able to select your account through a drop down box Save Changes 3 Go to Statistics and select Access Granted on This option displays statistics showing visits over the past 30 days site usage top pages top referrers and top searches Statistic artisteer net page 134 amp Artisteer E The back end is the area that authorized users can sign into to add remove and modify content on the website The Artisteer net back end is represented by Administration Panel often called the Ribbon bar Category is a common title of a group of posts Categorization helps to arrange and group posts with similar content and improve the navigation of a website Content consists of text images or other information published in posts and pages Content and design build the website interface The website design provides a framework into which the content
128. ting metadata The source of the metadata is defined by the elements of your blog such as Categories Tags Comments etc For example if you allow comments comments can be created by your website viewers and then moderated using Artisteer net You cannot however add or remove comments metadata from your post using Artisteer net you have to do this on the desktop That is if you want a comments link on your post page so viewers can view all comments left for the post you have to add and style the link on the desktop using the Content tab Content gt Metadata Icons artisteer net page 26 amp Artisteer Ss Editing HTML Artisteer Artisteer net Classical HTML editor with user friendly mark WordPress like HTML editor with quicktags up wide custom editing capabilities and preview after publishing preview before exporting publishing You can also style and edit separate cells layout with columns or wrap the whole article in one cell Edit whole Article HTML In a nutshell the comparison revealed specific features of editing systems defining the different purposes of the editors usage Artisteer content editor showed greater potential for adding and editing content creating and adjusting design previewing the article and editing HTML while the editing system of Artisteer net is suitable for managing Meta data creating custom menu categorizing posts adding a featured image and optimizing th
129. to Artisteer net and becomes part of the media library and gallery for the post The HTML in your content is automatically changed to refer to the media on Artisteer net instead of your computer On the desktop video media is always added to your post as an embedded link to the video file on the web Links to media e g video links are not included in your media library or gallery Note for security reasons you cannot upload Flash files except for Artisteer s flash files which you can include in your header however you can add links to video on other websites or embed the video in your page See Options gt Settings gt Media gt Auto embed for more information Across the top of the editor is a list of icons for adding media to your post Upload Insert sal i dl rl E3 E All of these except for the last two can be used to upload media from your computer link to media on the web or add media to your website from your personal media library which is actually a library of all ine media you have uploaded from your computer so far The last two icons are for adding a google map location map and adding a custom contact form When you click on any one of the media icons you are redirected to a dialog to choose the source of the media file It doesn t matter which icon you select the dialog is generally the same for all types This is an example of uploading a PDF file artisteer net page 62 amp Artisteer oe Add an
130. to comments and who is notified when a comment is left on your website Refer to these sections to find out more about your available options lf you allow comments but require comments to be moderated when a comment is left on your website an e mail is sent to your administration account Users gt Options gt Profile If you or someone else reply to the comment an e mail is sent to the authors account Options gt Users gt Profile Note an e mail notification is not sent to the administration account if the option An administrator must always approve the comment is disabled Use this page to moderate comments that have been left for your posts The comments page lists the author of the comment the authors e mail address and IP address which can be used to block users from leaving comments If the comment is created in Artisteer net the e mail address is from the user profile otherwise if the comment was created on your website the comment author provides this along with the comment text see Options gt Settings gt Discussion gt Other comment settings The text of the comment is listed alongside the post the comment references The In Response to column shows the post title the number of comments approved and included in your website and if you hover the mouse over this column the page displays the number of comments that are pending approval All the comments that need approval are highlighted on the page to make the
131. u can use Options gt Settings gt Media Audio Video and Document Files Title Caption Description Link URL This is the text that appears for the file in your page or post A hyperlink is created to open the file based on your Link URL setting below This is for your own reference Enter a description that describes the file The Media Library page includes a search box that you can use to search by description If you use a Post URL this is the text that will appear on the special blog page for this file If you do not use a Post URL and this page is not accessible directly to your viewers the description is still important to search engines since this page is still part of your website The Link URL defines what happens when users click on the file artisteer net page 69 amp Artisteer de None This just inserts your Title as text in your page or post therefore this has very little usefulness since your users cannot select play or open the file File URL This opens a new page on the media file Depending on how your browser is configured this may or may not play or open the file For example if you are including a PDF file you need to have a PDF reader i e Adobe Reader installed to open and view the file when you click on the link If you do not have a browser plugin to handle the media the browser will attempt to download the media Post URL Every media file has its own blog page
132. ublish button your page is published immediately with the current date and time shown You can change the date and time to backdate the page but also publish it immediately or you can enter a future date and time and then Artisteer net will schedule and then publish your page later You must use the publish button not save as draft to have the page published on the date you entered Note this depends on the Timezone option in your General settings Options gt Settings gt General gt Timezone artisteer net page 45 amp Artisteer E When you create a new Artisteer project on the desktop your web pages always include by default a horizontal menu a sidebar and a vertical menu in the sidebar area You can remove one or both by changing the layout of your page Layout gt Design Layout gt one of the options with no horizontal menu or Layout gt Columns gt One column Both menus by default use the Pages of your website as the source of the menu That is when you add pages the page title and link is added to the menu On the desktop you can change which pages are included in the menus but you cannot change the links change the menu source or create a custom menu If you want to do any one of these you need to use the Menus page in Artisteer net Both menus have by default your webpages as the source of the menu If you want to change the source to your blog categories change the source settings in your them
133. ur desktop to create and style your web pages When you are ready you can publish your website to Artisteer net where your site becomes visible to everyone on the World Wide Web You can edit your web content with Artisteer but mostly Artisteer on the desktop is about styling which is how you make your text images buttons menus and various other elements appear in the browser For example when you add text to a page you can define the font the font size and the color Most of the time the style you create is kept in something called a template aka theme You don t work with the template directly This is done automatically for you as you create your web pages When your published webpages are copied to Artisteer net Artisteer sends both the template and your content e g text On the web viewers see your webpages after the template style is applied to the content In the rest of the manual there are many references to the desktop and web versions of Artisteer Desktop refers to Artisteer exe or Artisteer running on your desktop Web refers to Artisteer net After you publish your website you can also create edit delete content on the web or on the desktop The major difference between the web and desktop is this The style of your content i e the template must be created on the desktop You can style certain elements on the web but mostly how you want your web pages to look is done with Artisteer exe The web is u
134. ut users can navigate to other posts using links which are displayed alongside your post e g author category or tag links or redirect to a page showing you all the comments that have been left for a post You define which links appear along with your post using the desktop Content gt Metadata Icons When you hover the cursor over any post title you should notice that a menu appears underneath the title edit quick edit trash view Edit and Quick Edit are described below View lets you see what your post page currently looks like on your website The Trash option is used to remove posts you no longer want Above the list of your posts you should see a Trash link This link only appears if you have posts in your trash bin If you later want to restore one of your posts click on this link move the cursor over the post you want to restore and select the Restore link that appears below the post name However if you Permanently Delete the post or the trash bin has been emptied you cannot restore the post artisteer net page 52 amp Artisteer Oe Quick Edit Use quick edit from the page menu to quickly configure common attributes of your posts Always use the Update button to apply your changes otherwise your edits will be discarded Bulk Actions gt Apply Show all dates View all categories Filter Title Author Categories Tags m Date QUICK EDIT Categories more Post Tags
135. widget area you can choose one of the above stylings or select default If you select default the option you set here applies to the widget Use this to set the default styling for widgets in the secondary widget area Use this to set the default styling for widgets in the top widget area Use this to set the default styling for widgets in the bottom widget area Use this to set the default styling for widgets in the footer widget area artisteer net page 91 Footer Footer Content amp Artisteer 7 This is the content that appears in the footer area of your pages You can change or replace the HTML code directly Note on the desktop you can edit the content directly using the Edit tab on the Ribbon bar to style your content You can also edit the HTML code directly for the footer This is useful if you want to redefine the number of links at the bottom This option matches the content you created on the desktop i e This content is synchronized If you change the content either on the desktop or the web when you publish your website Artisteer will make sure that the content is the same for both your Artisteer project artx file and Artisteer net Note this content is different from the footnote content which can changed in the Export options on the desktop artisteer net page 92 amp Artisteer me nd Library BArtisteer net MI Home Extras Options Administration e A o 8 Links M
136. xample you might have an article about an Airdale terrier Instead of creating a separate subcategory about Airdales you might choose to include Airdale as a tag associated with your post so your viewers could find other articles about this particular breed If you add a Tag Cloud widget to your pages your tags are arranged in a display on your page which makes it easy for users to navigate articles based on the tag words associated with your pages Tags are not the same as metadata keywords but they are very important to how search engines rank the pages of your blog Keywords are included in the HTML source for your pages and they help drive traffic to your website but they are not visible to your viewers while tags are special words associated with your posts which aid viewers navigating your website However both are used by search engines to direct viewers to your blog You can add new tags to your website with the Tags page When you create a new Post you choose which of these tags should be associated with the article You can also create new tags on the Edit Post page then go to this page later and complete the description of the tag Add New Tag Name Use this as the title for your tag If you have added a link to tags on the desktop Content gt Metadata gt Icons this is the title that appears alongside your post if you have added this tag to your post This is also the title of the artisteer net p
137. you have created any post tags for your blog use this to select the tags you want to include in the menu Clicking on a tag choice in the menu will have the same result as clicking on a tag link in one of your posts As mentioned before after you have added your choices to the menu you can reorder the choices and also edit and add more attributes about each item Contact URL http www mysite artisteer net new contact page Navigation Label Title Attribute Contact this is my contact page Link Target Coo Classes optional same window or tab Link Relationship Description this is my contact page description The description will be displayed in the menu ifthe current theme supports it Remove Cancel artisteer net page 48 amp Artisteer io URL Navigation Label Link Target Link Relationship Title Attribute CSS Classes 49 This is the URL you want to redirect the browser to when the user selects this choice Text that appears for this item in the menu Clicking on this menu choice redirects the browser to a new window or tab or the current window or tab If you are linking to someone else s website you specify your relationship to them This is called XFN XFN stands for XHTML Friends Network The text you enter here is arbitrary You can find examples of typical entries on the New Link page This is the alternate text that appears below the menu when you hover the mouse over
138. you will be working with Enter Site Title A ms hire a pa Ex Fup oyige jara Sidebar LpA girl iF EEE CIA mp Eer Er boston hdi tad re dira le e dl dd BA ad kla de be gt ihc Rade mar ars ma pan a Vertical i F PE PE a eym LN a invalidar eT te Lip ee pl ea Lery EFi ar ie Footnote a Inside the Article content is some sample text and an image You will want to replace this content with your own Also the Article section is divided into sections One of the first things you will want to do is select the layout for the various sections using the Content Layout icon on the Edit tab artisteer net page 18 amp Artisteer bd Columns Rows and Columns You can use the other icons in this group such as the Styling icon or the Row and Cell icons to change the appearance of these sections On the left side of the Artisteer window is a folder tree listing the pages to your website If you add any Post articles later they will be listed below your page list To change the names of the pages right click on the page name and select Rename from the context menu You can change the Preview area to any page or post you want to work on by clicking on any of the items in the tree The Horizontal menu bar across the top is used to navigate the pages of your website As you add parent or top level pages to your site new items are added automati
139. your project these are uploaded to Artisteer net You cannot insert videos in your project on the desktop but you can embed videos from other websites lf you have your own video you should add it to your media library on Artisteer net and then embed the video from your own website From whatever source you use computer web or media library use the Insert into Post button to add the media to your page or post This button inserts the HTML code for your image video etc into the editor wherever your cursor is located As mentioned previously before you insert the media there are certain attributes you can define to determine the appearance and interaction with the media on your page The attributes vary depending on the type of media you are including Note if you are using the Gallery or Media Library you need to use the Show button to display these attributes along with the Insert into Post button If you have a Gallery attached to your post the Actions box can be used to reorder the way the images are displayed on this page in the administrator and also how they are displayed in your post if you inserted a gallery in the post Image Files Title Enter a title that will identify this file in the media library Alternate Text For an image on your page or post this is the text that appears instead of the image when the browser setting that blocks images is enabled The alt text also appears when a viewer hovers the cursor over t
140. yout consists of at least two columns artisteer net page 35 Artisteer page Editor Page Options Show page title show as Separator in Menu 36 Below the Post title is the editor you can use to change your content on the web This is the same editor used in Wordpress The editor has two modes which you can change from the tabs Visual works much like a simple word processor HTML use to enter your content with HTML tags Across the top of the editor is a set of icon links you can use to e insert media such as images video music document types e g pdf files e adda google map into your page content e add a contact form to your post Normally the page title appears as a heading over the content area on your page Unselect this option if you do not want the page title to appear on the page The page appears in the horizontal menu bar but does not have an URL associated with it That is when you click on this page in the menu bar the browser will not jump to this page If this page has any child pages they will appear as subitems under the page name on the menu bar The horizontal menu will only display a relatively small number of menu items before the menu wraps around on the page Artisteer only supports a one line menu bar If your menu choices wrap around in the window you will need to change your page names and or the number of pages that appear in the menu This option is useful for comb

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