REFRESHWEB CMS – OWNERS MANUAL
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1. structure correctly you should never require any further formatting options than this Formatted Headline 1 is the format style for main page headlines Generally speaking it is unlikely you would want to specify any text as being a headline 1 because this denotes text is the main page headline which has already been displayed Headline 2 is the format style for any Sub headers of paragraphs on your pages Headline 3 is a Sub header for points off Headline 2 and so forth Normal is the format style for paragraphs of text Address and Formatted and generally Unused Text Alignment You can specify if you wish your text to align left centred right of justified Most text on the site has a style Format for example Headline 1 or Normal already defined which includes it s own default text alignment values If applicable these Style Formats will override any alignment you specify hal ll Lists You can format your text into a list by using these tools You can have numerical lists or number lists Passages of text can also be indented or outdented respectively USING these tools ie Font Appearance You can Bold hotkey CTRL B Italic hotkey CTRL 1 Subscript or Superscript text to suit your layout requirements by selecting text and clicking these tools xk Ca Undo Redo If you make a mistake simply click Undo hotkey CTRL Z to iterate back through the steps you made To iterate forward through steps2. REFRESHWEB CMS OWNERS MANUAL Congratulations your website is driven by REFRESH 2006 Edition Our latest and most powerful CMS Content Management System The CMS lets you create and edit the content on most pages of your site without needing to know HTML Log In IN order to edit content you must first login Do this by visiting your website and clicking the admin link located at the bottom of any page Enter your username and password as provided to you If you do not know these email us at Support refreshweb com au and we will re send them to you Username and passwords are case sensitive Whenever you re logged in you ll see the minimised CMS Control Panel at the very top of the page Rolling your mouse over this panel causes it to pop up and reveals the CMS Icons as illustrated below FEFRESH CMS Controls E Add A Child Delete This Edit This Webmail Trattic Stats Serer Fage To Fage Fage Controls This Fage Structuring your website The CMS displays your site Navigation according to the pages you create The pages on your website branch out in a tree like manner as depicted in the diagram below Considering the structure of your website like a tree the trunk is the Homepage and the pages branching off this are the Primary Pages Child Pages Child Pages Peopl Primary Pages News Article 1 About Us q Company News K News Article 2 News Article 3 Contact Us News Article 4 Our Specials Child P
3. ages Product 1 Our Products Product 2 Product 3 smaller websites may only require Primary Pages as there is only a few pages to be displayed More complicated websites however contain many pages of information and become more difficult for users to navigate In these instances grouping branches of pages together is helpful The pages that branch from other pages are known as child pages Home Page le jJ Adding a Page You can create anew page anywhere on your website simply by clicking this icon The page you were viewing when you clicked this icon determines where in the navigation the new page is inserted For Example lf you wanted to create a Primary Page called About Us you d do this by navigating to the Home Page and clicking Add a child page to this page A new Primary page would then be created off the Home Page for you to edit as required If you then wanted to create a children for About Us this would be done by browsing to About Us and clicking Add a child page to this page and so on You can create as many pages and groups of child pages as you wish EF Editing a Page To Edit the contents of a page simply navigate to the page you wish to change and click this icon The editor will then be loaded For more information on using the editor see the section titled Using The Editor Deleting a Page To Delete a page on your website browse to the page you wish to
4. display and click this icon A query box will be displayed asking you confirm you wish to permanently delete this page If the page contains child pages these will also be deleted and the query box will also draw this to your attention Once a page has been deleted it cannot be restored So always be sure to carefully read any warnings in the query box Webmail Webmail allows you to check your emails from remote locations This is handy if you are working from home or on vacation Simply click this icon and enter your email address and password to login Only email still being stored on the server will be displayed When you return to your normal computer be sure to download your email with Outlook or your preferred email software and remove this from the server O raffic Stats Click this button to see detailed statistical data relating to visitors of your website Hits represent the total number of requests made to the server during the given time period month day hour etc Files represent the total number of hits requests that actually resulted in something being sent back to the user Not all hits will send data such as 404 Not Found requests and requests for pages that are already in the browsers cache Tip By looking at the difference between hits and files you can get a rough indication of repeat visitors as the greater the difference between the two the more people are requesting pages they already have cached ha
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6. er log Server Controls server Controls allows you to login to your server to make Changes to your physical hosting setup You can edit and setup email accounts See tutorial here http www refreshweb com au website news 35 21 make backups setup sub domains etc Full documentation on server controls can be found here htto download1 swsoft com Plesk Plesk 5 Doc plesk 7 5r clients Qguide htmil index htm Log Out To log out of the CMS click the LOG OUT icon in the CMS Control Panel USING THE EDITOR The Editor Overview Whenever you create anew page or edit an existing page you ll be presented with the Editor system This editor provides you with a visual Pointn click interface to manipulate page content without needing to know HTML The Editor Toolbar Normal z o agp S amp Il INi F i nt Hi Tal TNT hey a K E io g E The Editor s Toolbar contains all the tools you need to create various elements on your page The function of each icon is displayed by leaving your mouse pointer over the icon for afew moments A full explanation of each tool is described below Format Mormal You can format text styles on your pages by dragging your mouse over text passages and choosing a format from this dropdown menu It is important for Usability sake that font colours sizes tyoefaces are consistent across your site If you are planning your page
7. o me content z HELP o m Page Name is the name you apply to the document The name is very important as this is used for the main headline of the page the navigation link to the page the breadcrumb trail to the page the sitemap connection to the page and so forth For this reason the page name SHOULD include words you d like the page to be indexed by Google with The page name should clearly communicate the page s content and should never contain illegal characters To rename a page simply enter anew name in the field Page Hero Image is amain image to be displayed on the page You can select an image off your Server upload one accordingly or simply leave this field black to choose not to display any image here at all Page Type defines what sort of document the page is Most of your pages will be Content pages However you can alSo have Link Product or News If you set your Page to News the headline will appear in the New Archive on your site assuming you have one f you Set your page type to Link you will be asked to Supply a URL Ensure you start the URL with htto The navigation item associated with this page will load the link you specify rather than the content associated with that page One a page has become a link you will no longer be able to reach this page via the navigation to edit its content however it can still be edited by entering the original URL for the page into your address bar and clicking
8. ortions Refresh Cancel aee ee To place an image click on it s thumbnail and click ok To upload a new image click Browse to find the file on your own Hard Drive it must be a jog and click upload To remove an image from your server click the trashcan icon displayed underneath it s thumbnail Ensure the image is no longer used anywhere on your site before doing this otherwise it will appear as a broken image To resize or crop an image on your server click the pencil icon underneath it s thumbnail An image ecitor will then be displayed Enter the new desired height and width of the image or drag your mouse over the image to set crop Then save the edited image E Create Table Occasionally you ll need to display information in tables In these situations use the Create Table tool A box will display like the one below http cruiseterminal portsidewharf com au Insert T M o gt 100 Moo Percent ee Not set gt sec Specify the number of Rows and Columns you require the width of your table any padding and spacing desired and a border if required You can edit an existing table by placing your cursor inside it and right clicking the element Saving your page When you ve finished making your changes you ll need to save the page Click the SAVE AS button found at the bottom of the Editor to view your options A box will then display like the one below SAVE AS Terminal meme
9. p cruiseterminal portsidewharf com au Insert Jr Jj Insert Modify Link URL Title tooltip Target Mone fuse implicit ki l loons internet Z Enter the address of the page you wish to link to in the URL field Ensure you start the URL with http never attempt to link to another page simply starting with www as this is not a valid URL The title field is optional but helpful if you want to indicate to users where they will be taken when they click the link This title will display if they leave their mouse over the link for a few moments Target defines weather the page will open in a new window or the current window For most off site links we advise using a new window For links to other pages within your own website set this to open in the same window Toremove an existing link from an element simply right click the element and select Remove Link Insert Modify Image This tool lets you upload edit and place images into your pages Place your Cursor where you want the image to be positioned and click the icon A box will display like the one below http cruiseterminal_portsidewharf com au Insert Image Microsoft Internet Explorer Insert Image Image Manager Directory I 7 if ij iy 515x442 ir 2 55x44 pea PEOS F Image File Width Y Space ge File J Alt Height H Space Upload Browse Upload Align Baseline Border W Constrain Prop
10. ve viewed already Sites is the number of unique IP addresses hostnames that made requests to the server Care should be taken when using this metric for anything other than that Many users can appear to come from a single site and they can also appear to come from many ip addresses so it Should be used simply as a rough guage as to the number of visitors to your Server Visits occur when some remote site makes a request for a page on your server for the first time As long as the same site keeps making requests within a given timeout period they will all be considered part of the same Visit If the site makes a request to your server and the length of time since the last request is greater than the specified timeout period default is SO minutes anew Visit is started and counted and the sequence repeats since only pages will trigger a visit remotes sites that link to graphic and other non page URLs will not be counted in the visit totals reducing the number of fa se visits Pages are those URLs that would be considered the actual page being requested and not all of the individual items that make it up such as graphics and audio clips Some people call this metric page views or page impressions and defaults to any URL that has an extension of Atm html or cgi A KByte KB is 1024 bytes 1 Kilobyte Used to show the amount of data that was transfered between the server and the remote machine based on the data found in the serv
11. you ve undone click Redo hotkey CTRL t amp Cut Copy Paste You can use these tools to move selected elements around the page CAUTION Never paste passages of text into your pages directly from MS word Microsoft attempts to impose its own style and formatting values into the html and creates page source riddled with errors and formatting issues that are virtually impossible to fix Whenever you need to copy content into your page from a word document or email ensure you first paste it into notepad then copy and paste it into the editor This will clean the text File Link to File This tool allows you to upload files Such as PDFs to the server Clicking it allows you to see what files exist on the server and if you choose to link to them a link will be created on your page with file size icon etc displayed to the user You may upload new files to your server we recommend only using PDFS or video files for this purpose Most other formats are blocked on the server to prevent security issues Horizontal Rule Separate elements within your pages using a horizontal rule Simply place the Cursor where you d like the rule to appear and click this icon Link Your can make text and images on your page clickable links to other pages on the internet using the link tool Simply select the elements that you want to make a link from and click the link tool A box will display like the one below E htt
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