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1. sa D METAS testfile pdf mer E lt lt Move Left Soke ager SRE TP an harbour jpg gt gt Move Right free d jpg sample mp4 Delete Pending Articles Add to library Set Caption E AE ma B7YU 1 E dy 82 Grn Downloads are in the same area as images within the resources tab area The name of the file is displayed at the top of the menu Clicking this closes the menu Downloadable files include word processor documents PDFs zip files spreadsheets etc anything that isn t an image or a media clip How these files are treated depends entirely on the user s web browser For instance some web browsers may display a PDF others will commence downloading This behaviour is dependent on the user s web browser configuration and beyond your control 25 Insert Link will place a link to the file in the main text area at the current cursor location Clicking this link the user will begin to download the file gt gt Move Right and lt lt Move Left allow you to re order your resources Delete does not immediately delete a file Instead it marks the file to be deleted with a pink highlight When the Save button is clicked the marked files are then deleted Files marked for deletion may be unmarked using the Restore undelete option which will become available in the menu Note You must do this before clicking Save files cannot be restored undeleted after saving Add to library makes a copy of the file in
2. 2 Additional fields Additional fields are other compulsory and optional fields that each type of form requires These are nearly always hidden from the user 58 3 Special custom fields There are fields you can define which the user fills in before submitting the form These are called the Special fields You can make these required fields which the user must fill in before the form will submit or optional fields You will need a button at the bottom of your forms to actually submit the data to the web server You can add as many of your own fields as you like using the add button ma You can remove fields using the delete button ku You can re order the fields by clicking and holding the blue Move button LJ and dragging and dropping it up or down in the order Special fields are defined in a fashion very similar to custom fields and user custom fields discussed earlier in this manual There are few minor differences The Field Name can be typed in or chosen from a drop list of options The options fields in this list depend on the type of form you are making or editing For instance a Profile form which lets a user update their details has all the basic user fields and all the custom user fields that you defined When you choose the type of form you require many of the special fields are added to the form automatically This is just to save time It is generally quicker and easier to delete a field than to add and define
3. spoofing SQL status of a page tab Third parties sending emails to other third parties via a website Making web pages A web page designed to display information for a product in an online shop and allow a user to add it to their shopping cart An industry compliance standard to ensure quality of internal processes and final products Red Green Blue The digital format for colour used on computer monitors Also a type of colour profile used in image files Clicking the right button on a mouse Usually produces a context menu A program that automatically goes to web sites and uses the pages there often maliciously in some way Spammers use robots to leave spam comments on blogs Search engine companies use them to update their databases Really Simple Syndication A website broadcast feed of usually 10 latest news stories and the like which can be read by other websites and software Committing changes you have made on your site to the database An internet based business that builds massive databases that can be searched by users of everything it can find on the web Examples include Google Yahoo and MSN A computer connected to the internet at all times which hosts websites and email accounts so they are always available Choices that determine how software is to behave A record of items collected by a user for purchase in an online shop Saved searches that can be invoked to reproduce th
4. Choose the page you want from the content tree pop up menu The Rule column defines the relationship of the feature s pages to the scope page We use the family tree analogy to describe the relationships see The Content Tree for more information Disabled this is not a relationship but turns a feature off This Page selects the scope page only Siblings pages that have the same parent as the scope page Children child pages of the scope page Random Children a random selection of child pages Random Descendants a random selection of pages children grandchildren great grandchildren etc Random Final Descendants the same as Random Descendants but excluding any parent pages pages that have children Latest Children child pages sorted by date latest first Latest Descendants children grandchildren great grandchildren etc sorted by date latest first Glossary tab The Glossary tab is used to define special terms within your site that may need explaining to the viewer SiteWrangler will automatically detect glossary terms in web pages and highlight them When the user s mouse rolls over a glossary term the explanation appears as a tool tip a small yellow box with black text Term blog Definition Short for web log A website or part of a website devoted to blogging ha Ed blog administrator backup cache caching Glossary tab area 36 To add a term to the glossary type it in to the Term box type its expl
5. Sub pages Web pages organised underneath another page in a hierarchy Like the folders inside a folder Child pages Clicking the left button on a mouse Content Management System Cyan Magenta Yellow Black the basic palette for 4 colour processing used in print media Also a colour profile for image files Embedded information in image files defining how colours should be handled The methodical process of defining the functionality of your website 71 configure content content management system content tree sitemap content tree pop up menu context menu custom fields data database decryption default design phase div domain name downloads drop list email hosts encryption external link field field names GIF gif Google maps group GUI To define the functional scope of a website Web pages Web based software used for updating a website The structured hierarchy used to organise a website s pages A pop up context menu that allows the user to choose a particular page from the content tree A menu of options concerning the currently focused object area or element of the screen Fields created by the user for a unique rare or specialised purpose Information text values numbers and stuff A piece of software optimised for storing and retrieving data Restoring scrambled data to its original state The input value or result used when no action is taken or alternativ
6. which when clicked reveals or hides the view of their child pages Child pages may have child pages of their own This allows you to organise your website with great precision Pages can be moved to different parts of the tree if desired Clicking on any page in the content tree brings up that page s data for editing This is explained in more detail in the Content chapter 10 Current tab area When a tab is clicked its data is displayed here 11 Title Each page has a title which can be edited here 12 ID Each page has a unique ID number as part of the internal management process It is automatically allocated and cannot be changed and is displayed here 13 Main text area This is where the main text of the web page is entered and edited By using the tool bar at the top of this area you can do much more than enter just plain text For example you can insert images and movies insert hyperlinks create bulleted lists etc It behaves much the same way as a normal word processor This is explained in more detail in the Content chapter Content Content When you first log in to SiteWrangler you are automatically taken to the content screen This is where the content of the website is entered and edited Pages appearing on the website will be listed in the content tree on the left hand side of the screen Clicking on any page in the content tree brings up that page s data for editing on the right hand side of the screen a
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8. This will allow you to view the page you are currently editing or changing as it will appear to visitors of your website Note The changes you see will only appear live on the web after you have saved your changes Click the Preview button a new window or tab showing your web page will appear 4 Screen buttons The 3 screen buttons are the main navigation tools taking you to each major section of the administration tool Each screen manages a different type of data Content This is the guts of your website your actual web pages This is where you will spend most of your time making changes Depending on your site s configuration what you see may differ slightly When you log in you will automatically be taken here Set up The set up screen is where you can change settings that apply to the whole website Users You may want to allow different people to interact with your website in different ways For instance you may want your clerical staff to be able to update only part of your site or you may want to collect memberships and allow access to private areas of the site This is where you control your user s access Note Each of these 3 screens are discussed in detail in later chapters 5 Save button Changes you make become live on the website when you click Save SiteWrangler will reflect the changes you make as you edit but only to you To everyone else the website will appear in its pre saved state A note on cach
9. and Inactive On fields This is useful for preparing timed events beforehand For example you may use it to turn on a page for your special sale or Christmas It may also be used in reverse you may wish a page to be unavailable for a specified period To do this set an Inactive On date earlier than the Active On date Note also that you don t have to fill in both fields you can use them to permanently turn a page on or off at a specified date If you ever wonder why you are not seeing a page you expect to see check its status and activation dates Page template It is one thing to have some text and a title to show on your website but HOW should it be displayed In the design phase of your website you should have worked out the various layouts you would like to use The same data may be displayed in different ways The list of templates in this drop box is really a list of pre designed layouts that give your website a consistent look and feel Some common template needs are for the home page an article page a blog entry a product page search results a sitemap and a checkout The possibilities are endless but should be decided on before you launch your site In choosing a template you are choosing how a page will be displayed and what will be displayed Move To This is important You will want to organise your web site You may for instance put all your news articles under a parent page called News Use the Move To content tree
10. are identified by SiteWrangler so the uscustom_ prefix is important don t remove it or the form won t work as expected Password form Sometimes a user may forget their password One way to assist them is to have a password recovery form on your site Since passwords are one way encrypted in SiteWrangler we can t actually recover their password We must issue them a new one SiteWrangler will automatically generate a new password for them and email it to them If you have a profile form on your site they can then log in and change it to their liking Form Builder Form Type Passwol Field Layout Horizontal Vertical If the form processes correctly go to this page NONE If the form fails for some reason go to this page NONE Use this template to format the email No HTML use text only x Send this page as the email NONE If including a SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE click here activation link in the page text If the activation link WORKS open their browser at this page NONE Otherwise if the activation link FAILS open their browser at this page NONE ka Move Field Name Type Values 1 2 etc Label Reg Default au g y Heading v Get a new passwort Get a new password au g v uemail Input Box xl 180 Email Address IY a z Submit Button v Send Send Password form builder There are 4 additional fields for the password recovery form The first specifies the HTML email template to use for sending the password Cho
11. first requires that the very last line of your email contain a secret pass phrase You choose the pass phrase by entering it into the Use security pass phrase field In many email applications you can choose various signatures something to end all your emails It can be convenient to create a new signature with your pass phrase as the last line The other security measure is to moderate articles like comments This is hard to defeat since you will be emailed for your approval every time an article is posted even by you To enable this feature click the Moderate email posts checkbox 51 User Group permissions Perms tab This tab is available for users and groups but not smart groups The access that a user or group of users has to your site can be decided by you using the Perms tab John Doe Use Group Permissions Y Admin Y Content Set Up Users Approval Email Page Me Kids Priv Edit New Del F TOP JA pe M Es Blog v v v v v Es Permissions tab area If permissions are assigned to a group then you can tell users in that group to use those permissions by clicking the Use Group Permissions checkbox Doing so will hide all other options in the tab This checkbox is not available to members of the Top No Group group If you want a user to be able to log in to this SiteWrangler administration tool they need to have Admin permissions Tick the Admin checkbox If you wish a user to be able to modify content they must have the
12. form The Contribute form can be used to allow others to add content to your site without needing access to the administration tool You should always make any page with a Contribute form on it a Private page see Status in Organise Tab of the Content chapter Then only logged users with the right permission can use it Form Builder Form Type Contribute xl Field Layout Horizontal Vertical If the form processes correctly go to this page NONE If the form fails for some reason go to this page NONE Make this a child of this page NONE Display this new page using this template Article Pre Display the status of this new page to Active xi F Move Field Name Type Values 1 2letc Label Req Default Ej ka y Heading x Add a page Add a page Es a y status Drop List v PendinglActivelina Status Pending v Es F scope Drop List vj 100 File Under 100 v a El zitie Input Box y 180 Title Y Es ul y summary Text Area 180x60 Summary E a rue Text Area xl 180x 6p Text Ed dl y custom_TABO Heading xl 100 My Fields 5 Es ry y custom_start Input Box 190 My input y Es ud y custom fieldl Drop List Option 1 Option 2 1 My Droplist y Option 1 Es k v custom_pool Checkboxes x Yes My Checkbox E TF Yes Es ua y custom_sports Radio buttons xl YesiNo My Radio CO yes No au g y Submit Button v Submit Submit Contribute form builder The additional fields for this form control where the new pa
13. hyperlink in the status area at the bottom of your browser window It will look something like this http mydomain com admin php 123 The number after the is the ID of the page your mouse is hovering over In this case it is page 123 Text This is the big one This is where you type the main content of your web pages or paste in text from another document You can also do other things like adding tables images movies lists bullets anchors symbols etc The text area has a comprehensive toolbar at the top which allows many word processor like operations to be completed The best way to learn how to use it is to experiment Most of the functions are obvious in what they do 9 sp Z U Eggi EE d s Horm Paragraph A Styles X A Pellentesque nibh felis eleifend id commodo in interdum vitae leo Praesent eu elit Ut eu ligula Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra per inceptos hymenaeos Maecenas elementum augue nec nisl Proin auctor lorem at nibh Curabitur nulla purus feuales adipiscing sapien Vestibulum posuere nulla eget wisi Integer volutpat ligula eget enim Suspendisse vitae arcu Quisque pellentesque Nullam consequat sem vitae rhoncus tristique mauris nulla fermentum est bibendum ullamcorper sapien magna et quam Sed dapibus vehicula odio Proin bibendum gravida nisl Fusce lorem Phasellus sagittis nulla in hendrerit laoreet libero lacus feugiat urna eget hendrerit pede mag
14. internet users to provide information to websites If you want your users to interact with your site chances are you re going to need forms Forms can get a little tricky so we have devoted an entire chapter to this one topic A form is a submission of data fields input boxes checkboxes radio buttons etc back to the website that are then interpreted by the website server and acted upon When you log in to a website you do so using a form In SiteWrangler there are 7 standard forms Email Contribute Subscribe Unsubscribe Profile Password and Survey SiteWrangler also allows web developers to build custom forms for other uses Here is a sample of a form TAS y Submit Example of a HTML form 57 In SiteWrangler a form is created by clicking the Form Builder button in the toolbar of the main text area of a page This will bring up the Form Builder The Form Builder occupies the whole screen and lets you edit and refine different types of forms When you have finished editing click the blue Done button to add the form to the text of your page or click Cancel to abort The form builder is shown here Form Builder 1 Standard fields Form Type Emal 1 2 Additional fields AS 3 Special custom If the form processes corre uy go to this page NONE If the form fails for some reason go to this page NONE fields Mark the email as sent from this email address Send the email to thi address Use this tem
15. site as a whole rather than on a per page basis as the Content screen does Here you can give your site a title define your custom fields and on line shop etc Once your site has been through its initial set up you probably won t spend much time on this screen General tab Site URL domain com Site Name Domain Site Owner John Doe Pty Ltd Home Page Welcome Broken Links Page Page Missing Search Results Page Search Results Backup and Email to webmaster domain com Session Timeout 30 minutes General tab area The Site URL is displayed at the top of the tab area This is your web address your domain name Site Name allows you to give your site a title Depending on your template design it is often used along with the page title as the title of the browser window The Site Owner information is used to fill in hidden information on your web pages such as copyright and publisher meta data which can be used by different web services such as search engines This is usually your organisation s name There are 3 pages which serve essential functions on your site They are selected using content tree pop up menus The first is the Home Page When a visitor to your site types your domain name into their web browser s location bar the home page is the first page to be displayed Secondly a user may bookmark a page on your site Later you may decide to delete or deactivate this page The next time the user goes to their bookmark they w
16. the bomb name will have the discount rate applied acme dynamite Any product with acme AND dynamite in the name OR bomb in the bomb name OR kyote AND road AND runner AND trap in the name will have kyote road runner trap the discount rate applied To apply different discount rates to different products product lines you will need to use more than one product filter row 48 Blog tab Blogging has become popular in recent years as a means of publishing one s own ideas online and inviting others to participate by contributing comments The word blog comes from the words web log In SiteWrangler each user can have their own blog You can control this and set many other options besides The user s Blog tab is shown below Turn on blogging File entries under Blog For comments Only allow users to post Require Name Require Email Require approval if comment contains a link v Always email posts ka Comment success page Thanks for your comment Comment fail page Sorry an error ocurred For email posts Allow articles to be submitted via email Use security pass phrase XXX Moderate email posts Blog tab area Most importantly blogging can be turned on and off by clicking the Turn on blogging checkbox Blog articles are treated like any other page or article in SiteWrangler Blog articles therefore need to be added to the content tree To choose where you would like to file your blog articles use the File en
17. their data can be used within the page templates A new custom field is added to the bottom of the list by clicking the add button las Fields are deleted by clicking the corresponding delete button kas Fields may be re ordered by clicking and dragging the blue Move button EZ The Name column allows you to choose a name for the field It is important not to mess with this Fields are referred to in templates by their names Changing a field name may break your layouts Fields names are case sensitive Avoid spaces and special characters Once you have named your field you must choose a Type representation for that field This is how your field will be displayed in the Content screen Fields do not have to be displayed according to their type on your actual site for instance a radio button value can be shown as plain text to your users 37 The possible options are Input single line text box Text multiple line text area Radio Buttons horizontally arranged radio buttons Radio Buttons vertical vertically arranged radio buttons Checkboxes horizontally arranged checkboxes Checkboxes vertical vertically arranged checkboxes Drop List a clickable list of choices New Tab see below An addition to the standard field types is the New Tab option This does not define a field but rather names the tab that following fields will appear under in the Content screen Up to 4 New Tabs can be defined If no tabs are defined custom f
18. to retrieve and use the collected data Form Builder Form Type Field Layout Horizontal Vertical This form is a quiz set answer in default If the form processes correctly go to this page NONE If the user wants to go to the previous page it is this page NONE If the form fails for some reason go to this page NONE ka Move Field Name Type Values 1 2 etc Label Reg Default a g v Heading v Survey Survey Es ka v survey Hidden v surveyl Survey form builder This form has 2 additional fields One appears before the standard success and fail pages fields It is the This form is a quiz set answer in default field This is useful for online quizzes and tests For example you may want employees to go through a basic orientation test to make sure they know the basics it may even be part of your Quality Management System QMS To make a quiz the answers should be multiple choice The Values 1 2 etc column lists the answer choices separated by pipes The Label column becomes the questions The answer is set via the Default column The answers are stored in hidden HTML fields in the form but they are encrypted to prevent cheating SiteWrangler will track correct answers and results can be displayed on web pages using the QUIZ tags see the Text section of the Content chapter The other additional field is the If the user wants to go to the previous page it is this page field One distinguishing feature of o
19. two sizes In the shop tab we add a new price row by clicking the green plus button ma What actually appears in a price row depends on the shop setup This is discussed in more detail in the Set Up chapter and is usually determined during the design phase Fill the fields with the values you want Note A common mistake is to forget to assign the correct template to the product page see Organise tab pron s gg Pri S M L XL Es El Pric Cs Cm OL XL Shop tab area 30 Blog tab One common use for websites that has arisen in recent years is blogging In simple terms blogging is adding pages to your site and allowing visitors to comment on what you have written The blog tab depicted below allows you to determine if a page should be treated as a blog entry Blog this page checkbox and if visitors should be allowed to leave comments Allow comments checkbox If commenting is allowed a form will appear underneath your article along with any comments that have been left There are rules that control who can leave comments and who cannot This is discussed in more detail along with other blogging options in the chapter on Users v Blog this page Allow comments v Allow incoming pings Outgoing pings sent This is a comment about this article Blog tab area Another feature of blogs is pingbacks or trackbacks These are means of letting one blog article become a comment on another blog article It is a system for automati
20. under the User tab Up to 4 custom field tabs can be named and defined for users John Doe Street 1 One Street Suburb Oneville State Oneston Postcode 1111 Country Australia Custom tab area Custom user fields are useful for keeping additional user information such as shipping address details or contact information IMPORTANT There is always a risk that someone from the outside may get access to your database DO NOT keep sensitive information about your users such as credit card details or medical histories If such information gets stolen you may be legally liable in some way Your SiteWrangler licence agreement advises you of this possibility and indemnifies the makers of SiteWrangler from legal liability if sensitive information is stolen In other words you carry all legal risk for information that you gather and store on the web So be wise 46 Promotions Shop tab This tab is available for users groups and smart groups This tab is only available if the promotions function is activated in your site configuration Sometimes you may want to offer your online shop customers discounts or promotional deals on your products A customer coming to your site can enter a promotional code to receive discounts Promotional codes can be applied to any user group or smart group in your system Code XXX Start Date 26 12 07 Finish Date 1 1 08 of Uses Public Y Formula Test total 0 2 Product filter Discount Rate Pr
21. ARO ploy Logout Preview Content Set Up Users Organise Summary Resources Alias uz DAB Z U Eggy Contact Us Format v Fontsize vj A Styes v cd Products Latest News Blog Members Area Shopping Cart Welcome 5 DAB 7 UE Paragraph v Fontsize A Styes Search Results Page Missing To be translated Pending Articles Thanks for your comment Sorry an error ocurred The content management screen You can now make changes to your website Shop Blog Rev n d E A Q E um b EH 9 Gem as MN hal Ed 5 pas Explaining the screen SiteWrangler Logo Logout Button 1 1e e n j ays e Preview Button Screen Buttons Save Button Language Buttons Tabs Add Delete Buttons Content Tree Bessriessea E Len ODN OS OP ON Sitemap 10 Tab Content Area 11 Title 13 12 1D 13 Main Text Area Areas of the content management screen 1 SiteWrangler logo The SiteWrangler logo is a link to the SiteWrangler site Clicking on it will open a new window with some brief information about your version of SiteWrangler including your licence agreement 2 Logout button It is important that you always log out after making changes to prevent passers by changing your website Clicking the Logout button will return you to the login screen WARNING changes will be lost on logout if you have not saved ALWAYS save your changes before logging out 3 Preview button
22. Content checkbox ticked Ticking this box will cause the content tree permissions option to be shown at the bottom of the tab We will discuss this shortly The user will have access to modify the site Set Up and Users only if they have these checkboxes ticked You may wish to employ an editorial or moderation process for new content created by users If this is the case then type the email address that new pages will be sent to for approval into the Approval 52 Email input box This employs the same process as blog article moderation discussed in the previous section except that the person doing the moderation is not the author of the page article The lower part of the Perms tab is devoted to content tree permissions A user may have permission only to contribute to or edit part of the website This is where you set these restrictions The content tree is an ordered hierarchical structure for organising the website content pages In setting permissions you utilise this structure You can for instance allow a user to edit only pages underneath the News page But giving them permission to do so will allow them to not only edit the children of News but any grandchildren great grandchildren etc So permissions flow on to the outer branches pages of the content tree Permission settings for outer branches pages take precedence over inner ones In the figure Permissions Tab area John Doe has no permission to edit Edit del
23. If you click this a new window will open With all 3 versions of the image in it the original you uploaded the standard size and thumbnail that were created by SiteWrangler Insert Image will place the standard size image into the main text area at the current cursor location You can make the text of the page wrap around the image as shown 9 AAB Z UE Paragraph A floatleft E e gs lea Q Bam Pellentesque nibh felis eleifend id commodo in interdum itae leo Praesent eu elit Ut eu ligula Class aptent taciti Bociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra per inceptos ymenaeos Maecenas elementum augue nec nisl Proin auctor lorem at nibh Curabitur nulla purus feugiat id plementum in lobortis quis pede Vivamus sodales adipiscing sapien Vestibulum posuere nulla eget wisi nteger volutpat ligula eget enim Suspendisse vitae arcu Quisque pellentesque Nullam consequat sem vitae honcus tristique mauris nulla fermentum est bibendum llamcorper sapien magna et quam Sed dapibus vehicula pdio Proin bibendum gravida nisl Fusce lorem Phasellus Chagittis nulla in hendrerit laoreet libero lacus feugiat urna eget hendrerit pede magna vitae lorem Praesent mauris Pellentesque nibh felis eleifend id commodo in interdum vitae leo Praesent eu elit Ut eu ligula Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra per inceptos hymenaeos Maecenas elementum augue nec nisl Pro
24. ML HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the language that web pages use It is essentially plain text with tags inserted into it These tags are not displayed but rather contain instructions for the web browser to follow Here is a simple example lt div style border 1px solid red gt Hello there this is a sample of lt b gt HTML lt b gt lt div gt In this example the box div with a red border will contain the words Hello there this is a sample of HTML and the HTML will be bold It will look something like this Hello there this is a sample of HTML If this doesn t scare you you can view the actual HTML being created in the text area by clicking the HTML button m For more advanced users or users familiar with HTML this can be very useful for tweaking the text layout If you have some HTML from another page that you wish to reuse you can paste it straight in here Some error checking will happen to avoid impossible combinations so your HTML may be altered slightly Building forms There is one button in the toolbar which serves a very special purpose It is the Form Builder button Sometimes you may want the users of your site to interact with it in more complex ways For instance you might want to get their feedback or have them join a mailing list fill ina survey etc On the web this is done with the use of forms The Form Builder button allows you to insert a form into the body of the text H
25. REMINDER YOU are a user on your own site You should have permission to do everything Permissions are discussed later in this chapter under the Permissions Perms Tab section In SiteWrangler users are identified by their email address Email addresses are unique and provide you with a basic level of communication with your users Most sites requiring user registrations use email addresses nowadays Users can be organised into groups Each user belongs to a single group There is even a group called No Group if you don t want to group your users On many sites there is only one user you In addition to groups there are search groups called smart groups These are virtual groups that collect users based on search criteria The are dynamically created when needed A user can belong to any number of search groups if they match the search criteria This is handy if you want to send an email to all your users in Finland for example Or if you wish to find a particular user Groups and smart search groups Groups are organised into a tree like structure similar to the content tree In other words groups may belong to groups All groups stem from a single group called Top No Group The group tree for your site is displayed in the left hand panel of the Users screen Smart groups virtual groups are displayed in italics They cannot have children Real groups are not in italics and can have children To create a new group click the Add a new gr
26. SiteWrangler User s Guide amp Reference Table of Contents Introduction 4 Nanu lo e E E A A E ii 4 timado cinta A a a E E AE 4 Getting Started 6 Building your Website serunai ao erae Na is 6 Explaining thie Screener a inter nant RE ee daga cia 8 1 SiteWrangler logo usines 8 2 ogout DUTION ii A ab Vener ety ten eee eine ed 8 3 PreviewDutton issss anes enaa iien he ta ibid iaa 8 4 Screen DUMONS tecnica da eatin 8 5 Save DUO iria ia deka ated he Se A oe 9 6 Language buttons sienne 9 A D TE ade ces lace tees cute ET LC 9 8 Add Delete buttons dali 9 9 Content tree sitemap iii 9 10 Current tab areassss fan ithe nt A nt nt nn ET ae i a 10 AA WAG fateh 8 st ESA a Oh Me AN Re lent to e Senet hate see 10 liar 10 TOMAN dCi A A A A ee 10 Content 12 The coment TSS cit ais 12 Web page data sis nn air 13 Adding A NOW pag socor aiieieo A A A id 14 Duplicating an existing page see 14 Deleting an existing page sise 14 Undeleting a pagesos aeaeo e e tiens Mie nat ei ete re Rem tie 14 Reverting a page to its original state 14 Mi A A A A ee lek 15 Dive aires 15 O A 15 Inserting links hyperlinks into the text 16 Viewing the FUME AA A A A AE ARA AA RBA 17 BUNGING TOS it A A eed A AAA E 17 Inserting special information tags 18 Tab dat PATE TEA ne SM PR Ne ee Ne ete nf ne MD ee 20 Organisetab nrn ascii ae E td A ee a 20 SAIS nn A A loci et 20 Page templates ss anti een tr etn ee O lt ae 21
27. age If not it behaves exactly like an 20 Inactive page For more information on user permissions see the Users chapter later in this manual Note That if a page is Private so are all its children descendants If the private pages feature is not turned on you will not see this option in the Status list Hidden pages are always available but behave slightly differently to Active pages They do not show up in search results or menus and are not usually displayed in lists of pages This is an important function of a website For instance the Broken links page is a page that says Sorry the page you are looking for is missing or something similar it s up to you This page serves a very important function if someone has bookmarked a page that you no longer have available But we would never want to find it in a search or use it in a menu It should always be a hidden page So should the search results page For more information on the Broken links page and Search results page see the General tab General in the Set Up chapter Translate d pages behave as inactive pages They are coloured differently in the content tree to draw the eye and alert the administrator you that they require your attention If you do not have more than one language in operation on your website you won t see this status Calendar Active pages may be turned on and off at specified dates This is done by clicking the calendar icon Ii and filling in the Active On
28. al Link This is the same as the external link except that it redirects to another page on your website internally Choose the page you want to redirect to from the content tree pop up menu Open link in new window When this is ticked any externally or internally linked pages will open their URL in a new window This leaves the original window open in the background This is helpful if you don t want people to leave your site after they link to another or if you wish to use a page in a pop up window RSS Feed RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication It is a standard format for sharing information between web sites A typical use would be a news feed from a newspaper website RSS feeds typically contain 10 items usually news stories SiteWrangler allows you to gather feeds from other websites and show them on your site RSS feeds are accessed the same way as any other web address by typing in a URL Type the URL of the RSS feed in the RSS Feed input box You need to show the RSS items on your page This can be done at design time in a template or by using a SiteWrangler tag in the text of the page To show an RSS feed in the text type RSS anywhere into the main text area Typically this will show 10 items articles You can control the number of items by appending it thus RSS3 will show the first 3 items in the feed The layout of the RSS feed items is decided at design time Name this page Pages in SiteWrangler are refer
29. anation in the Definition box and click the add button mal If the term already exists in the glossary it will be overwritten with the new definition To edit an existing term click on it It will appear in the Term box and its explanation will appear in the Definition box Change the definition and click the add button Note That changing the Term field itself will create a new glossary entry To delete an existing term click on it as you would to edit it then click the delete button uz Custom fields tab s Sometimes a site might have special data requirements for example a website advertising houses that would like to show the number of bedrooms zoning land size etc This information could be typed into a page s text area and formatted by hand but it is more efficient to set up a special tab where this information can be treated in a consistent manner We enter such information into Custom fields These fields are available for every page some pages will not need them but are defined in the Custom tab in the Set Up screen Ed Move Name Type Size Values 112letc Label Defauit a a New Tab xl My Fields Es a start Input yj 90 My input LS l field1 Drop List v Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 My Droplist Optionl LS dl pool Checkboxes v Yes My Checkbox Yes LA l sports Radio Buttons v Yes No My Radio Yes No Custom fields tab area In general decisions about custom fields should be made during the design phase so that
30. angler a database of people URL A document or article that is available for viewing on the web A group of files located in a folder on a server that is available to the rest of the world via the internet A website whose web pages are created from a database on an as needed basis using templates Awebsite for which each web page is stored as its own file on the server 75 2008 Sharp Sharp 18 Dandenong Road Jamboree Heights 4074 Queensland Australia email info sitewrangler com au http sitewrangler com http isharp com 76
31. cally referencing other articles If you wish to allow other blogs to be used as comments on your blog tick the Allow incoming pings checkbox If you wish your blog article to be used as a comment on another blog s then tick the Send outgoing pings checkbox When your article is saved pingbacks will be sent to all the links in your article and the Send outgoing pings checkbox will be automatically cleared All the comments that have been left for your blog article are listed at the bottom of the blog tab area including their status when they were posted by whom and the comment itself More information on comment status is given in the Blog section of the Users chapter Revisions Rev n tab If the revisions configuration option is enabled then each time a page is changed and saved a new revision of that page is created In the Rev n tab is a list of dates on which revisions occurred listed in reverse chronological order You may restore a page to any previous version simply by clicking on a date 01 01 2008 31 12 2007 09 12 2007 09 12 2007 05 12 2007 05 12 2007 04 12 2007 03 12 2007 26 11 2007 Revisions tab 31 Notes tab The Notes tab contains a single text box which is for your personal use It is not usually visible on the website and you can use it to leave messages reminders or to communicate with other administrators of your site 32 Set Up Set Up The Set Up screen is for editing data that affects the
32. content tree you can personalise the email by inserting SiteWrangler tags like FIRSTNAME into the page text In the context of an email all the tags that pertained to the currently logged user now refer to the user to whom the email is going You will often want to use the FORM_ FORM_ALL or FORM_DIV tags to display the field values the user entered For more information on SiteWrangler tags see the section on Text in the Content chapter There are 4 predefined special fields that you can use on email forms available in the Field Name drop list The first is sendto This overrides any value or lack thereof that you typed into the Send the email to this address field This is called postcarding It allows visitors to your site to send emails to other people It is useful for recommendations and promotions such as Send this page to a friend situations It is also ripe for abuse so be careful what you let users do You should always include the subject field This is usually a hidden type field but not always and specifies the subject of the email message is a field that is treated in a special way when formatting the email SiteWrangler assumes that this field contains the main text of the message It is displayed without a label before all the other fields If you are postcarding you should always use the captcha field This will stop robots easily hijacking your site and using it to send spam emails 61 Contribute
33. dditional fields start in the For existing users optional uses email address matching area of the screen These are 2 content tree pop up menus for selecting pages called Update database and go to this page and Notify the user of changes via email using this page They are the optional pages discussed previously If you have one you should have both If you don t wish existing users to be able to update their details from the subscription form choose NONE for both of these The following additional fields start in the For new users required area Firstly we must decide which group the subscriber will join Click on the grey Have the subscriber join this group box to get a pop up menu of available groups and make a choice 64 You may want to confirm a user s subscription through another means such as the telephone This can be a handy marketing tool In this case you can tell SiteWrangler to send the confirmation email not to the user but to you Type the email address where you would like confirmations to go into Instead of sending the confirmation email to the subscriber send it to this email address optional box Type the confirmation email sender s address you would like to use into the Mark the email as sent from this email address box If this email is in HTML format choose the template you wish to use from the Use this template to format the email drop list Choose No HTML use text only if you wish to send it as pla
34. e data supplied The aesthetic and functional decision making process preceding the implementation creation of a website An HTML container element A unique URL web address denoting a web site Files that can be retrieved by users from a website using a web browser A type of field A pop up list of choices Server programs that receive transmit and organise email messages The process of scrambling data so that it cannot be understood without other secret information A link from one website to another website A data input or display element on a screen The text name that identifies a piece of data field Graphics Interchange Format A file format for images An internet based map presentation service provided by Google A collection of members and users Graphical User Interface See user interface 72 hard drive home page HTML hyperlink ID internal link jpg JPEG layout left click ing licence agreement link login log in logging in logout log out logging out members menu moderation online online shop page PayPal PDF pingbacks PNG png pop up menu An electro magnetic based data storage device The default page of a website Hyper Text Markup Language The programming language understood by web browsers and used to render web pages Link A unique number given automatically to each page and user in SiteWrangler A link from one page of a websit
35. e to another page on the same web site Joint Photographic Experts Group A file format for images An arrangement of elements on a computer screen web page Clicking the left button on a mouse An agreement between you and a software publisher allowing you to use the software A clickable web address on a website or document that causes a web browser to open at that page The process of validating a user s identity to a computer system Usually via a username and password The process of retracting a user s identity and its associated privileges from a computer system Subscribed registered users of a website A hierarchical user interface element used to issue commands make choices or set fields in software The process of vetting articles and comments Available on the web A virtual shop allowing real purchases over the internet Web page A popular credit card processing payment gateway Portable Document Format A widely used document format Automatic signals between blogs on different sites allowing them to reference each other Portable Network Graphic A file format for images A menu tree that appears when you click or move your mouse over a special screen element 73 postcarding postcards posting articles product page quality management system QMS RGB right click ing robot RSS RSS feed saving search engine server set up shopping cart smart groups spam spammer
36. eir found set over and over again that act like virtual groups Unwanted email articles or comments Someone who deliberately creates or sends spam Over 90 of all internet traffic is estimated to be spam Faking information such as email addresses Structure Query Language A popular programming language used to communicate to databases Active Inactive Hidden Private Pending or Translate A measure and control of a page s availability and progress A clickable control that changes the display of an associated part of the screen A way of organising larger quantities of data 74 teaser headline templates tool tip toolbar trackbacks URL user interface Ul users web address web page website website dynamic website static Summarised version of a page Special files that contain instructions on how data from a website s database should be presented displayed to users Asmall pop up rectangle providing contextual help to a user Traditionally black text on a yellow background A collection of clickable icons that initiate actions in software Signals between blogs on different sites allowing them to reference each other Uniform Resource Locator A web address The address or location of a document on the web web page The contents of a web browser s location bar What a user sees and how they interact with software People who use software or visit websites Also in SiteWr
37. ete De or create New pages anywhere on the website except for children descendants Kids of the Blog page This is because the Blog page is further out than the TOP top start or trunk of the tree You may set as many rules permissions for content as you like To add a new set of content permissions click the add button m next to the word Del To delete a row of content permissions click the delete button at the end of the row hz To set content tree permissions first choose the point page that you wish to assign permissions for by using the content tree pop up menu in the Page column To apply permissions to the page you have just chosen tick the Me checkbox To apply permissions to the page s children and descendants tick the Kids checkbox To give a user permission to view private pages pages with status set to Private and their descendants tick the Priv checkbox You can give users permissions to edit existing pages create new pages and delete old pages This is done by ticking the Edit New and Del checkboxes respectively A user without permission to edit a particular page will not be presented with the page s data on the Content screen but rather will see the message Sorry you do not have permission to edit this page 53 Email tab One common need for a website is to stay in touch with its members and subscribers ie its users SiteWrangler allows you to send personalised HTML formatted emails
38. ete this page button Es or choose Delete from the content tree menu right click The page will now be shown in the content tree in red with a line through it Also the delete button will change to the undelete or recycle button Once you are happy that you want to delete the page click Save The page will be removed from the site permanently SiteWrangler will not delete a page until the Save button is pushed This means that if you accidentally delete a page you can undelete it later Note If you wish to remove a page from the site but keep it for later use set its Status to Inactive See the Organise tab Organise section below Important Deleting a page will also delete all its descendants children grandchildren etc Important Some pages cannot be deleted and the delete button will not be available These include 3 special pages the home page broken page and search results page Also any page that has been named see Alias tab Alias section later cannot be deleted This is because these pages serve special functions and deleting them would render your site dysfunctional Undeleting a page If you have marked a page for deletion and change your mind you can undelete it You can do this until you click Save The delete button will have changed to the undelete button and you simply need to click it Alternatively the Delete option in the content tree menu will have changed to Undelete and you can choose it fr
39. f changes via email using this page For new users required Have the subscriber join this group Instead of sending the confirmation email to the subscriber send it to this email address optional Mark the email as sent from this email address Use this template to format the email Send this page as the confirmation email put SUBSCRIBE in the page text so they can activate their account If the activation link WORKS open their browser at this page Otherwise if the activation link FAILS open their browser at this page ka Move Field Name Type au O z Heading z E Ef ufirstname Input Box xi Ee x ulastname Input Box x a E zumi Input Box f gt a y upassword Password zi Es a _ vpassword Password sl Es a y userupload File Image y Es da y ucustom_TABO Heading x Es a y ucustom_street Input Box x Es a y ucustom_suburb Input Box x E Elf ucustom state Input Box xi Es ka Y ucustom_postcode Input Box z ka a y ucustom_country Input Box x au g z Submit Button xi Horizontal Vertical NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE No HTML use text only NONE NONE NONE Values 1 2 etc Label Reg Default Your details Your details 90 First Name Y 90 Last Name V 180 Email Address Y 90 Preferred Password 90 Confirm Password 1 Icon E Browse 100 Address 115 Street 115 Suburb 100 State 50 Postcode 115 Country Submit Submit Subscribe form builder The a
40. folders on a computer Pages and their children descendants can be moved around the tree at any time giving you a powerful way to reorganise your site and its structure In addition certain functions can be accessed by right clicking the content tree These include adding and deleting pages as shown here Welcome Contact Us Products Latest News World in Crisis The Weather Blog Article 1 Article 2 Me Members Area She New Sez Duplicate Pat Delete To be translated Pending Articles Thanks for your comment Sorry an error ocurred The content tree Page titles in the tree are given different colours depending upon their status A green title indicates that the page is new or pending Blue indicates the page has changed in some way note that this may occur if the page is moved or the content tree is otherwise altered Red with a line through it means the page will be deleted when the Save button is clicked Grey indicates the page is inactive Purple indicates the page was created in another language and needs to be translated Black indicates a normal active private or hidden webpage A further discussion of page status is given in the Organise section of this chapter Web page data When you left click on any page in the content tree it becomes the current page Its data is displayed on the right of the screen Title ID Text and tab data You can then change that data and save it thus updating your webpa
41. ge You may edit many pages before saving but remember the internet is not always reliable especially on a dial up modem so frequent saving is recommended In SiteWrangler a page can represent many things It may be an article a blog entry a product a list of search results etc Part of the power of SiteWrangler is that we deal with all types of content through a single idea that of the web page How you might think of a webpage is just a matter of how you treat it This shortens your learning curve and increases the flexibility of your site Adding a new page One of the tasks you will need to perform regularly is adding new content to your website This can be done by clicking the Add a new page button ma or by right clicking the content tree A new page is always added after the current page or the page right clicked in the tree You can of course move the page to anywhere else in the content tree after you have created it A new page is given the title of NewPage This is simply to help identify it in the tree Duplicating an existing page You may want to copy a page and make a few subtle changes To duplicate a page click the Duplicate this page button ls or choose Duplicate from the content tree menu right click The title text and other data for that page will be replicated in a new separate page Please note that resources and some other data are not replicated Deleting an existing page To delete a page click the Del
42. ge will be inserted in the content tree which template it will use to be displayed and what status the new page will have To determine the contributed page s location click the Make this a child of this page content tree pop up menu Choose the template to display the contributed page from the Display this new page using this template drop list Choose the default status of contributed pages from the Set the status of this new page to drop list Special fields for this type of form include the basic page fields that you get in the administration tool title text summary status and scope Choosing status or scope will override the settings you made above 62 In addition the captcha field is available and any custom fields you defined for pages in the Set Up screen so the contributor can specify this information as well Subscribe form If you are planning to gather memberships you will need the Subscribe Form This is the most complex form because subscription is the most complex process Because of the misuse of the internet by many scammers and spammers it is important to prevent people from signing others up to your website without their permission or knowledge To get around this we first require an email address Then a confirmation request is emailed to that address This way only the person who owns the email address can complete the signup process to your website This process requires up to 7 pages in your conten
43. he currently logged in user The last name of the currently logged in user The email address of the currently logged in user Same as EMAIL The user s icon image Any user custom field where is the exact name of the field An entire RSS feed from another site redisplayed on your page Acertain number of items from an RSS feed In this case 5 RSS feeds usually have only 10 items in them A Google map The default size of the map will be 320 pixels wide and 240 pixels high A Google map with dimensions of your own choosing In this case 300 pixels wide 200 pixels high The value of any custom field data for a page where is the exact name of the field The total number of questions asked in an online quiz The number of questions the user got right QUIZ_RIGHT QUIZ QUIZ_INCORRECT QUIZ_WRONG QUIZ_PERCENT FORM_ FORM_ALL FORM_DIV SUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE click here Same as QUIZ_CORRECT Same as QUIZ_CORRECT The number of questions the user got wrong Same as QUIZ_INCORRECT The percentage of questions the user got right in an online quiz The value of any field submitted in a form where is the exact name of the field All the data submitted in a form labelled by its field name as text All the data submitted in a form labelled by its field name as HTML in div boxes The link a user must click to confir
44. he file will be uploaded via the internet to your Resources tab All resources are kept in a folder called extras on your website They exist in the same way that they do on your local computer Clicking on a resource will present a menu of options for inserting into your web page In SiteWrangler the resources uploaded for a particular page are available only to that page Sometimes this is not desirable To overcome this there is also a library of resources available to all pages It can be displayed by clicking the blue library button idj Clicking this button again will take you back to the current page s resources A resource may be easily moved between library and pages This is explained under Images below There are a couple of things to watch out for though By default most web servers have a 2 megabyte limit on files you upload This can often be changed but it is important to know You may upload a file only to find it does not appear in the list The first thing to check is its size It may be too large Bear in mind that uploading even a 1 megabyte file takes some time especially on dial up Another thing to watch out for is JPEG files JPEG files usually have the extension jpg and work really well on the web for the most part However a JPEG file can be saved with a colour profile For computer screens this is usually called RGB for print media it is called CMYK A JPEG image saved with a CMYK profile will not display correctly in so
45. ic purpose For instance you may have a template designed to present staff profiles which displays a portrait for each staff member During the design phase the website can be configured to have a flag called Portrait Suppose there are a number of images on each staff members page rather than Sitewrangler automatically using the first image you need to flag the image you wish to use as the portrait Clicking on the blue italic word Portrait in the menu will designate the image for this purpose gt gt Move Right and lt lt Move Left allow you to re order your resources Delete does not immediately delete an image Instead it marks the image to be deleted with a pink highlight When the Save button is clicked the marked images are then deleted Images marked for deletion may be unmarked using the Restore undelete option which will become available in the menu Note You must do this before clicking Save images cannot be restored undeleted after saving Add to library makes a copy of the image in the site s resource library Images in the library are available to all pages Set Caption Captions are text notes underneath images Your website must be configured to enable this feature To create or edit a caption click it in the menu Downloads Downloadable files uploaded to the web are represented by a generic file icon When the icon is clicked a slightly different context menu compared with images appears as shown here
46. ields are displayed under a single tab called Custom in the Content screen The Size Values 1 2 etc column refines your field definition The nput and Text type fields define the size in pixels of the field input boxes Text type fields require 2 numbers the first for width and the second for height They can be separated by a space or any non numeric characters The radio button checkbox and drop list type fields define the choices options that are presented Choices should be separated by a single pipe character as shown in the previous diagram The Label column describes your field for readability In the case of New Tab types it becomes the text title of the tab in the Content screen The last column lets you choose a Default value for each of your fields This can be blank if desired The Default column also shows you a prototype of how your field will look in the Content screen 38 Custom user fields User tab As you can define custom fields for pages SiteWrangler also allows you to create custom fields for users This is particularly helpful for example in gathering contact information from subscribing members ka Move Name Type Size Values 1 2 etc Label Default kd l New Tab v Address Ea E street Input yj 115 Street Es E suburb Input x 115 Suburb a B ste Input yj 100 State x F postcode Input 150 Postcode D El country Input yf 1115 Country Custom user tab area The creation of cu
47. ilters will filter out emails without subjects You need to choose a format for your email This is a simple matter of selecting a template from the Use Template drop list Your web design determines the templates you can choose from Finally you need to select which pages articles teasers you want to include in your email An email template is generally divided into different sections What these sections are is decided during the design phase To add a new page to your email click the add button ls next to the word Move In your new row choose an article page from the content tree pop up menu in the Article Page column Next assign that page to a particular section of your email by choosing it from the drop list in the Section column You can change the order of the articles you have chosen at any time by clicking holding and then dragging the blue move button LA in the Move column and dropping it where you like You can remove an article from your email by clicking the delete button a at the end of its row IMPORTANT NOTE There is no guarantee that all your emails will reach all your users This depends entirely on what anti spam measures are employed on their email hosts and email programs Should a person be unable to view your nicely formatted HTML email panic not a text only version is also embedded in the email for those users with technical limitations on viewing HTML emails 55 Forms Forms Forms allow
48. in auctor lorem at nibh Curabitur nulla purus feugiat id elementum in lobortis quis pede Vivamus sodales adipiscing sapien Vestibulum posuere nulla eget wisi Integer volutpat ligula eget enim Suspendisse vitae arcu Quisque pellentesque Nullam consequat sem vitae rhoncus tristique mauris nulla fermentum est bibendum ullamcorper sapien magna et quam Sed dapibus vehicula odio Proin bibendum gravida nisl Fusce lorem Phasellus sagittis nulla in hendrerit laoreet libero lacus feugiat urna eget hendrerit pede magna vitae lorem Praesent mauris Image inserted into main text area To do this select the image by clicking it then choose the floatleft style from the styles drop down in the text editor tool bar There are other options you can choose for images by clicking on the image button E Insert Thumbnail is identical to the above except that it inserts the thumbnail size image instead of the standard size image Insert Full Size inserts the original image into the text at the cursor point 24 Insert Link inserts a text link to the original image which will open in a new window when clicked If the image has a caption this will be used as the text for the link Image Flags The next menu items depend on your configuration They are image flags labels and are displayed in italic blue Not every website needs to utilise this feature so you may not see them at all Sometimes it is desirable to use an image for a specif
49. in text Choose the page you want to send as the confirmation email using the Send this page as the confirmation email put SUBSCRIBE in the page text so they can activate their account content tree pop up menu The If the activation link WORKS open their browser at this page field designates the page a users browser will open to when they click the subscription confirmation link in their confirmation email if the subscription succeeds If it fails their browser will go to the Otherwise if the activation link FAILS open their browser at this page page The most common cause of failed subscriptions is that the user is already subscribed A NOTE on the subscription process When a subscription form is successfully submitted before the confirmation email is sent the user is added to the system They are added but they are not marked as Active Mail out emails will not be sent to inactive users When they confirm their subscription then their Active status is set see Info tab in Users section Unsubscribe form If you are using the Subscribe form it is wise to provide an Unsubscribe Form as a courtesy to your subscribers A person may wish to be removed from your database and an Unsubscribe form allows them to do this without needing your intervention Form Builder Form Type Unscubscribe iy Field Layout Horizontal Vertical If the form processes correctly go to this page NONE If the form fails for some reason go to
50. in the tool bar A pop up dialogue box appears as below BOS http domain com Insert edit link ry Insert edit link Link URL Link list Link to Page Target Open link in the same window v Title Class Styles Edit link dialogue box Note If the pop up window does not appear you may have a pop up blocker enabled in your web browser You should disable it when using SiteWrangler Type the URL web address of the page you want to link to in the Link URL box Examples of valid URL s include http domain com https domain com www domain com domain com domain com index html domain com index php id 1238ferret yes You may wish to link to another page on your own website This is called an internal link since the user does not change websites You can choose the page from the content tree pop up menu in the Link list box This is the grey Link to Page box next to the Link list label Clicking on it will reveal a pop up context menu that mimics the structure of the content tree Each menu item represents a page on your site Throughout SiteWrangler this is the standard way of choosing pages You may choose to have the page you linked to open in a new window If so simply choose that option from the Target drop list If you wish to have a tool tip generally a small yellow box with small black type appear when a user hovers over the link type the tool tip text into the Title box Viewing the HT
51. ing Caching is the process whereby a web browser stores a copy of a web page on the user s computer so that it doesn t have to be fetched again from the internet This saves time but may mean that some users will see old versions of your web page When their cache clears their web browser will fetch the page again and it will be current Web browsers clear their cache either when they are closed explicitly told to or over time when the cache becomes full and starts clearing the oldest pages 6 Language buttons SiteWrangler has the ability to support versions of your site in different languages If your site is configured for more than one language you can switch between languages by clicking the language flag buttons Important changing languages will save your changes 7 Tabs Depending which screen you are on Content Setup or Users various Tabs give access to different data windows These tabs are described in more detail in their respective chapters 8 Add Delete buttons These buttons allow you to add duplicate delete undelete and revert pages They are explained in more detail in the Content chapter 9 Content tree sitemap Websites are arranged in tree like structures similar to a family tree or as with folders within folders on a computer Each page may have sub pages child pages Each line in the content tree represents a single page on the website Pages with child pages appear with a triangle on their left
52. it When it comes to choosing a field Type there are some additional options for forms The complete list of options is Heading a bolder line of text to label sections of the form Display only a line of text for user information Required Notice a formatted line of text usually smaller and red to inform the user of the significance of the little red that SiteWrangler uses to denote a required field Hidden data that you want passed with the form that the user knows nothing about and cannot alter This could be a product code or email subject etc Input a single line of text Text multiple lines of text Checkboxes horizontally arranged checkboxes Checkboxes vertical vertically arranged checkboxes Radio Buttons horizontally arranged radio buttons Radio Buttons vertical vertically arranged radio buttons Drop List a clickable list of choices Password a single line of text displayed as dots or stars as the user types so passers by cannot see what is being typed File Image a file you want the user to upload Captcha a graphic image of 6 letters and numbers which is hard for computers to read This is used to ensure that only humans are using your form and it has not been hijacked by an internet robot program which submits false data repeatedly Submit Button a button that the user clicks on to actually submit the form data to the server 59 The Values 1 2 etc column specifies the text width o
53. m their subscription to your website membership The link a user must click to cancel their subscription to your website membership As for SUBSCRIBE but using text in the link that you specify In this case click here UNSUBSCRIBE click here As for UNSUBSCRIBE but using text in the link that you specify In this case click here Tab data The following information refers to data displayed in the tab area of the content screen The number and combination of them that appear depends entirely on how SiteWrangler was configured for your site If you see a tab listed here that you can t find in your content screen that is because the function that it serves has been disabled for your site For instance if you do not have an online shop the Shop tab will not be displayed This is simply to remove screen clutter and simplify the user interface Organise tab This is perhaps the most important tab and is always available regardless of configuration In this Organise tab you can move pages configure menus and change a page Status and Template Here is the Organise tab Status Active vi E E Page created by Page Template Article b Move To TOP Menu Top jv Side Menu Text Home Organise tab area Let s go through it one field at a time Status We touched on Status earlier see The Content Tree Each page has a Status The status determines when that page should be displayed There are 6 possible statuses Acti
54. me web browsers PNG files are another type of image file PNG files have the extension png PNG files can have transparency in them This is great except that some web browsers do not display the transparency correctly So avoid transparency in PNG files if possible GIF files may be used instead They have transparency but they also have a limited colour range We will now discuss the 3 types of resources separately Images When an image is uploaded 2 additional copies of the image are made One is a standard size image the other is a thumbnail small image The sizes of these 2 images is configurable The web is a slow beast sometimes and this allows us to use smaller file size not necessarily dimensions files to speed things up a bit It can take a long time to load a 1 megabyte image over dial up The best size for these images should be decided during the design phase of your website Once an image is uploaded you will want to use it on a page Clicking on the image will bring up a context menu with several options for you to choose from 23 isl Image Caption Insert Thumbnail testfile pdf sample mp4 Thumbnail Caption Pei Insert Full Size ID 269 NO TAG Main 1 2313 b 2 BQ Bem 101 Il Hi Portrait 1 le b gt Mi 4 1 a z I gt gt Move Right Delete Add to library Caption The image pop up menu The name of the file is displayed at the top of the menu
55. mmaries can be automatically generated If SiteWrangler finds that there is nothing typed in the summary text field it will try to create a summary from the main page text see Text earlier By default this will be the first paragraph or first 30 words whichever is shorter The number of words it uses is configurable The summary text area uses an identical tool bar to the main text area with the notable exception of the Forms button Resources tab You may want to display images show movie clips or offer downloadable files from your website These are collectively called resources or assets They differ from other data in your site in that they must be uploaded copied as whole files to your website They are not stored in the database Suppose you wanted to display an image on a web page The image must be available visible to your website so it can locate it The best way to do this is to copy it to your website That is what the resources tab lets you do and more 22 Once a file image media download has been uploaded it will be shown in a list of available files as displayed here Pr T F harbour jpg testfile pdf free d jpg sample mp4 Resources tab area In this case we have 2 images harbour jpg and free d jpg one movie and one PDF file To add a new resource click the add button lss in the Resources tab A dialogue box will appear allowing you to select any file on your hard drive to upload Once chosen t
56. na vitae lorem Praesent mauris Pellentesque nibh felis eleifend id commodo in interdum vitae leo Praesent eu elit Ut eu ligula Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra per inceptos hymenaeos Maecenas elementum augue nec nisl Proin auctor lorem at nibh Curabitur nulla purus feugiat id elementum in lobortis quis pede Vivamus sodales adipiscing sapien Vestibulum posuere nulla eget wisi Integer volutpat ligula eget enim Suspendisse vitae arcu Quisque pellentesque Nullam consequat sem vitae rhoncus tristique mauris lorem Main text area 15 Important Pasting text from MS Word is not the same as pasting text from Notepad MS Word adds a whole bunch of hidden instructions called tags in the text when you copy it These tags translate through to SiteWrangler because they are similar in format to tags used in HTML the language of web pages So you won t see them but the text you paste may go berserk because of them If you are copying and pasting from Word use the Paste from Word button 4 from the toolbar This will attempt to remove these hidden tags For absolute peace of mind paste your MS Word text into Notepad first then copy it from Notepad and paste it into SiteWrangler Notepad ignores tags Inserting links hyperlinks into the text To create a link to another website in your text select highlight the words you wish to make into a link with the mouse and click the link button
57. never be decrypted This means that if a user forgets their password they must be issued a new one This can be done automatically using a Password Recovery Form see the Forms chapter or it can be done from the Info tab A user s password is not loaded or displayed The Password input box is only for assigning a new one Type the new password in and click Save the password will be encrypted once saved John Doe First Name John Last Name Doe Email johndoe domain com Group Members Password Active vw Created 07 01 2008 ID 42 Icon Ml Referral ID 40 Information tab area Groups and smart groups have a name only The nfo tab also displays which group the user group smart group belongs to This can be changed by clicking on the grey box which presents a pop up menu mimicking the group s tree structure Smart groups are omitted from this menu Users and groups can also be made active or inactive via the Active checkbox When users first subscribes to your website they are created in the database but not made active until a confirmation code is received from them see Subscriptions in the Forms chapter This tab also displays the date on which the user group smart group was created and the ID number they were given 44 Users may also have an icon image associated with them It is a JPEG jpg image which can be uploaded to the site To do this from the administration area click the add icon button ma next to the word Icon U
58. ni ee tn 65 Profile form cece wast e na ae ee a Le oo e ut ES 66 PASS WO OM A A rie 67 SUVOY OMA A A a A A ie 68 GUSTOM A O 69 Glossary 71 Introduction Welcome to SiteWrangler Among many other things it is a Content Management System CMS designed to simplify your website administration It has a logical intuitive interface that harnesses its flexibility sophistication and power In a nutshell A central concept in SiteWrangler is the content tree This is a tree like structure of the pages in your website similar to folders on a computer When you log in to SiteWrangler it appears as the list of pages on the left of the screen There are three major sections screens in SiteWrangler Content Set Up and Users Each helps you manage a different type of data You navigate to each by the Content Set Up and Users buttons at the top of the screen There is a Save button in the top right corner of the screen Changes you make will be live on your website only after you have clicked Save There is a diagram explaining the content screen towards the beginning of this guide and there is a comprehensive glossary at the end In this manual This manual uses two simple conventions bold type to draw your attention to important points and italics to reference things by name Getting Started Getting Started Building your website Before building your website it is important to have the concept and design well worked out befo
59. nline surveys is that they may span several web pages It is sometimes important to let the user go back a page This field allows you to define the previous survey page A survey form has three types of submit button buttonnext goes to the success next page buttonprev goes to the previous page and buttonfinish goes to the success page but sends a command to SiteWrangler to end and save the survey A survey page may therefore have 2 submit buttons one to go forward or finish and one to go back These submit buttons are listed among the special fields and added to the form in the same way as ordinary submit buttons see introduction to this chapter Other special fields include sendto and subject These fields allow a copy of the survey to be emailed to a specified email address sendto with a specified subject subject This should generally be used only on the last page of the survey so you only get one email of the results If survey results are emailed they are still saved in the database 68 The captcha field is also available to foil robots The remaining special fields are general date integer decimal number and text fields that can be used in any way you see fit Use them only once per survey Note Once per survey not once per survey page Any fields that you add that are not in the special field list are stored as text You can have as many as you like Custom form The SiteWrangler form handling functionali
60. oduct Filter 20 acme 10 t shirt Shop tab area Enter the promotional code you wish to use into the Code field These should be unique to avoid confusion between different promotions A promotion might only be valid for a period of time You can specify this period by entering a date into the Start Date and or Finish Date fields If a code can be used a certain number of times fill in the of Uses field You may wish to offer a promotion to the public Clicking the Public checkbox will do this This is particularly handy if you do not require people to become members of your website to use your shop A promotion can be specified in two ways either as a formula or as a product filter You may use both simultaneously 47 A formula is specified in the Formula field in exactly the same way as a freight formula is see the Shop tab in the Set Up chapter for more examples For example suppose you wanted to offer a 5 discount if a customer spends more than 100 the formula would be total gt 100 total 0 05 O Note The formula calculates the discount not the discounted total Don t forget to test your formula to make sure it works by clicking the Test text link SiteWrangler will tell you if the formula is OK or if it will fail The other way of specifying a discount is by using a Product Filter The number of product filters available to you depends on your site s configuration Discounts are applied per product
61. om there Undeleting a page will also undelete all its descendant pages Reverting a page to its original state Sometimes you may do some editing and realise that you want to undo the lot This can be achieved by clicking the Revert this page back to its original button ssl Obviously only pages that have been changed they will appear blue in the content tree can be reverted Once you save you cannot revert a page Title A page s title is displayed prominently in the middle of the content screen It is a simple input box Just type in the title you wish for that page A page s title is used by default in any navigation menus you have on your website The title of a page is that shown in the content tree A page may have no title In this case there will only be a small blank area in the content tree about the size of a single letter that can be clicked to edit that page ID Each page that is created is assigned a unique number This is automatic and you have no control over it It is simply a way for SiteWrangler to identify which page is which regardless of title or other data In some cases particularly if there is a problem with a page it can be helpful to know this number It can make the tracking down of a problem much quicker The ID number of a page is displayed next to the page title You can quickly find the ID of any page on the site by rolling your mouse pointer over it in the content tree Doing so will show a
62. on t be able to see the page they requested SiteWrangler will automatically redirect them to the Broken Links Page This page should be used to advise them that the page they were looking for is no longer available or could not be found so that they do not become frustrated or confused The third page is only essential if your site employs a search facility SiteWrangler has built in functions for searching your site and displaying the results on the Search Results Page This is not like a search engine since it will search only active pages on your site Hidden pages will be ignored IMPORTANT It is important to backup your database regularly The Backup and Email to button will send a text file to the email address you specify which will allow your database to be reinstated if anything goes wrong The text file is an SQL file that can be used by a database management 34 tool like PhpMyAdmin This is normally accessed through your web host s control panel If this sounds too complicated for you get your web developer to do it for you It only takes 10 minutes or so The email address you specify is restricted to your domain for security reasons If there has been no activity for a certain period of time SiteWrangler will automatically log you out after a 20 second warning You can specify the number of minutes before this occurs in the Session Timeout box Reminder Unsaved changes are lost on logout automatic or otherwise Text tab g
63. ose the template from the Use this template to format the email drop list If you prefer to send a plain text email choose No HTML use text only The Send this page as the email content tree pop up menu allows you to customise the email by choosing a page from your content as the email The email should include this tag PASSWORD in the text SiteWrangler will replace the tag with the actual password that it generated If you don t include it they won t know their new password In some cases a subscriber may not receive or may lose their confirmation email while trying to subscribe see Subscribe Form They can request a new email from your site with a subscription confirmation link using the password recovery form This is an alternative use of this type of form You must specify a page to send see above and the page must have a SUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE click here tag in the text Special fields for this type of form are uemail ufirstname and ulastname The u is for user uemail is always required because SiteWrangler will need to know where to send the email 67 Survey form The survey form allows you to collect data online Although it is called a survey form it has many other uses such as competition entries and online quizzes lt is a type of data catch all If you want to collect data that is neither page nor user related this form type may be the answer Your developer may need to help you work out how you want
64. oup button ma located at the top of the groups panel To create a new smart group click the Add a new smart group button ES also located at the top of the groups panel When a group is selected clicked on a list of users belonging to that group appears in the centre panel on the Users screen The particulars for that group are displayed in the right hand side panel These include the name of the group its ID number which group it belongs to etc All the tabs appearing on the right hand side pertain to that group Note If a user in the list is selected the right hand panel pertains to that user Groups and users share many similar data types To delete a group first select it and then click the delete button above the right hand panel Users Users represent people organisations or entities that have special privileges on your site They are primarily identified by their email address but a lot of other data can be collected too Each user is assigned a unique ID number by SiteWrangler for internal tracking purposes Users have permissions which control their privileges and level of access on your site Basic information Info tab This tab is available for users groups and smart groups 43 A user has a first name a last name an email address and a password The user s email address also doubles as their user name should they log in to the site Passwords are encrypted before they are saved Once encrypted they can
65. owever be warned form building can be complicated In fact form building is such a big topic we have devoted an entire chapter to it called amazingly enough Forms Inserting special information tags SiteWrangler allows you to insert special data into your pages using a tag system SiteWrangler s tags are capitalised and enclosed in double square brackets For instance to insert the first name of the currently logged in user into a page type FIRSTNAME into the text area Now when Fred logs in you can say something like Hi Fred on your web page Other special information you can insert include RSS feeds and Google maps A complete list of tags is given below You may have to refer to later sections of the guide to understand some of their meanings Tag format DT TITLE TEMPLATE CREATED MODIFIED NOTE USERID NAME FIRSTNAME LASTNAME EMAIL USERNAME ICON USER_ 227 RSS RSS5 IMAP MAP 300 200 CUSTOM_ 7 QUIZ_TOTAL QUIZ_CORRECT Meaning The ID number of the current page The title of the current page The template of the current page The date and time the current page was first created The date and time the current page was last changed The contents of the page s note field The ID of the currently logged in user The currently logged in users first name and last name separated by a space The first name of t
66. plate to format the email No HTML use text only Send this page as the email NONE Move Field Name Type Values 1 2letc Label Req Default a Heading xl Email Us Email Us DO Input Box xl 180 Name Y O Input Box zl 180 Your Email Y LY x subject Hidden xl Web Contact al y message Text Area sj 240x120 Message y 3 CY captcha Captcha x 120 Security Code V eee 99b5e Send 4 3 a y Submit Button Form builder Each form consists of Standard fields Additional fields and Special fields as shown in the diagram above 1 Standard fields The Form Type in this case Email is selected from the drop list at the top The next 3 lines in the Form Builder are present for all forms The Field Layout line determines the layout relationship between fields in the form and their labels Horizontal places the label left of the field while Vertical places it above All forms cause the web server to perform some special function After this function is complete it is important to notify your users of what has happened At the very least we must create two new pages in the content tree one to indicate success and one to indicate failure After the form data is processed one or other of these pages will be displayed to the user They can be selected via the content tree pop up menu next to If the form processes correctly go to this page and If the form fails for some reason go to this page
67. pop up menu to tell SiteWrangler where you want the page to reside The page will be placed AFTER the page you choose from the menu A page cannot be its own descendant so descendants of the current page will not appear in the menu Menu If you use pop up menus on your site this is where you control what goes into them This option may not appear for your particular configuration 21 Each menu that your site uses is given a name that you decide upon during the design phase If you want a page to appear in a menu just tick the appropriate box Note The menu structure follows the site structure content tree So if you turn off a page in a menu all its descendants will disappear from the menu as well Menu Text By default menus are built using page titles Sometimes this is not what you might want For instance the home page may have the title Welcome but in the menu we want it to say Home To achieve this type Home into the Menu Text box Summary tab Sometimes a set of pages may be displayed in a group or list for instance a news feed or a list of sub topics child pages In this situation it is not always desirable to display the whole page text but rather a summarised version of the page This is sometimes called a teaser or headline The summary tab lets you edit the teaser Here it is B 7 U ES S322 ES d E MN Q E mu Format w Fontsize wv A Styes v A Summary tab area Su
68. port for Google Maps In order to use this function you will need to acquire a Google Maps API Key during the design phase This is like a registration or licence number These are free and can be obtained from http code google com apis maps index html To add a map to a page on your website go to the Map tab and you will see something like this Lookup address Latitude Longtitude Zoom 17 Type Hybrid v Controls Navigation Type Inset Scale GwlB zlu z z b 8 2 am Format w Fontsize w A Stydes v CA Maps tab area A map is centred around a latitude and longitude co ordinate The units for these are degrees If an address is known and Google is able to locate it then these can be found automatically for you Click on the Lookup address text link A dialog box appears asking you to type in an address You may need to include the country state and suburb If Google is able to find a match in its database 29 then the Latitude and Longitude input boxes will be filled immediately Otherwise you will have to find your longitude and latitude by other means A zoom level of 1 to 20 can be chosen from the Zoom drop list depending on how detailed you want your map to be The Type of map can be Map Satellite or Hybrid Map is a normal street map type Satellite is an actual picture taken from space Hybrid is a combination of the two In addition a map can be be augmented with various Controls tha
69. r choices to display in of the field For Input Text Password and Captcha types it specifies the width in pixels of the input area For Text fields a second number should also be included to specify the height in pixels For File Image types it specifies the width in characters For Heading Display only and Required Notice types it specifies the text to display For Submit Buttons it specifies the text that appears on the button For Hidden fields it is the actual data to submit For all others it should be a pipe separated list of options to choose from The Label column lets you describe each input field to the user It is not required for all field types and disappears when not needed The Req column of checkboxes let you indicate whether a field is required or not Again it disappears when not needed The Default column lets you set default values for each field as well as giving you a preview of how your field will be displayed Email form An email form is used when you want a visitor to your website to send you an email They do not need email software to do this it is done directly from your website To make an email form choose it from the Form Type drop list There are 4 additional fields for defining an email form Form Builder Form Type i 7 z Field Layout Horizontal Vertical If the form processes correctly go to this page NONE If the form fails for some reason go to this page NONE Ma
70. r of goods purchased is less than or equal to 10 then freight is 7 00 Otherwise if the total value of goods is less than 50 00 then it is 5 of the value Otherwise it is free 0 Once you have entered some formulae you should test them to make sure they work Do this by clicking the Test text link Any formula that tests correctly will have OK written next to it in the Test column Any that fail will have fail written Finally the fields that appear in your shop must be defined These are defined in exactly the same way as custom fields and user custom fields Field names are case sensitive A field named price should ALWAYS be defined For many shops that is enough Others may offer the same product in a variety of colours weights sizes etc each with a different price Multiple pricing for single products is allowed see Shop tab in Content chapter There are a few field names that you should NOT define They are reserved by SiteWrangler for the management of the shopping cart They are qty quantity item and name These are needed for other purposes 41 Users Users Users are known visitors to your site That is you have a record of who they are in the SiteWrangler database Your users may be able to log in to your site contribute to your site receive emails from your site use your online shop go to private members only sections of your site comment on blogs etc What they can and can t do is entirely up to you
71. rather than to the shopping cart as a whole as for Formula discounts Any product that matches the filter will have the discount applied Enter the discount in the Discount Rate field Valid examples of discount rates are Discount Rate Explanation 5 12 Take 5 12 off the price of each product 0 03 Take 3 off the price of each product 2 20 Take 2 20 off the price of each product 7 Take 7 off the price of each product In the Product Filter field type any text that you wish to match against the name of a product AS IT APPEARS IN THE SHOPPING CART When a product is added to the shopping cart it depends on your template s what that name will be It usually includes the title of the product page but may also include size colour manufacturer etc The name of the product as it appears in the shopping cart is displayed to the user at the checkout It is also the name that is passed to PayPal Product filters are case insensitive Examples of product filters are Product Filter Explanation acme Any product with acme Acme ACME aCmE etc in the name will have the discount rate applied acme dynamite Any product with acme AND dynamite in the name will have the discount rate applied ANDed terms are separated by spaces acme Any product with acme OR dynamite in the name will have the dynamite discount rate applied ORed terms are separated by carriage returns acme dynamite Any product with acne AND dynamite in the name OR bomb in
72. re actually building and implementing the site This process usually involves a graphic designer to create the look and feel of the site and a web developer to configure your site and implement the functionality you need A CMS based website is a dynamic website It relies on a database to store information and special files called templates to lay out and display this information when required It is important to make most of your decisions about your website s configuration and template requirements during the design phase Logging in Accessing the SiteWrangler administration tool To access the administration tool you need the FireFox web browser To make changes to your website you need to log in to the administration section of your website This ensures that only authorised users with correct passwords may change your website For the purposes of this manual we will assume that your website address is domain com To log in to SiteWrangler type in your website s address in the location bar in FireFox with admin php on the end eg domain com admin php You will then see the following screen LEVE EE SEE Login to SiteWrangler Admin Email Address Password Login screen In order to log in you need a valid email address and password These should have been provided by your website developer Type in your email address and password then press the blue Login button You should then see a screen like this LW T
73. red to by a unique ID number created by the system Sometimes it is inconvenient to refer to a page by its ID number A way around this is to refer to a page by its name The advantage of this is that page names are transferable between pages whereas ID numbers are not To name a page type its name into this box Avoid spaces and special characters Don t confuse a page s name with its title they are completely different Named pages cannot be deleted To delete a named page un name it first by deleting its name Click the page s title in the content tree to reload it The page can now be deleted 28 Custom fields tabs You may wish to store data for which there is no place allocated amongst the default fields For instance a real estate agent may wish to store the number of bathrooms for each house on its own page In such a case we need to create a new field to hold this data SiteWrangler does this via custom fields Custom fields are defined using the Set Up screen discussed in a later chapter and made available on every page An example is shown here My Droplist Option 1 My Checkbox Yes My Rac Yes No Custom fields tab area Custom fields can be represented by check boxes radio buttons text boxes etc In most cases custom fields will be defined during the design phase In addition custom fields reside in tabs that can be given custom names Up to 4 such tabs can be defined Map tab Sitewrangler has inbuilt sup
74. ress in the future you can black list the person by clicking the Black List link 50 You may wish to be advised of new posts even if the person is on your white list or otherwise doesn t require moderation To enable this click the Always email posts checkbox Comments requiring moderation will only be posted once When a person has successfully commented on your site it is important to let them know by telling them SiteWrangler redirects the commenter to a page you can choose via a content tree pop up menu as the Comment success page If there is an error or the comment fails you can redirect the user to the Comment fail page You don t necessarily need to use the site administration tool to post articles If you enable it you can post blog articles by sending an email to your site The email address you send to is predetermined during the design phase and made part of your site configuration It is usually something like blogs domain com Options for emailing articles are set in the For email posts section To turn on the blog by email function click the Allow articles to be submitted via email checkbox Emails arriving at your predetermined blogging email address will be checked to see who sent them The article is then added to the correct blog in the content tree However senders email addresses are easy to fake this is called spoofing SiteWrangler therefore employs 2 security measures to authenticate the article The
75. rk the email as sent from this email address Send the email to this address Use this template to format the email No HTML use text only v Send this page as the email NONE Move Field Name Type Values 1 2letc Label Req Default Ei xl Heading v Email Us Email Us Ed PA h Input Box 180 Name M Ed PA y Input Box sj 180 Your Email Y kal ga xl subject Hidden xl Web Contact Ed a y message Text Area 240x120 Message v ka v captcha Captcha x 120 Security Code Iv 99b5e3 Submit Button v Send Send Email form builder 60 Every email needs a sender s email address You can enter this in the Mark the email as sent from this email address field You must also send the email somewhere Enter the address in the Send the email to this address field There is an alternative to this that we will discuss shortly You can send ordinary text emails or rich HTML emails with fancy formatting To send an HTML email you will need to choose a template from the Use this template to format the email drop list To send a plain text email choose No HTML use text only from the drop list When sending an email you can specify a page from your content to send so that your message has some customisation You do this by clicking the Send this page as the email content tree pop up menu If you don t specify a page choose NONE a simple text message showing the values of the forms fields is sent If using a page from the
76. rned to at the end of the PayPal transaction Should the customer cancel the PayPal transaction they will be returned to the Cancel fail page For an email shop type this page will be displayed if the email order could not be placed These pages are chosen using the respective content tree pop up menus You may wish to add freight costs to the final balance that a customer pays You can create as many freight calculations as you like Each freight calculation is given a Name The freight Formula is any valid mathematical calculation It may also contain some simple logic The format 40 for the logic is notation Simply put if the expression between the brackets is true then the value after the question mark is used otherwise the value after the colon is used The best way to understand formulae is by example Formula Explanation 5 Freight is 5 00 total 0 1 10 percent of the total value of goods purchased total gt 100 3 75 10 If the total value of goods purchased is greater than 100 then freight cost is 3 75 Otherwise it is 10 00 qty gt 10 1 2 If the total number of goods purchased is greater than or equal to 10 then freight is 1 00 Otherwise it is 2 00 total qty gt 5 1 2 If the average price total divided by quantity of goods purchased is greater than 5 00 then freight is 1 00 Otherwise it is 2 00 qty lt 10 7 total lt 50 total 0 05 0 If the total numbe
77. rs not yours Features of your online shop may be defined in the Shop tab of the Set Up screen as shown here Shop Type PayPalAPI Email Account Sales domain com Return ok page Welcome Cancel fail page Shopping Cart Freight Calculations F Move Name Formula Test a a oa total gt 80 0 5 OK En E Inerstate total gt 100 0 10 oK Shop Definition ka Move Name Type Size Values 1 2letc Label Default LS F price Input X Price a g size Radio But y SIMILIXL Size S M Shop tab area You may want to do all payment processing offline orders are simply emailed to you This is the Email shop type Alternatively you can use PayPal to process credit card payments online The model you choose in your site s configuration is shown as the Shop Type The Email Account field shows either the email address that orders will be sent to or the PayPal account that will process purchases depending on your shop type After a customer has finished adding products to their shopping cart how this is done should be part of your design phase they will proceed to the checkout page From here they will either be redirected to PayPal or an email order will be generated depending on your shop type In the case of an email order if it is successfully placed after checkout the next page the customer will see is the page chosen as the Return ok page If you have a PayPal shop type this is the page that the customer will be retu
78. s shown below MEW IAE Ier Logout Preview Content Set Up Users Save E Organise Summary Resources Alias Shop Blog Rev n kd bel ue ma B7ZU i D HR mm Contact Us Format w Fontsize v A Styes vf A Products Latest News Blog Members Area Shopping Cart Search Results Welcome Page Missing dm B7U X X ii D HA Gen ES To be translated Paragraph w Fontsize v A Stdes vf Pending Articles Thanks for your comment Sorry an error ocurred The content management screen The content tree A sitemap displays the structure of a website to allow users to see the whole site at a glance and navigate to any part of it The content tree is like an interactive sitemap As mentioned earlier pages can be organised under each other in a hierarchical fashion similar to a family tree hence content tree We can extend the family tree analogy so that sub pages can be referred to as child pages or children of their parent page Sub sub pages are grandchildren etc This gives us a starting point for describing where we are in the tree If a page is a parent ie it has children a grey triangle appears next to its name in the tree Clicking on the triangle will reveal its children If they in turn are parents they will have triangles beside their pages which reveal or hide their children Regular computer users will recognise this process as similar to organising files and
79. sers icons are stored in a folder called users inside the extras folder which holds the uploaded resources for content pages Once an icon has been uploaded it may be deleted by clicking the delete button below the icon In addition users may also be referred to your site by another user This information is also displayed but requires that the referrals function be turned on in your site configuration Search tab This tab is only available for smart groups This tab mimics the Info tab for users The fields you fill in here will be used as search criteria to find users Any fields left blank will not be used as search criteria You can also search on custom user fields see next section SEARCH My Search Results per page 20 First Name john Last Name Email Group NONE Created ID Search tab area An addition to the basic user info fields is one field called Results per page which specifies the number of users to be listed in the middle panel Users If the search produces more results than can be displayed page numbers will appear at the top of the Users panel allowing you to page 45 through the found results The Results per page field applies universally to all groups and smart groups not to any one particular smart group Custom user fields tabs This tab is available for users groups and smart groups Custom user fields are just like custom fields for content pages They are defined in the Set Up screen
80. st time that a particular email address has been used then the comment will be subject to moderation Bear in mind that email addresses can be faked never no moderation is employed It is recommended that you do not use this option In addition to the above posted comments are also subjected to various spam tests by SiteWrangler and compared against listings of known spammers Posted comments that are subject to moderation will be emailed to you in a form similar to the following This comment requires your approval Name Joe Email Address joe domain com Comment I liked your article on skydiving ferrets White List Accept Reject Delete Black List The email is an HTML email listing the persons name email address and comment with several links at the bottom You moderate the comment by clicking ONE of the links depending on what you want to do with the comment If you fully trust the email address and the commenter you can add them to your white list by clicking the White List link Any future comments from this person will be posted without moderation If you wish to accept the comment but moderate future comments from this person click the Accept link If you don t want the comment published but wish to keep it in the database for future reference choose Reject If you wish to delete the comment from the database entirely click Delete If you wish SiteWrangler to automatically reject comments from this email add
81. stom fields for users is identical to that for pages except that the custom fields appear in the Users screen see next chapter instead of the Content screen See the Custom Fields Tab section for more detail Categories tab When blogging pages can be categorised ie associated with a particular topic or topics In SiteWrangler categories are created simply by listing them in the Categories tab input box Categories Categories tab area Each line separated with a carriage return represents a category or topic Each category is displayed as a checkbox in the Blog tab of the Content screen To associate a page article blog entry with a topic s just click the corresponding checkbox es 39 Shop tab Fields defined here appear in the Content screen under the Shop tab If you want to sell merchandise online the shop feature must be enabled in your site configuration In addition a shop requires additional templates to be made during the design phase For security and privacy reasons SiteWrangler will not collect and store credit card data Credit card data should NEVER be emailed If you want to use credit cards in your online shop then you need the PayPal shop type in your configuration PayPal is an online payment processing service run by the same people who run eBay PayPal has state of the art security and fraud detection It also means that almost all liability for credit card fraud and theft is on their shoulde
82. t Mi GABU i dy EH Q Bem Format wi Fontsize wi 111 Styles A Text tab area Some sites may have a need for text that appears on every page such as a footer address details etc The text tab is used for this purpose Features tab Many sites display a group of summarised pages to show additional information upon a page An example of this would be a Latest News section to one side This can be done at the template level during the design phase but sometimes it is desirable to allow the administrator you to change what goes into the latest news section In SiteWrangler these groups of pages are called Features Name Number Rule Scope News 3 Children yl of Latest News Latest Blogs 4 Latest Descendants vj of Article 1 Featured Products 3 Latest Children yjof Products Features tab area 35 You specify which pages go into a feature by defining the scope of the feature The number of features you have available depends on your site configuration Each feature is represented in its own row in the Features tab see Features tab area figure above Give each feature a name by typing in the boxes in the Name column This will help you distinguish them from each other without affecting the site at all The Number column tells Site Wrangler how many pages to display in the feature The Scope column tells SiteWrangler where in the content tree to find the pages that will be displayed in the feature
83. t the user can manipulate to change what they see live on your site Navigation provides basic navigation arrows and zoom controls Type allow the user to switch between Map Satellite and Hybrid types of map Inset is a small zoomed out version of the map appearing in the lower right hand corner Scale provides a small scale ruler to give an idea of distances in kilometres The text area at the bottom is used to place a pin in the centre of the map with an associated text label Labels appear like voice bubbles and can be used to annotate your maps A feature of SiteWrangler is that pins from every page are available on every map even if they are not visible outside the box the map is in Maps may be put into templates during the design phase or they may be placed anywhere in a pages text using a SiteWrangler tag like this MAP 500 400 This will insert a 500 pixel wide 400 pixel high map on the page You can change the numbers to vary the size of your map Shop tab If you wish to sell online you will need the Shop configuration option enabled You should have a template for your shopping cart checkout and possibly one or two for your products A product is usually a page of information blurb a picture or two a price and a button to allow a customer to add the product to their shopping cart In SiteWrangler each product is a web page A single product however may have more than one price For example the same product may come in
84. t tree to complete properly The first 2 are the usual success and fail pages see Special Fields earlier in this chapter that are used immediately when the form is submitted The third is the page that is emailed to the new subscriber as their confirmation request it should always include a SUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE click here tag Once the subscriber confirms their subscription they are linked by virtue of the SUBSCRIBE link back to the website We need another 2 pages at this point 1 for success and 1 for failure of the confirmation That makes 5 There are 2 more optional pages Apart from subscribing new users a subscription form may optionally be used to update details of existing users This alternative use of the form has obvious security risks because logging in is not required A user s details may be changed by any member of the public who knows that user s email address Use this alternative function at your own discretion If you do use it you will need an alternative success page for existing users and as a safe guard a page to send to the user notifying them that their details have been updated That makes 7 pages altogether 63 Let s look at the screen Form Builder Form Type Field Layout If the form processes correctly go to this page If the form fails for some reason go to this page For existing users optional uses email address matching Update database and go to this page Notify the user o
85. the site s resource library Files in the library are available to all pages Media Movies flash audio etc Media files uploaded to the web are represented by a generic movie icon When the icon is clicked a context menu appears as shown here ka del A sample mp4 ps insert Movie ae Ee a Insert Link MT r harbour jpg testfile pdf free d jpg lt lt Move Left Delete Pending Articles Add to library AZARES TE ER Set Caption GAB 7 U Eggi j os HN 32 Sem Resource image context menu The name of the media file is displayed at the top of the menu Clicking this closes the menu Acceptable media formats are valid files with any one of the following extensions swf dcr mov qt mpg mp3 mp4 mpeg avi wmv wm asf asx wMX WVX rm ra or ram 26 Insert Movie will insert a media viewer on the page at the current cursor location in the main text area It will be represented in the text area as a yellow box The following pop up window will appear A http domain com Insert edit embedded mov General Advanced General Type Quicktime 2 File URL lextras 269 sample mp4 Dimensions 120 x Constrain proportions Preview Insert edit media pop up screen This pop up window will give you many options to decide how your media file will be displayed on the page The best way to understand these options is to experiment on your own If you later wish to change yo
86. this page NONE ka Move Field Name Type Values 1 2letc Label Reg Default D g Heading v Unsubscribe Unsubscribe x Y uemail Input Box x 180 Email Address IY Es tl v upassword Password SA 90 Password Es ud y Submit Button 54 Unsubscribe Unsubscribe Unsubscribe form builder Unsubscribe Forms should be made with password fields to validate the identity of the user There are no additional fields for this form type 65 Special fields are ufirstname ulastname uemail upassword and captcha The u stands for user Unsubscription can also be offered in emails by including an UNSUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE click here link in email messages Profile form An efficient way to keep your user data up to date is to allow users to edit their own data in Profile Forms Profile Forms can be used to update all the basic info fields user custom fields and importantly a user s password They can be used to update all or just part of a user s details For instance you may want to have a change your password form separate from an update your address details form The profile form serves both functions Form Builder Form Type A Field Layout Horizontal Vertical If the form processes correctly go to this page NONE If the form fails for some reason go to this page NONE F Move Field Name Type Values 1 2letc Label Reg Default au O zy Heading v Your details Your details Es g y ufirstname Input Bo
87. to groups smart groups and individual users in your database To send an HTML email you need a template These differ only slightly from normal web page templates but must be made during the design phase The email you send can be any combination of web pages in your site This has the advantage of effectively duplicating the content online as well as being able to email teasers that require the user to link to the website to view the whole article Your website traffic statistics can then give an indication of how effective your email was in reaching your audience The Email tab is shown here Send emailto John Doe Send test to Email from news domain com Email subject Monthly Newsletter Use Template NewsLetter v Article Page Section Move F World in Crisis Main Article au Product 1 Sub Articles F ail The Weather Sub Articles F kd Email tab area When you are ready to send your email click the Send email to button This will send an email to the currently selected user group or smart group It is wise to test the email before you send it out though You can do this by typing your own email address in the box next to the Send test to button and then clicking the Send test to button You can choose the email address that your emails are sent from This is always an address at your domain To do this fill in the box next to Email from 54 Your emails must have a subject so always fill in the Email subject box Many spam f
88. tries under content tree pop up menu Your blog entries will become children of this page New blog entries appear at the top of the list of children The For comments section controls who may leave comments on your blog and how those comments are moderated Moderation is the process of receiving posted comments by email and deciding if you wish them to be published The email address that comments are mailed to is your user email address shown in the Info tab If you only want users in your data base to be able to post comments tick the Only allow users to post checkbox Users must be logged in before they can post 49 If you want to allow comments from the general public it is wise to require a name and email address from them This encourages people to be accountable for what they write To activate this click the Require Name and Require Email checkboxes The Require approval drop list determines the type of moderation you want to employ There are 5 options They are always all comments are subject to moderation if comment contains a link sometimes spammers will try to leave comments on your blog to advertise their own website If a link to another website is detected in their comment it will be subject to moderation if comment contains 2 or more links as above but only if more than 1 link is detected in the comment if person has not previously commented you may wish to recognise trusted commenters If this is the fir
89. ty is extensible that is it can be made to perform new functions that have not been thought of yet Talk to your developer about this if you feel none of the standard forms meets your needs 69 Glossary Glossary We have tried to define the glossary entries below with meanings that are most relevant for SiteWrangler administrators admin administrator article page backup blog blog entry blogging bookmarking a page bot broken links page cache caching checkbox checkout child pages children click ing CMS CMYK colour profile configuration Administrator A user with permission to change organise or otherwise manipulate a website s database A web page with a news or text article on it A copy of the website database kept in case of emergency Short for web log A website or part of a website devoted to blogging A web page An article on a website that invites comments and opinion sharing The activity of creating blog entries Using a web browser to remember a web page address URL Robot A specially reserved page used as a catch all page when a user tries to access a page that is missing or inactive A web browser s local version of a remote web page lt may differ from the latest version of the web page A user interface screen element allowing the user to tick a box Final stage before payment of an online shopping process where a customer confirms their order
90. ur options select the media using the mouse and click on the media button in the text area toolbar Fi Insert Link will place a link to the media file in the main text area at the current cursor location in a similar fashion to download files Clicking this link will normally begin playing the media file gt gt Move Right and lt lt Move Left allow you to re order your resources Delete does not immediately delete a media file Instead it marks the file to be deleted with a pink highlight When the Save button is clicked the marked files are then deleted Files marked for deletion may be unmarked using the Restore undelete option which will become available in the menu Note You must do this before clicking Save files cannot be restored undeleted after saving Add to library makes a copy of the media file in the site s resource library Media files in the library are available to all pages 27 Alias tab On some occasions you may wish to use a page in a different way For instance you may want to link a menu item to another external site The alias tab allows you to use a page in this fashion External Link Internal Link NONE Open link in new window RSS Feed Name this page Alias tab area External Link Type a web address URL into this box when you want a user to be redirected to another external website Whenever a user comes to this page they will automatically be diverted to this external link Intern
91. ve Inactive Pending Private Hidden and Translate Active pages are always displayed It is the normal mode for a page Most of your pages will probably be Active Some pages like the home page should always be Active Inactive pages are pages that appear not to exist It is a way of keeping pages for later publishing or removing pages that you might want to use again Inactive pages appear in the admin section but NEVER on the website proper Note If a page is nactive so are all its children descendants The content tree behaves very much like a real tree if you cut off a branch all the branches connected to that branch will also be cut off Pending pages are very similar to Inactive pages They do not appear on the website New pages are always given this status This helps prevent you from publishing information by accident Pending pages may be subject to an editorial review This is discussed in more depth in the Users chapter In short sometimes you may want contributions to your site but not without your approval Note That if a page is Pending all its children descendants will not be available either Pending pages appear as if they are Active when you are logged in and author of the page The Pending status helps you to test your changes before you make them live Private pages are available only to logged in users with permission to see them Once logged in if the Private page is visible it behaves exactly like an Active p
92. x vj 90 First Name Y Es kl xl ulastname Input Box zi 190 Last Name V kl a y upassword Password 90 Preferred Password Es a y vpassword Password xj 90 Confirm Password Es ka userupload File Image SJ 1 Icon J E Browse kd Ku y ucustom_TABO Heading 100 Address kd l xl ucustom_street Input Box 115 Street Es F _ ucustom_suburb Input Box si 1115 Suburb y EE g y ucustom_state Input Box x 100 State Es ka _ ucustom_postcode Input Box sj 50 Postcode p Es kl y ucustom_country Input Box xvj 115 Country a ao g z Submit Button x Submit Submit Profile form builder There are no additional fields for this form type Special fields for this form type include all the basic info fields for user information except email They are ufirstname ulastname upassword and userupload the user s icon image file A user cannot change their email address for security reasons Also included is a password verification field voassword Password type fields do not show the characters that are typed into them instead they show a dot for each character so that passers by can t see the password being typed It is important therefore that they verify repeat what they typed in the upassword field in the vpassword field 66 All user custom fields are also available These have names that are prefixed by the text ucustom_ a user custom field you named Address is shown as ucustom_Address This is how they

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