Site Studio - User Guide

Configuring Site Settings

Click the category you need help with:

• Website Category
• Website Color & Style
• Global Settings (General Contact Information)
• Website Theme/Effects
• Load/Save Website
• Start Over
• Refresh Images
• Change Language
• Edit Security Information
• Edit Info for Search Engines

Note: When available, use the navigation buttons inside the browser window. For some pages, your browser's Back and Forward buttons will not work correctly. If a page fails to load, or does not reflect last changes, click your browser's Reload or Refresh button to update the page.

Website Category

SiteStudio allows creating websites in two categories: Personal and Small Business. Each category serves its own purpose. A site in each category constitutes of a series of pages, each devoted to a separate topic, article or resource. Site Studio offers you a set of templates for all common pages.

In the Small Business category you can create a site representing your company or business. It's a good mean of telling about the history of your company, listing the services you render or products/goods you sell. Here you can also create your own online store, look for new employers and more.

In the Personal category you can create a site for your fiends, school-mates and relatives. You can tell about yourself, your background, hobbies, share funny stories and show your photographs. Here you can also post your resume for potential employers and even more.

To select a website category:

1. Click (highlight) the category that corresponds to the kind of web site you want to build.
2. Click Next to proceed with creating of your web site.

You will be brought to the Select Website Color and Style page.

Attention: Once you begin to create your site you may not change the website category!!! To change the category, you will have to start anew, which will delete ALL PREVIOUSLY SAVED SITES.

Website Color & Style

Choosing a correct layout is crucial for the success of your web site, as it will determine the look of every page. Site Studio is equipped with a number of pre-designed Overall Site Layouts. Go through the list in the upper left box by mouse-clicking each item or using cursor keys on your keyboard. Sample pages will be shown in the preview window on the right. Stop on the one that will best suit the contents of your site.

Then, select a color scheme in the lower box. It will only affect the menu bar; colors for every individual page are set at a later stage (see Standard Settings Tab).

You can change your layout and color scheme any time in the future without losing any information whatsoever, even when the construction of the site is complete.

Selecting Site Layout

The checkbox allows you to apply selected layout and color scheme to all pages on your site. It comes checked by default. If you uncheck it, the layout and color settings will only affect the pages you create after applying these changes; the pages you created before will remain unchanged. Changing this option doesn't affect your settings in any way, if you are only beginning to create your site.

After you select the layout and color settings, click Next to move on.

Global Settings

Web readers often want or need to contact the person who created and maintains the web site. Global Settings form requires you to enter basic information that will help identifying the site and its author after it is published.

Global Settings are different for Business and Personal category of websites.

For Personal category: enter your full name, email address, website name. Also enter keywords and description of the website into the message boxes.

For Business category: enter your corporate email address, firm (company) name, logo image, slogan line, street address1,nd street address2, the name of your city, state, zip, phone and fax numbers.

In the Search Engine Keywords box enter the words or word combinations that distinguish your site from all other sites on the Internet. They will be helpful when somebody tries to find your site with a search engine. Think of the words that would be most characteristic of your site.

In the Search Engine Description box enter a short description of your site, like an answer to the question: What is it about? If an Internet user finds your site with a search engine, this description will show right under the site name.

At this point, you are done with general site settings. Click the Next button to configure individual pages.

Website Theme / Effects

Add themes and special effects! Make snowflakes fall down in the browser, add logos that stay put as the user scrolls, and tons of other cool features, all with easy point and click selection.

There are several check boxes to indicate and select the theme (javascript effects) that you can see on your web page. Use pull-down menu for selection. Then, click Next to preview.

Falling Things:

• Snowthe snowflakes will fall on your screen;
• Snow 1 - just the same action but another type of snowflakes;
• Leaves - the leaves will fall and fly on your screen;
• Angels - the same actions but Angels (instead of leaves) will fall on your screen.

Items. Please use pull-down menu to select the number of snowflakes (leaves).

Theme 1. Here you can include the "Top down curtain" effect. Try not to include too many effects.

Cursor pointer. Here you can select: