. You will exit Rich Editor without saving the changes.Generally, website can be created within the following steps:
To start creating your site, you should choose its 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. SiteStudio 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, highlight the category and click NEXT to proceed with creating your website.
Alternatively, double click the selected category.
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 Over, which will delete your current unsaved website.
To add a page to your website, click the Add A Page icon in the top panel.
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 create your personal website, add any of the following pages:
Every time your site is visited, the first page to open would be either FlashSplash or Welcome Page, or Splash Screen. These pages will also automatically include links to all other pages you create. So, it would be a good idea to begin your site with one of them.
After choosing a page, click Next to continue with the design of the page.
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. To create a business website, add any of the following pages:
Every time your site is visited, the first page to open would be either FlashSplash or Welcome Page, or Splash Screen. These page will also automatically include links to all other pages you create. So, it would be a good idea to begin your site with one of them.
After choosing a page, click Next to continue with the design of the page.
Splash Screen is the home page that welcomes visitors and contains links to all other pages.
To configure Splash Screen, fill out the Splash Page form:
As you finish, click the Next button to save your settings. The View tab (see Tabs for details) will open for preview. How do you like your welcome page?
Okay, now let us look back at the themes. Click the Edit tab and select a different theme, then go to the bottom of the page and click Next. Try other themes to choose the best one.
Important: your site will be published to the Internet only after you press the Publish link on the menu bar, in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
FlashSplash is the home page in Flash that welcomes visitors and contains links to all other pages.
To configure FlashSplash, fill out the FlashSplash page form:
As you finish, click the Next button to save your settings. The View Tab will open for preview.
Okay, now let us look back at the themes. Click the Edit tab and select a different theme, then go to the bottom of the page and click Next. Try other themes to choose the best one.
Important: your site will be published only after you press the Publish link on the menu bar, in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
The About page is commonly used to provide the following blocks of information:
Enter your text into the boxes provided. Paragraph headings are optional.
SiteStudio allows you to include a picture into the About page. This could be a picture of yourself (for a personal site), your working team (for a company), a logo or any other relevant image. To include a picture, click the Select Image button. Then follow the on-screen instructions.
After you add an image, its thumb view will become available in the form, as well as a Remove Image button. Click it to remove selected image from the About page.
After you key in or copy/paste the data you want to show on your About page, click the Next button to save your settings, and you will be brought to the View tab.
The Welcome page can be used as the home page that welcomes visitors and automatically contains links to all other pages that are taken from the titles of the latter. When you change the title of any page, it will reflect on the Welcome page as well. It introduces visitors with all other pages on your site with images and short descriptions to them.
To configure the Welcome page, fill out the page form:
After you add an image, its thumb view will become available in the form, as well as a Remove Image button. Click it to remove selected image from the Welcome page.
Once you have finished creating your Welcome page, click the Next button to save your settings, and you will be brought to the View tab.
This is the central page for those who seek employment via the Internet. It provides an easy-to-use wizard that allows you to effectively manipulate the data you would like to include into your resume.
As the first step, you will see seven boxes with suggested section headings,
each with an Add button on its right. Click the Add button to
enter data into the relevant section. A new form will appear. Fill it out
and press Next to return to the main Resume page. The information you
entered will show in the box; also, Edit and Delete buttons will
be added. Click Edit to change contents of the box, and Delete
to clear the contents. Follow this instruction for every section you want to
include into your resume.
Note: In the Experience section form, you will have
an in-built form for job duties. The instructions are exactly the same as above.
Attention: Make sure you don't add empty forms! They will be included
into your resume, too.
You can preview your resume at any moment by clicking the View tab (see more on Tabs). All your changes will NOT be lost. At the end, however, don't forget to confirm the changes by pressing the Next button!
Now that you see your resume in a complete form, you may see how to make it more visually appealing. Click Settings tab to change color, font or style (see more on Tabs).
When you have your web page in front of your eyes, you may decide to change the order of some paragraphs. It's simple and fast.
Part of expressing yourself through a web page is including links to your favorite websites. The links you choose to include on your page can communicate your interests and hobbies. A carefully designed collection of related links can make your site a good launching place and will help you promote your site.
To keep your links organized, SiteStudio places new entries into categories. To add a category or links to your Links page:
To edit an existing category:
To delete an existing category, click Delete button. Warning: All links contained in this category will be permanently deleted!
Custom Table is a page with any data organized in a table format. To create a table, fill out the form:
To enter cell contents:
Click Next to save table and preview the page.
Note: If you input an incompatible set of parameters, SiteStudio will optimize conflicts in these data.
This page shows the structure of your site. It is generated automatically and does not allow editing. However, you can configure its settings, just like you do it for other pages.
For you, a photo gallery may become the central element with photos of yourself, your friends, your family, your art works, postcards, etc.
To create a photo album, fill out the fields in the form as the first step:
In the next step, add images to the Photo Album:
To change or remove images, use the buttons under the Image.
To add more images to your album, click Add and repeat the steps above.
This tool allows you to copy already existing HTML page and paste it into the input box. However, it is recommended that you create your files in specialized html editors. Before publishing this HTML page, you can choose whether it will use its own titles and layout, or those provided by SiteStudio.
- If you want to insert your HTML page with originally
created layout, click Yes in Include layout code?.
- If you want SiteStudio to insert all the headers,
titles, select NO in the Show as is option.
To upload a file from your hard drive, click the Upload File button at the bottom of the page.
When uploading your own HTML page, try to avoid non-Latin characters, spaces, underlines, commas, dots, hyphens, etc. It is recommended that your file name only includes letters of Latin alphabet and numbers.
Fun page template helps you organize your fun topics. To add an item, click the Add button for the appropriate category and fill out the form that appears.
To add pictures to your Fun Page:
To change or remove images or texts, use the Edit and Delete buttons on the left of the picture or text.
To add more images to your album click Add and repeat the steps above.
To change the order of the jokes, images or stories, click the Order Items button in the appropriate form. A new form will appear. Follow on-screen instructions to change the order of the items in the topic.
This template will help you develop a custom online questionnaire. Use it to research public opinion or to get feedback from your customers.
To generate a questionnaire, fill out the form:
Page Title:
Page title is the text that will show at the top of the menu bar. For convenience,
it duplicates the same field in the Settings tab. In this field, you can
change SiteStudio default name from "Survey" to, say, "Questionnaire" or "Feedback".
E-mail To:
Enter the address where you want the survey results to be e-mailed. It can be the Webmaster's
(i.e. your) address or any other address you specify. This page should not be empty.
Questions:
To add a question, click the Add button on the right. A new form
appears. If you choose that The Answer is Required by checking YES in the
corresponding field, it will mark the survey question with a red asterisk.
The survey will not be accepted from a visitor if one or more asterisked questions remain unanswered.
The Question Type determines the format of the suggested answer:
On Successful Submission of the Form:
Here, enter the text you want the visitor to see after the form has been accepted.
On Error Submission of the Form:
Here, enter the text you want the visitor to see after
the form has been rejected or an error occurred.
Click the Next button to generate the questionnaire.
Generic Page template has been designed to enable fast and simple creation of custom pages that do not fall into any other categories. You can choose how to lay out your images and text depending on your tastes, needs and circumstances.
To add or edit Paragraphs:
If you want to address site visitors to some subpages, unavailable from the main menu, make sure to fill all necessary fields to make it work. To add or edit Subpages:
To access subpages from the Generic page, link Subpages to paragraphs:
To remove subpages or paragraphs, click the Delete buttons on the left.
To change the order of subpages, click the Order button. A new form will appear. Follow on-screen instructions to change the order of the elements in the topic.
Your family page includes two major blocks of information, one about the whole family, and the other about its individual representatives.
To provide general family information, enter the following fields:
To provide information about individual family representatives:
Warning: Clicking the Delete tab will remove the whole Family Tree Page, not a family member page! To remove individual persons from the family tree, click Next in the Family Member form to return to the Family Tree form and click the Delete button on the left of the person's name.
On the Family Tree central page you can see the general family genealogy information.
To view individual family member's page, click this person's name. To return to the general family page, click Back to Family Tree at the bottom.
The calendar is nothing but a page listing events like birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
If you extensively use ICQ, you can use this page for messaging. Visitors will be able to send messages to your ICQ directly from your website.
To add the ICQ Contact Center page, fill out the fields:
Press the Next button to proceed.
This is a powerful tool for visitors to get the driving directions to any address in North America (USA and Canada) that you specify. For a personal site, this can be your home or hangout. For a business site, show the location of your restaurant, store (supermarket) or a service center.
To create the page, make sure to:
To change data, click the Edit tab.
Important: The Get Directions button will work only in the published site. You won't be able to check Directions until then.
Please note that driving directions are not a part of SiteStudio, those are third party products and even minor changes on the corresponding site can break links to the map. We are trying to track any changes, but in case there are some problems, we bear no responsibility for broken links and incorrect maps.
To create your online bookstore, do the following steps:
You need to sign up to become an Amazon.com associate. Click here to sign up or here to find more about the associate program.
Important: Please note that Amazon.Com is not a part of SiteStudio, it's a third party product. We are trying to track any changes, but if there are some problems, we bear no responsibility for broken links.
Configuring mobile messaging with SiteStudio is as simple as entering the phone or pager number, selecting service type and clicking the Next button.
Currently SiteStudio supports only Sprint PCS customers. In order for this to work, you must have a cell phone, or a pager, which supports this service, and you must activate the service with your service provider.
To configure External Page, enter:
- URL that addresses site visitors to an external website;
- Button text that will appear on the Site Map, Welcome, Splash Screen
and other pages and tell site visitors about its relation to your site.
You can name the External page, say, Our Partner, Our friends or Our associates in the Button text.
Make sure to click the Next button to save changes.
It's important to know that this page will be available for viewing only after publishing.
You are now able to create a fully integrated and usable on-line shopping system. To do it, add the BUY buttons created by Add-A-Cart to the catalog page created with SiteStudio. The Add-A-Cart shopping system also creates multi-functional online e-shop that can be easily referred to.
With this e-commerce-solutions system you will have everything you need to operate a successful on-line business: a shopping cart, secure payment gateway and a merchant account issued by One Stop Merchant Services.
In order to integrate the "BUY" buttons into your site using SiteStudio, you need to log into your Add-A-Cart account.
In case if you don't have the Add-A-Cart account, you can open it on the Add-A-Cart website. Read more info about registering an account with Add-A-Cart.
There are two instructions to get a snippet: for new and existing items:
The Download page is a simple page where you can upload any files with descriptions to them. Subsequently, visitors of your site can download them.
To provide general information, enter the following fields:
To provide information and a link to an individual file, click the Add button.
On the Download page, enter the following information about the download element:
To upload files onto the website, do the following:
- To edit the files, click the Edit icon next to the necessary file.
- To remove file, click the Delete icon against the file.
Make sure to click Next to save all changes.
Part of introducing your business through a web page is including links to resources related to your industry. A carefully designed collection of related links can make your site a good launching place and will help you promote your site and business.
To keep your links organized, SiteStudio places new entries into categories. To add a category or links to your Internet Links page:
To edit an existing category:
Make sure to click Next to save all changes.
To delete an existing category, click the Delete button. Warning: All links contained in this category will be permanently deleted!
One more way to introduce your business and tell visitors about different areas of company's activity is to create the Firm Profile page. It's also a good place to show pictures of your staff, partners, describe social activities or professional services offered by your company.
Click the Add button to create a new Firm Profile. It will call a new form.
To save changes, make sure to click Next.
The FAQ page is used to provide detailed answers to the most commonly asked questions about the industry of your business.
To configure the Frequently Asked Questions page, do the following:
Give general information:
Add questions by clicking the Add button and fill out the form that shows:
Once you completed the page, click Next.
FAQ page doesn't allow using Rich Editor because it generates questions and answers in its own way.
If you need some Rich Editor formatting, add Generic page for this purpose.
This page allows to list your company products and goods with descriptions and images to them. Use it to advertise your products or services.
To configure the Catalog page, enter general information in the form as the first step:
In the next step, add images to the Catalog Page:
Catalog Page can be edited:
Once you completed the page, click Next.
The News and Events page is a good way to inform your site visitors about the up-to-date events of your company, e.g: presentations, conferences, seminars, corporate receptions, issuing new products and etc.
Page Title is a text that shows at the top of this page as a header. It can serve as a header to the introductory paragraph.
Intro paragraph is introductory information about your company's history. To add a paragraph:
News serve for posting specific dates and related events. To post your company's news or events:
Click Next to preview the newly-created page.
The News page can be edited:
Make sure to click Next to save all changes.
This template will help to post your announcements about free vacancies in your company on the Careers and Jobs page with all necessary requirements and contact info.
Page Title is a text that shows at the top of this page as a header e.g:"Our Vacancies", "Find a Job" etc. It can also serve as a header to the introductory paragraph.
Intro paragraph is introductory information about free vacancies in your company or your business partner.
Text is an optional field. Here you can say, for instance, "Our current positions are:".
To configure this page and add as many positions as you need:
Positions can be edited:
Make sure to click Next to save all changes.
This page is most relevant if your company specializes in rendering services. On the Services page you can describe all services provided, their prices, conditions.
To provide general services information, enter the following fields:
To add services, click the Add button. It will call a new form:
The Services page can be edited
Important: the peculiarity of the Services page is that the user should fill all the service fields. If some of the fields are left blank, you may have empty input boxes on this page. So, if there are not enough links to enter, it would probably be better to use the Generic page.
Make sure to click Next to go to preview page.
The Contact Us page is a detailed description of your company's contact info. It has the same functionalities as the About and Welcome pages, but includes more specific information.
To configure the Contact Us page, fill out the form:
Enter general information:
Enter your postal address:
Other contact Info:
The Contact Us page also allows to attach a map that will help to get to your company. There are two options to add a map: either the one generated with Mapquest or a map of your own.
Mapquest takes the address you have entered in the form above and generates a map. To add a map:
Important: The Search Location on a Map link will work only in the published site. You won't be able to check any maps until then.
Please note that Mapquest is not a part of SiteStudio, it's a third party product and even minor changes on the corresponding site can break links to the map. We are trying to track any changes, but in case there are some problems, we bear no responsibility for broken links and incorrect maps.
To add a map created by yourself:
To add info about your partners or staff members:
On your Contact Us page, an info request from will show. Site visitors can fill the form and submit it to the email address you have entered above. You can add your own texts for error/successful submission of this form.
Click the Next button to save all your settings, and you will be brought to the View tab (see Tabs for details).
Look at the tabs right under the toolbar menu. They supplement every page-designing tool:
Edit tab opens by default, suggesting that you should enter or change your data before viewing it. Forms in the Edit tab vary greatly from page to page.
View tab allows you to view your changes. This option is always available when you work on Edit or Settings tab. This means that after you introduce any changes to your page data or settings, you can immediately view them by clicking the View tab.
Settings tab. Here you can customize all parameters for your page. For details go to Settings Tab.
Delete tab permanently removes the page from your site.
Note: You can switch between tabs to change any data or settings any time during the page construction process or later.
Rich Editor is a multi-function SiteStudio tool that provides a number of features for editing pages. It is available only in the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher. It's not available on Macs (including MS IE), Netscape, Opera, Mozilla and other browsers.
You can access Rich Editor on the majority of SiteStudio pages with text input boxes on the Edit tab by the Click here for Rich Editing link.
You will see that Rich Editor is very much like MS Word or any other editor which makes it easy for you to use.
If you feel that you don't need Rich Editor, simply click the button
. You will exit Rich Editor without saving the changes.
With Rich Editor you can easily copy any table, image or text from a browser and paste it to the SiteStudio rich editor page. To do this, select text in the browser or in text processor and paste it to the page.
Important: If you copy an image from a browser and publish it on your site, it will be linked to the original location. If the website, where you have taken the image, changes its location, you may face some problems. Therefore, you'd rather save an image on your computer and then upload images to SiteStudio using the Image Uploader.
There are multiple options on the Rich Editor page:
Click 
to save current changes and go on working with this page.
Click 
to save changes and exit Rich Editor.
Click to exit Rich Editor without saving the changes.
Click to revert to the last saved version.
Click 
and
to repeat or cancel the last action.
Click 
to cut selected text, table or image.
Click 
to copy selected text or table to another location.
Click 
to paste selected text from the clipboard.
Click 
to create a hyperlink.
Click 
to create or edit email address.
Click 
to see the structure and guidelines
of the tables with 0 border. It is especially helpful when you need to delete or re-organize some rows or columns.
Click 
to insert or edit a table. It will call a web-page dialog
where you can set the number of rows, columns, cellpadding and the color of a table.
Click 
to upload an image to this page.
Follow the instructions on Uploading images to add necessary images.
Click 
to set off the selected text in bold, italic or underline.
Clicking 
allows to align text to the left, center, right or to justify.
Clicking 
and
allows to create a numbered or bullet list.
Clicking 
and
allows to shift indent to the right or to the left.
Clicking 
to change text color and
to highlight a text with specific color.
Like in MS Word, Rich Editor has a context menu which appears on a mouse right-click. It has a number of useful options for the chosen object.
Page title is the text that will show at the top of the menu bar. In this field, you can change SiteStudio default name from "Fun Page" to, say, "Laugh with us".
This is the text that will show up on your site's menu among other page names. It may be the same as the Page Title, or you can give it a different name. For example, if your Page Title is "Fun Page", you may want to add some versatility by typing something like "Smile!".
Note: Some SiteStudio designs have small buttons. Therefore, when entering the button text, make sure the text will match the button size.
Technically, your site is nothing but an organized inter-linked group of html pages (files). SiteStudio enables you to assign a specific name for every page that you add to your site. It is recommended that your file name only includes letters of Latin alphabet and numbers. Try to avoid non-Latin characters, spaces, underlines, commas, dots, hyphens, etc.
Note: We don't recommend that you change the file name, unless there is paramount neccessity.
You can place the contents of your page on an image. However, try to be discreet with choosing the background. Avoid using photographs or bright decorations, as they may hinder text readability.
This option allows you to add music background to your webpage. To hear the background music, your visitors need to have a corresponding plug-in in their browsers.
If you don't hear anything, check for plug-ins in your browser by choosing Help -> About Plugins. Most of the browsers have all multimedia plugins in their installation package. You may need to reinstall a browser to install multimedia modules with it.
The file will sound when you view the page and after the page is published. Visitors will hear the sound as long as they stay on this page.
To add sound, follow this procedure:
To change file, you first have to remove the existing one. To do it, click the Remove button.
SiteStudio allows you to change the color palette for every site's page. Their
default HTML codes are in the boxes next to the parameter names. You don't
need to know these codes. Instead, click the 
icon
to call a Color Picker—a palette with colors available—and select the color you like.
The "Color" section allows you to change background, text and links color.
Just select the element you wish to modify and click on the color you like.
Note: If you decide to change background color, ensure that the text on your page is clearly readable. There must be sufficient contrast between the text and the background image. A background with too much contrast competes with the text for reader's attention and makes it difficult to read.
The majority of SiteStudio layouts allows to change font and size settings for Firm name, Slogan and Button.
Firm name and Slogan will show on the top of the page if you previously entered them in Global Settings of the Site settings menu. Button text will show the names of the webpages your site contains.
To change font and size, select it from the drop-down boxes. You will see the appearance of the changed font on the image to the right.
Some SiteStudio pages allow to add a rollover effect to the website elements. When you hover the mouse over the buttons on the website, they will change their color, shape, size and other properties. Rollover effect is available only in about 3 SiteStudio designs.
To set a rollover effect, choose it from the drop-down box on the Settings tab and click Next to view the changes.
This option allows to replace our default logo that shows on webpages with your own company logo. To add/change logo:
Optionally, you can leave the "Powered by SiteStudio" logo that comes by default.
This SiteStudio option allows to avoid linking pages to site navigation menu.
Visitors won't be able to see such pages from the website menu and from the Site Map webpage. Such pages will be available from the top SiteStudio panel -> Site Map option where invisible page will show in light-grey color and with a little "eye" icon.
However, you can link invisible pages from the text paragraphs on your page by using, say, the Insert Link otion in the Rich Editor.
To make page invisible from the menu:
Checking this box will hide text links to webpages at the bottom of this page.
A couple of designs in SiteStudio allow adding banners on user sites: Stylish Oval (for both website categories) and Strong (for Small Business category ). In this case simply enter the HTML banner code into the Add your banner code input box on the Settings tab.
In other designs, users can add banners only as images with hyperlinks by entering the banner code in any of the Paragraph boxes under the Edit tab.
Disable banner on this page: Check this box if you want to avoid adding banners to this page. This option is available only for Stylish Oval and Strong layouts.
You can make your page open to general public or closed (secure). Secure sites or pages are often used by multinational companies to communicate closed information to its representatives worldwide, where sending e-mails is not appropriate.
To secure strict access to the page, choose Yes. The frame will expand to include a drop-down list box where you can choose who is allowed to view the page: none/all users/some users/some groups/some IPs and domains.
You may need to restrict access for users who sent you unwanted messages from the Contact Page or posted disrespectful information in your Guestbook.
To create an authorized user or user group, go to Site Settings -> Edit Security Information (for comments see Edit Security Information help section).
Don't forget to click Next once you have finished in order to apply all changes.
On these three boxes to the Right you can select:
After you change the settings, click Next to see the result.
User the input box to enter any keywords people should use to find your site with a search engine. Separate the keywords with commas.
Enter a description that will appear when search engines list your site.
The last two options allow every webpage to be listed by search engines. In SiteStudio, you can also set keywords and description for the entire website.
A part of SiteStudio pages come with additional plug-ins: guest book, counter and online poll. Plug-ins can be configured on the Edit tab.
Different pages have different combination of plug-ins, while as some pages don't offer plug-ins at all.
To configure a Guest Book plug-in in your SiteStudio:
To configure a Counter plug-in in your SiteStudio:
To configure an Online Poll plug-in in your SiteStudio:
If you want to upload an image to your webpage, click the Select Image button and you will see the Image Uploader page. In SiteStudio you can upload images from your computer, from your image gallery and from the gallery provided by your hosting provider.
To upload image with Rich Editor, click the
button on the Rich Editor page.
To upload the image:
You can upload up to 5 files at once.
Make sure to click the Save button to save all changes.
Clicking the magnifier icon in the image gallery will open the image in the new window in full size.
Clicking the Resize Image icon allows to change the size of the image.
If you resized image in Our Gallery (customer's gallery), then the resized copy will be stored in
Your Gallery. The reason is because user has no permissions to resize or change images of the provider's gallery.
To re-order the elements or pages themselves, do the following:
and 
buttons to move the selected item up or down the list; Here you can see and inspect all the web pages your website consists of.
Important: Whatever long the page title is, it will show only 25 symbols on the Site Map.
For example, title Johnsons Family Genealogical Tree will show as
Johnsons Fa... Genealogical Tree.
The same length preserves for page titles under the toolbar on the top of the page, between the Delete and View tabs.
Click the category you need help with:
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.
Choosing a correct layout is crucial for the success of your website, as it will determine the look of every page. SiteStudio is equipped with a number of pre-designed Overall Site Layouts.
To set the website layout and colors:
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.
Web readers often want or need to contact the person who created and maintains the website. 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, 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.
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:
Items. Please use pull-down menu to select the number of snowflakes (leaves).
Theme 1. Here you can include the "Top down curtain" effect. Cursor pointer. Here you can select:Site logo. Specify where you want to place the Logo image.
Logo duration. Specify how long you want the Logo to show on the page after it is loaded. Alt text. Enter the tooltip text—a brief message that will pop up next to the cursor when it stops over the Logo image.Note: Try not to include too many effects.
You can save up to five different versions of your site. Make sure the names you enter reflect changes between versions.
Attention: Before retrieving a previously saved website, save your work! If you don't save your current project, you will lose it. SiteStudio can work with only one site at a time.
To save your current site versions, enter the draft name of the site into the box and click Save. Next time you will know which of the saved sites to load.
Note: Saving your website will not publish it. To publish your site, click the Publish link at the upper left-hand corner on the menu panel.
This option allows to scrap all your current pages with one click, and begin designing anew. Use this option if you are not satisfied with the current site and want to try something different from scratch. There will be no way to get back your current pages if you start over, unless you load previously save site from the Load/Save Website option.
After clicking Start Over, you will get to the very first step in creating website: choosing website category.
Warning: You will lose only your current site. If you have any saved sites, you can edit them using Load/Save Website option.Refreshing images is required in the following cases:
To refresh images, go to the Site Settings menu and click the Refresh Images link.
To change SiteStudio interface language:
If your hosting provider supports only English version of SiteStudio, you won't have access to other languages.
Keep in mind that if your website contains any pages, change of language can corrupt these pages. Therefore, you need to Start Over or delete all pages to change the language correctly.
You can make your site open to general public or closed (secure). Secure sites are often used by multinational companies to communicate current information to its representatives worldwide, where e-mailing is not appropriate.
To secure specific webpages, you should:
To configure users or user groups authorized to access your secure site, click the Edit sec. info link in Site Settings:
To secure individual pages, go to Settings tab (see Page Settings help section for details).
SiteStudio allows to edit description to robots.txt file. This file is used all over the world by search engines to find the match to the search request. Search engine robots check robots.txt file, which is a plain text file, in the root of each server.
Robots.txt implements the Robots Exclusion Protocol, which allows the website administrator to define what parts of the site are off-limits to specific robot user agent names.
You can leave the following indexing information to the search engines:
Make sure to click Next to proceed.
Note: you can edit, delete and change the order of file and directory names that are to be denied.