Fasthosts Customer Support Website Publishing Tool Manual This is a designed as a definitive guide to all the features and tools available within Website Publishing Tool Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual Contents Introduction ....................................................................................... 1 Adding Content ................................................................................. 2 Text .................................................................................................. 2 Adding Text ................................................................................... 3 Removing ...................................................................................... 4 Editing Text ................................................................................... 4 Formatting a block of Text ............................................................. 5 Creating Links ............................................................................... 7 Images ........................................................................................... 10 Best Practices ............................................................................. 11 Uploading images ....................................................................... 12 Add an Image .............................................................................. 13 Additional Image settings ............................................................ 14 Finding the URL of an image you have added ............................. 21 Downloadable Files ........................................................................ 22 Upload a file for visitors to download ........................................... 22 Add a file ..................................................................................... 24 Working with Templates ................................................................. 25 Creating a new template ................................................................ 25 Editing a template .......................................................................... 26 Adding a template to a web page ................................................... 27 Themes - Changing the look and feel of your site ........................ 28 Colours .......................................................................................... 28 Changing all the colours in a theme ............................................ 30 Page 1 Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual Background .................................................................................... 31 Changing background colour ....................................................... 32 Choose a background Image ...................................................... 33 Adding a two colour background ................................................. 34 Changing a full screen background image ................................... 35 Creating a background pattern or texture .................................... 36 Styles ............................................................................................. 38 Changing your websites font ....................................................... 38 Changing Text Styles .................................................................. 38 Changing the style of links .......................................................... 43 Making your links look like buttons .............................................. 44 Favicons ........................................................................................ 49 Creating a Favicon ...................................................................... 49 Uploading your Favicon ............................................................... 49 Editing pages ................................................................................... 51 Page Structure ............................................................................... 51 Editing Rows ............................................................................... 53 Reordering Rows ........................................................................ 53 Renaming Rows .......................................................................... 54 Adding columns .......................................................................... 54 Changing the look of a page ........................................................... 57 Row styles .................................................................................. 57 Column styles ............................................................................. 61 Page management ........................................................................... 65 Add a new page ............................................................................. 65 Page Settings ................................................................................. 68 Page 2 Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual Rename a page .......................................................................... 68 Copying a page ........................................................................... 70 Remove a page ........................................................................... 71 Choosing your home page .......................................................... 72 Choosing what to publish ............................................................ 73 Add JavaScript to your page ....................................................... 75 Organising your pages (Page Folders) ........................................... 78 Password protecting pages ............................................................ 80 Page redirects ................................................................................ 83 Adding a redirect ......................................................................... 83 Removing a redirect .................................................................... 85 Navigation ........................................................................................ 86 Add a navigation widget to your page ............................................. 86 Changing the order of pages ....................................................... 86 Create a sub navigation menu ........................................................ 87 Changing the look of your Navigation buttons................................. 89 Creating a Button style menu ...................................................... 90 Ecommerce ...................................................................................... 96 PayPal ........................................................................................... 96 Using the widget the first time ..................................................... 96 Add to cart .................................................................................. 96 Cart ............................................................................................. 98 Buy now ...................................................................................... 99 Changing your PayPal account ................................................. 101 Social ............................................................................................. 102 Flickr ............................................................................................ 102 Page 3 Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual Twitter .......................................................................................... 105 Twitter Widget ........................................................................... 105 Add a tweet ............................................................................... 107 Facebook ..................................................................................... 109 Like ........................................................................................... 109 Google+ ....................................................................................... 113 Social Bookmarking...................................................................... 114 Add ons and Widgets .................................................................... 115 Comments .................................................................................... 115 Forms ........................................................................................... 129 Creating a new form .................................................................. 129 Date Picker ............................................................................... 134 Star rating ................................................................................. 134 Text Box .................................................................................... 134 Text Area .................................................................................. 135 Select box (Drop Down Menu) .................................................. 135 Example Form ........................................................................... 136 Changing the look of a form ...................................................... 154 Testing a form ........................................................................... 166 Exporting completed forms ........................................................ 168 Adding Video ................................................................................ 169 Adding Flash ................................................................................ 172 Site search ................................................................................... 175 Embed ......................................................................................... 177 Carousel ...................................................................................... 179 RSS Feed .................................................................................... 182 Page 4 Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual Google Maps ................................................................................ 185 Slideshow..................................................................................... 187 SEO, Sitemaps and Google Analytics .......................................... 190 Sitemap ........................................................................................ 190 SEO – Optimise your site ............................................................. 192 Google SiteMaps....................................................................... 192 SEO Settings ............................................................................ 192 Google analytics ........................................................................... 195 Google AdSense .......................................................................... 197 Creating your mobile site ............................................................. 199 Structure of a Mobile web page .................................................... 201 Adding company details ............................................................... 202 Adding your Company Logo ...................................................... 202 Adding your company name ......................................................... 204 Page management ....................................................................... 206 Add a new page ........................................................................ 206 Page Settings ............................................................................ 209 Changing the look and feel of your site ......................................... 214 Colours ..................................................................................... 214 Background ............................................................................... 219 Adding content ............................................................................. 227 Text ........................................................................................... 227 Images ...................................................................................... 231 Importing Content...................................................................... 233 Previewing your site ..................................................................... 236 Widgets ........................................................................................ 238 Page 5 Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual Adding Widgets ......................................................................... 238 Customising Widgets ................................................................ 239 Types of Widgets ...................................................................... 240 Page 6 Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual Introduction Website Publishing Tool is a powerful and feature rich application that allows you to create websites without the need to learn the HTML language or web design skills. It comes with ready-made templates that can be modified with text or images, allowing you to create a website that suits your needs. Website Publishing Tool is offered in three packages; you can upgrade these at any time. Page 1 Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual Adding Content TextError! Bookmark not defined. Click a block of text to open the text options. Settings Button: Click this to open the text box for editing. Drag Handle: Use this to drag the Text to a different row. Delete Button: Remove the text block from your web page. Text Box: Double click to edit the content or style of this text box. Drag Boxes: Drag these to alter the size and the shape of your text box. Page 2 Customer Support | Website Publishing Tool Manual AddingError! Bookmark not defined. Text Note: Some software (such as Microsoft word) will add hidden formatting code to your text. If want to copy and paste text into your website, make sure that you “Paste as Plain Text”. To add new text, Drag the Text block widget to the area on your website that you would like to enter your text. A new text box will appear where you dropped it, You can still move this text box, or resize it by dragging the edges of the box to fit your needs. Page 3
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