In Preferences you specify the basic settings for your account. Some of these may also be specified from elsewhere in the system, but Preferences provides a single area where you can see and edit them.

General

This specifies whether the site is active or not

Specifies what type of site this is.

When your template contains a token that inserts links to other of your site's pages, this field specifies how many. Having a vigorous system of internal links to relevant pages can benefit your site in searches, and the system can handle this automatically.

Selecting this option cleans up the HTML generated when a page is saved.

Autmatic alerts on technical matters relating to the system are sent from this address.

This is used for autmatic emails sent by the system, for signups, confirmations, password reminders, alerts and so on.

Internet

The is the domain name of your site

Use this field to specify your main website, if you are using the system to host additional content.

If you want to specify another web domain as the default location for images and other files, you can do it here. This means tha all relative URLs will be redirected to the domain specified.

The number of records you want by default to see in listings.

Presentation

This is the name that will appear in the site header in standard templates

This is the template which will be used by default when new Documents are create.

What to do when a web page request cannot be met. You might well specify a Redirect here.

he page that displays when an invalid URL is requested

The Code (URL) of the home page (e.g. home.html; index.html)

Search optimization

Window title

If you want a word or phrase to begin all of your window titles by default, then specify it here.

The separator characters to use in the window title to separate keywords when the window title is automaticaly generated.

The length of the window title, in characters, when it is automatically generated.

When this is on, and the window title is being automatically generated, no words will appear more than once in the window title.

As you use the system you can build up a list of words which will never become keywords. Use this checkbox to automatically exclude this list of words from the window title.

Description

Description is a META tag which is normally invisible, as it is located in the HEAD section. It is designed to be a short description of the page and is importance: it can influence search results and can sometimes be displayed in the search results page. The system can create the Description automatically, and in this field you can specify the maximum length in characters.

Keywords

Keywords is a META tag which is normally invisible, as it is located in the HEAD section. It is designed to stress key page content. It can influence search results. The system can create keywords automatically from content, and in this field you can specify the maximum number of keyworkds allowed in the document.

These are words which, when keywords are being automatically generated, the system will use first and place at the start of the keyword list.

These are words which, when keywords are being automatically generated, the system will always include as keywords, regardless of page content.

These are words which, when keywords are being automatically generated, the system will always reject as keywords.

RSS feed

An RSS feed lets you publish new pages in a feed that can be read by software designed to do so.

The title of your RSS feed

The email address shown on your feed.

A short description of your feed

Mail server

The IP address or URL of the server

Enter the SMTP username.

Enter the SMTP password.

Miscellaneous

When your template contains a token that inserts links to other of your site's pages, this field specifies how many. Having a vigorous system of internal links to relevant pages can benefit your site in searches, and the system can handle this automatically.

Selecting this option cleans up the HTML generated when a page is saved.

Logo

Checking this causes the logo to be delted on saving.

Click this button to upload the image from your computer

Enter the value in pixels that you wish to resize the image to.

Enter the value in pixels that you wish to resize the image to.

Enter the URL of the image you wish to display.

If you want the image to be a hyperlink to another page, enter the page URL here.

FTP server

If you do not want the system to act as a web server as well as doing the management of content, you can specify the details of your web server here, and the pages will be automatically uploaded to your server when they are saved.

Enter the IP address or URL of your web server here.

Enter the user name for your server.

Enter the password for your server.

Here you need to enter the path for your website, if any is required in addition to the URL/IP mentioned above.

Check this box to upload pages to your web server on saving.