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Web Site Builder

Web Site Builder This interactive tool is available to help you build your web site from scratch.

Instructions for using Web Site Builder

Log into your control panel at: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/menu" (your IP address) or "www.yourdomain.com/menu"

Click on the Web Site Builder ICON

This gets you into the actual admin area where you can use the tool.

General Settings

Web Page Style - Choose the style you want from the list on the right and click save.

Company Information - Type in your business name, slogan and email address on the right side and click save.

Web Site Pages On the right side choose how many pages you want. Your website can have between one and six pages. Just turn each page on or off by activating the checkbox next to it. Only pages with their check boxed turned ON will be part of your website.

Note: The index-page, 'Welcome', is required and therefore ALWAYS ON. For each activated page, you can customize its title. This is also the name that is shown on the navigation-bar buttons. To do so, just edit the existing title next to the checkbox. When you are done, click SAVE to register your changes.

Page Contents

Click on Main or any of the pages 1 through 5. Choices are on the right - you can justify, select title, background & content color and also browse your hard drive and upload a graphic. Using the browse/upload feature will place the graphic in the top left corner of the page.

Publish Site

When you are finished - click on finish on the left side under publish site. This will take you to a page that gives you this information:

Congratulations, your website is online and fully functional!

The website URL is:

"yourdomain.com/foldername/"

or:

"xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/foldername/"Remember that you can always return to edit it in the future, deleting text or adding new information, or just making changes.

The URL for the backend editing interface is

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cp/siteBuilder.cgi

Editing is always instant, with changes appearing in real-time.
Thanks for using SiteBuilder, and enjoy your new website!

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OPTIONAL: Make your SiteBuilder site your main website.
Click the button below if you want your current index.html to be updated with your new SiteBuilder site. Doing this, the URL for your SiteBuilder site will become -

http://YourIPAddress/foldername
Warning! If you do this, your existing/previous index.html will be OVERWRITTEN. This is a permanent action, with no undo feature.

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What the warning means - is that if you click on that button that says Make Main Website - then any index.html page that was previously there as your home page will be instantly overwritten. So, be very careful! this that feature :).

To guard against overwriting an index.html page accidently:

Go into your control panel at: "yourdomain.com/menu" or http://YourIPAddress/menu and type in your username & password. Go into file manager, www folder (if there are two www folders - use either one - they are mirror images of each other and that will be just fine) and then if you have an index.html page there - rename it first to something else, so that you will have a copy of it before you click on that button that says 'Make Main Website'.

General Information

The Page 5 - has form information already there that can't be changed.