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SiteBuilder v.2.0.5 for Windows

Administrator's Guide

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Contents

Preface 4 About This Guide......................................................................................................................................... 4 Who Should Read this Guide ....................................................................................................................... 4 Organization of this Guide ........................................................................................................................... 5 Documentation Conventions ........................................................................................................................ 5 Typographical Conventions ......................................................................................................................... 5 Feedback ...................................................................................................................................................... 6

Getting Started 7 SiteBuilder Registration Procedure .............................................................................................................. 8

Administrating SiteBuilder 11 Configuring System Parameters................................................................................................................. 13

General Settings .............................................................................................................................. 15 Root Account .................................................................................................................................. 17 Customization ................................................................................................................................. 18 License Management ...................................................................................................................... 20 Help Settings................................................................................................................................... 21 System Information......................................................................................................................... 21

Managing Components .............................................................................................................................. 22 Managing Page Sets........................................................................................................................ 23 Managing Templates....................................................................................................................... 25 Managing Language Packs ............................................................................................................. 28 Managing Skins .............................................................................................................................. 29 Managing Modules ......................................................................................................................... 30 Managing Template Categories ...................................................................................................... 36

Configuring Sites ....................................................................................................................................... 37 Allowed Hosts Management........................................................................................................... 38 Resellers Management .................................................................................................................... 41 Plans Management .......................................................................................................................... 44 Site Management ............................................................................................................................ 49

Publishing Sites 54 Publish Mail Parameters............................................................................................................................. 55 Publish Screen Parameters ......................................................................................................................... 57 Trial Site Parameters .................................................................................................................................. 59 Site Mail Parameters .................................................................................................................................. 61

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In This Chapter About This Guide ..................................................................................................................4 Who Should Read this Guide ................................................................................................4 Organization of this Guide ....................................................................................................5 Documentation Conventions .................................................................................................5 Typographical Conventions...................................................................................................5 Feedback................................................................................................................................6

About This Guide This guide provides detailed information on SiteBuilder v.2.0.5 for Windows Administrator's Panel – a comprehensive web developing solution for HSPs ensuring easy setup of multi-functional web and hosting features for end users and resellers aimed at increasing customer satisfaction. The issues discussed in this guide cover basic SiteBuilder concepts as well as practical aspects of using SiteBuilder Administrator's Panel. The guide will familiarize you with the way to configure and manage SiteBuilder, to create and manage hosts, sites, Plans, to define system parameters, publishing rules and other features.

Most topics of this guide are devoted to a particular task and the ways to perform it. SiteBuilder Admin Panel is capable of performing four types of administrative tasks:

� Administrating SiteBuilder; � Managing system components; � Managing sites (adding sites, editing their properties, activating/deactivating sites, deleting

sites); � Publishing sites;

For more information on end-user features, site creation and customization algorithms managed in the Administrator's Panel refer to the SiteBuilder v.2.0.5 for WIndows User's Guide

Who Should Read this Guide The primary audience for this guide is SiteBuilder administrators. To better understand the principles of the comprehensive SiteBuilder solution read the SiteBuilder User's Guide. Still, no more than basic knowledge of administering web solutions is required in order to comprehend the major SiteBuilder notions and learn to perform the basic administrative operations.

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Preface

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Organization of this Guide Chapter 2, Getting Started, explains how to login to SiteBuilder Administrator's Panel using web interface.

Chapter 3, Administering SiteBuilder, helps you to understand the general principles of SiteBuilder operations. It provides an outline of SiteBuilder structure, of the way the sites are configured and managed in SiteBuilder Administrator's Panel, and uses configuration information, of the operations you are supposed to perform, and the common way to perform them. It also explains you the basic site administration tasks: creating, managing and deleting sites, modifying site parameters, managing components etc. You will also learn from this chapter how to configure and customize page sets, templates, languages, skins, and modules using SiteBuilder software.

Chapter 4, Publishing Sites, contains instructions on how to configure various SiteBuilder parameters related to publishing sites: mail parameters, screen parameters, trial site and site mail parameters.

Documentation Conventions Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation conventions used in it.

Typographical Conventions The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Formatting convention Type of Information Example

Special Bold Items you must select, such as menu options, command buttons, or items in a list.

Go to the QoS tab.

Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections.

Read the Basic Administration chapter.

Italics Used to emphasize the importance of a point, to introduce a term or to designate a command line placeholder, which is to be replaced with a real name or value.

These are the so-called shared VPSs.

msiexec /i <name of the aforementioned *.msi file or GUID>

Monospace The names of commands, files, and directories.

Install Plesk into the ”c:\pleskbin” directory

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Preformatted On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; logs; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages.

05:31:49 Success.Admin John Smith wasadded.

Feedback If you spot a typo in this guide, or if you have thought of a way to make this guide better, we would love to hear from you!

If you have a suggestion for improving the documentation (or any other relevant comments), try to be as specific as possible when formulating it. If you have found an error, please include the chapter/section/subsection name and some of the surrounding text so that we could find it easily.

Please submit a report by e-mail to [email protected].

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SiteBuilder is a web-based application, and this means that in order to access and work with this program you should use a web browser, for example Internet Explorer. To access SiteBuilder Administrator's Panel, open a web browser and type the address for the administrator access. It may look as follows: http://sitebuilder.yourdomain.com/admin_login.bin. Enter your administrator user name and password in the respective fields of the login form.

Figure 1: Login Window

Note: SiteBuilder Administrator's Panel features multiple administrator accounts. Administrator's Panel is an easy-to-use administration tool, ensuring timely and quality administration. Several administrators can control and maintain the SiteBuilder service.

By default, SiteBuilder has only one administrator account with the user name root and the password sitebuilder. Use these setting for initial login to the Admin Panel.

Note: For security purposes, be sure to change the password after login.

In This Chapter SiteBuilder Registration Procedure .......................................................................................8

C H A P T E R 2

Getting Started

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SiteBuilder Registration Procedure When administrator launches SiteBuilder for the first time after its installation, first screen he or she encounters is the Registration screen. First time SiteBuilder provides administrator with three registration options:

� To enter activation code if administrator is already registered and received it via e-mail; � To register for the first time; � Do not register at all.

Administrator can receive information about other products developed by SWsoft by selecting check box corresponding to the product he or she would like to know about.

Also administrator can subscribe to SWsoft newsletter by selecting I want to receive SWsoft Company & product news by email check box.

Figure 2: Registration Screen

Activation Code

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If administrator is registered and received activation code via e-mail he or she should enter this code in the Activation Code line. After this click Next Step. Your copy of SiteBuilder will be registered. The message about SiteBuilder registration will appear at the bottom line of SiteBuilder Main Screen.

First-time Registration

If prior to installing SiteBuilder administrator did not register his or her copy of SiteBuilder then he/she should fill out the following fields in order to register the copy of this software:

� Company - administrator's company name; � First Name - administrator's first name; � Last Name - administrator's last name;

E-mail Address - administrator's e-mail address. After registration the e-mail containing activation code will be send to this address.

Note: First Name, Last Name and E-mail Address fields should be filled in. Otherwise registration procedure will fail.

Upon registering his or her copy of SiteBuilder administrator is provided with the following benefits:

� Free use of SiteBuilder technical support until Autumn 2006; � Ability to use more than 100 templates; � Ability to switch various SiteBuilder skins; � Ability to switch SiteBuilder to different language locales; � No SWsoft banner will be contained in generated sites.

Note: Each time administrator will access the program it should be registered again. After each registration SiteBuilder will generate new activation code. The activation code can be used only once per session.

After entering all required information in the corresponding fields click Next Step.

On the next screen the message congratulating you upon your successful registration will be displayed. Also on this screen you will be able to enter your new activation code and register your copy of SiteBuilder without going back to the previous Registration screen.

Decline to register SiteBuilder program.

In the case when administrator will decline registering his or her copy of SiteBuilder, the program will offer the same range of options as registered copy except the following:

� SiteBuilder technical support service will be paid; � Administrator will be limited to use no more than 100 SiteBuilder templates; � Only three skins will be available for SiteBuilder interface; � SiteBuilder administrator will be able to switch just two language locales; � In each web site, generated by SiteBuilder, will be placed SWsoft company logotype.

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This chapter provides an outline of the basic administration tasks: creating, managing and deleting sites, modifying site parameters, managing components etc. You will also learn how to configure and customize page sets, templates, languages, skins and modules.

On any screen in SiteBuilder, administrator is able to perform the following actions: read help information regarding SiteBuilder operations, get in touch with SiteBuilder technical support team, register the current copy of SiteBuilder, and log out from the current SiteBuilder session.

Figure 3: Main Tab.

If administrator requires detailed information about SiteBuilder operation, for example information regarding web site publishing, he or she can click Help, located in the upper right part of any SiteBuilder screen, when he or she opened Publishing screen.

To register your copy of SiteBuilder (see page 8) click Registration, located in the upper right part of the Main screen, to go to the Registration screen.

If you would like to discuss some technical issues in regard to SiteBuilder performance that are not described in on-line help, you can contact SiteBuilder technical support team by clicking Support. After this you will go to SiteBuilder technical support page. There you should fill in registration form and submit your question.

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Administrating SiteBuilder

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To terminate you SiteBuilder session click Log out.

In This Chapter Configuring System Parameters ............................................................................................13 Managing Components..........................................................................................................22 Configuring Sites...................................................................................................................37


Configuring System Parameters SiteBuilder allows you to control various interface and system settings. You can change the following categories of parameters:

� System parameters: � General settings - SiteBuilder general settings. More detailed information regarding

these settings is provided in General Settings Section (see page 15).

� Root Account - root account parameters are described in detail in Root Account Section (see page 17).

� Customization - these parameters include logo and SiteBuilder title. More detailed information regarding these parameters is provided in Customization Section (see page 18).

� License - license information is provided on License screen and described in License Management Section (see page 20).

� Help Settings - settings for help information pages integrated with SiteBuilder interface. These settings are described in Help Settings Section (see page 21).

� System Info - information about administrator's system can be viewed on System Info screen. System Information Section (see page 21) describes them in detail.

� Web site components: � Page Sets - on this screen administrator is able to manage user's page sets. More detailed

information regarding page set operations is provided in Managing Page Sets Section (see page 23).

� Templates - on this screen administrator is able to manage templates of SiteBuilder user's web page templates. For more detailed information please see Managing Templates Section (see page 25).

� Languages - on this screen administrator is able to operate with language packages for SiteBuilder. More detailed these operations are described in Managing Language Packs Section (see page 28).

� Skins - on this screen administrator is able to manage SiteBuilder skins. Please see Managing Skins Section (see page 29) for detailed information.

� Modules - on this screen administrator is able to operate with modules for web sites created in SiteBuilder. More detailed information about operations with SiteBuilder modules can be found in Managing Modules Section (see page 30).

� Template Categories - on this screen administrator is able to manage categories of web sites created in SiteBuilder. These operations are fully described in Managing Template Categories Section (see page 36).

� Sites configuration: � Allowed Hosts Management - configuring hosts allowed to publish web sites, generated

in SiteBuilder. In more detail hosts management is described in Allowed Hosts Management Section (see page 38).

� Resellers Management - on this screen SiteBuilder administrator is able to manage SiteBuilder resellers. All operations with resellers are described in Resellers Management Section (see page 41).


� Site Management - on this screen administrator can manage SiteBuilder sites. The section describing these operations and introducing several SiteBuilder concepts regarding site management is called Site Management (see page 49).

� Plan Management - on this screen administrator is able to manage and configure SiteBuilder Plans. Plan is another concept of SiteBuilder. The section which describes Plan concept as well as operations with Plans is called Plans Management (see page 44).

All SiteBuilder Administrator controls mentioned in this section are located on the Main tab of the SiteBuilder Administrator's interface.

Figure 4: Main Tab.


General Settings On the General Settings page, you can change some system parameters such as local database settings and interface preferences, indicate paths to temporary storage, to folder, containing site logs, to SiteBuilder repository, and to allow or disallow publishing of trial sites.

Below are descriptions of the fields on the System tab:

� Language - here you can choose the language of the Administrator's interface,

� DB Type - in this field, you can change what DBMS will be used for the inner SiteBuilder database (default and currently available option is MSSQL).

� DB Name - the name of the database;

� DB Host - the host on which the database is stored (default is localhost);

� DB User Name - enter the name of the database user;

� DB Password - enter the password of the database user;

� Skin - you can choose the interface skin here;

Figure 5: General Settings. System Tab.

On the Paths tab, you can modify the following parameters:

� Path to temp folder - specify the path to the temporary allocated storage here;

� Path to the log folder - specify the path to the folder used to store logs;

� SiteBuilder Repository path - enter the path to SiteBuilder repository;

Click Apply to confirm the changes or Cancel to return without saving.


Figure 6: General Settings. Paths Tab.

On the Publish trial sites tab you can either allow or disallow for user to publish his/her trial sites. In the drop-down list Allow to publish trial sites? select Yes or No. Click Apply to save changed settings or click Cancel to return to the Main screen without saving changes.

Figure 7: General Settings. Publish Trial Sites Tab.


Root Account On the Root Account page, you can change the root (administrator) account login and password.

Enter your new account settings in the Root Account form.

Click Apply to confirm the changes.

Figure 8: Root Account


Customization

Customizing SiteBuilder's Logo

You can replace the SiteBuilder Administrator Panel logo (top left corner of SiteBuilder Administrator's interface) with your own logo matching to your corporate style. You can also customize SiteBuilder skins and title.

To change the logo, go to the Customization page on the Mains tab and upload a new logo:

1 Click the Browse... button and choose a file with the logo

2 Click Upload to copy the image to the server

3 Click Apply to confirm and apply the changes to SiteBuilder Administrator's interface

You can always restore the default SiteBuilder logo by clicking Restore Default Logo.

Figure 9: Customization. Logo Tab.

Customizing SiteBuilder's Title

To change the title, go to the Title tab and enter your new title in the SiteBuilder Title form.

Also administrator is able to change the title of SiteBuilder bottom page by entering new title in the SiteBuilder bottom page title line and clicking Apply. If this line will be left unfilled then by default SiteBuilder's original title will be displayed at the bottom of each SiteBuilder page.

To restore the default SiteBuilder title, click Restore Default Title.

Click Apply to confirm and apply the changes to SiteBuilder interface, or Cancel to cancel the changes.


Figure 10: Customization. Title Tab.


License Management On the License screen administrator is able to view information regarding his or her SiteBuilder license. SiteBuilder License controls the limitations of SiteBuilder accounts. The following license parameters and limits are displayed:

� Key number - license key ID number; � Allowed hosts number - number of allowed hosts the license allows SiteBuilder

administrator to manage; � Allowed regular sites number - number of regular sites that can be generated according to

the current license; � Key expiration date - the date when the current license is expires; � Templates limit - number of templates the current license allows SiteBuilder administrator to

manage; � Ability to switch skins - indicates whether the owner of the current license can switch

various skins or not; � Ability to switch languages - indicates whether the current license allows its owner to switch

SiteBuilder to various language locales or not; � Display SWsoft logo at the bottom of all generated sites - indicates whether the current

license allows its owner to generate site with or without SWsoft logo.

To go back to the Main screen, click OK.

Figure 11: License Screen.


Help Settings On the Help Settings screen administrator indicates Internet address (URL) of help files for SiteBuilder Administrator's interface (Admin help URL) and SiteBuilder Wizard (Wizard help URL). Also he or she sets the size of the Help window by filling out Help window width and Help window length fields.

After filling out these fields click Apply. If you decide no to make available online help documents click Cancel.

Note: If it is required to have online help available for administrator interface and for SiteBuilder Wizard then all above mentioned fields should be filled.

Figure 12: Help Settings.

System Information On the System Info page you can view information on the current version of SiteBuilder installed on your server: Product, Version, Build, and Copyright information.

After reading system information, click OK to return to the main screen.

Figure 13: System Info


Managing Components SiteBuilder features flexible functionality along with easy-to-use and customizable interface ensuring complete integration of the re-branded solution into your corporate web site design.

You can add the following system components:

� Page Sets � Templates � Languages � Skins � Modules � Template Categories

For details on available options for each component refer to the corresponding subsections.


Managing Page Sets A page set is a class of web site templates that defines site structure, default and optional pages, recommended templates, etc. SiteBuilder includes a number of ready page sets but you can easily create your own ones.

To access the list of available page sets, click the Main tab and go to the Page Sets screen by clicking the Page Sets icon.

Figure 14: Page Sets.

On the Page Sets screen, you can Add, Activate, Deactivate and Delete page sets by clicking corresponding buttons.

If there are more than 10 page sets in the page sets list then you can select how many page sets per screen should be displayed. The option Page sets per page 10, 15, 20, All will be displayed at the bottom of the Page sets screen. You can select 10, 15, 20 or all page sets to be displayed per screen by clicking either one of these numbers.

To create a new page set, click the Add Page Set button. To edit an existing page set, click its name in the list. A window will appear where you can edit its structure.


Figure 15: Adding Page Set

Generally, a site consists of 5-7 general level pages and several sub-pages. SiteBuilder allows you to modify the structure of your page sets.

The left part of the screen contains the current web site structure and interface controls for editing it. Click the Add New Page button to add a new page into the template. You will be prompted for the name of the new page. After the page is added, you can modify its position in the structure. Move page up and Move page down controls are used to move a page up or down the vertical structure. To change the level of a page (i.e. transform a sub-page into a general level page or vice versa) use the Move page to lower level or Move page to upper level buttons correspondingly.

Note: Pages of lower level are marked with "..." before their name.

The right part of the screen contains the title and the default content of the page selected in the left part. Default content shows what text will appear on the page when a user starts editing it. Here you can add some comments on what information the page is supposed to contain.

Click Apply to apply changes to a page set. If you do not want to save changes in a page set click Cancel to return to Page Sets screen.

After creating a new page set, you can view it in the list of available page sets. It is disabled by default. You need to enable it by checking it and clicking the Activate button.


Managing Templates SiteBuilder allows adding new web site templates to repository to help users create web sites with multiple designs.

Template management tools are located on the Templates screen. To access the list of available templates, click the Main tab and go to the Templates screen by clicking the Templates icon.

This screen shows all templates currently available on the SiteBuilder server and provides administrator with the following options: activate/deactivate template, change template category, and to load template.

Figure 16: Templates Screen

To load a template, press the Browse... button to locate a file with the template and click Load file. All templates in SiteBuilder have unique identifiers (ID's).

On the Template screen you can also Activate, Deactivate and Delete templates by selecting a template and clicking corresponding button.

If there are more than 10 templates in the templates list then you can select how many templates per page should be displayed. The option Templates per page 10, 15, 25, All will be displayed at the bottom of the Templates screen. You can select 10, 15, 25 or all templates to be displayed per page by clicking either one of these numbers.

To change template category select corresponding template and click Change category. Select the required category from the drop down list of available categories on server and click Apply.

After you selected the template to upload the screen displayed below will be displayed. On this screen you are able to change the category of the uploaded template by clicking the Category drop down box.

Also you are able to set uploaded template as Active by marking the Set the template as Active check box.


Click OK.

Figure 17: Upload Template Screen

Note: When you are uploading an existing template, check the ID of the file you are trying to upload. If it is the same as the ID of an existing template you will be prompted to create a new name as well as to change template category. A screen displaying compared contents of a template on server and that of the template you are uploading.

If you are updating the template with the template that has the same ID a template on the server will not be deleted; the system will ask you to assign a unique ID to the newly uploaded template. Also you will be provided with chance to select new category for this new template.

Figure 18: Update Template

After you will change the required data click Apply.

If you have developed or bought a new template then its ID will not coincide with the existing ones and SiteBuilder will display the information on the contents of the template.


Figure 19: Template Info

Click OK to confirm and finish uploading.


Managing Language Packs SiteBuilder allows you to install additional language packs for users from other countries. You can define the default language.

To manage language packs click the Main tab and go to the Languages screen by clicking the Languages icon.

Figure 20: Language Packs.

To add a new language pack, click the Browse... button, select an archive with the language package and then click Load File.

To delete a language pack select it and click Delete.

If there are more than 10 language packs in the language packs list then you can select how many language packs per page should be displayed. The option Language packs per page 10, 15, All will be displayed at the bottom of the Languages screen. You can select 10, 15, or all language packs to be displayed per page by clicking either one of these numbers.

If you will upload a language pack for the language which is not present in the system, SiteBuilder displays the information about the pack.

Click OK to upload it to the server.

And if you will upload a language pack and a version of this pack already exists on the server, SiteBuilder shows you the comparison chart, as in the case with updating same templates (described in Managing Templates subsection), where the main differences between the two versions are presented.

Click OK to finish the update.

To delete a language package, select the check box besides it in the list and click Delete.


Managing Skins SiteBuilder allows you to modify its interface using skin management tool. This way you can easily re-brand your copy of SiteBuilder.

To manage skins click the Main tab and go to the Skins screen by clicking the Skins icon.

A screen will appear showing all skins currently available on the SiteBuilder server. The skin, which is currently in use, is marked with an asterisk.

Figure 21: Skins.

The process of updating a skin or adding a new one is identical to that for templates, for details refer to the Managing Templates section.

You can Activate, Deactivate or Delete multiple skins by selecting a skin and clicking corresponding button.

If there are more than 10 skins in the skin list then you can select how many skins per page should be displayed. The option Skins per page 10, 15, 20, All will be displayed at the bottom of the Skins screen. You can select 10, 15, 20 or all skins to be displayed per page by clicking either one of these numbers.

Note: The default skin can neither be deactivated nor deleted. If you deactivate a skin that is currently in use, SiteBuilder starts to use the default skin.


Managing Modules The Modules screen allows managing various modules of SiteBuilder sites enabling users to create feature rich Internet representations and complex portals. Modules form the basis of the sites created with SiteBuilder and define the available functionality.

To manage modules click the Main tab and go to the Modules screen by clicking Modules icon.

Figure 22: Modules

SiteBuilder sites include the following modules:

� blogger - a blogger editor; � counter - a counter editor; � feedback - a feedback forms editor; � forum - a forum editor; � guestbook - a guestbook editor; � photo - a photo gallery editor; � RSS Reader - a RSS Reader editor; � script - a script editor; � sesubmission - a search engine submission system; � shop - an online shop editor; � statistics - a statistics data control; � votes - a votes editor;

By default all the modules are activated, however you can deactivate any of the modules by selecting it and clicking Deactivate.

To activate/deactivate a group of modules, check the modules you wish to activate/deactivate/delete and click the corresponding button.


If there are more than 10 modules in the modules list then you can select how many modules per page should be displayed. The option Modules per page 10, 15, All will be displayed at the bottom the Modules screen. You can select 10, 15 or all modules to be displayed per page by clicking either one of these numbers.

You can apply additional settings to the following modules: photo, shop, votes, statistics, forum and guestbook.

In the Photo module you can choose photo gallery templates available for users, creating sites with SiteBuilder, delete the existing gallery templates and upload new ones.

To upload a photo gallery template, click the Browse... button , select a template on your local drive, then click Load File to upload the template to the server.

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In the Shop editor you can manage the following settings of online stores created with SiteBuilder:

� Host - the host of online stores � DB Type - type of database used by online shops (MSSQL) � DB Host - database host; the default is localhost � DB Name - shop database name � DB User - database username � DB Password -database password

To apply the changes, click Apply. To return without saving, click Cancel.

In the Shop editor panel you also can initialize database tables by clicking the Initialize DB Tables button. The system will prompt you if you are sure you wish to proceed.

Note: If database tables already exist and you choose to initialize them the tables will be emptied.

Click OK to initialize the tables or Cancel to cancel the operation.

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On the Statistics screen you can make the following settings for statistics reports: activate statistics reporting for a web site owner, to set time intervals of statistics reporting to web site owner as well as set the time-life of statistics reports, i.e. time periods of statistics report storing.

To activate statistics reporting select check box located in the bottom left corner of Statistics Module screen. To set up time interval for sending statistics reports select corresponding pop-up list and select required time interval.

There are five types of statistics reports in SiteBuilder:

1 Daily reports;

2 Weekly reports;

3 Monthly reports;

4 Quarterly reports;


5 Annual reports.

The table below displays the frequency ranges of statistics reporting (intervals) and life-times of each of these statistics report types, i.e. for how long the report is stored.

Statistics report type Interval range Time-life range Daily report 1-6 hours 1-8 days

Weekly report 3-12 hours 1-5 weeks

Monthly report 1 day 1-4 months

Quarterly report 1 quarter 1-2 quarters

Annual report 1,3 years 1-2 years


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One of the SiteBuilder elements for web sites is the Voting module. The web site owner is able to place it on his or her web site in order to find out the rating of this web site among its visitors.

Votes module enables administrator to upload Votes Bars to SiteBuilder or remove them from the list of available voting elements. To upload the voting element click Browse..., select the appropriate file on your computer and click Load. To remove the voting element from the list of available ones select the check box beside the element to be removed and click Delete.

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Administrator is able to set the type of storage for the Forum module content by clicking Forum module in the list of available modules, displayed on the Modules screen. And then he should click the Storage Type drop-down list.

The content of the Forum module can be stored in MySQL, SQLite, or Files (.txt format).

Figure 23: Forum Editor.

If administrator selected type of storage as MySQL then he or she should enter parameters on the next screen.

Storage type will be set as MySQL. The mandatory parameters that should be set are:

� Database host - host of database, containing files of forum content; � Database name - name of database, containing files of forum content; � Database user name - user name of administrator, who is managing database of forum

content files.

The following parameters are optional:

� Database port - database port; � Database user password - enter the password if your database is password-protected.

After you have set all required parameters click Apply to save changes and return to the Modules Management screen. If you want to get back to the Modules Management screen without saving changes in parameters click Cancel.


Figure 24: Forum Editor. Mysql Storage Type

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Also, SiteBuilder administrator is capable of setting storage type for the Guestbook content. He or she should click Guestbook module, displayed on the Modules screen. After this, administrator can set the type of storage the same way as it is done with Forum module additional settings, i.e. by clicking Storage type drop-down box and selecting the type of storage (MySQL, SQLite, or Files).

Figure 25: Guestbook Editor. Selecting Storage Type.

If administrator selected the type of storage as MySQL then he or she should enter the following parameters on the next screen:

� Storage type will be set as MySQL. The mandatory parameters that should be set are: � Database host - host of database, containing files of guestbook content; � Database name - name of database, containing files of guestbook content; � Database user name - user name of administrator, who is managing database of guestbook

content files.

The following parameters are optional:

� Database port - database port;


� Database user password - enter the password if your database is password-protected.

After you have set all required parameters click Apply to save changes and return to the Modules Management screen. If you want to get back to the Modules Management screen without saving changes in parameters click Cancel.

Figure 26: Guestbook Editor. Mysql Storage Type.


Managing Template Categories To manage the template categories click the Main tab and go to the Template Categories page by clicking the Template Categories icon.

Figure 27: Template Categories.

On the Template Categories screen you can create and edit categories of templates used by customers for their web sites.

The Categories List contains the names of currently available categories.

To add a category, click the Add New Category button, enter the name of the new category and then click OK to confirm or Cancel to return without saving.

To edit a category, click on the category you wish to modify, then click the Edit Category button and edit the name of the category. Click OK to save changes or Cancel to return without saving.

To delete a category, choose the category or several categories you wish to delete and click the Delete Category(s) button. To choose multiple categories, hold Shift and click the categories to be deleted. Click OK to confirm or Cancel to cancel deleting.

To apply the changes to template categories click Apply. To return to the main menu without saving click Cancel.


Configuring Sites SiteBuilder Administrator panel enables you to configure various parameters of web sites:

� Allowed Hosts � Resellers � Site Management � Management


Allowed Hosts Management At the present the SiteBuilder user is provided with individual web site password for accessing SiteBuilder Wizard. Administrator is able to select the appropriate web site publishing method (FTP or VPS) and to set corresponding parameters for this type of publishing. The list of allowed hosts for site publishing is indicated in a web site Plan. The concept of web site Plan is described in detail in Plans Management (see page 44) subsection further in this Guide. The number of allowed hosts depends on your SiteBuilder license.

To manage allowed hosts click the Main tab and go to the Allowed Hosts Management screen by clicking the Allowed Hosts Management icon.

On this page, you can see the list of authorized hosts. Here you can activate/deactivate allowed hosts, retrieve IP addresses, add host, add hosts range, assign reseller to the host or delete hosts from the list.

Figure 28: Allowed Hosts Management Screen

To activate/deactivate/delete hosts and retrieve IPs, check the host(s) which you wish to modify and click one of the corresponding buttons: Activate, Deactivate, Retrieve IPs or Delete.

The Retrieve IPs button serves for getting IP addresses from the alphanumeric names of servers in case they are unknown to the system yet. Users from inactive hosts cannot login to SiteBuilder.

In order to add a new allowed host, click the Add Host button. To see the list of all allowed hosts click Show All Hosts.

If there are more than 6 hosts in the list then you can select how many hosts per page should be displayed. The option Hosts per page 10, 15, 20, All will be displayed at the bottom of the Allowed Hosts screen. You can select 10, 15, 20 or all hosts to be displayed per page by clicking either one of these numbers.

Note: Your license can apply limitations to the maximum number of allowed servers.

If you have not exceeded your limit, the form for adding hosts appears. Enter the name of the server to be added and mark the corresponding check box to activate it.

By clicking host in the Host Name column hosting provider is able to assign hosts to resellers.


Figure 29: Allowed Hosts Management Screen. General Tab.

You can also add a range of hosts to a reseller by clicking the Add Hosts Range button on Allowed Hosts Management screen. It is done in the case the available SiteBuilder hosts have one IP range.

Enter the first host IP in the Host IP - Beginning of Range line, and enter the last host IP in the Host IP - End of Range line. Also you can make this host IPs active by selecting the Active check box. Click Apply.

Figure 30: Setting Range of Allowed Hosts.

Example: The following hosts are included in the list of available hosts: "127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3". And, according to reseller's license agreement, he or she is allowed to have three hosts. Enter "127.0.0.1" in the Host IP - Beginning of Range line and "127.0.0.3" in the Host IP - End of Range line.

To assign the reseller to the host from the Allowed Hosts Management screen add host or the range of allowed hosts as it was described above. Click this hostname in the Host Name column. On the next screen (see the screenshot above) click the List of assigned resellers tab. Select the check box beside the reseller who is not assigned to this host (minus sign in the In list column) and click the Add reseller to list button. Click Apply.


Figure 31: Allowed Hosts Management. List of Assigned Resellers Tab.


Resellers Management In order to manage resellers click the Main tab and go to the Resellers Management screen by clicking the Resellers Management icon.

On the Resellers Management screen you can manage resellers authorized to offer SiteBuilder as part of their value-added services.

Figure 32: Resellers Management.

If you want to add reseller, click Add reseller.

You delete a reseller by selecting reseller from the list and clicking Delete button.

To find a reseller by login, enter the login name in the search form and click Search. You can list all registered resellers by clicking Show All Resellers.

If there are more than 6 resellers in the resellers list then you can select how many resellers per page should be displayed. The option Resellers per page 10, 15, 25, All will be displayed at the bottom of the Resellers Management screen. You can select 10, 15, 25 or all resellers to be displayed per page by clicking either one of these numbers.

To add a reseller, click Add Reseller. A Resellers panel will appear.


Figure 33: Add Reseller Screen.

On the General tab, enter the general information of the new reseller: Domain, E-mail, Name, Login, Password, Password confirmation. You can also change interface Language and Skin. In the Regular sites limit line administrator sets the maximum number of regular sites available for reseller. And in the Hosts limit line he or she indicates the maximum number of hosts, reseller can have.

On the List of Sites tab, you can view the list of sites, their status (active/disabled), publishing information, type (trial/regular), site alias, creation date and expiry date. Also you are enabled to add and remove reseller's sites from the list.

On the Reseller Hosts tab, you can add or remove reseller hosts. To add a host, click Add Host; to remove a host, check it in the list and click Remove Host.

Figure 34: Resellers Management. Reseller Hosts Tab.

On the Reseller Plans tab, you can view your reseller Plans. It shows was particular Plan is assigned to the reseller, can this Plan be applied to a trial site, and a short description of the Plan. Next subsection Managing Plans (see page 44) describes web site Plans in more detail.


To apply changes made in the Add Reseller panel, click Apply. To return to the previous menu without saving, click Cancel.


Plans Management The Site Builder's Template Plan is the set of limits, web site components (photo gallery, forum, database, and etc.), number of hosts and set of templates applied to a web site created in SiteBuilder. After applying a Template Plan to a web site the set of limits and components contained in this Plan are copied to the web site Plan. Such web site Plan is called Inherited Plan, i.e. it inherits the limits and the set of web site components from the Template Plan. Limits and components of Inherited Plan can be changed according to web site owner requirements without affecting its Template Plan. Limits and settings of the original Template Plan cannot be changed by a web site owner. Further in this subsection the information regarding how changes in the Template Plan affect its Inherited Plan is provided. The list of Template Plans and their contents can be viewed and accessed on the Plan Management screen. Settings of Inherited Plan can be viewed and edited only on the Site Management screen during editing of web site parameters.

Template Plan can have two statuses: activated or deactivated. Activated Plan can be applied to any type of web sites. Deactivated Plan can not be applied to any type of the web sites. The change of Plan Status from Activated to Deactivated doesn't affect the work of the sites to which this Plan was previously applied since its settings are copied to the Inherited Plans of these sites.

After SiteBuilder installation the program automatically generates the Plan containing basic set of limits and the web site modules. This Plan is called BasePlan and consists of the following limits: maximum number of web pages (by default it is set to 10) and basic set of web site components.

BasePlan is generated to be a safeguard against the situations when the trial site Template Plan gets corrupt for some reasons and in that case this corrupted Plan is replaced by BasePlan. BasePlan cannot be removed or deactivated in SiteBuilder.

There are two types of web sites in SiteBuilder: trial web sites and regular web sites. Trial web site is the site created by the user who is using SiteBuilder for the first time. The trial sites can not be published immediately upon their creation. First they should be made into regular web sites. The life-time of a trial web site is 30 days. If the trial site is not becoming the regular web site during this time period it gets terminated. By default one of the Plans in SiteBuilder is set as Trial Plan. Trial site is created automatically in SiteBuilder when user access SiteBuilder. If administrator manually deactivated Trial Plan and there are no other Plans for trial sites in SiteBuilder then automatic creation of new trial sites is denied. Administrator is able to switch deactivated Trial Plan to activated mode manually, or he/she can create new Trial Plan to be applied to trial sites. When the automatic creation of new trial sites is denied and when all Trial Plans are deactivated user can still access the trial site created before Trial Plans were deactivated.

Prior to creating a trial web site make sure that SiteBuilder contains Template Plan otherwise the option of automatic creation of trial web sites will be unavailable. Trial Plan cannot be automatically deactivated or removed. The Plan Management screen displays whether or not Template Plan can be applied to trial sites, in the For trial sites column (Yes - the Plan can be applied to trial sites, No - it can not be applied to trial sites). To disable automatic creation of trial sites in SiteBuilder click on Yes in the For trial sites column.

Regular web sites are fully functional web sites that can be published after their creation.


Web site Plan consists of two parts: Base part and User's Part. Both parts contain the set of limitations, web site components, and web page templates.

The settings of the Base part of the web site Plan can be changed by SiteBuilder administrator only. Web site owner is able to change settings just in the User's part of the web site Plan. The Base part contains settings and web site components of the Template Plan applied to this site.

User's part of the web site Plan consists of additional web site components web site owner adds him/herself and the maximum number of web pages set by the owner.

Limitation on the number of web site pages.

The maximum number of web pages set for web site calculated as following: when in the Template Plan applied to the web site the maximum number of pages was set as 10 pages, this number is copied in the Base part of the web site Plan. And if the web site owner set the maximum number of web pages as 15, then the total number of allowed web site pages is 25. If afterwards the web site owner replaced his or her Template Plan with the Template Plan containing the maximum number of web pages as 20. Then the maximum number of pages set in User's part of the web site Plan remains the same (15 pages), but the maximum number of web pages contained in Base Part is replaced by 20. Then the total number of minimum web pages on this web site would be no less than 35 pages.

Additional web site components.

Additional web site components contained in User's part of the Plan can be added or removed just during the editing of this part of the Plan. If the Template Plan is replaced by another Plan they remain the same.

In order to manage SiteBuilder Plan administrator accesses the Plan Management screen by clicking Plan Management in SiteBuilder administrator interface. On this screen he or she is able to do the following: see the list of all plans currently stored in his or her SiteBuilder, add new Plan, activate/deactivate a Plan, delete a Plan, and find particular Template Plan by its name.

The Template Plan status is indicated in the Status column (A - activated, D - deactivated). To activate Template Plan select a check box beside the Template you require to activate and click Activate. For trial sites column shows whether particular Template Plan can be applied to the trial sites and what Plans can not be applied to them (Yes - Template Plan can be applied to trial web site, No - Template Plan can not be applied to them). To select all the Plans listed on the Plan Management screen select check box beside N this way all the Plans will be selected for activation/deactivation/deletion. To delete the Plan select check box beside the deactivated Plan and click Delete.

To find a Plan in SiteBuilder enter its name in the Search by plan name line and click Search. If the Plan exists in SiteBuilder it will be displayed on the Plan Management screen. To see the list of all SiteBuilder Plans click Show All Plans.


Figure 35: Plan Management Screen

To add new Plan click Add Plan. Enter the name of the new Plan in the Name line. If it is required for the new Plan to be active upon its creation select the Active check box. You can enter brief description of the new Plan in the Description line. Set the maximum number of web pages in the Pages Number line. Click Apply.

Note: The Name line and the Pages Number line are required for filling in. Otherwise the Plan will not be created.

Figure 36: Plan Management. General Tab.

To add the hostnames where the web site is allowed to be published go to the Hosts tab by clicking Hosts. The Hosts tab displays all hosts available to publish web sites in SiteBuilder. Select the check box(s) beside hostname(s) and click Add to plan. Click Apply.

Figure 37: Plan Management. Hosts Tab.


To select web site components to be added to the Plan go to the Modules tab. The Modules tab displays the list of available web site components. Select check box(s) beside the web components required to be added in the Plan and click Add to plan. Click Apply. You can also remove modules from the already created Plan. Click on existing Plan in Plan Management screen and go to Modules tab. Select the module you require to remove by check marking check box beside it and click Remove from plan.

Note: If there are more modules than can fit on one screen, the next part of the list is placed on the next page(s) and administrator is able to see them by clicking on page number located in the bottom right corner of the Modules screen.

Figure 38: Plan Management. Modules Tab.

To select templates of web site pages go to the Templates tab. The list of available templates is displayed in the Templates tab. Select the check box(s) beside required template. Click Add to plan. Click Apply. Administrator is able remove modules from the already created Plan. Click on existing Plan in Plan Management screen and go to Modules tab. To remove the template from the Plan select the appropriate check box and click the Remove from plan button. Click Apply.

Figure 39: Plan Management. Templates Tab.

If the changes were made in the Template Plan administrator is able to apply all these changes to all Inherited Plans of this Template Plan. After the changes were made in the template Plan select check box beside the Apply changes to all inherited plans option. Click Apply. After applying changes to all Inherited Plans, the Base parts of these web site Inherited Plans will contain the new parameters of this Template Plan.


Figure 40: Applying Changes to All Inherited Plans

To see statistics of Plan changes click the Statistics of Plan changes tab.

This screen provides statistics information about all changes in the Template Plans applied to SiteBuilder web sites and the date of its last modification. It shows how many times the particular Template Plan was modified. Digits before decimal point is the number of times the Template Plan was modified, and digits after decimal point represent number of times it was inherited. X sign after decimal point means that this Template Plan was inherited, when it is was inherited for the first time zero is displayed after decimal point. For example: revision 0.x - means that the Template Plan was not modified (0) and neither it was inherited (x).

Figure 41: Managing Plans. Statistics of Plan Changes Tab.


Site Management As it was mentioned in the Plan Management subsection there are two types of web sites in SiteBuilder: trial web sites and regular web sites.

� A trial web site is a site with limited functionality. Trial sites cannot be published. They are created by users who use SiteBuilder for the first time. Also trial site has a time life of 30 days. If the trial web site is not transferred into regular web site upon expiration of its time-life this trial site is terminated.

� A regular web site is a site with a full functionality and ready for publishing. Administrator is able to make trial site into regular web site.

Site Management allows you to view, edit, activate/deactivate, delete SiteBuilder sites on your host, and switch the trial web site into the regular site. Click the Site Management icon in SiteBuilder Administrator Interface to access site management functions.

On this screen a web site can be deactivated or activated. Activated web site is marked by A (activated) in the Status column. To deactivate it, select a check box beside activated web site and click Deactivate. To activate web site select the check box beside deactivated web site, marked by D (deactivated) in the Status column, and click Activate. Deactivated web site can not be published.

The administrator is enabled to allow or disallow publishing of the regular web site. To allow publishing of the regular web site select the check box beside the web site and click Allow Publish. To disallow publishing select the check box beside the corresponding site and click Disallow Publish.

To make the trial web site into regular web site for its further publishing select the check box beside this trial site and click Trial to Regular. If trial site is deactivated then upon transferring it to regular web site this site is deactivated also.

If licensing agreement is broken, i.e. the number of the web sites allowed for publishing is overreached upon transferring the trial site into the regular web site then this regular web site becomes deactivated.

If licensing agreement is maintained during this operation then this trial site becomes activated regular site.

When the trial site becomes the activated regular site the Template Plan for the trial web sites is automatically assigned to it, i.e. all the settings of the Template Plan for the trial web sites are assigned to this site. For more effective usage of the Template Plans it is recommended to edit settings of newly transferred regular site.

Note: Only regular web site can be published. Trial web site must be made regular before its publishing

To delete the web site select the check box beside the appropriate web site and click Delete.


If required web site is not included in the list of sites displayed on the Site Management screen this regular site can be added to the system by clicking the Add Regular Site button. Also trial site can be added to the system by clicking the Add Trial Site button. To see the list of all web sites in the system click Show All Sites. If required web site can not be found in the list of web sites administrator can try to find it by entering its site alias in the Search by site alias line and clicking Search...

You can run group operations on sites listed on the Site Management screen. Group operations on sites include:

� activating a site; � deactivating a site; � allowing a site to publish; � denying a site to be published; � transforming a site from trial to regular; � deleting a site.

To perform a group operation, select the multiple accounts by selecting the check boxes in the second column in the table on the Site Management page. Also, you can select all accounts by setting the check box at the top of the table.

Then click one of the controls (Activate, Deactivate, Allow Publish, Disallow Publish, Trial To Regular or Delete) to perform the required action on sites.

Note: By default, site publishing is disabled. To enable it, check the sites you want to allow publishing and click Allow Publish.

On this screen administrator can find two icons enabling him or her to preview and publish web sites. The icons are located in the rows of corresponding web site. As it was previously stated,

only regular web sites can be published and the Publish Site icon ( ) is located only in the rows of regular web sites. Preview Site icon ( ) is located in the rows of both types of web sites (regular and trial) since trial sites can be previewed as well as regular sites.

Also Site Management screen provides administrator with the following information regarding SiteBuilder web sites: site alias, site reseller, site creation date and site expiration date. Site expiration date is provided only for trial sites because only trial web sites have time life.

Figure 42: Site Management Screen.


On the General Properties tab, enter site alias of the new site, select a hosting plan, language and associate a site with the reseller. If you wish to protect editing this site with a password, fill in the Password and Confirm Password fields. Resellers are indicated in the Reseller column. If administrator creates the regular web site he or she can assign reseller to this web site by selecting available resellers from the Reseller pop up list.

Select the Active check box to activate the site. By default sites are not activated.

To apply the Template Plan to the web site, select the Template Plan in the Plan pop up list. The administrator is able to change Template Plan for the particular web site by doing the same operation.

To set language locale of the web site select language in the Language pop up list.

To apply changes to web site, click Apply; to return to the previous menu without saving, click Cancel.

Note: There are three required fields to be filled out in order to apply changes to the web site general properties: Site Alias, Plan and Language. If any these three fields are empty the changes are not applied.

Figure 43: Site Management. General Properties Tab.

On the Publish Properties tab, you can allow/disallow publishing, indicate what type of content you would like to publish (Windows or UNIX),specify the host name of the new site, choose the publishing mode, and select FTP host. You can also enter FTP Host, FTP Login, Password, and FTP Working Directory. These settings are used for publishing the site with SiteBuilder.

Note: SiteBuilder does not publish deactivated web sites. To publish web site make sure that it is activated.

It is required to select a mode for web site, i.e. the method it will be stored on the server. The mode can be either regular FTP or VPS. VPS is a Virtual Private Server. VPS uses physical server resources to emulate several virtual servers.


Figure 44: Site Management. Publish Properties Tab.

On the Informational E-Mail tab, you can specify the e-mail address of the site owner and setup e-mail delivery (site information to e-mail).

Enter the e-mail address of the site owner in the E-mail field, select Site information to e-mail check box if you wish to send site information to the owner, and click Apply. To return to the previous menu without saving, click Cancel.

Note: This pop up list is available during regular web site creation only. If administrator creates trial site the Reseller pop list is not displayed.

Figure 45: Site Management. Informational E-mail Tab.

During the creation of regular web site the administrator is able to select the Template Plan for his/her web site on the Plan Properties tab. He or she is also able to edit the User's part of the web site Template Plan described in the previous Plan Management subsection. The following web site parameters can be edited by administrator: maximum number of web site pages, web site components, web site hosts, and templates of web site pages.

To add a trial site, follow the same steps. For trial sites the Publish Properties tab is not active.


To see the list of the web site Template Plan properties click the Plan Properties tab. There are four Template Plan properties elements accessed by clicking appropriate tabs located in the bottom left corner of the Plan Properties screen: General, Hosts, Modules and Templates. The General tab displays: the number of its previous revisions, and the number of its Inherited Plans, and the limit of web pages, i.e. maximum number of web pages allowed for web site to contain. In the number of previous Template Plan revisions digits before decimal point indicate how many times this Template Plan was revised, and the digits after decimal point indicate how many Inherited Plans of this Template Plan were created.

The Hosts tab shows the list of host names a web site is assigned to. The Modules tab displays names, status, version, types and descriptions of web site modules. The Templates tab provides administrator with names, status, and ID of web site templates.

Figure 46: Site Management. Plan Properties Tab.

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One of the main SiteBuilder operations managed by SiteBuilder administrator is publishing. Publishing is the major and most important area of SiteBuilder operations. It is a focal point of all SiteBuilder operations since web site creation and management is aimed at further publishing this site on the web.

The following publishing elements can be configured using SiteBuilder program:

1) Publish Mail Parameters;

2) Publish Screen Parameters;

3) Trial Site Parameters;

4) Site Mail Parameters;

The current section of SiteBuilder Administrator's Guide provides detailed description of administrating these elements.

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Publishing Sites

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Publish Mail Parameters To access SiteBuilder Publish Setup click the Publish tab on the left navigation panel of SiteBuilder Administrator interface.

Figure 47: Main Screen.

After you click the Publish button Publish Setup will be displayed.

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Figure 48: Publish Tab.

As it is shown on the screens above, there are four elements in Publish Setup available for their further configuring. This subsection describes Publish Mail Parameters configuration. Click Publish Mail Parameters. One of the SiteBuilder functionalities enables the program to send notification email to web site owner e-mail address, indicated by SiteBuilder administrator, in order to notify him or her that his/her web site was published on Internet. In order to configure such e-mail, administrator indicates:

1 E-mail address of notification email. This address appears in the From field of email notification. Enter this address in the Mail From Address line;

2 Subject of email notification. Fill in the Mail subject line;

Text body of email notification. The text of email notification is entered in the Mail Body edit box. Usually the mail body contains web site ID and its Internet address or URL, where it can be found. After the administrator entered all parameters he or she clicks Apply to save them. To return to the previous menu without saving, click Cancel.

Figure 49: Publish Mail Parameters Screen.

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Publish Screen Parameters The second element of Publish operation that can be configured by SiteBuilder administrator is Publish Screen Parameters. To configure this element the administrator accesses Publish Setup. To access Publish Setup click the Publish tab on the left navigation panel of SiteBuilder Administrator Interface.


To access Publish Screen Parameters click Publish Screen Parameters in Publish Setup.

In Publish Screen Parameters administrator is able to enter text that will be displayed on the Publish screen, containing Internet address of the published web site and the time period it will be available for. In this window, administrator fills in the text box of Publish Screen Help Message, where Internet address of published web site and its life-time period is usually mentioned. Also this text body may contain macros, for example "%sitelink" and "%day" that will be replaced with the real site link and web site's life-time period.

Then administrator enters text in the Message to Appear on the Publish Screen text box. This text box contains instructions on how to buy hosting service, and etc. After all text boxes are filled click Apply to save the data entered; to return to the previous menu without saving, click Cancel.

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Figure 51: Publish Screen Parameters.

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Trial Site Parameters The third element available for configuring by SiteBuilder administrator is Trial Site Parameters. As the previous two elements it is accessed by going to Publish Setup.


Click Trial Site Parameters in Publish Setup. In SiteBuilder prior to publishing guest's web site the guest can preview it. In Trial Site Parameters administrator is able to indicate:

1 Guest project's lifetime. Lifetime period (in days) the guest project will be available for;

2 Guest project lifetime measure. In this field you can indicate in what units the trial project lifetime will be measured (days or hours).

3 SiteBuilder domain name. The name of the domain where guest's project will be available for preview. After user enters the sitename.domainname address in his or her browser he/she is taken to the preview of this web site;

4 Hosting Banner message. Usually an advertising text is located on the web site preview.

5 Trail site demonstration mode. If this check box is marked it means that trial site demonstration mode is turned on. In the trial site demonstration mode user is enabled to see how his or her trial web site will function after its publication in Internet. When this check box is marked trial web site cannot be accessed for editing.

Note: It is required to fill in SiteBuilder Domain Name field.

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After all parameters are entered click Apply.

Figure 53: Trial Site Parameters

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Site Mail Parameters The last of the four Publish elements to be configured is Site Mail Parameters. To configure this element access Publish Setup and click Site Mail Parameters.

Figure 54: Publish Tab.

In Site Mail Parameters the administrator can configure mail settings for receiving e-mails in the events of update/creation of a web site. The following parameters can be configured:

1 Mail From Address. E-mail address for sending notifications regarding creation/update of a web site. It is displayed in the From field of email notification. This e-mail address is entered in the Mail From Address line;

2 Mail Subject. Subject of the e-mail notification send to user in regard to creation/update of user's web site. To set up notification e-mail subject fill in the Mail Subject line;

Mail Body. Text of the e-mail notification. E-mail text may contain "%siteid" macros that will be replaced with the real web site ID and "%params" macros to be replaced with the real parameters of the created or updated web site. To set up e-mail notification text, fill the Mail Body text box. When all the data is entered click the Apply button.

Figure 55: Site Mail Parameters Screen

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DBMS

DBMS stands for Data Base Management System and it is a common name for such types of systems. DBMS is a complex software system for management of user databases. There are many DBMSes, both the commercial and free ones such as MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.

FTP

FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is a method used to transfer files to (upload) and from (download) a remote server. You can use the FTP command to:

� Copy a file from the Internet to your PC � Move a file from your PC up to the Internet � Rename an existing file � Delete a file � Update an existing file with more recent data

HOST

In a network, a host is usually a computer that stores software applications and data that may be accessed or retrieved by other users. But a host can be any addressable device on the network, not just a computer. The host provides services to other computers or users. An Internet Service Provider may also be referred to as a Web hosting company.

HTML

HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is a standardized language for presenting information, graphics, and multimedia on the World Wide Web. HTML consists of hundreds of codes, tags, and symbols that define the type of information and how it should be displayed in a browser. HTML is universally understood on a wide variety of platforms.

IP ADDRESS

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is an internal number that identifies a host on the Internet or a network. IP numbers are invisible to end users, replaced in your user interface by the more familiar domain names and URLs.

SKIN

In SiteBuilder, a skin is a design of the SiteBuilder interface. You can use skins to re-brand your copy of SiteBuilder to offer value-added services.

TEMPLATE

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In SiteBuilder, this is a design of web site following certain limitations and converted into XML documents following certain rules. Templates usually follow some definite topic, e.g. template for auto industry company, template for medical company etc.

URL

A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator used to identify an organization or domain on the Internet. URLs are standardized names that are typically found on the World Wide Web portion of the Internet. URL addresses identify domains on the network.

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