SUPPORT INFORMATION

ADD A NEW PAGE

Choose 'Add New Page' from the members menu at the bottom of the page.

Fill in the title for your page.
Assign your new page to a category. If no category is suitable choose 'no category'. If required, further category choices can be added by via the 'Manage Categories' link, by administrators.
Choose a navigation bar - apply the same rule as above, i.e choose no navigation if the choices available are not suitable.
Fill in the main content for your new page, including appropriate HTML.
Add some keywords that related to the subject of the page. These will be used in the meta keywords tag.
Click the submit button, to add your new page.

The feedback page contains:

The HTML for the link to your new page, to cut and paste into any existing page. The link uses the text you added in 'Navigation text' field in the form.
A link to your new page.
If you would like to now edit your new page do not click the back button, instead, load your new page into your browser window, and click the 'Edit This Page' link at the bottom of the page.

EDIT AN EXISTING PAGE

When you login to the CMS, all pages you have access rights to will have a 'Edit This Page' link at the bottom left hand corner of the page. When you click 'Edit This Page', you are presented with a form allowing you to change the text of the page, the category that it is assigned to, and the navigation bar associated with the page.

Editing using WYSIWYG editors:

Click the 'WYSIWYG and HTML conversion tools' link on the Personal admin menu to choose your preferred editing interface. Below is a screen shot of editing a page using the TinyMCE WYSIWYG toolbar.

Delay making changes public?

You are also given the choice to 'Make changes public now', or to make your changes public at a later date. By unchecking the 'Make changes public now' checkbox, your changes will not appear on the site after you click the submit button. When you want your changes to go live, click the 'Edit This Page' button, check the 'Make changes public now' checkbox, and and hit the submit button.

ADD IMAGES TO PAGES

A couple of thing to do - and know - before you start:

If you are using XStandard Pro (recommended) as your WDCMS WYSIWYG editing tool, then it's as simple as clicking the image button and looking for your image on your PC or server.
Please note: if you are using the WYSIWYG editing tools and uploading images using the built-in WDCMS image feature - click the source button (marked as HTML in TinyMCE toolbar) before pasting your image markup into the page you are editing.
If you use TinyMCE as your main editor uploading images can be made easier with installation of the TinyMCE image editor, called MCImageManager.
If you use XStandard as your main editor uploading images can be made easier by upgrading to the Pro version of XStandard.

Image upload features:

You can upload .gif, .jpg and .png images via a web form - no need for an ftp program.
You can resize .jpgs. Real resizing not just width and height attribute changes.
You can upload thumb nails and larger images and have them linked automatically.
The markup created is accessible and standard compliant (choose between HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1).

Upload images instructions:

Click the 'Add New Image' link from the administration menu at the bottom of any page.
Click the browse button to find and open your image on your computer hard disk.
Fill in a short description of your image - this will be used as the label shown to users who are using text only browsers or screen readers (i.e., this is the alt attribute).
Fill in the title field. This can be a slightly longer description of your image. In standard compliant browsers this will be the text that appears when users hover their mouse pointer over the image on the web page.
Alignment, padding and borders can be added using the checkboxes.
If you do not wish to resize the image you are uploading, now click the submit button. Your image will be uploaded to the web server and a page will appear with the html code for copying and pasting into your web page.
Select and copy all of the html presented to you in the form.
Browse to the page you wish to add the image to and click the 'Edit this page' link at the bottom of the page.
If you are using the WYSIWYG toolbar, click the source button (marked HTML in TinyMCE) and paste your image into the page at the appropriate point.
If you are not using the WYSIWYG paste the markup into the appropriate place in the page.
Click the Submit button.

If you wish to resize the image you are uploading:

After you have provided all of the above information on the form (description, title, alignment, padding, border), click the 'resize image' checkbox.

Type a number (representing the size in pixels) into either the height or width boxes. Just fill in one box, not both, as the image will be resized while retaining the existing height to width ratios.
Click the submit button and your image will be uploaded and resized.

Using the advanced options:

The advanced options page is found by clicking 'More options' at the top of the page.

From this page you can upload both a thumbnail and a larger image, and have them linked automatically. You can choose to have CSS formatting (or turn it off) and choose between HTML 4.1 or XHTML 1 for the resulting markup.

The choices at the top of the page related to the thumbnail image. Those further down - under the heading, 'Add image to link to' related to the large image linked from the thumbnail.

The process for uploading an image is the same as for the default page.

MANAGE CATEGORIES

Categories automate the creation of index pages, navigation bars and 'breadcrumbs'. When pages are added to a category they automatically appear on the index page of that category.

Adding and editing categories:

Click the Manage Categories link from the admin menu and you will be presented with the Add or edit categories form.

To add a new category:

Add a category title, text to appear on the index page of this category and choose the navigation bar you would like to appear on this category page. Click submit to add you category.

To edit a category:

Choose the category from the list on the Manage Categories page and edit the contents of the resulting form.

Exclude pages from appearing in category index pages:

To exclude a page from the navigation and index page lists, uncheck the 'Include in index page' checkbox when creating or editing a page.

HOW DOES THE NAVIGATION WORK?

There are two ways to create navigation bars:

Automatic navigation:

Navigation links can be generated automatically based on the pages assigned to each category. To turn this on or off, go to the 'Manage navigation' link and click 'Set preference for generating automatic navigation'. Automatic navigation generates a list of the pages in each category. The current page is highlighted and does not link to itself.
To exclude a page from the navigation and index page lists, uncheck the 'Include in index page' checkbox when creating or editing a page.

The 'Manage navigation' link provides a simple way to create HTML based navigation bars which can contain any type of content. These navigation bars can then be assigned to pages as they are created or edited.

UPLOAD A FILE

Click the 'Upload a file' link from the members menu.
Click the form browse button, and choose the file you want to upload from your hard disk.
Add a description to the 'Description' field.
Click the submit button.

The following file types can be uploaded: .tar.gz, .tgz, .zip, .tar, .bmp, .swf, .doc, .xls, .exe, .pdf.

Do not use the file upload facility to upload images; to upload an image, choose 'Add New Image' from the members menu.

HOW DO I CHANGE MY PASSWORD?

The administration menu at the bottom of each page contains a link to a form to allow you to pick your own password. You must be logged in to access this facility. When you change your password you will receive an e-mail containing your new password as a reminder.

Passwords must be at least 8 characters long.

MODIFY MEMBERSHIP DETAILS

To modify your membership details, click the 'Member details' link on the members navigation at the bottom of any page. You will be presented with a form with your existing details. Modify the form and click the submit button.

Administrators can modify all members details:

List all members by clicking the 'List all members' link on the admin menu, and the click the person name to be edit as explained above.

PODCASTING PLUGIN

WDCMS now provides easy to use podcasting software.

Podcasting involves recording audio - usually spoken word and music - and making it available for others to download and play on their iPod, computer or other digital audio device.

1. Record your audio and save it as an MP3 file.

The following websites provide information and tools to help you record your audio, whatever type of computer you are using.

2. Create a new Weblog entry and upload your audio file.

Click the 'New Weglog' link to create a Weblog entry. The relevant part of the Weblog form is show below. If you are using a different server to host your audio files, type in the url, file size and MIME type instead of uploading your file. If you are uploading an MP3 file, the MIME type will be audio/mpeg.

Your Podcast is now available to the World. Podcasting uses RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to deliver audio files to users. With WDCMS your RSS file is created automatically. The feed that people and aggregators and platers can subscribe to is http://www.yourdomain.com/xmlrss/rss2.php.