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Setting up your website template: This template features 6 galleries (more can be added), 54 pictures, a slideshow, pop-up close up picture viewers with an automatically resizing frame. Plus a no "right click" image protection script. Step 1: EDIT FLASH ANIMATION: | Click for more details Open the "flash.txt" file with Notepad and change "Your Website Title" to match your name or company name. Be sure not to delete the "logo=". Also change the "&slogan= Optional Line of text goes here..." to match your slogan. Be sure not to delete the "&slogan=". This will change the Flash logo on all pages. If you wish to use a graphic logo, there are instructions later in this document. Step 2: EDIT COPYRIGHT: | Click for more details Open the "copyright.js" file in Notepad or any text editor and change the "Your Name or Company" and "info@yourdomain.com" lines to match your information. This will change the lower page info on all pages. You can also edit the "copyright-allwebco.js" footer file if you would like. Step 3: EDIT CONTACT INFO: | Click for more details Open the "contact.js" file in Notepad or any text editor and change the company name, address, phone number and e-mail address. This will change contact info on the "contact", custom and "about" pages. Step 4: EDIT THE CONTACT FORM: | Click for more details If you are setup with an AllWebCo hosting account. Go to your control panel at "http://your-domain.com/cgi-bin/plusmail" and install the free script "Formail" then edit the contact page and replace "your-domain.com" with your domain. There is a thank you page included. If you are not set up with AllWebCo hosting or do not have "Formail" installed. You can either setup the contact form to use another contact script, install "Formail" on your server or you can remove the contact form from the pages between the comment tags. If you wish to change the sizes of the form elements you can open the "coolstyle.css" in Notepad or any text editor and change the ".shadeform" ".textarea" and ".dropdown" width numbers. Step 5: REPLACE THE GRAPHICS: | Page images | Gallery setup details Because this template includes a slideshow, the best way to setup the pictures in the gallery and the slide show at the same time is not to actually edit the HTML pages and change the pictures on each individual page. The fastest way is to simply replace the pictures in the "gallery" directory with your own by overwriting the files that are in there now and using the same generic names. Replace the 6 A-gallery-?.jpg images in the gallery folder. These are used on the gallery.htm page. Replace the 54 "Fgallery" pictures in the "gallery" directory with full size photos. Replace the 54 "gallery" pictures with your thumbnails. The thumbnails are now 130 x 87 pixels. This is a fixed size to accommodate the picture frames. You can make your full sized pictures any size that you would like, because the picture frame in the popup and slide show will automatically resize itself. Replace the 3 "front-pic" icons with your own pictures. These are used for navigation. Replace the "about.jpg", about-pic1.jpg, about-pic2.jpg, and all the other pictures that correspond to each page in the "picts" directory. There are a total of 24 pictures in the "picts" directory that you will probably want to replace with your own pictures. PICTURE VIEWING AND SLIDESHOW OPTIONS: | Click for more details This template includes 20 options for the pop-closeup.js including pop-up or full browser image views. To change these options, open your "pop-closeup.js" in Notepad and put a "yes" or "no" (all lowercase) for the options you want to change. You can also change the height and width variables as well as turn on and off the scrollbars. See the notes in the "pop-closeup.js" for details Step 6: EDIT PAGES: | Software choices | Notepad Editing Change the text on all pages to match your information. You can use a text editor like Notepad, Frontpage, Dreamweaver or any wysiwyg editor. Take care not to delete any of the HTML tags that surround the text. You will find notes inside each page to help you navigate. NOTE: You will not see the footer and header in some software because they are .js include files so you can globally edit your e-mail and other info. Step 7: EDIT PAGE TITLES, DESCRIPTIONS AND KEYWORDS: | Click for more details Open each of the pages and change the page titles (at the very top of the page) and also the description and the keywords to match your product or service. You can edit one page and copy and paste to the other pages. Be careful to only change what's inside the " " so you don't disturb the html code. Each page title is very important so your site will get a good listing at Google, msn and other search engines. Step 8: UPLOAD: | Click for more details Upload the pages on to your hosting company's server using ftp software like CuteFTP or Coffee Cup (free) or your control panel. Be sure to make a directory called "picts" and one called "gallery" on your server and put the pictures into that directory. Use only lowercase for these directories. Hosting space is case sensitive. Options: USING A GRAPHIC LOGO: You can replace the Flash logo with a graphic logo. To do this, delete or rename the "header.js" and the "index.html", then rename the "graphic_logo_header.js" to "header.js" and the "GRAPHIC_LOGO_index.html" to "index.html". In the picts directory you will find a graphic called "logo.gif" and a graphic called "logo_index.gif". Edit these two graphics with your logo. It's best to keep the graphics the same sizes that they are now unless you edit the height and width numbers in the new "header.js" and "header_index.js". REMOVING OR CHANGING THE PICTURE FRAMES: You can remove the picture frames and have a one pixel border around all the images. First, delete or rename the "coolstyle.css". Then rename the "NO-FRAMES_coolstyle.css" to "coolstyle.css". Do the same with the "NO-FRAMES_pop-closeup.js" and the "NO-FRAMES_slideshow.htm" as well. Click here for details on replacing the frames. SETTING UP THE SLIDESHOW PICTURES: | Click for more details The slideshow is currently setup to display all 54 pictures in the gallery directory. If you would like to add or remove pictures from the slideshow, open the slideshow.htm in Notepad and look for the "EDIT THIS AREA" note. Copy and paste to add new pictures to the list, or delete lines to remove pictures. You can also set the AutoPlay speed. Look for "var rotate_delay = 3000". SIZING THE SLIDESHOW: See "PICTURE VIEWING AND SLIDESHOW OPTIONS" above on this page. LINING UP THE GALLERIES: If you change the notes near the top of the gallery pages, the pictures may no longer line up from one page to the next. To line up the galleries, open the "line_up_pictures.js" in Notepad and change the height="110" to shorten or lengthen all the pages at once. FONTS: | Click for more details You can change your font colors and sizes by editing the "coolstyle.css" with a text editor. You can find other font colors by clicking here. You can also change the font sizes in the "coolstyle.css" file. Change the "TABLE" px size to change the copy on all pages. Change the "smalltitle" px size to change all the page title sizes. CHANGING LINKS / ADDING TO THE MENU: | Click for more details You can change the names of the links like "about" or "links" to other page names by editing the "menu.js". Only change the one instance of the name and not the name with the ".htm" after it. Whatever you change in the menu.js will change every page on the website. Keep the names short so they don't go outside the menu. You can even add more pages by copying one link in the menu.js and pasting it right below the next. Be sure to back up your file before you edit them. There are instructions in the "menu.js" if you need room for more links. You can also edit the gallery navigation bar:  Open the "menu_top.js" file in Notepad and copy and paste to add more galleries to the navigation. This template aslo includes a floating menu on the right side of each page. Click here for details and options. ADDING GALLERIES: | Click for more details You can add pages to your website by copying and pasting any one of the pages and renaming it to whatever you need. You can then add links from the other pages or the gallery. There are notes in the gallery pages to help you copy and paste to add more pictures and more galleries (if you are using Notepad). There are 131 pictures and only 8 or 10 that you won't need to edit. You will find all pictures in the "picts" and "gallery" directories. Be sure to back up your files before you edit them. PAYPAL SHOPPING CART SETUP | Click for more details You can have your pictures link to paypal so visitors can purchase them. Forms have been created in the "FORMgallery?.htm" pages so it's easier to setup. This template is setup as a shopping cart. STEP 1: Set up a paypal account and get the HTML code you need to setup purchases from your site. You will need the info between the "<form>" and "</form>" tags from paypal. | |
