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Setting up your website template: Step 1: EDIT FLASH ANIMATION: | Click for more details Open the "flash.txt" file with Notepad or a plain text editor and edit "Your Company" with your name or company name. Be sure not to delete the "logo=" flash code. This will update the Flash logo on all pages. If you wish to use a graphic logo, there are instructions later in this document. EDIT HOMEPAGE TICKER: Open the "ticker.xml" file in Notepad and edit the text lines between the <zin> and </zin> code. You can add as many lines as you want to the ticker. Be sure not to make the lines too long so the entire message shows on the index.html. Step 2: EDIT FOOTER: | Click for more details Open the "footer.js" file in Notepad or any text editor and edit "Company Name" with your name or website name. This will update the footer on all pages. Step 3: EDIT CONTACT INFO: | Click for more details Open the "phone.js" in Notepad or any text editor and change the company name, address, phone and fax number and e-mail address. This will update the contact info on the "contact" and "about" pages. This is done in a .js file so search engines will not read your e-mail and you should get less spam. Step 4: EDIT THE CONTACT FORM: Click for current info on setting up the template forms. Click for info on adding more fields to the forms. Click for changing form sizes or colors. If you want to use only e-mail on the contact page you can remove the contact form from the "contact.htm" between the comment tags. Step 5: REPLACE THE GALLERY PICTURES: | Click for more details The best way to setup the pictures on the gallery pages is not to actually edit the HTML pages and change the pictures on each individual page. The fastest way is to simply replace the .jpg pictures in the "gallery" folder with your own by overwriting the files that are there now and using the same generic names. In the "gallery" folder, replace the "Fgallery" pictures with full size photos. Replace the "gallery" pictures with your thumbnails. The thumbnails are now 50 x 50 pixels. The full sized images are 500 x 624 pixels. You can make them any size that you prefer, however, it is strongly recommended that you make the "Fgallery" images 500 pixels or less in width to accommodate lower resolution monitors. GALLERY PAGE OPTIONS: | Click for more details The "pop-closeup.js" file is the script that allows images to change on the gallery pages. You can edit this file in Notepad. There are some options near the top of this file that you can change. Step 6: EDIT PAGES: | Software choices | Notepad Editing Edit the text on all HTML pages with your website 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 HTML page so you will know what areas to edit. NOTE: When editing you will not see the footer and header in some software because they are .js include files. 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 with your product or service keywords. You can edit one page and copy and paste this area to the other pages. Be careful to only change what's inside the " " so you don't disturb the html code. Titles are important so your site will get a good listing at Google, Yahoo, 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 or Windows Explorer or your control panel. Be sure to upload the "picts" and "gallery" folders and all files in these folders. Options: USING A GRAPHIC LOGO: To replace the Flash logo with a graphic logo: Delete or rename the "header.js". Rename the "graphic_logo_header.js" to "header.js". In the picts folder you will find a graphic called "logo.jpg". Edit this graphic with your logo image. The "logo.jpg" is now 600 pixels wide by 65 pixels high. It's best to keep this image the same size if possible. You will find some options inside the "header.js" for the overall header height. HOMEPAGE SOUND: The index.html on this template has a background sound named home-sound.mp3. You can replace this sound by creating a .wav, .mid or .mp3 file and putting your newly created sound file in this website folder. Then, edit the index.html and change the code following the "START SOUND CODE, DELETE TO REMOVE" notes in the index.html. Replace "home-sound.mp3" in 2 places. To remove the homepage sound delete between the notes in the index.html. CHANGING LINKS / ADDING TO THE MENU: | Click for more details You can change the names of the links like "about" or "clients" to other names by editing the "menu.js" file in Notepad or a plain text editor. When editing menu names do not change the name with the ".htm" after it. Whatever you edit in any menu .js file will update every page on the website. Keep menu names short if possible. For longer page names you can add them to the template "site_map.htm". Add more pages by copying one link in the "menu.js" and pasting it right below the next. Be sure to back up your files before editing them. ADDING PAGES: | 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 on the menu. FONTS: | Click for more details You can change your font colors and sizes by editing the "coolstyle.css" with a text editor. Change the "TABLE" px size to change the copy on all pages. Change the "title" px size to change all the title sizes. Click above for more help. CHANGING THE GRAPHICS/PICTURES: | Click for more details You can replace each HTML page picture with your own .jpg image. These pictures are now 500 x 125 pixels. You can use any size picture you want but it is recommended that you keep these images 500 pixels wide. Each HTML page includes it's own image. These are named according to the page they are on. You will find all pictures in the "picts" folder. SITE MAP PAGE: The "site_map.htm" is linked from the index.html. It is best not to remove this link so search engines can find your site map and properly list all your pages when users search at major search engines. PAGE HEIGHTS: So all your pages will maintain a standard height a "pageheight.js" file was included. Edit this file in Notepad and you can change the height="???" to any height you need. PAYPAL SHOPPING CART SETUP | Click for more details Paypal shopping cart forms have been included in the template "FORMgallery.htm" page. Follow the steps below to setup the shopping cart page.
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