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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 Website Title" with your name or company name. Be sure not to delete the "logo=" 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. HOMEPAGE FLASH ADSHOW: | Click for more details Edit the flash.txt and change the 4 "&hometitle?=" and 4 "&hometext?=" lines with your titles and phrases. Or you can leave these lines blank to have no text with the homepage AdShow. This AdShow is showing 4 .jpg images. You will find these images in the "picts" folder. You can replace "homeflash-1.jpg" through "homeflash-4.jpg" with any standard .jpg images and the flash will update. Make your images 575 wide x 350 pixels high. Step 2: EDIT FOOTER: | Click for more details Open the "footer.js" file in Notepad or any text editor, and change the "Your Company" line with your company name. This will change the lower page info on all pages. Edit all ".js" files with a text editor. The "footer.js" also includes links you can edit, or you can add more links as well. Step 3: EDIT CONTACT INFO: | Click for more details Open the "contact.js" file in Notepad and edit the company name, address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address (Edit the e-mail in 2 places). This will update contact info on the "contact" page and on the "about" page. 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 in the gallery 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" folder with your own by overwriting the files that are in there now and using the same generic names. In the "gallery" folder, replace the 27 "Fgallery" pictures with full size photos. Replace the 27 "gallery" pictures with your thumbnails. The thumbnails are now 100 x 67 pixels and the Fgallery images are 500 x 333. You can make them any size that you prefer. There is info for adding more images to each gallery page later in this document. IMAGE VIEWER OPTIONS: | Click for more details You can change some options for the gallery image viewer page (image-viewer.htm) by editing the pop-closeup.js in Notepad. Options include new browser window, or popup for the viewer. Step 6: EDIT SIDEBAR: | Click for more details Open the "sidebar.js" file in Notepad or any text editor, and edit the text and links with your own text. You will also find some options you can change at the top of this file. Editing the sidebar.js will update the right side of all the template pages at one time. Editing example: In the sidebar.js find the "1ST NOTES AREA" and edit the "Notes Area" line with your sidebar title text. Edit the "You can edit this area..." text with your own text. Try this update and check the about.htm to see this updated. Step 7: EDIT PAGES: | Software choices | Notepad Editing Edit the text on all pages with your website information. You can use EW, Frontpage, Dreamweaver, GoLive, any wysiwyg HTML editor or a text editor like Notepad. Take care not to delete any of the HTML tags that surround the text. Step 8: EDIT TITLES, DESCRIPTIONS AND KEYWORDS: | Click for more details Open each of the HTML pages and change the titles (at the very top of the page) and also the description and the keywords with your product or service info. 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. Page titles are important so your site will get a good listing at Google or MSN and other search engines. Click for optimization help. Step 9: 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". Edit the "logo.jpg" in the picts folder with your logo graphic. If you make this image larger in height, edit the headerheight variable in the "header.js". paypal.htm PAYPAL PAYMENT PAGE: This template includes a Paypal payment page called "paypal.htm". Edit the "paypal@your-web-domain.com" in this page with your Paypal e-mail and you can use this page to accept custom payments by sending clients a link to this page and having them fill in any amount on the payment page. 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. SETTING UP THE SLIDESHOW PICTURES: | Click for more details The slideshow is currently setup to display all pictures in the gallery folder. 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". HOMEPAGE IMAGE: | Tiling images | Replacing images The image on the index.html is 528 pixels wide x 350 high. This image is named "home.jpg" and is located in the picts folder. You can replace this using a montage image or a tiled image. Optional home images are included in the "extras" folder. Make this image any width you would like. SIDEBAR IMAGES: | Click for more details Images used in the sidebar are named "sidebar-1.jpg" and "sidebar-2.jpg". These can be found in the "picts" folder. These images are 115 x 70 pixels in size. Click here if you want to add new items to the sidebar.js. BACKGROUND IMAGES: Each page includes a background image. You can change these images from page to page. EXAMPLE: In the "about.htm" you will find this code: class="background-about". This is the class used in the "coolstyle.css" for the about page. This image is named "background-about.jpg" and is located in the "picts" folder. These images were created using the feathering tool for the edge fade and brightness and contrast for the image lightness. LINING UP GALLERY THUMBNAILS: 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="60" to shorten or lengthen all the pages at once. FONTS: | Click for more details Edit the "coolstyle.css" with any plain text editor to change font sizes and colors. Edit 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 details. CHANGING LINKS / ADDING TO THE MENU: | Click for more details There are a total of 3 menu type files you can add and remove links in. 1. menu.js (top menu) 2. sidebar.js (left side small images with links) 3. footer.js (footer links) You can change the names of the links like "about" or "gallery" 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 or any .js file will change every page on the website. You can add more page links by copying one link in the menu.js or footer.js and pasting it right below the next. Be sure to back up your files before you edit them. There are notes in each "menu" .js files to add another link. ADDING NEW GALLERY PAGES: | Click for more details To add a new gallery page click here. To add a new row of images to a gallery page click here. 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. PAYPAL SHOPPING CART SETUP | Click for more details Paypal shopping cart forms have been included in the template "merchandise.htm" page. Follow the steps below to setup the shopping cart.
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