Part 1: Creating your Website

Tool Bar Definitions

The following is a quick summary of the definitions of the tabs found on your Admin Tool Bar and the drop-down menu options available under each tab:

Create: These functions enable you to create/add pages to your website.

  • 1. Category: The main sections or pages of your website, Categories are like folders that contain related information or content. Articles will be collected within your Categories. The Categories you create will appear as options in your navigation and sub-navigation menus.
  • 2. Article: Articles are the pieces of content that you want to add to a particular category (folder), like content sections of text and/or graphics. .
  • 3. Event: An Event is a notification to your readers of an upcoming date. Events can be placed within your Categories and within your website calendars.
  • 4. File Download: A File is a link with a short description to a downloadable file. These files can be any format, and can be placed throughout your site.
  • 5. Custom Form: You have the ability to add a Contact Form to a page or pages on your site that your visitors can use to send you comments.

Edit: This tab provides access to the Content Editor from whichever section of your website you are currently viewing.

  • 1. Edit This Page: Make changes to the page, category, or article you are currently viewing.
  • 2. Remove This Page: Delete this page and the content you are currently viewing.
  • 3. Cut: Remove the page and content you are currently viewing and temporarily store it in the short-term memory for possible insertion elsewhere.
  • 4. Copy: Make a duplicate copy of the page and content you are currently viewing and store the information temporarily in the short term memory for possible insertion elsewhere.
  • 5. Paste: Insert/add the information/page/content most recently Cut or Copied.

Add-Ons: Access additional features and enhanced functionality available on your website.

  • 1. Email Newsletter: Send an Email Message or Newsletter, Manage your Distribution Lists, Manage your Subscriber information, and View Reports on the results of and responses to your Emails already sent.
  • 2. E-Commerce: Manage sales and financial transactions through your website: Manage Customer information, Manage the Orders placed through your website, and Manage the Product Classes (Create, Edit, or Delete a Product Class).
  • 3. View Traffic Reports: View reports on the amount of traffic/users coming to your website, for the current year, or archived historical reports.

General: The General tab allows you to create and change the formatting of your entire website.

  • 1. Update Header/Footer : Easily change the logo, header and footer images.
  • 2. Update Look & Feel: NOTE: Please contact Innoshare before attempting to change the Look and Feel. This section changes the entire template, which is the foundation of your website. It will change the layout and navigation of your entire website.
  • 3. Update Color Scheme: Choose the color palette for your website. The color palette fills in the color of the navigation bar, background, and highlights on your website.
  • 4. Site Optimization: Update the ‘Head Content’ function which enables you to enter words and terms that will identify your website when users search the internet using those words and terms. Enables your website to be identified and included in internet the search results based when users use your search criteria.
  • 5. Update Site Search: This function indexes and updates the words that people might use to search within your website. You should Update Site Search every time you add new content (articles, categories, or events) to your website.
  • 6. Update Navigation Fonts: Change the type/font style and size of the words in you navigation bar(s).
  • 7. Update Password: If you need to change your password for any reason, you can do it here.

Help: Access to basic assistance in navigating your Innoshare site.

Logout: When all edits have been completed and saved, logout to sign off of the website and the content editor.

Creating a Website from a Template

In this section, we will cover how to create your original website using the templates provided in Vayasite. There are five Innoshare templates to choose from.

You will have some “artistic” decisions to make when choosing which template to use, how it works with your logo and header, the four colors for your color scheme, as well as your navigational fonts. On top of that, you will need to envision how you would like your content to appear.

If you don’t feel comfortable designing a site from scratch, Vaya provides professional creative services tohelp you with this step. Once the designed template is turned over to you, you can manage it from there,or you can call on Vaya again for professional services to manage and update your site. And since we are designing websites on our template system, the cost of initial design and setup is a fraction of what a custom website would cost.

  • Covered in this section:

1. Inserting a Logo, Header, and Footer

   2. Choosing a Template
   3. Choosing a Color Scheme
   4. Entering Keywords for Site Optimization
   5. Choosing your Navigational Fonts
   6. Changing your Password
   7. Building your Search Index
  • A Few Helpful Notes Before You Begin:

• As you use this program, periodically a pop-up window will appear and suggest that you save your work. When this happens, please save your work. To continue your work, reopen your page from the Innoshare task bar.

• Because the Innoshare software resides on a remote server, sometimes the browser’s “back” button does not work. Whenever possible, use the “cancel”, “back”, or “re-do” buttons included within the Innoshare software and the task bar at the top of your Content Editor.

• If you have Pop-up blocker software installed on your computer, it may be necessary to disable it in order to open the Content Editor. The Pop-up blocker software most likely places an icon on your task bar for this purpose.

• We recommend a minimum standard screen resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels to ensure you can view all the commands available to you in our Content Editor. To check the resolution on your computer, right-click on your desktop, click Properties, click Settings, and then adjust the Screen Resolution slide rule to at least 1024 by 768 pixels or higher.

1. Inserting a Logo, Header,and Footer

Note: When you first login to your “blank” home page, the banner across the top will inform you that your logo and header image (combined) needs to be at least 770 pixels wide x 50 pixels high. Your Logo and Header image should be made and edited in a graphics program such as Photoshop.

The logo image you select will justify left, while the header image will justify right. Anytime the screen needs to widen, the center area between the logo and header will justify itself wider.

You may also choose to combine your logo and header into one image, and upload that image as the Header. In that case, you do not need to upload a Logo. When the screen widens, the area to the right of the header will justify itself wider.

*1. From the Tool bar, choose: General. Then click Update Header / Footer

*2. Upload Logo / Header: • In the Logo Upload window, click on the Edit Content button next to Enter Header HTML. The Content Editor window will open. • Click the “Picture” icon in the tool bar at the top of the Content Editor window. The Image Folder Management Tool window will open. • Select the file that contains your Header / Logo image. • Click the Close & Continue button at the bottom of the Content Editor. • Click the Submit button in the Logo Upload window to upload the Logo / Header to the system 3. Upload Footer:

 
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