Starter Xpress - On-line Editor Help:
Welcome to the help file, I will try and answer all your questions here being aware that you will undoubtedly fund some questions I have not thought of, when this happens please email me at support@lgrtech.com and i will endeavor to update this page and yourself with the answer ASAP.
Help Items : Main Menu : Edit Pages : Editing News : Uploading Images
Lets get Started with the Main page
First thing you'll notice is the left hand menu.
From here you can edit any page your website has, this is also where new features will show up so keep an eye on this menu.
The next page we will discuss is the edit page - Click on Edit Home Page
As you can see you now have the home page available for editing.
The HTML Editor works in almost exactly the same way as Word Pad that's
included MS Windows.
Available Actions:
To perform an action simply highlight the text required and press the appropriate
action icon.
| Icon | Function |
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Save Current Document |
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Cuts the selected text from the page to the clipboard. |
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Copies the selected text from the page to the clipboard. |
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Pastes the contents of the clipboard into the document where the cursor is currently positioned. |
| Undo: This is a keyboard only command that will undo the last few actions. | |
| Redo: This is a keyboard only command that will redo the last few actions that have been undone | |
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Bullets: This creates a list. There is no shortcut for this. |
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Numbered Bullet: This creates a numbered bullet. There is no shortcut for this. |
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Indent: If you wanted to indent a paragraph or section of text put the cursor somewhere in the text to be indented and click this button. There is no shortcut for this. |
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Outdent: This does the reverse of the Indent Button. There is no shortcut for this. |
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Opens up a dialog box that gives you the option to select the text color. |
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Opens up
a dialog box that gives you the option to add a link to text. |
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Image selector - Allows you to insert an image into your page. |
| Edit HTML | Switch between the WYSIWYG View and the HTML Source View |
All the commands above a pretty self explanatory but I want to touch in more detail the Link and Image Buttons.
Link - The link button helps you connect to other information on the net. For example say I want people to be able to email me, I simply click where I want the link to go then click link, choose mailto: from the drop down menu and then type the email address in the blank box provided, vola an email link that will automatically launch the users email program such as outlook.
When linking http:// users will be taken from your website to the linked site, if you do not wish them to loose your site edit the HTML code after adding the link and at the <a href="mylink" >mylink</a> insert the following <a href="mylink" target="_blank">mylink</a> this will cause a new browser to be opened allowing your site to stay visible.
Note to embed a file from LTV you do not use link, you will need to edit HTML and paste the information from LTVs embed link box into the area you wish it to go. For more information on how to do this see the help sections on LTV's website.
Image Selector - When you click on this icon you will be faced with a new popup screen like so
The first thing to notice is that the raw domain name of your site is in the image box - there is also some help information as you scroll down - the submit button called ok is located at the bottom of the scroll down, I have done this on purpose to prevent people inserting unwanted blank spaces because the file could not be found.
You can reference any image here from any website on the internet - I do recommend you save the images locally though to prevent unwanted problems.
Note the http://sx.lgrtech.com/lghl/images/myimage.gif - The http://sx.lgrtech.com is the root web domain, this can also be your own domain name if you have opted for domain linking to your Starter Xpress site. The next part is the website link, in the example we have used the demo lghl site when your box comes up it will have your website directory link here. The next part is the directory images which is where your uploaded images are stored.
Now the tricky bit - You need to note down the filename you uploaded through the upload images section (see later in this file) that name goes where myimage.gif is. For example to place a file of myface.gif I would change myimage.gif to myface.gif and click ok, vola you will now see the image in your website. If you do not see an image you have either named the file incorrectly or not yet uploaded it.
When you click the edit HTML - you will be faced with the raw web code for the page, here you can add functions, such as links to separate scripts etc. We suggest that unless you have programmed in HTML before you use this as a learning point only until you have more understanding of how HTML works.
Note Pages cannot be saved until you have exited the Edit html view.
All the editing pages save edit news and upload images work the same way.
The news system consist of 3 parts - Adding New news - Editing News - Deleting news
The first part we will deal with is the news menu page
First thing to note is that you have more options than in the general editing page - This is due to the news items being more actively generated, unlike web pages that remain primarily static you should have news at least once a month to entice people to keep coming to your website, this is all part of the marketing which we will deal with in another section.
From here you can add a news item, edit and existing or delete an old news item. When you first start this page will have nothing on it except a blue line.
Click add news
You'll note that this is similar to the editing page you've been using with one difference, there is now a news headline box at the top. This box holds the information that is first scene on your website under headlines see below
as the first information your potential customer sees when hitting your website it should be catchy and entice them to read further.
There is no limitation to the length of text but to keep your website looking its best we recommend not making your headlines too long.
Once you have saved your news item it will instantly appear on your front page so watch your spelling.
The editing of news works the same way save to say that the text is already there just waiting for you to modify.
When you delete a news item a warning will appear just to be sure you did not click it by accident.
Finally lets look at Uploading Images
This is a very straight forward system
Its look is similar to that of the edit news page
here you can upload a new image or delete an image the list allows you to print your uploaded images making inserting them with the image button easy.
To print the page right mouse click in the white space under the image list then click print.
When uploading images the server will only allow the following types .gif, .jpg this has been done for security reasons.
That's it Have fun and feel free to suggest any features you would like to see added.