Site Builder Software - Content Management System

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Select and copy the output site code code in the text area to a text editor (ie notepad) and save as a file with a .php extension ie index.php. Then upload the saved file, the CSS Style Sheet file (style.css), and the javascript script file (sbsp.js) to a directory on your server. The permissions of this directory should be temporarily set to provide public write permission (rwx r-x rwx or 0757) so when the site code is initially run on your server it can create a directory for the site xml files (your site content). Then open the site code page (ie http://www.mydomain.com/index.php) in your browser and the xml directory will be created by the site code, you can then return directory permissions to the original settings, Sign In and add New Items to your site.

Start here and set the input variables for your Site. Generated output code for your Site. Open the online Help file in a new window. Access registration and support details. Go to software developer web site, www.softswot.com. Input the the password for your site. You will need this to build and edit site pages. For a Quick Site you can click Build Site Code now to generate Site Code using the default variables. The Site Code will be displayed in the Output Text Area for uploading to your server. Build Code generates Site Code using the current variables and displays it in the Output Text Area for saving and uploading to your server. Select to allow the use of Cookies to remember the site password. This is usually the best password memory method, however will only function when Cookies are enabled and not blocked. Input the number of days a password remembered as a Cookie will remain valid. If left empty the Cookie will expire at the end of the session and the password will need to be re-entered when a new session is commenced. In most cases it should be left empty. It is only applicable if Use Cookies is selected and cookies are enabled. Select to allow the password to be passed using GET variables. Get variables appear as a query after a ? in a url and can be used in the form ?pw=mypassword, where mypassword is the required password. This method is not recommended as it will need to be included in the url of any edit function however it can be used when Cookies are not available Select to allow the use of Sessions for password memory. This should only be used when it is not possible to use Cookies. To use this feature Session Support must be enabled on the server. When provided this value is set as the body color, it is applied to text. It can be input as a defined color (ie black) or as a hex color value (ie #00000). It over rides corresponding style sheet values. When provided this value is set as the body background color, it is applied to the background. It can be input as a defined color (ie white) or as a hex color value (ie #ffffff). It over rides corresponding style sheet values. When provided this value is set as the highlight color, it is applied to bold text, links and headers. It can be input as a defined color (ie navy) or as a hex color value (ie #000080). It over rides corresponding style sheet values. When provided this value is set as the border color, it is applied to borders. It can be input as a defined color (ie silver) or as a hex color value (ie #c0c0c0). It over rides corresponding style sheet values. When provided this url is used as the source of the logo image on all pages. It should be a full url ie http://www.mydomain.com /images /logo.gif and the image file must be uploaded to the server. The logo image and anchor are given the class logo and included in the Logo Division. The positioning and formatting for the class logo (.logo) and the Logo Division (div.logo) are set in the CSS Style Sheet file. When provided this url is used as the hyper link for the logo image on all pages. If empty it defaults to the base url of the Site Code. When provided this text is used as the alt (alternative) display for the logo image on all pages. It is also used as the channel description in the RSS feed. When provided this html or text will be included in the Area Division on all pages. The positioning and formatting of the Area Division (div.area) is set in the CSS Style Sheet file. When provided this html or text will be included in the Footer Division above any selected Displays on all pages. The positioning and formatting of the Footer Division (div.footer) is set in the CSS Style Sheet file. When checked a Print link will be displayed in the Footer Division on all pages. The Print link opens a new window that only includes the displayed item information for ease of printing. When checked a Valid XHTML link will be displayed in the Footer Division on all pages. The Valid XHTML link uses the W3 validator to check the validity of the page XHTML coding. When checked a Valid CSS link will be displayed in the Footer Division on all pages. The Valid CSS link uses the W3 CSS validator to check the validity of the CSS Styles applied. When checked a RSS Feed link will be displayed in the Footer Division on all pages. The RSS Feed link provides the latest site changes in RSS format. When checked a Sign In link will be displayed in the Footer Division on all pages. The Sign In link displays the Password Entry Form for site editing and modification. If this is not selected Password Entry Form is accessed by adding the query ?pw to the base Site Builder file ie call the file index.php?pw . Select the Sort By order of items, this is the order applied for Items in pages and in the Item Menu. When checked the Item Sort By order is reversed. When provided this Item will be set as the default item displayed when no item is specified. This can be used to set the displayed item for the base url of the Site Builder code ie if the the Site Builder code is saved as index.php then index.php will display the default item. If no default is provided but an Item Menu is selected the default item will be the first item in the Item Menu. When provided this value is used as the time offset in hours from GMT/UTC for the last updated time and this will be displayed in the Time Division (div.time) for each item. This value should be a positive or negative decimal number. To display GMT/UTC time the value is 0. When provided this is the Title applied to the RSS feed of the the latest site changes and the site pages will include an application/rss+xml link within the head section of each page to identify the rss feed for the site. This is the length in characters of each item in the RSS feed. This is the number of items in the RSS feed. Select the layout of the Item Menu for the site. When vertical or horizontal are selected an Item Menu is displayed on all pages, no Item Menu is displayed when none is selected. The Item Menu is included in the Menu Division and the positioning and formatting of the Menu Division (div.menu) is set in the CSS Style Sheet file. When provided this html or text will be included at the start of the Menu Division (before any Item Menu) on all pages. The positioning and formatting of the Menu Division (div.menu) is set in the CSS Style Sheet file. When provided these files or urls will be the first links listed in the Item Menu. This allows the first portion of the Item Menu to be fixed. Multiple files/urls must be separated by commas (,). They may be relative or absolute ie http://www.mydomain.com/, news.php, http://www.someotherdomain.com/ . For each file/url included there must be a corresponding Item Menu First Title. These are the Titles that will be displayed in the Item Menu for the Item Menu First Files. Multiple titles must be separated by commas (,) ie Home Title, Current News, Some Other Domain . For each title included there must be a corresponding Item Menu First File. When provided these files or urls will be the last links listed in the Item Menu. This allows the last portion of the Item Menu to be fixed. Multiple files/urls must be separated by commas (,). They may be relative or absolute ie contactus.php, http://www.myotherdomain.com/ . For each file/url included there must be a corresponding Item Menu Last Title. These are the Titles that will be displayed in the Item Menu for the Item Menu Last Files. Multiple titles must be separated by commas (,) ie Contact Us, My Other Domain . For each title included there must be a corresponding Item Menu Last File. When provided this html or text will be included at the end of the Menu Division (after any Item Menu) on all pages. The positioning and formatting of the Menu Division (div.menu) is set in the CSS Style Sheet file. When provided these Items will not be automatically displayed in the Item Menu. This is used to prevent duplicate listing of items that have already been specifically included, to prevent the default item being listed as the base site url and as an item, or simply remove items that are not required in the Item Menu. Multiple items should be separated by commas (,) and each item must appear as in the query url for that item with any spaces replaced by a dash (-) ie Home,Not-In-Menu . When checked items will be arranged in Pages and a Page Menu will be include when the base url or a page file is dispalyed. A Page Menu consists of forward and backward page links. When a single Item is displayed no Page Menu is included. The Page Menu is included in the Page Menu Division and the positioning and formatting of the Page Menu Division (div.pagemenu) is set in the CSS Style Sheet file. Select the number of items on each Page. Select the number of forward and backward page links displayed in the Page Menu. Build Site Code generates Site Code using the current variables and displays it in the Output Text Area for saving and uploading to your server. The generated Site Code is displayed in the text area. Select and copy this output to a text editor and save as a file with a .php extension ie index.php. Then upload the saved file, the CSS Style Sheet file (style.css), the javascript script file (sbspc.js) to a directory on your server. The permissions of this directory should be set to rwx r-x rwx (0757) so when the site code file is run on your server it can create a directory for the site xml files (your site content). Once this directory has been created by the site code you can return permissions to the original settings. Then open the site code file on your server in a browser and add items to your site. Selects all the contents of the text area. Clear generated output code from text area.

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