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How to do common tasks

Inserting pictures

1. You must first upload your picture or image from your local machine. It goes in a folder called 'images'.

Save your work using the save icon.
At the top of the editor, choose [IMAGES].
Click the browse button, select the file, and click upload.

2. Use the text box on the top right of the editor to select the image. Click on the icon next to it, and the image will appear in your page.

Tip: Give your images meaningful names before you upload them.

Inserting links to other pages or paragraphs

1. Write all the pages first before you put in the links. CMSimple will note all the < H1>-< H4> headings.

2. Highlight some text or an image.

3. Use the text box on the top left of the editor to select the target. Click on the icon next to it, and the link will appear in your page.

Inserting a link to another website

1. Highlight some text or an image.

2. There is an icon to 'create web link' at the top centre of the HTMLArea Editor. In 'OEdit' the icon is called 'create or edit hyperlink', it is to the top right. Click this icon.

Tip: You must use the full name including http:// for each link.

Inserting a link to download a file

1. You must first upload your file from your local machine. It goes in a folder called 'download'.

Save your work using the save icon.
At the top of the editor, choose [DOWNLOADS].
Click the browse button, select the file, and click upload.

2. Highlight some text or an image.

3. Use the text box on the top left of the editor to select the file. It will be at the end of the list, after the < H1>-< H3> names. Click on the icon next to it, and the link will appear in your page.

Manipulating Pages

1. To delete a page - Select all, cut, save or go into HTML mode and cut the raw code.

2. To move a page A after page B -Select all, cut, save, move to the bottom of the page B, paste and save.

3. To change a page title. Simple edit the text -making sure you don't include a line break.

Be aware, if you change the header tag, all links to that tag will break.

4.To merge two pages - go to the second page, highlight the title and select < h4>. Save. If this fails to work, go into HTML and insert a space betweem the < and h of the first tag. Go back to edit mode and save. If you use an external editor- it may remove the space once more!

Clever stuff

The editor allows you to do some formatting. An icon allows you to change into HTML mode. If you have studied HTML, it is possible to do some 'tweaking' of the code .

Many more complicated effects can be achieved by using CMSimple Scripting.
Details are given in the Developer's manual.

Changing the look and feel of the site

The time will come when you wish to change the 'template' used for your site. If you are lucky, there will be another template already available for you.

Save your work using the save icon.
At the top of the editor, choose [SETTINGS].
On that side, choose [Edit configuration].
Look for the lines

Site
site_title:
site_template:

Save. Use the button at the bottom of the page.

You might however like to commission or write an entirely new template see Changing the layout in the Installer's Manual.

Changing your password

This is very important.

Save your work using the save icon.
At the top of the editor, choose [SETTINGS].
On that side, choose [Edit configuration].
Look for the lines

Security
security_password:
security_username:

Change both of these.
Save. Use the button at the bottom of the page.
Set a date when you will change it again.

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