WEB EDITOR

Interface Sections

This page describes the main interface sections in the Web Editor:

The Page Settings, Special Page Settings and Fields panels appear only in the Web Module (and not when the Web Editor is used as a data field in a database). You can minimize/expand any of those panels by clicking the handle control in the top left corner of each panel.

Main Toolbar

Text formatting

Horizontal rules

Insert Pictures (Images)

Picture Albums

Hyperlinks

Buttons

Tables

Framed tables (decorative tables)

Font generated images

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More Settings*

You can preview individual web pages in any of the browsers installed on your system by clicking the Preview in Browser () button.

* The More Settings menu is also accessible by right-clicking in the Page Preview/Edit Area.

Page Settings

This panel provides you with access to the general settings for each page in your site. The following settings are available:

Title/Filename

• Page Title (text box) - Sets the page title, the text that is shown in the Browser title bar.This is also what the search engines pick up.
• Menu Title (text box) - Sets the menu item title. This is the text that shows when you move the cursor over the menu item. Leave this box empty, if you don't want to set menu title. Use Apply button to apply the change.
• Header (text box) - Sets the page header (the text in the page header image). Leave this property empty if you don't want to have pageheader for this page. If you want to disable pageheaders for entire project, you can set it in Pageheaders properties. Use Refresh button to apply the change.
• Statusbar (text box) - This parameter allows custom messages to appear in the browser's status bar while the visitors move their mouse over the navigation menu's link to this page. If the text box is empty, the link to the page is displayed instead.
• Directory (combo box) - Sets the folder in which the page will be stored on your computer. The default folder is 'documents'. You can select any other existing folder or create new one, using the Add button.
• Filename (text box) - Sets the page filename. Leave this box empty, if you want to use the default filename generated from EzGenearator (unique number or name). In case you set custom filename, use Apply button to apply the change.

SEO/Robots

• Keywords (text box) - You can type here keywords associated with the current page. Keywords are used by most search engines to index your site. Well-selected keywords will bring more traffic to your web site. You can use multiple keywords: use "," (comma) as a separator between the words.
• Description (text box) - You can type here a short (one or two sentences) description of the page. Page descriptions are used by most search engines to hint the user for the page contents.
• Priority (combo box) - Sets the priority of this page relative to the other pages on your site. This value is included into the XML sitemap (if created) and provides general information to search engines. See Site Settings window. This value has no effect on your pages compared to pages on other sites, and only lets the search engines know which of your pages you deem most important.
• Frequency (combo box) - Sets how frequently the page is likely to change. This value is include into the XML sitemap (if created) and provides general information to search engines. See Site Settings window.
• Robots Meta (combo box) - EXPERTS ONLY! The Robots META tag is a simple mechanism to indicate to visiting Web Robots if a page should be indexed, or links on the page should be followed. This property allows you to define such meta tag within the current page.

Visibility/Protection

• Hidden in menu (check box) - If checked, EZGenerator will hide current page from the site navigation menu. However, the page is still generated (so it can be linked from other pages) and included in the sitemap.
• Remove menu's (check box) - Check this box if you want to remove template menu area for current page. This feature is not available for all templates.
• Hide in sitemaps (check box) - If checked, EZGenerator will exclude current page from the sitemap.
• Hide in search (check box) - If checked, EZGenerator will exclude current page from site built-in Search.
• Ext. Link (text box) - Use this property if you want to link certain page to external URL. When site visitors select this page from the site menu, the browser will open the linked external page instead.

Note: you can use absolute or relative paths here.

• Target (combo box) - This parameter sets the target frame of the page. The default choice opens the page in its designated frame inside the site. Whole Page results in the page replacing the navigation menu and other frames in the site, so only the page alone is visible in the browser (this setting is suitable when linking to an external site). New Window opens the page in a new browser window.
• Protection (combo box) - Use this property if you want to protect the current page, or (for special pages only) to set a special page admin screen under Central Admin control.

  For normal pages, the combo box has two options: Protected and Unprotected.

  For special pages only (as Blog, Subscribe, Calendar, etc), the combo box provides three options: Protected and controlled by Central Admin - select this option when you want to protect the current page. In this case Read/Write access to the page will be controlled by Central Admin. Please, define Login page if this option is selected. Unprotected, Admin section controlled by Central Admin - select this option when you don't want to protect the current page, but you want the Write Access (to admin screen) to the page to be controlled by Central Admin. Please, define Login page if this option is selected. Unprotected, Admin section controlled by Page password - select this option when you don't want to protect the current page, and don't want the Write Access (to admin screen) to be controlled by Central Admin. In this case, admin screen is protected directly by username & password defined in the corresponding special page.

  Note: Direct protection of Write Access (to admin screen) is depreciated and supported only for compatibility with old EZGenerator versions. Recommended is Central Admin control.

  If you protect a page, make sure to first create Login page in your site project, and then associate this login page with the current page, using the Login page property as explained below. For more information, see Page Protection & Central Admin and Login.

• Login page (url picker) - Sets the login page that will control the current page. For more information, see Page Protection & Central Admin and Login.

 

For Online Editable Page only - In case edit mode is directly protected (option Unprotected, Admin section controlled by Page password is selected - DEPRECIATED), use Password editbox to set password to access edit page. Use Re-use check box if you have more than one Online Editable Pages and want to reuse the password for all or few of them. For example, if you have two Online Editable Pages with same password and want to enable/disable them at same time, set same password for both and check Re-use box for both. This way every time you enable/disable the first page you will also enable/disable the second page.

For Shop only - In case your shop back-end is directly protected (option Unprotected, Admin section controlled by Page password is selected - DEPRECIATED), use Password editbox to set password to access shop back-end.

Scripts

• Body Tag (text box) - EXPERTS ONLY! This option is provided for advanced users only, who might want to include some specific HTML parameters in the page BODY tag (<BODY>). It's highly recommended that novice users leave this field empty as it may cause your page to render incorrectly.
• Background (button) - Use this button to access Page Background window, where you can change page background color or set background image. You can press CTRL and click in the Background-color edit field, and move mouse over template to recognize colors. To change background for the whole site, go to Site Settings.
• Page Scripts (text box) - EXPERTS ONLY! This option is provided for advanced users only, and allows you to include custom scripts (like JavaScript) in the HTML header section. Click the More Scripts button for a bigger multiline box (useful when working with bigger scripts). It's highly recommended that novice users leave this field empty as it may cause your page to render incorrectly.

Language

Charset (combo box) - Lets you set different charset for current page only.

Special Page Settings

This section is enabled only for certain page types and contains settings, specific for them. This section is named after the page it refers to - for example, the Special Page Settings section for Blog page is named Blog Page Settings. For more information, see the Page Types section.

Fields

The Fields list is a quick and easy way to add macros and special objects to your page. Instead of typing the macros manually, you can simply drag a field icon from the list in this panel and drop it in the desired location in the page. The appropriate macro script/object will be automatically inserted in that location.

The Fields list contains several special fields as well (unlike database fields, which are black, the special fields are gray). These fields are specific for each page type and are described in the Page Types section.

Field Properties

The Field Properties section displays context sensitive properties of the currently selected field. Adjust those properties before adding a field to the form. For more information on the properties available for each field/object type, see Field Properties.

NOTE: It is important to remember that although useful, the Fields list does not offer the full functionality macros support. For more information on macros and full syntax description, see Macros.

Page Preview/Edit Area

The Page Preview area resembles a standard rich text editor. It shows the page preview and allows you to alter the page layout and contents.

Right-clicking in the the Page Preview area displays the More Settings menu, which contains context-sensitive commands (depending on your selection and position in the page) and some general functions, such as cut, copy and paste. See More Settings.

Right-clicking in the Template area (menus, template images) displays the Editable Template Elements menu, which contains options for customizing certain template elements. See Template Elements Menu.

Some templates contain small EDIT button that allows you to insert additional content in template area.