The Dashboard

The first page you will come to when you have logged in is the Dashboard, which is the place for you to find your site statistics and links to your control panel. The Dashboard plays no part in the editing or creation of your site but is in place so that you have a central place to head when you want to view your control panel or the statistics from your BT Site.

The Pages Editor

The Page Editor shows the structure of your site in a tree diagram shape. The top 'page' is your Home Page and any pages underneath this home page exist as your additional pages. To add a new page all you have to do is click on the small 'page icon' beneath the home page, which will bring a pop up box allowing you to add your page title, page description and page keyphrases (your keyphrases refer to a list of short phrases that you want your page to be found under in search engines). Once you submit the form the page will refresh and your new page should appear under the home page. Under each page you have added there will be a 'page icon' too and this allows you to add pages to the page in question, which means that these pages will only be visible from the page they are associated with.

The Page Editor has a key on the right-hand side that should help to explain how to use the site tree. To edit your page title and such things as key phrases you click on the current title of the page, which should bring up a pop up with the current details already filled out. Change the details to those desired and submit the form and your page has been updated.

You can move pages around on the page editor too. To move pages all you will need to do is click on the arrow of the direction you wish the page to move. Page will move one page at a time, so click the arrow of the desired direction until the page is where you want it to be. You can also move pages 'up', providing they are not first pages of the home page (as there can only be one home page). You cannot, however, move pages back down to where they were so therefore, please note that you should only move pages up if you are entirely sure you want them moved. Confirm boxes are in place so that you don't accidentally move pages where you don't want them to be.

The final part of the Page Editor is the page status.

• The page status is denoted in two ways; by the text at the bottom of each page icon that will say either 'Hidden' or 'Visible' or by the colour of the 'page'.
• Red indicates that the page is currently hidden, and green indicates the page is visible.
• Hidden pages are pages that are currently being worked on by you. This means that they will not be visible to any body browsing your site, so you can work on them without the changes reflected until you set the page to visible.
• Pages will automatically be hidden when you edit the meta information or click 'Save As Draft' after editing the page content.
• To set them visible to people browsing your site just click 'Hidden' and a confirm box will pop up to ask whether you are sure. Clicking yes will make your page visible to people browsing your site from the Internet.

Please be aware that suspended pages with pages underneath them will make the pages below invisible to browsers of your site, but will not actually change their status.

The Theme Selector

The Theme Selector is where you can change the look of your site at the click of a button. There are hundreds of themes for you to choose from. On initial entry to the page the themes you will see are those associated with the category of your business, such as plumbing (as well as our 'generic themes' that don't have a category associated with them). If you would prefer to search for a theme by keyword, colour, or type then you can use the search box at the top of the page to specify the theme you would like. The theme that you select will become your current theme. This will show as the first in the list and you will be unable to click this theme as it is already in use.

You can preview the themes easily by simple hovering over the thumbnails (small images). A larger version of the theme will pop up giving you a better look at what the theme has to offer. To select the theme of your choice simply click the thumbnail and the theme will be selected.

Specific Theme Help Documentation

The links below allow you to download help documentation for the various layouts within the system. These are currently stored as PDF files and will require Adobe Reader to view them

Layouts

The layouts play a large part in the development of your site as they control the way the content on the page will be displayed. The layouts, in this respect, refer to the page types available for you to use and edit with your own content. When you first visit the layouts page there will be two layouts available to you called 'Simple Text' and 'Contact'. You can enable other available layouts on the page by clicking the link 'Make This Layout Available'. Layouts that are disabled can be activated by calling the Customer Support Team. The Simple Text layout is used when you edit a page to define the various page layouts we have to offer. When you edit a page (by clicking the edit icon from the Pages Editor), at the top of the page you will see a toolbar with a list of small page icons that have various layouts on them. The currently selected layout will be highlighted by a green border. To change the layout to a different one simply click the icon of the layout you would like to use and the page will refresh reflecting the choice made.

If you have enabled more than one layout a number of tabs will appear at the top rather than the list of thumbnails. Each tab will be named corresponding to the layout you have enabled. For example, to choose a contact form for your page, click the 'Contact' tab at the top of the page, which will show a list of all the contact layouts available, and click the page layout you would like to choose.

Warning: switching between different layout types (for example, a default layout to a form) will lose the current content you have written for that page.

Other currently available layouts include the previously mentioned 'Contact Plugin', which allows you to have a contact form with set fields and your address details in the page, or a Google Map, which will put a Google Map into your page centered on the location of your choice.

Specific Layout Help Documentation

The links below allow you to download help documentation for the various layouts within the system. These are currently stored as PDF files and will require Adobe Reader to view them

• News Layout
• One Click Shop

Site Settings

The Site Settings Page contains information about your site, such as your site name, E-Mail Address and key phrases. There are four sections to the Site Settings Page, which are tabbed as can be seen on the image below.

• The first tab is for your main Site Settings, such as your address, company name and business description. For your address you have the option to select which address you would like available on all Contact Form pages that are added to your site. You can also change the alternate address details and select these if your billing and company address differ. If you have a Contact layout as one of your pages the form will automatically send the information from the customer input to your billing E-Mail address. If you would prefer that these details go to an alternate address simply add a different address in the 'Alternate E-Mail Address' box and any forms will be E-Mailed to that address instead.
• The second tab contains what are called 'Site Extras', which includes a site disclaimer that will appear at the bottom of all of your pages (if you require one) and the option to change the town your company is based in for the link back to our directories.
• The third tab contains all extra settings that apply to the layouts you have selected for your site. For example, if you have a Google Analytics account you can add this to your site by entering your Web Property ID into the box provided (further instructions on how to do this can be found on the Site Settings page). You can also set up your Google Map here by supplying your API Key (again, more information is available on the Site Settings page).
• The final tab is for your keywords. Here you can add to, or modify your current keywords. There is also a keyword suggestion tool available that will initiate when you start to type in your keyword into the empty box provided.

Analyse Content

The Content Analyser is a tool used to analyse the content of each page of your site based on a number of factors that should help contribute to Search Engine Optimisation¹ (or SEO); getting your sites listed and found in search engines. Accessing the tool from the link in the main navigation will take you to a page where you can choose the page you want to analyse. Submitting the form will run the page through our analyser and return a score for each section of the page, based on a number of factors described in the report, as well as an overall page rating for the page.

Viewing all of your pages in the manner can prove quite tiresome and could potentially take a long time depending on the number of pages in your site. On the Page Editor you can see a summary of the overall score for each page at the bottom of each page icon. The number is in percentage format and is colour coded based on the SEO strength of the page. Clicking the score will take you to a detailed analysis of that page so you can then see where you need to improve the page.

Another instance of the analyser exists on the page editor, when you actually choose to edit the content of a page. There is a small box in the bottom left corner of the screen that can be expanded and will show you the current score for the content of the page and the key phrase density of the page you are currently editing. A link is at the bottom of this section that will take you to a full report of the page. As you edit and add content the report will update with each change you make so you can see how your changes reflect the score for the content in that page.

Choosing the right key phrases for your page and your site will help you with your SEO rankings

1. Search Engine Optimisation is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to your website from search engines via search results for targeted key phrases.

Sidebar Console

The Sidebar Console is the last of the main links for the admin area of your site. This link takes you to the sidebar console management centre, which will allow you to add, edit and change the way your left, or right-hand-menu will look for each of your pages. There are a few 'plugins' to choose from for your sidebar, such as the 'weather plugin' and the 'external links' plugin. There are a number of ways to enable the chosen plugins for your page, you can either:

• Drag and drop - move the plugin 'boxes' by clicking and holding the mouse over them and dragging them to either side of the page
• Click the checkbox - each plugin has a checkbox next to its name that can be used to enable and disable the plugin
• Clicking the checkbox - click the checkbox for the chosen plugins and then click the submit button, without javascript, which will reload the page with the changes you have made.

Editing Content

The content editing page allows you to add and edit the layout, content and images on your pages to make them look and say exactly what you want them to. The first part of the page at the top is the layout control centre, which allows you to choose the layout that you would like your page to have. There are a number of choices and options for each individual layout, which can be found on the Plugin Page of the admin area.

Once you have selected the layout you would like, click on the thumbnail image and the page will reload with the new layout straight away. You can then either start editing your page, or change the layout again, to something that better suits your requirements. Warning: switching between layout types will result in a loss of content!

To edit the text within your page all you have to do is click on the relevant section you would like to edit and a window with the Text Editor Text Editor will pop up displaying the text that is currently in that section of your page. You can change this text as you like and create different types of text using the Text Editor options within the editor. Once you like the way your text looks and you have completed the paragraph click the green tick icon and the content of that section will be saved.

Attaching Documents

To attach a document to your page you need to use the text editor. Highlight the piece of text you would like the link placed on and in the text editor click on the attachment button (which looks like a paperclip). This will bring up a popup where you will be able to upload a document from your computer, or select a pre-uploaded document to attach to the link.

Editing Images

Manipulating your images (if you have chosen a layout type that contains images) works in exactly the same way. Click the image you would like to change and a pop up window will appear. If you have not yet uploaded any images to your site then an empty gallery will appear telling you you have no images. To add images, click 'Upload New Images' and browse to the images you would like to add (you can select more than one at once). Once you have selected the images they will appear in a list at the top of the window and will automatically download. Once the download has finished the gallery will refresh and you should now be able to see the images you have just uploaded. Click the image you would like to add and it will close the pop up and you will see your image in the page.

There is also an option to allow all images on a page to produce pop-up windows to display larger images. This option can be found in the menu on the left-hand side of the page (click the help/options tab to show the menu). By clicking on the 'Allow Image Options' link all images will display two icons when you hover over them; clicking on the left icon will produce an overlay with the image whilst clicking on the right icon will take you to the larger image in a new window. To disable this option just click on the 'Disable Image Options' link in the help menu.

Content Analyser

If you have not already seen the content analyser it is a tool that reads the content of your page and checks it to see how well the page would do in a Search Engine based on a number of Search Engine Optimisation factors Search Engines will look for. When you edit the content of your page, as soon as you click on the save button your content will be re-analysed and the content analyser toolbar will appear in the bottom left telling you how your page rates in terms of length and key phrase density. At the bottom of the text editor that pops up you will see your key phrases that you selected for your current page, try to add as many of these into your content as possible to help the score.

Gallery Plugin

If you have selected a gallery plugin you can change the number of images in your gallery in one of two ways.

1. If you visit the Plugin Page you will be able to choose one of the galleries (if you have more than one) in your site and update the number of images it shows (from 5 to 25)
2. If you would quickly like to add or subtract from the number of images in your gallery you can do this from the content editor page. If you have selected a gallery layout you will notice that a small section appears in the bottom right of your screen. It will tell you the number of images currently in your gallery and clicking the plus and minuses will result in the number of images changing on your page.

Text Editor Plugin Help

The Text Editor Plugin for your browser is a very advanced text editor that is used to add and edit text in your pages. If this is your first time adding content to your site it is likely that you will need to install the Text Editor Plugin for your browser, which supports all browsers on all Operating Systems. Most browsers perform the install automatically, so there is nothing you will need to do except accept the install when you are prompted and reload the page if this is not automatically done for you. Once the editor is installed you can start editing your text with ease.

If the plugin cannot be installed automatically, you will need to go through the following steps:

1. To install the plugin manually click this link and choose 'Save' or 'Open' in the prompt that appears (Mac users click here).
2. If you selected 'Save' in the previous step you should ensure that you save the file to a location that you will remember (if you clicked open please go straight to step 4).
3. Once the file has been saved to your computer, navigate to the file and double-click the icon to start the install wizard.
4. Go through the steps for installation and the Text Editor will be installed on your computer. You should now be able to edit the content on your site.
5. If you have any problems with the editor not working, try restarting your browser, rather than just refreshing your page.