Advanced Options

 

 

The Advanced Options window is divided into different sections.

 

Site Properties

This section shows whether or not the your web site is exclusively owned. If it is, then only one person will be able to make changes to it.

 

 

Appearance and Menu System

This section allows you to make changes to graphics and how the page link will appear in the navigation menus.

 

 

By clicking on the drop-down box, you can set what graphics set will appear at the top and bottom of the page. Headers are the large graphics that go across the top of the web page. Footers are usually smaller graphics that goo across the bottom of a web page.

 

In this box you can enter the caption for your the section graphic on your page.

 

 

The Page Format Wizard can help speed up the page creation process by giving you the option of using preset templates to format your page. The templates have "dummy" content in them. All you have to do is select the dummy content in the different sections of the template, and enter the appropriate content for your web page.

 

By clicking on the Set Menu Insertion Point check box, you can have your page placed in the desired position in the left hand navigation menu. To use this feature:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clicking this check box will place a divider line above the link to the page in the navigation menu

 

If you want a new page to be a page that exists on another web site, you can enter a URL for the page in the text box. The link to the new page will then take you to the existing page.

 

Clicking on this check box will cause a new window to open when you click on a link to a your page if it is a page on another site. By checking this box, people will be able to close the window with the external page they will still have the browser window open to your site. This way they don't have to navigate back through their history to get back to the main site. This also allows them to easily cross reference information on your new page with the original page.

 

If you are going to link to your new page from within the content of another page, you may want to check this box. This will prevent a link to the page from appearing in the navigation menus at the left and top of the pages.

 

Editing Permissions and Approval

In this section, you can set what users and groups are allowed to edit the page. You can also set the chain of approval required for the page to be published. The approval chain sets is a list of users who must submit approval for page changes before the changes can be published.

 

 

These setting allow you to view/set what groups and users are allowed to edit the page. To do this:

 

 

 

 

Check this box if you want to set up a chain of approval for changes made to your new page. Then set the approval chain in the section below.

 

If you are only going to require one person to approve changes to the web page, you can enter their name in the text box. If you want to set up an approval chain:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Site Access Control

In this section, you can set what users and groups are allowed to access the web page, and then record who tries to access it. By default, you will only see the Enable Check box for the Access Control.

 

 

Once you enable access control, the rest of the options will roll down.

 

 

By clicking this check box, you can have a record created every time someone tries to access the page. The record will show who tried to access the page and the date and time they made the attempt.

 

This section allows you to create a list of users who are allowed to access the page.

 

 

 

 

 

This section allows you to create a list of users who are not allowed to access the page.

 

 

 

 

 

This section allows you to create a list of users groups who are allowed to access the page.

 

 

 

 

 

This section allows you to create a list of users groups who are not allowed to access the page.

 

 

 

 

 

Timed Publishing

In this section, you can set a page to automatically publish (go live on the site) at a date and time you specify. The page can also be set to automatically take itself of the site, and even delete itself if you wish it to.

 

 

This displays the current time and day of the server that will determine when to activate a page with Timed Publishing on it. The server time is set to Eastern Standard Time. If you are not in the Eastern Standard Time Zone, you will have to set your time accordingly.

 

This is where you will set the date that you want the web page to go live on the site. To set the date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is where you will set the time of day that you want the web page to go live on the site. To set the time:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

This is where you will set the date that you want the web page to leave the site. On the date that you enter, the web page will no longer be viewable on the web site. To set the date, follow the same steps as entering the Start Publish date.

 

This is where you will set the time that you want the web page to leave the site. At the specified time on the date that you entered above, the web page will no longer be viewable on the web site. To set the time, follow the same steps as entering the Start Publish time.

 

When you check this box, your web page will automatically delete itself from the file tree once it's publish time on the site has expired.

 

When you check this box, users will be required to have a secure connection to access the site.