Administration Quick Help

The Website Administration provides control over a website. In Artisteer.Net it embodies the Ribbon Toolbar that is located at the top of the screen. The Tabs below allow to modify certain areas of the website, and the Items inside the tabs show the available features.

Home Tab Extras Tab Options Tab Upgrades Tab

Home

Adding and Editing Pages

Pages are often used to present information that is somehow timeless, meaning that such data is always actual. Pages can be used to manage and structure content of any nature and size.

To add a new Page:

  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Home Tab -> New Page to add a new page.
  3. Alternatively, you can click the "Add New" button at Home Tab-> Pages.
  4. When you finished editing, click "Publish".
To edit a Page:
  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Home Tab -> Pages. The Pages section allows to manage (edit, delete, view, filter and search) website's pages.
  3. Additionally, you can do bulk changes and deletions.
  4. On the Pages section, click the Page Title in the table to start editing the required page.
  5. When you finished editing, click "Update".

Adding and Editing Posts

In contrast to Pages, Posts are messages displayed in the chronologically reversed order on a website’s main page or a blog. Posts usually allow comments.

To add a new Post:

  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Home Tab -> New Post to add a new post.
  3. Alternatively, you can click the "Add New" button at Home Tab-> Posts.
  4. You may select a category, add tags, and specify other post options.
  5. When you finished editing, click "Publish".
To edit a Post:
  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Home Tab -> Post. The Posts section allows to manage (edit, delete, view, filter, and search) website's posts.
  3. Additionally, you can do bulk changes and deletions.
  4. On the Posts page click the Post Title in the table to start editing the required post.
  5. You may select a category, add tags, and specify other post options.
  6. When you finished editing, click "Update".

Menus

The Home Tab -> Menus feature allows creating navigation menus for categories, pages, links, tags, and more, presented to your website visitors. This option is accessible only the Theme has been configured to support this capability.

Categories, Tags and Comments

Categories allow classifying website’s posts by grouping them, thereby helping visitors to navigate and use a website. Each Category may be also assigned to a Parent Category building the hierarchy within website categories.

Tags are the keywords assigned to a post. Unlike the Categories, Tags does not have a hierarchy, and there is no relationship from Tags. However, Tags in addition to Categories are another means to help your visitors to access information on your website.

Comments are a feature allowing visitors responding to Posts. In the Home Tab -> Comments section you can edit, delete, and mark comments as approved, unapproved, or spam, if applicable.


Extras

Dashboard and Websites

The Dashboard provides with information about your website’s recent activity, showing the number of posts, pages, Categories, Post Tags, Discussion statistics. Configurable boxes of Recent Comments and Incoming Links are also displayed.

The Websites section shows all your websites created under your single account. You are able to create a new website select a primary one.

Uploading and Managing Media

Uploaded images, audio and video clips, and files are your website’s Media. Media is typically inserted into the Page and Post content. The Media Library section allows to manage (view, edit, search, filter and delete) Media files.

To add a New Media File:

  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Extras Tab -> New Media to upload a new Media file.
  3. Alternatively, the Media files can be added while adding or editing website’s Pages or Posts. The corresponding Media icons are located above the Editor.
  4. Files maybe equally uploaded with the Flash Uploader and a Browser Uploader, in case of problems with Flash.

Managing Links

It is vital for any website to have references to other websites all the other websites: favorite web resources, blogs, search engines, and others. In Links section you can store external links to be shown in the Blogroll. You can add, edit , categorize, import, export, and delete the links.

To add a New Link:

  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Extras Tab -> New Link to add a new link.
  3. Alternatively, you can click the "Add New" button at Extras Tab-> Links.
  4. You may enter a name, URL, and description for the link, and specify other options.
  5. When you finished editing, click "Add Link".

Links can be organized using Categories, with the reference about the relationship to the link destinations. The Link Categories section allows to add, edit, and delete categories.

Widgets

Widgets are add-on modules allowing to expand your website with various data output as a sidebar content.

To configure your Widgets:

  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Extras Tab -> Widgets. The Available Widgets are to the left, and the panels (Default Sidebar, Secondary Sidebar, Top Sidebar ) with Currently Used Widgets are to the right.
  3. Drag and drop the Widgets from to the right sidebars to activate and to order as you want.


Options

Changing Password

To change the password, for example the automatically generated password sent to you by Artisteer.net is too complex, please do the following:

  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Options Tab -> Profile.
  3. Scroll down the Profile Page to the New Password section.
  4. Enter and confirm your password. Please note, the strength box will indicate the security power of your password.
  5. Click the "Update Profile" button to save your new password or any changes in your User Profile.

Profile and Personal Options

In the Options Tab -> Profile section you can specify your name, your e-mail address, used for administrative purposes only, personal information and options.

Adding and Removing Users

In the Options Tab -> Users section you can add, change, or delete your website's users.

To add a new User:

  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. Select Options Tab -> New User to add a new user.
  3. Alternatively, you can click the "Add New" button at the Options Tab-> Users section.
  4. Enter the Username, Email, and select a Role for a new user.
  5. Click "Add User" to submit.

To remove a User:

  1. Log in to your Artisteer.net account.
  2. On the Users section, click "Remove" user the Username.
  3. Additionally, you can do bulk deletions.
  4. Confirm the deletion on the next step.


Upgrades

Domain Mapping

To use a custom domain for your website, instead of the address created by default <yourwebsite>.artisteer.net, please do the following:

  1. Register a domain with a registrant.
  2. Add mapping to this new domain from .artisteer.net.
  3. Set name servers with your registrant.