Site Settings

The Site Settings page will allow you to control the basic overall functionality of your website. Changes made on this page have site-wide effects. Only the site’s Super Administrator can view/edit this page. (The super administrator is the account that created the site.)

Site Values

These are basic information describing your website.

Site Name: This is the name of your site as it appears in outgoing emails, RSS Feeds and your logo Alt-Text. This name was originally supplied when you installed Webonizer.
Site Slogan: This is a one-sentence phrase promoting your website. It will also appear with the alt-text of your site logo as well as in some key pages like RSS Feeds.
Domain Root URL: Enter the address of your domain root (without the http://). The purpose of this is to distinguish between domains that begin with “www” or without.
Site Launch: Enter the year you first launched your website. By default, Webonizer sets the value to the year in which Webonizer was installed. This value will appear in copyright lines on some pages.

Default Emails

The email addresses listed below are for core emailing functions built-into Webonizer. You may set these all to the same value. There are multiple values in case your website has more than one department handling different areas of your operation.

Default Email: This email address is the main site email address. Most documents sent from the site to members, administrators, etc. will come from this email address. For example, new members on a site will get an email from this address with the details of their account and membership. Also, when new members join or new articles are posted, information about those actions will go to this address.
Newsletter Email: If the site Newsletter function (below) is turned on, those newsletters will be sent from the address listed here.
Guestbook Email: If the site Guestbook function (below) is turned on, guestbook post notifications will be sent to and from this email address.
General Email: This is a generic email address that will be published on the email contact form. Note that this email address is most likely to be picked up by email farming programs—so it is important to use an address that can handle collecting spam.

Feature Settings

This fieldset controls certain key functionality of the site. Those features turned on will be available on the website. Those turned off will be unavailable.

Community: This setting controls some important features of the site. When set to “On” it is assumed that the site is a multi-user environment. As such, the site will include “By-Lines” with articles, etc, as well as use phrases that equate to a “community”. If set to “Off”, there can still be multiple users, but the site presents most content as if it came from a single entity.
Friends Network: This setting is only meaningful if the “Community” feature is turned on. If Friends Network and Community are both on, then members of the site can interlink themselves with other members on the site in a social-networking fashion.
Events & Calendars: If this feature is turned on, the site will allow members (with the corresponding “Events” permission) to add events onto the site; the site will have calendars that list events.
Newsletter: This flag allows the site to collect email addresses so that members can send email newsletters to those subscribers. Emails will go out from the “Newsletter Email” listed above. As such, it is important to control the quality of the content getting emailed as newsletters—abuse can lead your entire domain to be blocked by ISPs and web hosts.
Newsletter Application: This function turns on a form by which members who do not have newsletter permission may get permission to send newsletters. Note that this function is not recommended except on sites where the members are highly trusted to not send spam-like emails.
Guestbooks: When turned on, members can maintain online guestbooks that have powerful Goodguest anti-spam features. Only members who have the “Guestbook” permission will be able to maintain guestbooks. Note that turning this function off turns off all guestbooks on the site.

Menu & Layout Options

The functions listed here control some of the ways that the site will present menus and navigation features. Note that this control will work with the default templates provided with Webonizer—but that custom templates may not utilize these controls.

Navigation Generator

This function will automatically generate a navigation drop-down menu for your site that is based on Site Pages, Topics, articles and the settings below. Click here to learn more about the way the generator uses Site Pages, Topics and Articles to generate the menu.

If turned off, it is up to you to generate the menu either by editing one or more of these files in your Style & File Editor:

defaultmenu.html
menu.html
membermenu.html
adminmenu.html
customMenu.php
IEtemplate.inc

The customMenu.html describes the formula for generating the navigation menu. The IEtemplate.inc file places the menus (HTML files listed above) into the site template depending on the visitors permission level.

When the Navigation Generator is turned on, all of the HTML files listed above will update every time a Site Page is added/edited, an article gets added/edited or a member gets added/edited.

Directory Status

This function will include links to a “Member Directory” where visitors can browse members by customizable search forms. You must choose where to place the links with the Directory Link Placement checkboxes provided.

Media Manager Link

When checked, your navigation generator will include a link to “Media” where visitors can search the site’s media (images, audio, video, etc).

Search Settings

This will function will place a search form in your navigation bar. The exact type of search (Built-In, Google, etc) will depend on the Search Provider (below).

Internal Site Links Placement

The options for Internal Site Links Placement will determine where the internal administrative links (login, account management, administration, etc) appear in the default template. The exact items on the Site Links is determined by the visitor’s permission as well as items placed in the “mySiteLinks.php” arrays.

Note that in the default template, the site links will appear in the navigation bar as a result of a JavaScript function—meaning that the site links in the navigation bar (when “Top” is checked) will only appear after all content on a page has loaded. Customizing the default template could change that so that site links appear immediately.

External Site Links Placement

There are currently four options for External Site Links Placement. If turned “On”, the site will allow members with Links permission to add links to external web pages (outside the website) that are associated to topics.

The placement of external site links in the navigation (top) has the same default behavior as noted for Internal Site Links Placement (above).

Miscellaneous Settings

The options listed under Miscellaneous Settings are options that have a multitude of functions that are not easily classified.

Search Type

This option will determine the type of search system the site uses in the navigation menu. By default, this menu only affect the search form placed in the navigation menu (when Search Settings are set to “on”).

Currently the site has two search types. They are explained below:

Built-In Search – This search uses the built-in full-text searching of Webonizer. By default, this system allows full-text searches on Articles, Members and Events that are in the system. Results are produced internally.

Google – This search creates a form that opens up search results on the Google website. If you have entered all the Google Adsense information (below) then your results will include sponsored links that will potentially generate revenues in your Adsense account.

Which System should you use? The answer depends on how often you update your content and how often Google updates its index of your site. The built-in search includes all articles, members or events the moment they are on the site. Google may not index all your new pages for quite some time, meaning that new articles cannot be found via your search dialog.

Map Provider

Webonizer is integrated with the map providers. You must choose which provider your site will use. Maps are currently available for Calendar Events and Members who have opted to display their address on the website (such as businesses wanting to give clients an easy way to find their place of business). You may currently choose from Google, Yahoo Maps and MapQuest.

Site Encoding

This is a deprecated value. You should not change this value from “UTF-8” unless your version of Webonizer was installed prior to June 2006.

Review Settings

This function will decide how articles, images and other documents are displayed on your site. If you set the option to “Show All Posts”, your pages will display all relevant documents. If you select “Show Only Reviewed Posts” then many pages (such as front page, topics and other such pages will only display documents that have been reviewed by an administrator of the site.

Invitation Setting

This option will determine how new members start their application to join the site. If set to “on”, a person will only be able to join the site if he/she has a random invitation string of 32 characters. If set to “off”, anyone may join the site with the membership form.

Parental Control Flags

This option will determine if your site will allow visitors and members to Block content according to Sexuality, Violence and Profanity. If your website does not contain such content, set this to “off” and members/visitors will not see content-blocking options.

Anti-Spam Code

This option controls the number of characters present in the graphical anti-bot code that appears in some forms. Webonizer intends to make this value control the length of the Anti-Spam string… but currently the value must be set to 5.

Login Options

This subset of Miscellaneous Settings controls the login procedure and password enforcement policy.

Security Image – if this option is turned on, a visitor must copy random text produced in an image in order to login.
Strict Secure Password – if turned on, members will be forced to create strictly secure password (such as random text that includes at least one letter and at least one number). *This function is not yet implemented in Webonizer.
SSL – if this option is turned on, the login page will require login through SSL. This means that the login page and other sensitive pages (like account forms that require password) are though SSL (and the page address includes “https”). NOTE: If your domain does not have a security certificate, your visitors will get a security notice saying that the certificate is invalid. ALSO NOTE: if your website is a subdomain that does not have a properly configured path to https, your login page will be inaccessible.

Hitbox Display

This option will display a hit counter on some pages. The hitbox will display the number of times a user’s pages have been hit. This option is most relevant on sites that have the Community feature turned on.

Member Icon Links

This option turns on a list of iconic links that appear with a member’s documents. This option is most relevant on sites that have the Community feature turned on.

Promo Values

The settings in Promo Values will set your identification for third-party marketing systems. The current version of Webonizer allows you to enter your PayPal email, Amazon Id and Google Adsense Id. Note that you should only enter values in the form for those features you have valid understanding of. Refer to the following websites for more information on getting relevant accounts.

Google Adsense
PayPal
Amazon

Site File Names

The file names referred to below are the aliases for the files that present the relevant documents. They are customizable for search engine purposes.

Pages File: This file refers to Site Pages. Site pages are generic areas (or departments) on your site. By default Webonizer calls this file “area”. You could change it to “department” if your business is a department store. You can also use it if there is a strong unifying theme on your site—for example, if your site is about Sports, you may want to name the area file “sports”.
Members File: This file refers to members on your site. By default Webonizer names this file “member”. You can change this to reflect the nature of your site. For example, if your website is about Sports, you might change this to “athlete”.
Articles File: This is the file that refers to articles on the site. By default Webonizer calls this “article”. You can change it to reflect the nature of your site. For example, if your website is about Sports, you might change this to “athletic_information”.

Permissions

This fieldset determines the default permissions of new members on your site. By default, Webonizer presets this to “Guestbooks” alone. You should never set any options with an asterisk. Click Here to learn more about what the permissions do.

Per Document Limits

This fieldset determines the default limits for files that new members have. Click Here to learn more about what these limits do.

Download Options

These options control how download files (like zip files) are handled in the default presentation.

Zip Download System: If this option is turned on, the site will present a field to download a document’s zip files that will count the number of times the file has been downloaded. The next two options only work if the Zip Download System is turned on.

Download Hit Display – if this option is turned on, a zip file will display how many times it has been downloaded.

Repeat Download Wait – this option will force a visitor to wait this length of time (in seconds) before being allowed to download the same file again. The system is not fool-proof as it writes a cookie to the visitor’s computer.

Content Restriction

This fieldset controls the types of information that can be put into various forms.

Allowed HTML Tags: This field is a comma-separated list of allowed HTML tags that non administrators can add to most documents. You should only add tags that can appear in the <body> of an HTML document. (Do not include <html>, <head>, <body>, <meta> or non-XHTML tags.)