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Setting up your website template: For more templates and pre-made sites visit: Allwebco Design For the best hosting on the planet visit: Allwebco Step 1: EDIT FLASH ANIMATION: | Click for more details Open the "flash.txt" file with Notepad or a plain text editor and edit "yourwebsitetitle.com" with your name or company name. Be sure not to delete the "logo=" flash code. Edit the text following "&slogan" with a slogan for your header. This will update the Flash logo on all pages. If you wish to use a graphic logo, there are instructions later in this document. Step 2: EDIT COPYRIGHT: | Click for more details Open the "copyright.js" file in Notepad or any text editor and edit "Company Name" with your website information. This will update the footer on all pages. Step 3: EDIT CONTACT INFO: | Click for more details Open the "phone.js" in Notepad or any text editor and change the company name, address, phone and fax number and e-mail address (Edit the e-mail in 2 places). This will update the contact info on the "contact" page. This is done in a .js file so search engines will not read your e-mail and you should get less spam. Step 4: EDIT THE CONTACT FORM: Click for current info on setting up the template forms. Click for info on adding more fields to the forms. Click for changing form sizes or colors. If you want to use only e-mail on the contact page you can remove the contact form from the "contact.htm" between the comment tags. Step 5: EDIT PAGES: | Software choices | Notepad Editing Edit the text on all HTML pages with your website information. You can use a text editor like Notepad, Frontpage, Dreamweaver or any wysiwyg editor. Take care not to delete any of the HTML tags that surround the text. You will find notes inside each HTML page so you will know what areas to edit. NOTE: When editing you will not see the footer and header in some software because they are .js include files. Step 6: EDIT PAGE TITLES, DESCRIPTIONS AND KEYWORDS: | Click for more details Open each of the pages and change the page titles (at the very top of the page) and also the description and the keywords with your product or service keywords. You can edit one page and copy and paste this area to the other pages. Be careful to only change what's inside the " " so you don't disturb the html code. Titles are important so your site will get a good listing at Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines. Step 7: UPLOAD: | Click for more details Upload the pages to your hosting company server using ftp software like CuteFTP or Coffee Cup (free) or your control panel. Be sure to make a folder called picts on your server and put the pictures into that folder. Or just upload the entire "picts", "gallery" and "flash" folders. Options: USING A GRAPHIC LOGO: To replace the Flash logo with a graphic logo: Delete or rename the "header.js". Rename the "graphic_logo_header.js" to "header.js". In the picts folder you will find a graphic called "logo.jpg". Edit this graphic with your logo image. The "logo.jpg" is now 750 pixels wide by 90 pixels high. You can make this image any size you would like. You will find some options inside the "header.js" for colors and expanding the logo area. CHANGING LINKS / ADDING TO THE MENU: | Click for more details You can change the names of the links like "about" or "network" to other names by editing the "menu.js" file in Notepad or any plain text editor. When editing menu names do not change the name with the ".htm" after it. Whatever you edit in any menu .js file will update every page on the website. Keep menu names short if possible. Add more pages by copying one link in the "menu.js" and pasting it right below the next. Be sure to back up your files before editing them. ADDING PAGES: | Click for more details You can add pages to your website by copying and pasting any one of the pages and renaming it to whatever you need. You can then add links from the other pages or on the menu. FONTS: | Click for more details You can change your font colors and sizes by editing the "coolstyle.css" with a text editor. Change the "TABLE" px size to change the copy on all pages. Change the "title" px size to change all the title sizes. Click above for more help. CHANGING THE GRAPHICS/PICTURES: | Click for more details You can replace each HTML page picture with your own .jpg image. These pictures are now 150 x 350 pixels. You can use any size picture you want but it is recommended that you keep these images 150 pixels wide. Each HTML page includes it's own image. These are named according to the page they are on. You will find all pictures in the "picts" folder. To add a border to all images edit the ".border" class in the coolstyle.css. PAGE HEIGHTS: So all your pages will maintain a standard height a "pageheight" css class is included. You can edit this height in your "coolstyle.css".