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2.1. Setting up main parameters |
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The first thing that you are supposed to do after you have installed ViArt CMS
is setting up its main parameters. For that please go to Administration > System > Global Settings.
Site Settings
These settings describe the main site's adjustments such as site URL and administrator's e-mail. See the picture below:
You have to fill out the following fields:
- Site URL specifies the URL to access your ViArt CMS via the Web.
It is widely used when sending email messages containing links.
- Administrator Email - specifies the default email that will be used
to send Administrator's email notifications.
- Active Layout specifies which 'layout' is currently used for the system.
ViArt CMS supports multiple-layout schemes i.e. there can be several different
layouts and administrator can select one as 'active'. For more information see section 2.3.1
Note: Actually these fields have already been filled in with the data you provided while installing ViArt CMS.
But you can make any changes if necessary.
- Default Country specifies the default country used on your site.
- Password Encryption specifies how all the passwords will be stores in database:
non-encrypted or encrypted with MD5 algorithm.
Note: Should you choose the ‘Use MD5 for encryption’ option there won’t be any possibility to restore passwords but only to set new ones and therefore you won’t be able to change the setting to ‘None’. Please do choose carefully.
The option affects the process of restoring forgotten client passwords as well. For more information see section 3.3.
- HTML Editor specifies the type of editor you prefer while editing articles:
Textarea or WYSIWYG ('what you see is what you get').
Secure Site Settings
When dealing with private information such as user's personal data, you may want to guarantee its safety.
With ViArt CMS this can be performed very easily. All you have to do is enter your secure site URL and tick off the 'Use SSL' checkbox.
Friendly URLs
Friendly URL is our new feature which allows you to create search engine friendly URLs, you can create these manually or let the system do this for you.
In order to do this please first turn on the feature (Activate Friendly URLs), select how you want these URLs to be generated (Auto-generate Friendly URLs) and extensions ( Friendly Extension). These are general settings for friendly URLs. However, note that you have to set up your apache as well. Please create a .htaccess file in your root folder and insert the following code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /friendly_url.php [L]
</IfModule>
In case this Rewrite Rule does not work, then we would recommend you to insert the following string in the .htaccess file:
ErrorDocument 404 /friendly_url.php
After that please restart the apache. Your friendly URL option should be active now. You can set up friendly URLs for individual products at Administration > Shopping Cart > Products and Categories > product details > Friendly URL.
Reviews Settings
With ViArt CMS visitors of your online portal will be able to rate products and post their comments.
- Approve reviews. This option specifies whether reviews are moderated before publishing.
Once set to 'Yes' all reviews will be shown first at Administration section and only after approval - on the site.
- Reviews per page specifies the number of reviews per page. The default value is 10, there are also choices from 5 to 100.
Top Rated Settings
Top rates articles or ads can be shown in the 'Top Rated' block. The system will automatically add items there ased on user reviews. By default it is displayed on the main page but you can easily change its location.
- Minimal Rating. This option determines which articles or ads should be added to the corresponding 'Top Rated' section.
By default it contains items that have rating higher than the 'Minimal Rating' value,
so you can adjust the value to show more or less of them.
- Minimal Number of Votes specifies the number of votes an item needs to be shown in the section.
Note: While rating ads or articles your customers will have to choose from ‘Bad’, ‘Poor’, ‘Average’, ‘Good’ and ‘Excellent’ meaning ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’ and ‘5’ correspondingly. You can edit these values at the ‘Static messages' section. For more info see section 4.6.
HTML Settings on Main Page
With ViArt CMS you can specify HTML settings for all pages of your online portal. Filling out the following fields will specify the ones for the main page.
- HTML Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords. These fields assign corresponding HTML
tags of the main page of your site.
- Greetings/Introduction. Text from this area will be shown immediately under the navigation section
but only on the main page.
- Footer body. Text from this area will be shown at the bottom of all pages of your site.
You can put some information about your company or links to your policies here.
For more information about footer see details.
In order to save the changes you made click the 'Update' button. If you want to leave without saving click 'Cancel'.
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