Web Site Designer Administration




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Web Site Designer Administrator

Add new User  
Search user, by name, email, etc.Query
Edit User Profile, # pages, etc.User Name
View Users SiteUser Name
Remove Trial Sites Check this box to send mail to expired users.
An email is sent to the expired user each time you run this program until they are removed from the system.  




Web Site Designer Tools

Email all Your Users
This program allows you to send an email to all users on your system.  
 
Rename user folder
Present Name       New Name
 
Set file permissions to work on user files manually.
User Name
 
Mail Body Editor
Edit or change the email that the user is sent after the signup process.
 
Password File Backup
 
Add Virtual Domain
This program allows you to add virtual domains to the system security. For users on your system that have their own domain name, the guestbook and members page links on the users pages will not work unless their virtual domain is added to the system.
Users Domain Name
 
View User Disk Usage
 
Menu Repair
If a user has deleted their menu or the menu has become corrupted, use this facility to make a New Menu for the user. This will create a plain vanilla menu page. After the menu has been repaired, the user will need to login and edit their menu to rebuild with their template of choice.
Enter User Name
 
 
Edit Trial Email
This program allows you to edit or change the email that the user is sent after the trial period has expired.  
 
Edit Trial Message
The code for the final screen (savepage.pl) that the users sees after they save their page can be edited Here. Use this code to prompt the user to go to a registration area to signup for your service, or any info you want a "trial" user to see.  
 
Edit Trial Error Page
With the trial system you can allow users to create and account for a certain period of time to "test" the system. After the period of time has elapsed, they can no longer access the page builder. If a user tries to login after the trial period has expired they will receive an error screen. You can edit the error screen to suite your site. Refer them to a signup page or ...  
 
 
Banner Upload
Upload the banners to your "banner-images" folder and write the associated URL for this banner.  
 
Banner Managemant
Remove banners from your system, change the URL for a banner and view stats for banners.  
 
 
Edit Program Options




  • SiteBuilder Demo This program allows Users to demo the web site builder.

  • SiteBuilder Signup This program allows Users to set up their own account and build their site. Note
    There are several variables that need to be set in this file for your site. The default number of pages allowed is set to 5.

  • New User Signup This program allows Users to set up their own account. Note
    This program new_user.pl is used to signup users for Ultra. This program will setup the users directory and place an "under construction" page in their folder.
    There are variables near the top of the file that controls the number of pages the user is allowed to build, (the default is 5) The referer also needs to be set in this file for security.

    Both User Based Signups have the option of being used with the trial system. You can allow users to signup for a trial period (defined in the configuration).




Ultra5 Utilities

  • Password Memory This allows users to retrieve their password if they have forgotten it.
  • User List A list of the users on the system. Place a link to this page somewhere on your site to allow people browsing your site to view your users.
  • Members Admin Area A Members Only Page. It currently has links to all user accessable programs. You can customize this page to suite your site.


Ultra5 Search

  • Ultra Search Engine Allow your visitors to search all the "members" on your system.
  • Index for Search Engine Run this program once a day or so to "index" the all your "member" pages.
      Note:(pages will not show in search results until the index has been run)

    The page top and page bottom for the search engine are located in the: /cgi-bin/ultra/search directory.



    Ultra Read-Me   Installation and program flow charts.

    Notes:
    When setting the number of pages for each user, keep in mind that we do not count the: Menu, Guestbook, Contact_us and About_us pages.

    On a windows system if you are having trouble with the mail, use this link to test the SMTP server. test-mail.pl This will send an email to the webmaster.

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    Automated Signup

    You can have the customer fill out a payment form on line and then redirect them to the 'new_user.pl or new-signup.pl' to complete setting up their site.

    Example Customer Path

    Payment Form >> Payment Form processing >> Account Setup (new_user.pl or new-signup.pl)

    The User is now ready to start building their site.

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    The New_user.pl is protected from users accessing the program from a bookmark or another site. for the redirected payment system, you might need to change the referer in the 'new_user.pl and new-signup.pl' for securiety.

    In the 'new_user.pl and new-signup.pl' the line:
    = 'tennet';
    will need to be changed.

    Change the referer for the site you are coming from. If the payment program is on the same site, the above will work as it is defined in the configuration. If you are coming from another server, change the to the domain name of the site the payment program is on.
    You do not need the .com or www. - just the domain name.

    Example of dual signup

    Say you want to allow users to signup for one Free Page, and have another signup for paid sites. This is how to accomplish this with the programs supplied with Ultra.

    • Make a copy of the new_user.pl and name it new_user2.pl (same applies to new-signup.pl)
    • Set the number of pages to "1" in the new_user.pl - use this program for the free sites.
    • Set the number of pages to "5" in the new_user.pl2 - use this program for the paid sites to allow users to have 5 pages.
    • You may also refer the user to the new-signup.pl after they have paid. The new-signup.pl can be used in place of the new_user.pl in the scenario below.

     

     

    Making your own templates 

    Use a plain text editor to make the program template, some editors 
such as (frontpage, adobe, netscape) will put in characters that the
program will choke on and not run. Sometimes the characters are not
even visable.



1. Design the HTML page exactly like you want the program to output it

2. Insert the special tags in the page (see template-tags.txt)

3. Create the form for user input (see form-fields.txt)

4. Create a .gif image to show the page layout


View some of the templates that come with the program to get an idea of the
layout for the page.  




When you name the new templates you must use this naming convention:

plate1.htm      (the page template)
form1.htm       (the page form)
page1.gif       (the page image)
    Related Pages:
    template-tags.html   The available tags for constructing templates.
    form-fields.html   The form fields that relate to the template tags.