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Apply a new design to your site

Support — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:24:28 GMT

Login to your website.
Click on Designs under the My Website dropdown list.
Click on the Design Gallery tab.
Click on a template that you would like to apply to your website.
Click the Apply link.

Adding Google Analytics

Support — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:28:07 GMT

Your website has built in stats for paid accounts. This will work for some, but when you need to have stats that tell you more, many, including ourselves, use Google Analytics. Adding them to your templates is very easy.

Go to http://www.google.com/analytics and sign up for Google Analytics. They will give you a snippet of HTML that you will need.
Login to your website.
Under the My Website button at the top of the page, click on Designs in the dropdown menu.
Click on the My Designs tab.
Find your design and click the edit button
In the file listing on the left, click on your home template.
Navigate to the bottom of the code and paste the html code that Google Analytics gave you before the ending </body> tag.
Continue the process by doing this for each of your HTML templates.

Add another website

Support — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:46:33 GMT

Login to your website.
Click the My Account button in the top admin bar.
Click on the Websites tab.
Click the Add a website button.
Type in the address that you want.
- Note: If the address is already taken you will receive an error that says "The unique ID for your new website was already taken." You will have to click on Add a website again.
Choose whether you would like a website for a Business or a Ministry.
Click the Create Website button.

Reseller marketing guidelines

Tim Wall — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:57:56 GMT

As a reseller of our LightCMS system, you are invited to market and promote the CMS as your own product through your own website and through any other materials you care to produce. To facilitate this effort, we have provided some helpful marketing resources that you are welcome to use at no cost.

However, there are some guidelines we need you to adhere to when marketing the CMS in order to ensure the integrity of the system. So, we've compiled the following marketing guidelines to help you understand what you can and can't do with regards to marketing.

Things you CAN do:

You can utilize the content that we make available through our dynamically updated reseller marketing scripts. We make available a lot of great content that we keep up to date for you including text and video content for the web. You can find out more about what scripts are available on our reseller resources page.
You can use the concepts of our product sites as guides for your own site. In other words, you can shape your own site around how ours are shaped if you wish.

Things you CAN'T do:

You can't copy our text word for word. This is bad for all of us as search engines will punish us all for the duplicate content. Again, utilize our reseller scripts instead as described above.
You can't use our product site templates or site imagery. Naturally, you can use our included website templates as they are freely available to anyone, but the imagery and templates we create that are unique to our own product sites (i.e. not a part of a freely available design template) should not be used. A quick test to figure out if something is usable is to ask yourself if we have made it available for download. All of our included design templates can be downloaded through our system but our product website templates cannot.
You can't use the names of our products such as LightCMS, SkyCMS, WaterCMS, Design Xpress, Custom Xpress, HTML Xpress ... etc. You can create similar products to these but you need to come up with your own names.
You can't reference any client of Element Fusion as a case study or design example for your own work. Only work that you have done or work that we have done on your behalf should be used in promoting your own product.

Should you have any questions about whether your marketing implementation adheres to these guidelines, please contact us at support@publishpath.com.

Using the reseller pricing grid script

Tim Wall — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:35:46 GMT

To display an unbranded pricing grid showing the package levels of the CMS, the page, storage and user limits of each package, and a listing of which features are included in which packages, simply copy and paste the following code snippet into the HTML of your website:

See an example of an unstyled pricing grid dropped into one of our system's default templates.

Set your own package names and pricing

You can customize the names and pricing for the packages output by the script. To set custom pricing, use a script as follows with a comma-separated list of prices for each package, starting with the lowest level and moving up to the highest:

To set custom package names and custom pricing, use a script as follows, pre-pending the name of your package followed by an underscore in front of your package price:

What about styling?

In order to provide you with ultimate flexibility to create your own styles, we have not included any styles inside the script (other than styles required to create the popup help functionality on the pricing grid). The markup is pure and will take on the style of whatever site you place the script in (you can see this on the examples above which are included in our templates with no special styles applied). That said, here are a few helpful ideas for styling the lists.

You can use our styles as a starting point on the pricing grid

If you want, you are welcome to take a look at the style sheets we have created for the pricing grid on own marketing websites for WaterCMS, SkyCMS and LightCMS. You are welcome to utilize these style sheets as a starting point for your own styles or even link directly to them to utilize them as is. You can find them at the following links:

WaterCMS -- http://publishpath.com/Websites/h20/templates/waterfinal/c/pricing.css
SkyCMS -- http://publishpath.com/Websites/divum/templates/sky/c/pricing.css
LightCMS -- http://publishpath.com/Websites/lumina/templates/light/c/pricing.css

Some basic CSS to add borders to the pricing grid

Adding borders to the pricing grid makes things a little easier to read. So, here are a few simple CSS statements you can add to your style sheet to achieve basic borders. Naturally, there's much more that you can do with CSS, but this will at least turn on some basic borders easily if you need a little help getting started.

div.tableholder { border: 2px solid #333; padding: 5px; }
table.signup td { border: 1px solid #333; padding: 5px; }
table.signup th { border: 1px solid #333; padding: 5px; }
table.signup { border-collapse: collapse; }

Using the reseller video script

Tim Wall — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:45:40 GMT

To embed a group of unbranded CMS demo videos onto your own website, simply cut and paste the following code snippet into the HTML of your website:

See an example of the reseller video script dropped into one of our default system templates.

Watch the width

Because the video script embeds videos that are 640px wide with a 2px border on each side, you need to be sure the content area in which you drop this script is at least 645px wide. Otherwise, the videos my disrupt the layout of your web page.

Using the reseller features script

Tim Wall — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:31:23 GMT

To display an unbranded list of CMS features on your own website, simply cut and paste the following code snippet into the HTML of your website.

See an example of an unstyled features list dropped into one of our system's default templates.

You can style the features list in one or two columns

We've balanced the content on the features list into two columns. Each column is wrapped in a div. So, by default, the divs will display stacked on top of each other, creating a single column of features that fills its containing element. Or, by applying styles to the divs, you can allow them to display in two-column form. Here are the CSS statements we use to create a two column effect on our product sites.

#featuresColOne { float: left; margin-right: 5%; width: 47%; }
#featuresColTwo { float: right; width: 47%; }

You can also include links to demo videos

We offer a version of the features listing that includes links to feature demo videos where available. To implement the version including video, use the following code in place of the code listed above:

See an example of the features list with video dropped into one of our system's default templates.

Extra header content required for video version

To really make the videos work like they are intended, there's some additional code you'll need to drop into the header of your HTML page. If you're putting this on a site on our CMS system, you can easily do this by going to the page settings' advanced tab and dropping the code into the "additional header" field. If you're using any other system or a static site, you'll just need to place it between the <head> and </head> tags. Here's the code:

These scripts and styles provide the necessary functionality to open up the videos in a nice overlay on the features page for the best viewing experience. If you don't include them, the videos will still work, but they will open in the browser and scale to the size of the browser window, which usually results in a video that is dramatically larger than intended.

HTML Xpress Scope and Guidelines

Support — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:02:01 GMT

Please read this article carefully before submitting a design to HTML Xpress. If you have questions, please contact us.

The Scope of HTML Xpress

The scope of HTML Xpress is outlined below. Should your design require services outside of this scope, you may request custom integration. If your submitted design falls outside of this scope we will notify you of your options via email. Custom integration is charged hourly rather than at a fixed rate and may take longer to complete.

General. HTML Xpress converts a website design into a set of design templates that function on our content management system.
Number of templates. HTML Xpress includes the cutup and implementation of two design templates. This includes a home page and an internal page template that you can design. We will create an admin template for the system to use based upon your design.
Basic element styles. The system has a built-in style sheet for all of its elements. However, the default look might not match your designed templates. If you do not want the default look, you may specify in your design how you want the following elements to look.

Blog: including list view and the contents of the blog detail page.
Calendar: including list view and the contents of the calendar detail page.
Forms: including titles and selected fields.
Search: including the search box and button
Files and links.

Please note: not all element style looks are possible with an HTML Xpress. We will review the site upon submission and email you with any items that are not possible. This does not mean the looks are not possible on our system, but it would require additional billing to get them. Please see our Free Templates for some of the possible looks.

Text Styles. You may specify styles for:

Up to five headers
One body text style
One link style (this includes normal, active, visited, and hover states)
Ten classes for use in the CMS editor (can include colors, fonts, font style, font size, etc. )

Navigation. You can design a look for the top/root menu navigation as well as an internal/side navigation. We will style up to three levels of navigation, including your root/main navigation. Note: fly out navigation menus may only include the main nav and one sub-navigation item.
Content entry. HTML Xpress only includes the implementation of design templates and does not include the entry of any content into editable regions or the building out of any website pages.
Custom integration of 3rd party tools. HTML Xpress does not include custom integration of any 3rd party tools such as newsletter lists, shopping carts, javascript or Flash slideshows . . . etc.
Supported Browsers. We support: Firefox 2+, Safari, IE 7, and IE 6 (please note that IE6, created in 2001, does not support advances in CSS and scripting. We will do our best to make sure it degrades gracefully, but we cannot guarantee the same level of consistency in this browser).

30 Day Warranty

The HTML Xpress service comes with a 30 day warranty. For 30 days following delivery, we will correct any design issues with the following exceptions:

If the designs have been modified in any way from the originals we delivered, we will not troubleshoot the design. Instead, we will revert the design back to the originals we delivered, overwriting any changes you may have made to the design since delivery. Once we are back to the original designs, we will troubleshoot issues if they exist.
We will not troubleshoot any issue that is outside the scope of the HTML Xpress service.
We will not troubleshoot issues involving minor variations across browsers. Different browsers cannot always provide pixel-perfect accuracy and some minor variance is normal. Major browser issues will be corrected. Determining whether a browser issue is major or minor will be at our discretion.

Files and Technical Requirements

This section contains requirements for your submitted design files. If your files do not meet these requirements, they may be returned for you to correct and resubmit.

File Type: PSD, or PNG (with layers, please -- no flat images)
Color: RGB (not CMYK)
Web-safe fonts: If you're using non-websafe fonts in your design, please send them with your files. Remember that text-content can only be output in web-safe fonts. Here is a list of websafe fonts to guide you in your font selection.
Resolution: 72 dpi and set to the exact pixel dimensions you desire for your website.

Helpful suggestions

Identify the editable regions. Note for us, in a separate group or layer on the PSD/PNG, where you want the editable regions to go, including the desired width of each region.
Navigation rollovers. Don't forget that your designs can have rollover states on the navigation buttons. Show us how you want those rollovers to look.
Margins and padding. It's is a good idea to leave plenty of margin or padding around your regions and other design elements to avoid a cluttered design and to provide more flexibility.
Notes and measurements. The more notations with measurements that you can provide, the better.
Browser rendering. Each browser renders fonts, margins, paddings and general sizing differently. We do our best to match the template, but we cannot guarantee pixel-perfect accuracy.

HTML Xpress Sample Templates

Our design staff has created templates for several popular applications that are setup with the proper settings, grids, fonts, and guides to give you a solid starting point for your HTML Xpress designs. Feel free to download and use these files as you begin your design project.

Please choose a template that was created for your preferred design application. The files should work for both Windows and OS X versions of each application:

New! - Adobe Photoshop Template (Works with version 7.0 or greater)
HTML Xpress Sample Template.zip (PSD, 5.9MB)
CLASSIC PSD - Adobe Photoshop Template (Works with version 7.0 or greater)
Adobe_Photoshop7.psd (PSD, 1.01MB)
CLASSIC PNG - Macromedia Fireworks (Works with version MX or greater)
Macromedia_Fireworks.png (PNG, 196KB)

Add another website to your account

Support — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:49:13 GMT

Watch video here.

Login to your site.
Click the My Account button on the toolbar at the top of the page.
Click the My Websites tab.
Click the Add new a website button in the top right.
Enter the site address you would like. In the example below your address would be http://mywebsite.publishpath.com.

Note: Click the check availability button to see if that name is available.

Choose the type of website you want to create.

Business- This CMS can be used for any business, industry or organization. If you are unsure what to choose, use this default option.
Ministry- This CMS is for churches or ministries interested in having a website.

Click the Create My Website link.

Backing up your website

Support — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:43:53 GMT