About the Website Tonight Home Page
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June 4, 2010 1:12 PM
The Website Tonight® Home page gives you at-a-glance information about your site. From here, you can click to add new pages, work with existing pages, upload new files and images, and manage other aspects of your site.
Website Tonight consists of two main areas, the Home page and the Page Designer. The Home page helps you complete administrative tasks like adding a forum or a guestbook, while you use the Page Designer to design the individual pages of your site.
NOTE: For a more detailed explanation about the features you can add from the Home page, including links to how-to help, see Menu Bar Options below.
To Design Your Site
- Log in to Website Tonight.
- From the Website Tonight Home page, in the Getting Started area, click Design Your Pages.
Menu Bar Options
The menu bar displays along the top portion of the screen and provides access to over 20 different features.
Home
Returns to the Home page.
Design
- Launch Page Designer
- Displays the Page Designer where you can design and modify your Web pages. For more information, see Adding and Editing Content Using the Page Designer.
- Template and Colors
- Goes to the Template tab where you can select from a variety of templates and change their color shemes. For more information see, Changing Your Template for Site Builders.
- Advanced Style Options
- Displays the CSS editor where you can make changes to your site's CSS. For more information, see Editing CSS Using Advanced Style Options.
- Advanced Color Options
- Displays a page where you can individually modify the colors your site is using. For more information, see Using Advanced Color Options.
Add-Ons
Quick Shopping Cart
- Guestbook
- Guestbooks let your site visitors sign their name on your site to indicate their visit. For more information, see Creating a Guestbook for Website Tonight.
- Flash Intro
- A Flash Intro displays before users see your site's home page. For more information, see Adding, Editing, and Uploading Flash Introductions.
- Forum
- A forum is an area of your site that allows users to create and comment on ongoing discussions. For more information, see Setting up and Launching Your Forum.
- Coming Soon Page
- Coming soon pages alert visitors that you intend to have your site ready soon. For more information, see Building Your Coming Soon Pages.
Set up a link to your Quick Shopping Cart site. For more information, see Associating Quick Shopping Cart with Website Tonight.
Manage
- Organize Site
- Add, delete, rename, and make other changes to pages your site uses. For more information, see Organizing Your Website Using the Organize Site Page.
- Google Sitemap
- Sitemaps can help make your site more searchable. For more information, see About Google Sitemap Settings and Webmaster Tools.
- Backup/Restore
- You can backup your site and restore it at any time. For more information, see Backing up or Restoring Your Website.
- Publish
- Goes to the Publish page where you can publish your Website. For more information, see Publishing Your Website.
- Publish Selected Pages
- Allows you to specify pages you want to publish. For more information, see Publishing Selected Pages.
- Publish History
- Shows the date, time, duration, state, any messages, and log files of all previous publishes. For more information see Viewing Your Publishing History and Log.
- File Size/Loading Info
- Website Tonight helps you determine your site's performance and address any areas for improvement. For more information, see Viewing Web Page Data.
- Password Protection
- You can password protect your site to prevent unwanted access. For more information, see Managing Password Protection for Your Site.
- Upload Files and Images
- You can upload and manage files and images in Website Tonight. For more information, see Uploading and Linking to Files and Images.
- Spell Check
- Website Tonight can check your spelling on all your pages or only pages you specify. For more information, see How to Spell Check Your Web Pages.
- Fonts
- You can download additional fonts to display as captions on your images. For more information, see Downloading Additional Fonts for Your Website.
- Restart Site
- Start over from scratch by using Website Tonight's Restart Site function. For more information, see Restarting Your Website.
Settings
- Site
- Modify the settings created when you first set up your Website Tonight account. For more information, see Changing the Domain Associated with Your Website Tonight Account and/or Editing Your Contact Information.
- Configuration
- On the Configuration page you can specify details such as whether to show the Website Tonight banner, search engine information, spell check and other options. For more information, see Setting Your Website Preferences.
Help
- Help
- Displays the Help Center.
- Support
- Goes to our support page where you can submit a support ticket.