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Setting up your website template:

Step 1:
EDIT FLASH ANIMATION: | Click for more details
Open the "flash.txt" file with Notepad or any text editor and change "yourwebsitetitle.com" with your name or company name. Be sure not to delete the "logo=". Edit the text following "&logo-FAQ=" with your FAQ popup logo text. Be sure not to delete the "&logo-FAQ=". Edit the four "&textlines=" with your phrases for the animated text in the header. This will update the Flash animation 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 change the "Your Company" text to match your site or company title. This will change the footer info on all pages. Edit all ".js" files with a text editor like Notepad.

Step 3:
EDIT CONTACT INFO: | Click for more details
Open the "contact.js" in Notepad or any text editor and change the company name, address, phone number and e-mail address. This will update the lower contact info on the "contact" page. This is done this way so search engines won't see your e-mail and you'll get less spam.

Step 4:
EDIT THE CONTACT AND QUOTES 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.

Because of the complexity of setting up the quote form, there are notes in the "quotes.htm" to help you cut and paste to add new form fields. The form will work with most contact form scripts however you will need help files or a sample form from the script you intend to use. Most form elements work the same way from script to script, however the hidden values usually vary. You may want to consider editing the entire page in Notepad instead of a wysiwyg editor.

NOTE: This template includes a "staff" page that has e-mail links included on the HTML page.

Step 5:
REPLACE THE GALLERY PICTURES: | Click for more details
The best way to setup the pictures in the gallery is not to actually edit the HTML pages and change the pictures on each individual page. The fastest way is to simply replace the .jpg pictures in the "gallery" folder with your own by overwriting the files that are in there now and using the same generic names.

In the "gallery" folder, replace the 36 "Fgallery" pictures with full size photos. Replace the 36 "gallery" pictures with your thumbnails. The thumbnails are now 100 x 67 pixels and Fgallery images are 500 x 333, but you can make them any size that you prefer. There is info on the other pictures in this template later in this document.

IMAGE VIEWER OPTIONS: | Click for more details
You can change some options for the gallery image viewer page (image-viewer.htm) by editing the pop-closeup.js in Notepad. Options include new browser window, or popup for the viewer.

Step 6:
EDIT SIDEBAR: | Click for more details
Open the "sidebar.js" file in Notepad or any text editor, and edit the text and links with your own text. You will also find some options you can change at the top of this file. Editing the "sidebar.js" will update the right side area under the menu of all HTML template pages at one time. Example: In the "sidebar.js" find the "START SIDEBAR TEXT", after this note edit the text with your sidebar info. Edit the "This side bar area can be used..." text with your own text. Try this update and check the about.htm to see this updated.

Step 7:
EDIT PAGES: | Software choices | Notepad Editing
Change the text on all pages to match your 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 page to help you navigate. NOTE: You will not see the footer and header in some software because they are .js include files so you can globally edit the footer and menu.

Step 8:
EDIT FAQ PAGES: | Click for more details
See your FAQ page for setup instructions.

Step 9:
EDIT CALENDAR PAGE: | Click for more details
Edit the "calendar.htm" like any other HTML page. Click for options.

Step 10:
EDIT TITLES, DESCRIPTIONS AND KEYWORDS: | Click for more details
Open each of the pages and change the titles (at the very top of the page) and also the description and the keywords to match your product or service. You can edit one page and copy and paste to the other pages. Be careful to only change what's inside the "" so you don't disturb the html code. Page titles are important so your site will get a good listing at Google or MSN and other search engines.

Step 11:
UPLOAD: | Click for more details
Upload the pages on to your hosting company's server using ftp software or Windows Explorer or your control panel. Be sure to upload the "picts" and "gallery" folders and all files in these folders.



Options:

USING A GRAPHIC LOGO:
You can replace the Flash logo with a graphic logo. To do this, delete or rename the "header.js", then 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. It's best to keep the logo .jpg graphic the same size it is now if possible.

custom.htm PAYPAL PAYMENT PAGE:
This template includes a Paypal payment page called "custom.htm". Edit the "paypal@your-web-domain.com" in this page with your Paypal e-mail and you can use this page to accept custom payments by sending clients a link to this page and having them fill in any amount on the payment page.

SETTING UP THE SLIDESHOW PICTURES: | Click for more details
The slideshow is currently setup to display all pictures in the gallery folder. If you would like to add or remove pictures from the slideshow, open the slideshow.htm in Notepad and look for the "EDIT THIS AREA" note. Copy and paste to add new pictures to the list, or delete lines to remove pictures. You can also set the AutoPlay speed. Look for "var rotate_delay = 3000".

HOMEPAGE NEWS SCROLLER: | Click for more details
The news scroller on the right area of the homepage is scrolling the "news_window.htm" inside an IFrame. You can either leave this live news feed from Freenewsfeed.com, or, you can use another news feed service, or, you can edit the template "news_window.htm" with your own text and images like any other template page. When editing this page be sure to only edit the text between the "SCROLLER PAGE" notes. The font colors and sizes for this page are inside the "news_window.htm" and not included in the "coolstyle.css".

FONTS: | Click for more details
You can change your font colors and sizes by editing the "coolstyle.css" with a text editor. Change font sizes in the "coolstyle.css" file. Change the "TABLE" px size to change the text copy on all pages. Change the "title" px size to change all the title sizes. See notes included in the template CSS file.

CHANGING LINKS / ADDING TO THE MENU: | Click for more details
There are a total of four menus you can add and remove links on.
1. menu.js (top left menu)
2. menu_floating.js (bottom left menu)
3. menu_horz.js (the horizontal header menu)
4. menu_gallery.js (gallery right links)
You can change the names of the links like "about" or "gallery" to other page names by editing the "menu.js" and the "menu_floating.js". Only change the one instance of the name and not the name with the ".htm" after it. Whatever you change in the menu.js and menu_floating.js will change every page on the website. Keep the names short so they don't go outside the menu. You can 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 you edit them. There are notes in each "menu" .js files to add another link.

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.

POPUPS: | Click for more details
Options for the gallery, slideshow and FAQ popups can be edited in the pop-closeup.js.

TEMPLATE DATE:
The current date shown in the header area can be turned off in the "menu.js". Date location and font options can be edited in the "coolstyle.css".

SITE MAP PAGE:
The "site_map.htm" is linked from the index.html. It is best not to remove this link so search engines can find your site map and properly list all your pages when users search at major search engines.

SIDEBAR - PAGE HEIGHTS:
So all your pages will maintain a standard height, spacing is included in the "sidebar.js". You can edit the "var pageheight" variable near the top to any height you need to keep short pages from being cut too short.

CHANGING THE GRAPHICS/PICTURES: | Click for more details
You can replace the page pictures with your own. The pictures are now 125 pixels wide, but you can use any size picture you want and the pages will size them to fit automatically. Each page has it's own pictures which are named according to the page they're on. You will find all pictures in the "picts" folder.

PAYPAL SHOPPING CART SETUP | Click for more details
Paypal shopping cart forms have been included in the template "FORMgallery?.htm" pages. Follow the steps below to setup the shopping cart pages.
  1. Setup a Paypal merchant account.

  2. Delete or rename all current template "gallery?.htm" pages.

  3. Rename all "FORMgallery?.htm" pages to "gallery?.htm" pages maintaining their respective gallery numbers. For example, rename "FORMgallery1.htm" to "gallery1.htm".

  4. In each newly renamed Paypal "gallery?.htm" page replace the info for each form with your Paypal form info. In each form edit the business e-mail, the item name and the item price. Edit the "view cart" button with your Paypal e-mail. For a quick edit, you can open a gallery page in notepad and search and replace "paypal@your-web-domain.com" with your paypal e-mail. There is a thank you page included. In each form edit the "return" URL with your web domain URL so the return page will display after a payment is completed. Click for form setup details.

  5. In each form you can also edit the shipping price. Click for more shipping options.