Site Properties

In Site Properties panel reside a number of options that apply to your site as a whole: the option to enter the domain name to be used for your site, the search engine meta data, the options to password-protect your whole site, add your own logo and copyright. To open Site Properties enter Admin view, click the Control Panel label on top right and choose Site Properties.

On top of Site Properties screen are located the options to set the Site Title, the delimiter used between your page title and site title, the option to upload your logo image, enter your site domain and change the design for your site.

Site Title

This is the title that will appear in the header area of all the pages of your site as well as in the browser window title.

Logo

If you uploaded an image as your Site Logo, this image will replace your site title.

Page Title Delimiter

In the page title delimiter field you may set the character used for separating the Site title from the Page title in the Browser window title. You may set the title delimiter to #, -, : etc.

My Domain

This option is available only if you are subscribed to a plan that includes a domain name. It allows you to display your site under your own domain name. Please refer to the Domain Name Setup tutorial for detailed instructions.

Design

Shows the current design for your site. You may also switch to another design by clicking Change Design button. You may filter the list of designs by category and preview the designs by clicking on the loupe icon at the bottom right of each design thumbnail.

To see a short video tutorial on changing the Design used for your site, please refer to the Change Design tutorial.

Site Properties panel has several sections with advanced site settings. Click Show Options to see the settings available in a specific section.

Access Control

The Access Control section allows you to protect all pages from your site by password or email address authorization.

• If you wish to restrict access to your site only to individuals who have been given a certain password, fill in the desired password in the Password field. Leave the Allow only for members of drop-down set to [No mailing list restriction]
• You may also make the site accessible to members of a mailing list. From Allow only for members of drop-down select a mailing list already added to your site.

• You may also restrict access to your site by a combination of password and mailing list membership.

• If you do not want your site to be password protected, just leave the password field empty and set the Allow only for members of drop-down set to [No mailing list restriction]
   

Access protection takes effect immediately after updating, no need to publish. Depending on whether you have chosen to  password-protect your site or restrict access to the members of a mailing list, users will be asked to fill in a site password or an email address when they access your site.

Special Features

In section Special Features are located the options to display Google search box in your site header, define all search-engine related information for your site, set the site encoding, define the number of news items per page (for designs with an option for news) and upload search-engine related Static files.

The keywords and site description entered in these fields will be added as meta tags on all pages of your site and will facilitate the proper indexing of your site by the search engines. Read more on the role of meta tags in the search engine optimization (SEO) process in the SEO tutorial.

If your site is in English, you should use the Default Site Encoding. Choose another encoding for websites in non-English language.

News per Page

If you have selected a design featuring News, this option will allow you to define the number of news items to appear on one page.

Static Files Upload

The static files upload feature will let you add search engine-related or other files in the root folder of your website. To upload static files from your hard disk, browse for them and click Upload, as shown below.

Immediately after upload your files become accessible as yoursite/<filename> or, if you have a custom domain defined, as <customdomain>/<filename>. Please note you may not upload files larger than ~ 20K.

Text style options and Custom CSS upload

Some designs have a Font Theme option allowing to change the font used for all text content on your site. You may choose between four predefined font options. Or, if you wish to use your own styles, browse for a valid CSS file from the Custom Styles box.

If you need to review the applied text style changes before publishing them live, click Update and select the Preview option from the confirmation popup box.

Footer Layout

A number of designs (Aurora, Pasta and others) have a Footer Layout option allowing to change the position and alignment of the bottom navigation, footer icons and copyright text.