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Online Site Creator
is an user-friendly online tool to develop websites.The benefits that
online site creator provides to the users are
- User friendly and
easily upgradable
- Develop a professional
quality website in 30 minutes
- Pro-actively involve
in the development of the website
- Can build upto
10 page sites
- Choice of Sleek
and attractive professional designs
- Create forms online
with no programming
- Online Help to
guide you through the process
The following are
the steps involved in building a website using the Online Site Creator.
Step
1: Select no. of Pages
Step 2: Select a Category
Step 3: Select a design for your website
Step 4: Choose Color & Image
Step 5: Customize your site
Step 6: Add/Edit your site
Plase find below a
step by step approach to build the website using the online site creator.
Step
1: Select no. of Pages:
As the first step
to build your website, you have to select the number of pages you plan
to have in your website.
Step
2: Select a Category:
As the first step
to build your website, you are being asked to Select a Category from
the pull down menu. This selection of category, is to present you those
website designs that will be more apt to your line of requirement as
these designs will be tailored to the category selected by you.
If you are not able
to find your relevant category listed in the pull down menu, you can
select the "All" option (or) you can click on the "click here" link,
which will display you the whole range of designs offered by the online
site creator. Six designs will be displayed in a page.
Step
3: Select a design for your website:
This page will display
you the thumb nails of the designs, for the category you have selected.
This is where you choose the design for your website.
While choosing the
design,kindly note that if your design contains vertical navigations,
then you can upgrade your website upto 10 pages. If your design contains
Horizontal navigations, then you can upgrade your website only upto
5 pages.
One page will display
six designs. For browsing more thumbnail designs please click the subsequent
pages, which will be displayed in the Grey bar shown above the designs,
so that you will be taken to the next page.
To look at the enlarged
design that you have selected, click on the thumbnail design or the
"Click to enlarge" button.
If you would like
to select a different category you can click on the "Go Back" button
above the Grey bar, so that you will be taken to the "Select a Category"
page.
Step
4: Choose Color & Image:
This section allows
you to enhance the aesthetics of the design by choosing the color and
the image that you want for your website.
Select
Color:
Each design contains
3 to 4 background colors to choose from. You can choose any of these
colors which you feel will be apt for your website.
Select
Image:
You will be provided
with a list of images to select from the pull down menu. These images
will be mostly relevant to the category, which you have selected. You
can use the images given in the pull down menu to change the image available
in the design.
Once
you are satisfied:
Click the "Next
step" button. You will be taken to the page where you need to enter
the name of the company and the slogan for the company.
If
you want to change the design:
Click on the "Go
Back" button, which will take you to the "Choose your design page".
Step
5: Customize your site:
Having selected
the design, background color and the image, you can now start customizing
the design by adding the Company name and the slogan for the company.If
you don't have the slogan for the company you can use this text box
for displaying the phone number (or) any other information you need
to provide on all pages of the website
Enter
Company Name:
You can enter the
name of the company in the text box. Please note that the number of
characters, which can be entered into the text box, is displayed below
the text box. This column is a mandatory column and hence you won't
be allowed to leave this column blank. If you don't want to display
the company name you can give any other main title you want to give
in the website.
Enter
Slogan(Optional):
You can enter the
slogan in the text box. If you don't have the slogan for the company
you can use this text box for displaying the phone number (or) any other
information you need to provide on all pages of the website. Please
note that the number of characters, which can be entered into the text
box, is displayed below the text box.
Once you have completed
entering the company name and the slogan you can click the Submit button
to preview your website design.
In the preview page,
if you accept the design you can click "yes" given at the top of the
screen. If you don't accept the design you can click "No" which will
take you to the Select a design page.
Step
6: Add/Edit your site:
Site Manager provides
everything you need to create, update and enhance your web site. Using
Site Manager you can do the following.
- Make changes to
your company name and slogan
- Name the Links
for the Pages
- Browse and upload
the images of your choice
- View and Edit
your account information
- Choose the layout
for the pages
- Enter the text
for paragraph
- Preview the pages
You can go to
the page editor page by clicking the button in the site manager
page. You can preview your website page by page by clicking the
button in the site manager page.
You can use the
logout button for logging out of the site manager.
Page
Editor:
Use this area to
- Choose the layout
for your pages
- Enter the text
for your paragraph using the applet
- Import and Upload
the images of your choice
- Enter Caption
for the image
Edit
Master:
Use this area to
- Edit the Company
Name
- Edit the Slogan
column. If you need to change the slogan (or) replace the slogan with
phone numbers (or) any other important information you can do so.
- Add links to pages
Import
Images:
Use this area to
- Browse for the
images
- Select and upload
the images of your choice
Account
Information:
Use this area to
- View your account
details
- Edit your account
details
Page
Editor:
Page Editor will
allow you to
- Choose the layout
for your pages
- Enter the text
for your paragraph using the applet
- Import and Upload
the images of your choice
- Enter Caption for
the image
Steps
to Follow:
You need to follow
the steps given below while using the page editor
1. Select the page
layout (Please note that you will lose the text, if you select the page
layout after typing the text)
2. Enter the text
for paragraph
3. Select (or) Import
Images
4. Give a caption
for the image (optional)
It is very important
that before entering the text, you decide on the page layout. Otherwise
you will lose the text you have entered in the applet when you choose
the page layout after entering the text.
Page
Layout:
The current page layout
will be displayed. If you wish to change the layout of the page, click
on "Change Layout" link, so that you will be taken to the "Choose a Layout"
page.You can choose the page layout which you feel you require for your
website to display the information, the way you like. You also have a
separate layout for developing the forms online. Using this form layout
you can customize the forms.
Form
Manager :
This is an online
tool for developing forms. You can customize the forms to your requirement
using this tool.
You will have 3 columns,
where you need to give your inputs to develop your form. The inputs you
need to give are
- Field Name
- Field type
- No of options (Required
only for Pull down, Radio Button and Check box)
Field
Name:
In this column you
need to enter the name of the fields you want in the form. For Ex: Name,
Address, Organization Etc. The maximum number of characters you can give
for field name is 30 characters. You will not be allowed to enter more
than 30 characters.
Field
Type:
The field types are
given below
- Text Field
- Text Area
- Pull Down
- Check Box
- Radio Button
If you need to give
only one Input value, you can either go in for Text field (or) Text area.
If you have no. of options to select from you can choose from check box,
Pull down (or) Radio Button.
You can select the
field types based on the fields. For Example:
| Name, Phone |
Text Field
|
| Address, Comments |
Text Area |
| Select Country |
Pull down |
| Marital status |
Radio Button
|
| Area of Interest |
Check Box |
You can set the default
values for both the Radio Button and the Check Box, by selecting the default
fields while you preview the form.
No.
of Options:
When you choose your
field type as Pull Down, Radio Button (or) Check Box, you need to fill
up the no. of options. You will not be allowed to submit until you fill
up the no. of options column. The no. of options is limited from 1 to
10 for both check boxes and the radio buttons,while the no of options
is limited to 99 for the pull down field type. Please note that Null values
/ Zero will not be accepted for Pull Down,Check Box and the Radio Buttons.
You can add, delete
and update fields using the Form manager. For adding the fields you can
click on the "add a field" button. For updating/editing the fields you
can click on the "update a field" button and make the necessary changes
and click the submit button. For deleting a field you have to click on
"delete a field" button, check the boxes against the fields which you
want to delete and click the submit button.You can preview the form, before
you can submit it to be added in the site.
Import
Images :
Import Image section
is used to include the images of your choice in the website. You can browse
and select the images. Then you can click the upload button to upload
the image you have selected. The list of images that you have already
imported and uploaded will be listed in the available images column.
Edit
Master:
Edit Master can be
used to edit the company name and the slogan columns.
Enter
Company Name :
You can enter the
name of the company in the text box. Please note that the number of characters,
which can be entered into the text box, is displayed below the text box.
This column is a mandatory column and hence you won't be allowed to leave
this column blank. If you don't want to display the company name you can
give any other main title you want to give in the website.
Enter
Slogan(Optional):
You can enter the
slogan in the text box. If you don't have the slogan for the company you
can use this text box for displaying the phone number (or) any other information
you need to provide on all pages of the website. Please note that the
number of characters, which can be entered into the text box, is displayed
below the text box.
Name
Page Links:
The links for the
pages can be named using the Edit Master. Please note that this is a mandatory
column and hence you will not be allowed to leave the column blank. Some
commonly used names for page links are given for you to select and choose
from.
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