>>> PREFERENCES SECTION:


In the preferences section you can personalize your website like you want.
From this section you can change the parameters described in the pictures 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7.
The preferences are organized by section, its possible to go from a preferences section to another by click on appropriate link, (for example to go on content preferences you must click on [Content]).


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Language preferences:
From here tou can select the preferences language (that is different from the editor language, you can select for example from the preferences for the italian website and the preference from English website).




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GENERAL PREFERENCES
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Change number of visitors to:
Change the actual visitors number, you can insert the new visitors number in the text box near the buttom and click in the button to set it.

Change number of site signalations to:
Change the number of website signalations with the value in the text box near the button. (The number of site signalation will appear in the site only if you enable a SIGNAL panel).

Change maximum number of news in the homepage:
Change the number of news that can be view in the homepage (in the center), the default number is 10.

Let the banners ON/OFF:

This button enable or disable the banners in the site (if the banners are disable you can not view it).

Disable/Enable the logging:

This button enable or disable the logging. If logging its enabled, Webmatic save the visitor's activity and page visited in the database (see "log" in statistics section).


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ASPECT PREFERENCES
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Site Style:
Here you can personalize the aspect of your website, you can choose from some different styles (click on Save to active the choosen style).

Site address:

Insert here your website address (without http://). Example: "www.mysite.com".

Title in the browser bar and Site title:
We can choose the title will appear in the Internet Explorer bar (in the top) and the website title that will appear in the homepage.

Site Logo:
You can choose your personalized logo in the top of all pages (see "Manage file with Webmatic" to learn how to upload your personal image for logo).
Its also possible to insert a flash logo, to set the dimension (X and Y) for flash logo you must insert the dimensions in the "Flash logo size" fields.

Visit counter and date:
You can select from 4 kind of visualization: Visit counter and date, visit counter only, date only or none. The visit counter and date will appear in the bottom of all pages in the site.
Its also possible to decide if you want online the number of newsletter members, the number of site signalations and the number of items in the search engine (that numbers will appear, if selected, in the respective panels: newsletter, signal and search. see the panel section).

Flags:

Let you to activate some function.
(see picture 3 for details).


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CONTENT PREFERENCES
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Special user text:
The string you insert here will appear when a user is set as special user from the administrator (see "Users section" for details).

Site editorial staff name:

Here you can set the user name of the website editorial staff, this is the name will appear when you insert a news written by all site staff.

Home page content:
All you insert in the text area "Home page content" will appear in your home page (in the centre).Site tailer:
This is the extra text will be appear in the bottom of all pages in the site.

Users flags:
The users flags are used to enable the propriety of an user when it subscribes to your website.
Starting group its the group that have an user when subscribes (to manage the groups see the users section).
With the enabled flag on an user will be enabled immediatly when it subscribes to the website (if flag is off, you must enabled the user manually from the users section).
With the special user flag on the new user will be a "special" user.
The flags from F1 to F8 are used for:
F1 on means that an user can insert own news in the website.
F2 on means that an user can insert, modify, enable and delete the own news in the website.
F3 on means that the user can send/receive messages from the other users.
F4 on means that the user can create and manage forums.
F5 on means that the user can create own banners for the banners exchange program.
F6 on means that the user can insert own products for the ecommerce section.

The flags from F7 to F8 are not used (are reserved for the future).


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EMAIL PREFERENCES
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Webmaster's email:
Insert here the webmaster's email.

Service email:

You can insert here a service email (you can use a pretense email), this email will be used as sender's email into the newsletter, signalation and user registration email.

Site signalation email:
This email (text and subject) will be sended when an user signal your site to his friends.

User registration email:
Plese insert here the email's header of the email that will be send when a new user submits in your site.


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ECOMMERCE PREFERENCES
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Link credit card website: This is the link to the credit card transictions website you choose (you can insert here also some parameters associated with the link).

Coin symbol: Insert here the money symbol used in the website for the ecommerce.

Shipping cost: Its the shipping cost value, keep it 0 if you do not want to use the shipping cost.

Ecommerce tipology: You can choose from only online products catalog without commercial transictions, or products catalog with commercial transictions and online sale.

Show prices also in the catalog: If enabled the price for the products will be showed also if the ecommerce tipology its set to "Only products catalog".

Enable printable page and extra for the products: If enabled, for each product, a website visitor can see a printable page and can also request more information about the product and suggest the product by email.

Variables association:

- "Transiction price" its the name of the transiction price variable (that name is given from the external website that you use for the credit card transiction).
- "Transiction ID" its the name of the variable with the unique transaction ID (that name is given from the external website that you use for the credit card transiction, to this name will be associated the internal Webmatic unique transaction ID).

For informations about the user defined fields please see ecommerce section.


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BANNERS EXCHANGE PREFERENCES
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Banners exchange ratio: Its the ratio between the banners inpressions and the credits earned by the users in the banners exchange program. (For example in picture 5 the ratio its 1/5, that means for each impression of a banners the user earn 5 credits).

Extra content to put under each showed banner: You can put, under each banner showed in an external website, an HTML content.

The users banners are automatically enabled: If this option its on, when an user insert a new banner in the banners exchange program, the banner are automatically enabled. If this option its off the banners inserted by the users are disabled, in this case the banners can be enable by the administrator from banners section.

Starting credits:
You can insert here the number of credits that an user receive when subscribe the banners exchange program.