Authoring page contents
A getya.net page is created in the administration site
section. Point your browser to
http://mysite/_admin (replace mysite with your
domain name).
Click Page in the menu. You will see a table
of your pages. To create a new page click the Create
New button. A form appears where you must provide some
page information. The information helps search engines to better
index your pages.
The first field is the relative
path field, which should be a permanent address to
where the page can be found. See the address bar in your browser.
All getya.net pages can be located by a unique address. The part
after your domain starting with a forward slash / is the relative
path.
The first page you will want to create just have the location
/. That is the default front page of your
site. If you want to create a page at e.g.
http://yourdomain.com/fun/my-page you will type /fun/my-page in the
location field.
Please note you cannot use space characters or special
characters including +*? in the location.
The keyword field is a comma separated list
of keywords found in the page text to help search engines.
The description field is a brief summary of
the page text, also to help search engines.
Click Save when you are done filling out the
fields.
Editing Page Contents
To edit the contents of pages in your site, go to the
administration site section.
Click Page in the menu, and see the table of
your pages. Find the page you want to edit and click the location
link in the first column.
The page is displayed. Click one of the
sections you wish to edit. A box is drawn around
the section and a row of tool buttons appears.
You can now type text directly in the page
and immediately see how your page looks to your visitors. When you
are happy with the text you have written in the section, click the
Save toolbar button.
Then move on to the next section and repeat
editing that content. Remember to click the Save
button when completing each section.
If you want to revert your changes just hit
the Refresh button in your browser to reload the page.
When you want to return and edit another
page, just hit the Back button in your browser.
Please note that any links in your text are
inactive while in edit mode. You can try the page in the normal
mode by stripping the ?edit=1 from the locaton in
your browser's address bar.
Editing Page Properties
To edit the contents of pages in your site, go to the
administration site section.
Click Page in the menu and see the table
of your pages. Find the page you want to edit and
Edit button.
A form appears showing the current information. The
information helps search engines to better index your
pages.
The first field is the location field, which
should be a permanent address to where the page can be found. See
the address bar in your browser. All getya.net pages can be located
by a unique address. The part after your domain starting with a
forward slash / is the location. You should avoid changing that
after you created a page, because the page will disappear from the
old location.
The keyword field is a
comma separated list of keywords found in the page text to help
search engines.
The description field is
a brief summary of the page text, also to help search
engines.
Click Save when you are
done filling out the fields.
Deleting A Page
To delete a pages in your site, go to the administration site
section.
Click Page in the menu
and see the table of your pages. Find the page you want to
edit and Delete button. And the
page will no longer be there.
Note that if anyone (including search engines) bookmarked that
page they will see the
page does not exist message so do try to avoid deleting
pages.
Inserting An Image
To insert an image on a page start editing
the page.
If you already have the image uploaded to your site, or if the image is on an
external web server, you should click the Add
Image button in the editor toolbar. This brings up a
dialog where you can paste in the address to the image.
Or if you have the image only on you own computer, you should
click the Upload Image toolbar button. Then
click the button in the dialog, find the image file you would like
to upload. The image is then uploaded and immediately inserted into
your page section. Of course the file restrictions and smart
optimization also applies when uploading this way.
Changing Colors, Layout
To achieve an common look and feel throughout your site, you
should put all page layout, font settings and all their colorful
friends in a cascading
style sheet.
In the Settings section of your
administration site you can specify the location of a style sheet
file that you have uploaded. For instance if you upload a file
called site.css you can change the "Path to
Stylesheet" setting to
styles/site.css/min.css
This will include a reference to the minified version of that
file on every page in your site.
If you later decide to change that red background color you
thought was a good idea at the time, you just have to upload a new
site.css file to change it on all pages at
once.
Remember separation
of concerns?
Advanced Page Content
Getya.net gives you control of the exact page contents so if
you are familiar with HTML you can
produce some amazing stuff by clicking the blue HTML button in the
editor toolbar.
If you think a tag is a thingy worn by military personnel,
then please move along, this is not beginner's stuff.
Clicking the HTML button opens a popup with the actual markup
for that section. This allows you to edit the actual HTML
code, including adding javascripts and styles. Getya.net already
includes a reference to the latest JQuery API on all pages, so for
instance can
be create by inserting in the onclick attribute of the
button:
$('#imgSrc').slideToggle();
Please note that when you save a section getya.net will
automatically tidy up your tags to ensure the page remains XHTML
conform. This makes browsers love your site.
To speed up page loading all scripts are located at the bottom
of the page. We automatically move any <script> tags you put
in your content sections at the very bottom to make sure your
script runs after the JQuery API is loaded.
