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.


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