Settings - The Basics

Site Info

Website Title
The website title is the proper name for your website. This is used throughout the website in outgoing e-mails and pages which are instructed to display the website name.

Abbreviated Website Title
This is used where phsyical space does not permit the proper website name to be used. If your website name as an acronym or abbreviation, you may use it here.

Admin E-mail
The e-mail address to the Insty-Site user. The contact form defaults to this address unless you add contacts from the back-office. See Contacts...

Technical E-mail
The e-mail address to receive error messages and reports of hack attempts. By default, Insty-Site administrators will receive such errors. However, in cases of heavy alteration to the CMS or where you may be experimenting with PHP and databases, you may wish to receive such errors yourself by changing this e-mail address. This is useful for you and courteous for us at Insty-Site.

Website URL
Enter the complete URL for your website homepage. If your website includes a splash page, you may enter the address to it here. By default, this field should contain http://www.yourdomain.com.

Site Domain
This is the website domain. If your website is on a sub-domain, you can enter that in this field. If not, just put "www" as your sub-domain.

Select Favicon
Enter the filename of the favicon you wish to appear on your website.

General Settings

Website ON/OFF
Turning this setting off will secure the website so that no user may access it. This is useful for when you are performing maintenance on the website and expect errors to occur that you do not want users to see.

Test Mode ON/OFF
Turning test mode on will cause database errors to appear on-screen as they occur. This is useful for troubleshooting custom code on the website. It is highly advisable to turn test mode OFF once testing is complete. Otherwise, malicious users may probe your site, causing errors intentionally and learning your database structure, making hack attempts more effective.

Local Time
Select the local timezone for your website.

Search Engine Indexing
Turning this on will instruct search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, etc.) whether or not to index your website. If your website is private, you may desire search engines to avoid it and not make its existance public. Do not rely on this feature to secure your website. If your website is meant to be secure, there are server-level methods for doing so. Note: The search engine crawler in the back office will ignore this setting.

Search Engine Following
This feature instructs search engines whether or not to follow the links from your website to others.

Show Microstats
The microstats are a diagnostic tool which appears at the bottom of the website on every page. It displays the CMS version, query count, script execution time, current time as per your timezone settings, and other information useful for monitoring the general performance of any given page you view. Turning this feature on makes the microstats appear on all pages.

Traffic Reporting
This feature keeps track of traffic hitting the website and shows the log in the Traffic Report. This feature is off by default. Page stats will not change if traffic reporting is off. See Traffic Report...

User Registration
This setting determines if your website is allowing new users to register on the website.

E-mail Confirmation
This setting instructs the user registration system whether or not to require e-mail confirmation to complete the registration process. If turned on, an e-mail with a link will be sent to the new user's e-mail address. Their account will remain pending until they click this link. This is useful for ensuring both their e-mail address is accurate and your website is capable of e-mailing them through any e-mail filtering their service may possess.

Image Verification
This displays a Captcha, a skewed image, for your new user to visually confirm. This is useful for keeping suspicious applications from registering mass numbers of accounts automatically for spamming or other malicious purposes.

Cookiecrumb Style
The cookiecrumb bar is a tool to allow your users to back-track through the categorized archives of content on the website. There are two styles to choose from: 1-tier and 2-tier.

Cookie Domain
The cookie domain is required for your user login system to work. If your website is on a sub-domain, enter that here. If not, enter ".yourdomain.com".

Cookie Path
This is used to indicate in which directories you would like the cookie to be available. This is necessary if your CMS is installed in a sub-directory of your domain. In most cases, just putting a forward slash "/" will suffice. This will make the cookie available throughout the domain you selected above.

Show Stats
This setting displays the traffic stats at the bottom of each page. This functions as a per-page hit counter of sorts. In order for this to work, it is necessary for traffic reporting to be turned on.

Social Bookmarking
Some archive content items have social bookmarking widgets connected to Facebook, Reddit, Del.icio.us, and others. Turning this setting on makes these interfaces appear throughout the site.

Show Lastmod
The lastmod date indicates when a page has been recently updated. The lastmod is smartly determined based on the most recent content change on the page. Turning this setting on makes the lastmod appear on every page. Search engines may desire this information.

Show Welcome Block
The welcome block is attached at the top of the homepage. This setting determines for whom it will appear. If ON, the block will appear for everyone. If OFF, it will appear for no one. If set to "Guests Only," the block will only appear for guest users not logged into the website.

Welcome Block Type
This setting allows you to choose whether your welcome block will be editable or a rotator.

Contact Captcha
This setting adds a captcha image to the contact form to help keep malicious applications from spamming your contact form.

Default Editor
Insty-Site contains three HTML editors to help generate HTML in an interface similar to a rich text editor like Microsoft Word. Each editor has its strengths and weaknesses. This setting determines which editor will be used throughout the website and back-office. See HTML Editors...

 

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