Button type

You can choose from the two options

• Horizontal (have your buttons running across the top of the page)
•  Vertical (place your buttons down the left side)

About horizontal buttons

Your website has a fixed width. You can only fit a limited number of horizontal buttons across a fixed width website. If your button text length is long or the number of buttons that you have is too many then you may encounter unpredictable results when you view your website. This may be particularly apparent when you add ****mullt-level navigation*****.

If you switch from vertical to horizontal buttons please keep in mind that many of our website designs have been created with the intention of using vertical menu buttons. Little design touches like including a shaded coloured bar down the left. May not be suitable for horizontal buttons and you may need to modify your design template.

About Vertical Buttons

Since your page is as long as it needs to be, there is no limitation on vertical buttons.

The Button Style Editor

The Button Style Editor has 9 simple icons running across the top and each are discussed in detail within this userguide.

One thing to keep in mind is that you do not have to use all the features. As with a lot of design tools “less is more”.

Button type

Button position

Button size

Button Spacing

Button Border

Button Font

Button rollover colour

Button rollover font

Button rollover border

Choose a button style from the library as a ‘starting point’. We expect that you will want to customise your buttons. The ones that we have included are there to suggest styles. Howeber, we encourage you to use the service to create your own.

We give you a huge amount of choice when you create your website navigation system. Rather than starting from scratch, we offer you a few pre-designed styles that you can customise further to suit your website style.

Every time you create a new button style we also save the style you were working on and add it to your own library.

Spam Protection

We take the problem email spam very seriously:

• Spam abuses the Internet’s role as a connected medium.
• Spam disrupts business.
• Spam can be malicious and harmful.

We have therefore setup your site in such a way to protect you from the common types of email spam.

How do spammers get your email address in the first place ?

There are two main ways that email spammers cane get your email address in the first place. You have control over one way and we have control over the other.

• The first way is by entering your email address onto forms in websites who then share your email address without you knowing. Once you get on this list it is sold from spammer to spammer and here is virtually nothing that you can do to get off this list.

• The second way is for spammers to send out automated internet programmes to visit your website and look for email addresses and forms that they can hijack and use.

How do you prevent spam ?

Please make sure when you enter your email address into a form on a website that the company is safe and that they will not share the email address with anyone else.

How do we prevent spam ?

When you enter your email into step1 of the reason8 website building system, we will display this email address automatically on your ‘Contact’ page. However to make sure that spammers cannot red this email address we break it up into lots of little pieces and then use a clever program (that you browser has inside) to put it all back together.

The result: it looks perfect to you and your customers, but the spammers will not recognise it as a harvestable email and will move on.

The other email feature that we give to you free in a neat little email form. This allows your clients to email you without the need for them to have an email client loaded onto their machine as we described in the Email section.

However spam robots recognise forms. They can hijack the forms entering content and links to bad places. To prevent the forms from being used, we add a ‘captcha’. This is an image that has letters embedded into an image. Only humans can read this as automated programs cannot read images.
 

Search Engine Settings

Most Important Search Engine Key Phrase

• This is the single most important search phrase that you expect your customers to use to find you.
• Choose this with care. Do not pick a search phrase that returns millions of other webpages but do not choose a search phrase that is so specific no one is ever likely to type it into a search engine.
• This search phrase will be used repeatedly all over your site and will be used whenever you site is automatically setup on directories and listings

Limitations :

• Choose a phrase that is short and rich with the exact phrase that you want to get found for.
• DON’T use fill words like 'a' or 'the'
• DON'T use commas
• DON'T use quotes/punctuation marks.
• DON’T repeat words
• DON’T use the same phrase as the ‘less import at key phrase’ below

Usage:

• This phrase will be ‘woven’ throughout your website in ways that are appropriate and sensible to ensure the search engines appreciate that this is your most important search phrase. (For example your title tags for your main pages – see the Search Engine Optimisation section of the user-guide )
• Please note that you will still have to make sure that the content of your website is appropriate and equally relevant to the search engines.

Less important Key Phrases

• Enter variations on the ‘most important key phrase’ described above.

Limitations:

• Limitations same as ‘most important key phrase’ as above.
• NOTE: These should be derivations of the phrase above and in the same theme. E.g. If the first phrase is “Surrey Tennis raquets” then a less important key phrase might be “tennis equipment”. It would not be sensible to add “Fresh bananans” as a key phrase – even if you also sell this product as it would confuse the search engines.

Usage :

• These phrases will be ‘woven’ throughout your website in ways that are appropriate and sensible to ensure the search engines appreciate that this is an important search phrase supporting the ‘most important phrase above’. (For example your title tags for your main pages – see the Search Engine Optimisation section of the user-guide).

Summary

• This is an important summary about your business and your website. This is a 4 or 5 sentence description of your website. Make sure you include the Search engine key phrase above at least once and fill it full of other very important key words that your customers might use.

Limitations

• Keep it grammatically sensible and avoid using all capitals or quotes

Usage :

• Reason8 has many relationships with external websites and directories and will use these directories and services to advertise your website. This paragraph will be used to explain what you do and put your website into context.
• It will act as a VERY important Search engine optimisation mechanism and it is very important that it sells your business well and contains the key phrases that you hope to be found for.

Contact Settings

Show your email address

Displays your email address on your website (we use a clever script that ensures that your email cannot be ‘harvested’ by spam robots to feed you spam)

Limitations:

• none

Usage:

• Switching this to ‘Yes’ will display your email address and a professional icon.
• Switching this to ‘No’ will hide your email address and icon however it will still be used by the contact form (see below)

Show a contact form

Important Background

• When a user clicks on any email on any website their browser will automatically look for and open an email client (such as outlook Express or Microsoft mail). If it finds the client and it has been setup with email settings the user will be able to send an email.
• However, if the user has not setup an email client (e.g if it is not their PC or they use a web-based email service such as Yahoo/ Hotmail / Gmail) then they will not be able to send an email by simply clicking the email address.
• To prevent this problem it is usual for websites to offer a contact form that automatically captures message text, turns it into an email and sends it to the website owner.
• When you preview your website and click the contact page you will see that you customers are offered a choice ‘Click here if you would like us to contact you '. This opens up a new window and allows them to send a message which is turned into an email and sent to the email address entered in Part 3 above.

Limitations:

• None

Usage:

• If you choose ‘Yes’ then a professional icon and a link to a standard contact form will be placed in your contact page.
• If you choose ‘No’ then the icon and link to the form will be removed.
• We will place a special image code on your form to make sure that only humans can use it . This will prevent the spam robots from sending you spam emails as they cannot read the image with text that we include)

Show address

• The address you entered above will be shown or switched off

Limitations:

• Self explanatory - none

Usage:

• Will show or hide the address entered above

Allow your pages to be printable

When users are viewing your site they may stumble across information that they may want to print. Not all webpages will print as they are viewed on screen. This is especially true if they contain background images or moving animation such as flash files.

This option allows your client to print off your pages in a format that is designed for a printer.
It will not contain your graphical branding but the page content will print naturally.

Limitations:

•  None

Usage:

• Will show or hide a ‘printable page’ link below your navigation list of pages.

Email / Telephone

Telephone No.

The main contact telephone number for the business

Limitations :

• There are no formatting limitations and you are free to add whatever international or dialling code formatting you prefer.
• The system currently accepts only one telephone number.

Usage :

• The telephone number will appear automatically on a contact page generated by the system on your website. An appropriate telephone icon will also be created next to your address.

Fax No.

The main fax number for the business

Limitations :

• There are no formatting limitations and you are free to add whatever international or dialling code formatting you prefer.
• The system currently accepts only one telephone number.

Usage :

• The fax number will appear automatically on a contact page generated by the system on your website.
• An appropriate telephone icon will also be created next to your address.

Email

The main contact email address where you want emails to be sent from your website.

Limitations :

• One email address only
• Must be a valid email (the system will not verify that the email address is valid). If you enter an invalid email you will not receive any emails from your website

Usage :

• Note : If you do not want your email shown on your website but just want to use the contact form (which will not advertise your email) then you should still add your email address here but set the ‘show your email address’ to ‘no’.
• The email will be displayed on your website. Although it will appear normal when viewed through a browser we use a clever method to make sure that automated email harvesting spam robots cannot read the email address.
• This will dramatically reduce the number of email addresses that you receive.
• If you check the ‘show contact form’ in Part 4. The form contents will be automatically sent to this email address.
• Note. If you have setup a standard email re-direction with Reason8 you should enter the address that you want to display in your website. The system will automatically redirect the email to your personal address.

Mobile

The main mobile telephone number for the business. (same usage and limitations as shown above for Telephone No.

Limitations :

• There are no formatting limitations and you are free to add whatever international or dialling code formatting you prefer
• The system currently accepts only one telephone number.
   

Usage :

• The telephone number will appear automatically on a contact page generated by the system on your website.
• An appropriate telephone icon will also be created next to your address.
   

Contact Details

Clients who DO NOT want their address details to appear on their website must not complete the contact details section. If no address details are provided the system will automatically modify the contact page and remove the address icon.

Address, Town & County

The full two line address.

Limitations :

• Normal addressing conventions apply.

Usage :

• The address will appear automatically on a contact page generated by the system on your website. An appropriate icon will also be created next to your address.

Post Code

The full UK postcode.

Limitations :

• Must adopt the standard UK postcode formatting convention with a single space separating two blocks of characters

Usage :

• Will only accept a UK postcode. If a valid UK postcode is provided this will be used to automatically generate a location map

Header Infomation

Business Name

The name of your business as you want it to appear on the website

Limitations :

• Maximum characters 30

Usage :

• Will be automatically used throughout the website to provide search engines with information about your company name.
• Will be used in limited way automatically by some design templates to personalise the template.
   

Slogan.

The name of your slogan as you want it to appear on your website

Limitations :

• Maximum characters 45

Usage :

• Will be automatically used throughout the website to provide search engines with information about your company name.
• Will be used in limited way automatically by some design templates to personalise the template.