Welcome to your new website!
This is the home page of your new website.
Below you will find a quick guide on how to
start adding your own words and pictures.
You could also watch some of the quick tutorial videos
in your control panel, which can show you what to do.
Have fun and see how easy it is to create a professional looking website yourself in minutes!
Why not start by making simple changes to the content here on your home page.
If you are not already in the editor for your Home Page, simply go to your Control Panel and go to step 3, then click the green edit button next to the "Home" Page. This same information will be there for you to read in your editor.
Once in your editor, you can type or copy and paste the information / text you want onto your pages.
Choose a format (see below) : Normal text or Heading text 1,2 or 3, choose a font and size for your text and then click SAVE (Home) to see how easy it is to add content to your website pages.
After clicking SAVE, you can get back to your editor to make more changes by clicking Edit at the top of the page.
Don't worry if you don't know what to write the wizard can even create the pages for you.
Add Images
To add images, you first need to make sure the images you want to place aren't too big, ideally no more than 400 pixels wide. Images straight from a digital camera can be as big as 4000 pixels wide!
If you don't already have a program such as paintshop or photoshop, we suggest downloading a great little FREE program from Google called Picasa, to resize and optimise your images first. Download it now from http://picasa.google.com/ To give you an idea for images sizes:
- 150 pixels wide is perfect for a small thumbnail square images,
- 250 pixels is a good medium size for your page
- and upto 390 pixels wide is quite large.
Once you have the right sized images, go back into your page editor and place your cursor by clicking, roughly where you want the image to sit. then click the "Insert / Edit Image" icon (see below)
Browse your own computer for your chosen image or click "Library" and choose one from the 27,000 images we give you access to in "Our Library".
"Your library" will contain all the images you ever upload to your website.
Once you have chosen an image, you can fine tune its size; align it left, middle or right; add a border; and even decide how much space you want around it! Once you're happy, click submit.
If it's not quite right, simply right click the image and go down to image properties to open the same window again and make more changes.
Add new webpages
Add as many pages as you want - In Step 3, simply click new page and choose the layout style you like. Every time you create a new page another navigation button appears up on the left of your website.
You can hide these butons if you like. Goto your webpage "Settings" (under the NEW PAGE button) and simply choose "NO" under the "Show Button" column.
This is really handy if you want to hide your pages until your are happy with them.
Display individual items
Just go the the Control Panel and click Step 4. Enter individual items ( these could be products to sell, pictures to display - anything you like !). Our system displays your catalogues and your visitor can click an item to display a bigger picture and lots more information. Watch the video to show you how to do this. You'll find the button towards the top on the left of your control panel.
Selling with your own shopping basket
Selling your products couldn't be easier. Just switch on an automated shopping basket and start selling straight away.
Customers can purchase your products online securely with all major credit cards or by using their paypal account
If you would like some one to one help getting to know your new website editor, send us an email or click the spinning phone disc in your control panel and one of our support team will call you back.
