Website User Guide.

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1 Website User Guide

2 Contents Concrete5 CMS Overview Login Core Concepts Page Editing Product Management Custom features Backup & Maintenance

3 Concrete5 Overview Concrete5 (C5) is an open-source CMS (content management system) that allows you to edit your site via a web browser. There is an extensive user community accessible from Some areas of your site are highly customized and require and HTML/PHP developer to edit, and example is the product-bar. There are also customized modules in your site that allow you to edit special features like tabbed content in the FAQs area, these custom modules are detailed in this guide

4 Login The login URL is: Username and password are required Multiple bad logins will lock out your IP for a period of time. This is adjustable in the Dashboard

5 Core Concepts Dashboard this is the backend of the CMS where you can edit special items like: Page properties and sitemap arrangement Users and groups Files and images Scrapbook items (reusable content blocks)

6 Page Editing Pages are edited In context that is, you visit the page to edit it Pages contain Areas such as Main and Sidebar where you can add 1 or more blocks. Blocks come in many different forms, like Content, Gallery, Google map etc. Choose the block based on what you are adding. Blocks can be moved and resorted Blocks can be added to the scrapbook for use on other pages in the future. The most common block is the Content block which gives you a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The editor works much like MS Word.

7 Product Management Products can be placed anywhere in the site There are 2 types of product pages Product Detail Use the Product Detail pagetype when creating Product List Use the Product List pagetype when creating Add sub products below the list page using the Product detail (hidden) pagetype Image gallery In the Product Image Gallery area add a Gallery block, and then add 1 or more images. The first image will be displayed as a thumbnail to launch the gallery. Buy button The buy now button appears when a Product SKU pagetype exists below the Product detail or Product detail (hidden) page. Product SKU pages should be created in the Product SKUs folder and then dragged under their corresponding Product Detail pages as an alias.

8 Custom Features Tabbed Content Create sub-pages for each tab under the page that should have the tabs. Be sure to set the custom attribute Exclude from Nav. On the parent page create a Page list block, set it to show all pages beneath this page. After the block has been created, click on it again and choose Custom Template, then select Tabbed Pages Things to note: The sub-page names will be used as the tab titles. The Main area content of the sub-pages will be the tab content, other areas like sidebar are ignored. The tab order is adjusted by sorting the sub-pages in the sitemap. Accordion Block (labeled: FAQ Block) Create a section of accordion-ated content by adding an FAQ block for each Title/Content set. When adding the block, place the Title text in the top editor area, and the Content text in the bottom area. Images and other content can be added as well. Sidebar items These are edited in the properties->custom attributes panel Check off the items that you want to appear on the page Dealer locater The dealer list is managed in the dashboard (left-hand menu)

9 Backup & Maintenance C5 stores your content in a database, and provides a backup function. We recommend performing a backup regularly. Backing up can be done from the Dashboard under System & Maintenance. It creates a flat file that can be downloaded locally for safe storage, and used to restore the DB to its backed up state. Images, Files and the site templates are stored on the server as files. These should be backed up via FTP on a regular basis as well.