Translators: Vasily Malishev, Yana ZapolskayaEditor: David Price2011Irina CherepanovauCoz: website creationChapter 1Let's get acquainted 12CMS, SaaS, uCoz 12System Features 13What has already been built with the help of uCoz 14uNet-account 15Chapter 2First steps: registration and webtop 16Registration 16Webtop 22Chapter 3Creating a website 24Website removal 32 Chapter 4Workspace of the webtop 33Icons on the webtop 33Webtop Menu 36Webtop settings 37Piofile settings 37Exit from the webtop 40Re-entry 41If you forgot your password... 42Chapter 5Account Administration 44Administration panel of the website 44Key account settings 50Admin bar of the site 54User bar 573 ContentsChapter 6Basic tools for working with the site 59Woiking with files 59FTP 59File manager 62Actions with files 63Page content editors 65Editing graphics for website design 67Image formats 68Chapter 7Modules 69uCoz as a construction set 69Modules 69Visual Editor 77BB Codes Panel 80Other settings of content addition 81Chapter 8Page Editor 84Module design customization 86Administration of a module 90Manage Pages Site 91File manager 94Common settings 95Module design customization 95Adding static page to uCoz 954 ContentsChapter 9Users 97Registration on the site 98Module management 98User groups 100Chapter 10Forum 113Forum Structure 115Module Administration 118Forum rules 126Private messages 127Administrating the Forum 128Chapter 11Publisher 134Fine-tuning the module 146Chapter 12Blog 148Entries management 151Categories management 153Short description 159Chapter 13Site news 164Entries managements 165Category management 1665 ContentsChapter 14Ad Board 172Install the module 172Materials appearance 173Module management 176The fielus foi auuing mateiial 183Filters 184Permissions for the module 186Non-standard approach to the module 186Chapter 15Photo albums 190Materials appearance 191Administration of the module 197Personal photo album for each user 210Chapter 16File catalog 212Appearance of entry 213Module management 216Entries management 216Category management 217Filters 225Chapter 17Guestbook 228Responses to Comments 232Displaying odd avatars in the guest book 232Pre-moderation of messages in the guestbook 2346 ContentsChapter 18FAQ 236Adding a question-answer 236Category management 240What you need to add to a FAQ 245Chapter 19Site catalog 246Administrating the module 248Category management 249Customize filteis 254Chapter 20Tag board 257Code of the Module 258Chat Privacy and Posts Pre-moderation 262Chapter 21Web Polls 264Different types of surveys 268Poll Results 269Polls with pictures 270Create multiple polls simultaneously 271Removing the polls archive link 271Chapter 22Tests 272Adding a test from the library 272Module management 2737 ContentsCategory management 274Adding your own test 275Module settings 279Where to get tests 280Non-standard use of the module 280Chapter 23Site search 282Chapter 24E-mail Forms 285Mail forms management 287Field constructor 289Tell a friend feature 291Chapter 25Statistics 293Short summary about statistics in general 294Viewing uCoz statistics 296Counter code 302Chapter 26System Codes 303Conditional operators 303Mathematical operations 305Logical operations 307Complex constructs. Nesting 307System Codes 308String operations 3128 ContentsChapter 27E-shop 312Few words about online business 313Module Activation 314Purchasing the goods on behalf of a buyer 314Managing the goods 315Managing the categories 320Adding the category 322Preparing the price-list 322Processing of .xls price-list 323Pricing matrices formation 328Payment methods, delivery, currencies and exchange rates 330Data Export 338Nanaging oiuei fielus 338Shop management 347Design management 348 Chapter 28Design 349The pages with the personal design 399The tools for working with design 399 Chapter 29Informers 404Creating an informer 405Informers for content modules 406Placing an informer on the site using the block builder 412Informers about users 413Random informer 415Awards Top 4219 ContentsChapter 30Additional tools for working with the site 422Substitution of default phrases 422Import of remote code 427RSS 430Smileys editor 434Chapter 31Multimedia 437uiaffiti 437Video on the site 440Uploading Flash and video 441Music uploads 443Built-in Player 444Inserting Audio 446Chapter 32Widgets and Gadgets 448Widgets 449Gadgets 450Addition to the site 450Tricks with the addition of Widgets 453Chapter 33Premium Services 456Removing the banner 456Removal of copyright 458Hiding counter 459Additional disk space 460Attaching files 461Working with the Shopping cart 461Service packages 46210 ContentsChapter 34Administrating the site 466Administrators and Moderators 466Pre-moderation 468Reputation 470Admonition 474Awards 476Mass mail dispatch 479Purging the site 479Managing comments 482IP blocking and WWW 484Maintenance work on the site 486Chapter 35Security 488Administering security settings 488 Passwords, passwords, passwords 494Deletion of an account and ban 495 Chapter 36The uCoz Community 502forum.ucoz.com 502 Facebook and Twitter 505Conclusion 50811 ContentsChapter 1Let's get acquainted CMS, SaaS, uCoz I had intended to write that any site rests on three pillars, but it's not quite true ... In fact, it rests on three pillars and two turtles. The pillars are the content of the site, its engine and design. The turtles are the server and the special software that make up the hosting. With the content it's simple, it is uefineu by the theme of the site anu may be different: from text and photos to catalogs and games.Hosting is a place wheie files, thiough which the site opeiates, aie phys-ically stoieu. A host is a ceitain space, wheie the files of the site aie iecoiueu, like the files on youi home computei. The uiffeience lies in the fact that the website of the host provider can be accessed through the Internet. The Engine (in the context of a site) is a specially written program that is used for content management (to insert a picture you do not have to search through tons of code, as was the case in earlier times). Its full name is the Content Management System (CMS). If we seek analogies in the real world, CMS can be compared to an engine in a vehicle. You get in the car, press down on the gas pedal and it moves. It's better not even to think about the physical and chemical processes in the engine that connect the pressing of pedals to the twisting of the wheels on the asphalt. The CMS requires just a few clicks on the photos of your choice. They will subse-quently move to the photo album on the site. 12Previously, the engine was written for each site manually, which is now piacticeu only if the pioject's oiganizeis set themselves veiy specific problems. In all other cases ready-made CMS are used.The appearance of your website is not limited to its design. It also im-plies usability and well structured pages. No trendy hosting or conveni-ent engine will save a site with pink text on a red background and men-us, hidden in the bottom left corner. It is vital not to neglect appearance. An engine is installed on the host server, some data is added, everything is neatly sprinkled on top with a suitable design, and a site is born. Wheie uoes uCoz fit in. uCoz is a mouein veision of the optimal combi-nation of all the components named above !On the one hand, it is a host, as uCoz provides a place for the site and its files. 0Coz pioviues a place foi the site anu its files. 0coz also incluues a special program that allows you to easily manipulate the contents of the site. This combination is known as SaaS Software as a service so simply calling uCoz a hosting or a CMS is not quite right. This combina-tion is known as SaaS Software as a service so simply calling uCoz a hosting or a CMS is not quite right.System Features When you sign in you will immediately receive: - A name for a site on the Internet, which you choose.- A place for the site.- A content management system.- Design templates for the site, as well as the ability to manage them. - A uNet-piofile.What can you uo with all these iiches. Well, almost anything. The site may become a means of presenting information about yourself, your 13 Chapter 1. Let's get acquaintedcompany, school, your favorite chihuahua, a source of income, an ad-vertising platform, a gamers room, or a meeting place for like-minded individuals. What has already been built with the help of uCozAt the time of this writing, more than a million sites in 12 different lan-guages have been cieateu using this system. Among them we can finu the resources devoted to absolutely any subject. Several areas enjoy special favour among users of the system. http://advocate.ucoz.comhttp://games.ucoz.com http://aaawindowsonline.comhttp://myrecipes.ucoz.com14 Chapter 1. Let's get acquaintedAnd many other wonderful sites. Out of the modules, which the system provides, you can put together a set containing exactly what you need. I hope your eyes are already ablaze, youi fingeis itchy, anu in youi heau uozens of inteiesting iueas are competing for supremacy in what will become your site.uNet-account Along with the tools for building sites, after your registration you will receive a uNet-account and a uID. uNet is a system of single sign-on. Almost all sites created using uCoz technologies. Single sign-on is a fea-ture that allows you to go to different sites using one account, without logging on to each of them. It is sufficient to entei a useiname anu pass-word for the site to identify you as a user! It is very convenient. You can recognize sites that accept the uNet-account via a special icon next to the login form: The Login for those sites will be your email address and the pass-woiu the passwoiu you specifieu when iegisteiing. To uesignate an email address uNet uses the term uID.http://mugeninvasion.ucoz.com http://www.solsticeunity.com/15 Chapter 1. Let's get acquaintedChapter 2 First steps: registration and webtopRegistrationWell, you have carefully examined everything and made the only right decision. If you are reading these lines, we are almost colleagues site builders.The veiy fiist step to owning youi peisonal website is iegistiation in the system. To do this, go to the home page www.ucoz.com. I ask you not to be surprised with the detailed description of the registration process you cannot possibly imagine how many letters with the text I cannot register, help! come every day to the tech support group (and those only fiom those unfoitunates who aie able to finu the feeuback foim ).The system is available in ten languages: - English- Russian- Ukrainian- French- Spanish- German- Hungarian- Romanian- Swedish- ArabicApropos! 16In the Arabic localization, the writing system is fom right to left.To change the language, you can either go to the appropriate address or choose a language in the upper right corner of the screen. Site language and control panels for it may differ. To register on the main page of uCoz click on one of three options: With any of them you can go to the page wheie you can fill in this foim: Let us fill in the fielus step by step. All fielus aie iequiieu.E-mailThe Login will be your email address. Be sure to insert the name of an existing auuiess as a confiimation because the iegistiation will be sent to it. If you uon't confiim youi iegistiation, you will not be able to woik in the system, and after some time your account will be deleted. Chapter 2. First steps: registration and webtop 17Entei youi email auuiess in the appiopiiate fielu. If it is not iegisteieu with another account a green check mark will appear on the right, and if the account is already there a red cross: If you see a red X, it means that you have already registered in the system. This could happen if you were previously registered on a site that supports uNet. To find your password, simply ask for its recovery! To do this, click on the Lost password link in the upper right corner of the page www.ucoz.com PasswordThe password can contain Latin characters, digits, an underscore and a hyphen only [a-zA-Z0-9-_]. The minimal password length is 6 charac-ters, the maximum 15 characters. Letters are case-sensitive. Make up complex passwords (alphanumeric is the most secure). The most secure password would be something like yhj345HJ7r. The system will not allow you to enter a very simple password (eg. 123456) and will react to it with the following message:In this field you must enter a new password, not the password of your mailbox.The password must be one that you'll be able to remember. Do not think of a catchy one, which you will forget the very next day this will lead to avoidable frustration. WarningWarningChapter 2. First steps: registration and webtop 18Enter the password twice. If your choice is acceptable to the system two green ticks will be displayed: Employees of the company will never ask for your password or request you to send it!Name and Last nameIn the following two fielus you aie to entei youi name anu suiname as well as indicate to whom they should be visible.You can hide this information from everyone, choosing Nobody, or allow it to be viewed only by those people whose accounts you have marked as accounts of friends. There is a third option show the name to anyone who wants to view information about your account. Select the desired option and click on it.NicknameThink of a nickname (pseudonym), under which you will appear on the system's websites. This can be any word without spaces, eg. Irishka, Lucky men or Groz13. In the following fielus you neeu to specify Date of birth, Sex and Loca-tion. The visibility for date of birth can also be limited, as well as the visibility of the name. Next enter the Security code from the image. If the code is not clearly visible, you can click on the picture to update it. If you entered the code correctly, a green check mark reappears. WarningChapter 2. First steps: registration and webtop 19The only thing remaining is to mark the Terms of use point (put the appropriate tick). The conditions can be read by clicking on the link in the text after the checkbox.Fill in the form, click on Registration. A page appeais asking you to confiim youi email auuiess. Now you need to login to your mailbox (provided at the time of regis-tration) and wait for the letter with a uNet Welcome to our commu-nity! theme. In the letter locate the following lines:Follow the link by clicking on it or copy it to the clipboard and paste it into your web browser. Yes, the registration procedure is not really short, but security comes first! After clicking on the link you will need to enter data to work with the webtop. This is a very important step! Through the webtop you manage all your sites (and not only them).NoteChapter 2. First steps: registration and webtop 20Webtop a special personal page created for you by the system. Webtop password make up a password that will protect access to the webtop. There is the same rule as before: the more complex the password the better (very important do not forget it yourself). This password is subject to the same restrictions as the password of an account (it can contain only Latin characters, digits, underscores and hyphens [a-zA-Z0-9_-]; minimum length 6 characters, maximum 15 characters ; case sensitivity is taken into account by the system). The administrative password must not coincide with the uNet pass-word it is not safe! Secret question and answer this is the last line of defense for your account. If an attacker can steal your passwords, knowing the secret answer, you can reclaim your account, proving that it is yours. Also, it is necessary for such crucial activities as removal of an entire site or its parts. You can choose one of the options proposed by the system, or enter your own. For special security you can cheat: choose the question asking for mother's maiden name, and as a response to it enter the number of your passport. The answer to the secret question will also come in handy when working with an attached domain, changing security settings and creating a site backup. Current uNet password here you need to enter the password of the account that you came up with at the beginning of the registration.NoteNoteChapter 2. First steps: registration and webtop 21All the passwords are set click on save. You'll switch to the webtop.WebtopThe webtop of the uCoz system is very similar to a conventional Win-dows desktop, because this is a special type of workspace, a desktop, located on the Internet. You can access it from any computer that has access to the network.Let us examine the webtop piece by piece:1. Field, where icons are located.2. Button for calling the menu.3. Menu.Chapter 2. First steps: registration and webtop 224. Minimize all windows button on the Quick Launch toolbar.5. Icon webtop language selection.6. Information about the session.For more details about the webtop see the Workspace of the webtop chaptei, but now let's finally get uown to business cieating youi fiist site. Chapter 2. First steps: registration and webtop 23Chapter 3Creating a websiteIn order to create a site just go to the webtop and select the menu item Websites Create a website. This should open a window in which you have to choose a name (ad-dress) for the site. The name consists of two paits: the fiist one you neeu to cieate, anu the second one, you pick from the list. The name is very important it de-termines to some extent the fate of the site. Please dont spoil its karma with ciazy lettei combinations at the veiy fiist stage! 24Within a single day, you can create only three sites from one account. Naming a site depends on its purpose. This can help future users to remember the name. If it is a school site, give it a logical name, refer-iing to its numbei if it has one as pait of its official name, foi example, Waterford PS18. If you plan a site for a group, its name should appear in the title. The minimum length of the fiist pait of the name is two chaiacteis, the maximum 15. The name can contain only Latin characters, digits anu uashes. Baving ueciueu the fiist pait of the name, select the seconu one from the drop-down list:Specifics to be taken into account when choosing: - Some endings have a geographic focus. Choose options like ucoz.ua, ucoz.lv, ucoz.es if you plan a site focused on the Ukraine, Latvia or Spain, respectively;- some domains like ucoz.com, ucoz.net are universal, but almost all the interesting options are occupied ; - Groups often choose the group .su domain. These rules are not obligatory and you can choose whatever you like. Apropos! Chapter 3. Creating a website 25After you have decided, click on Continue. If the most appealing option to you is already taken by someone, you'll see an error message, and have to come up with something else. If the name is free, you'll see this message:Click on the Website Control Panel button, to completely activate the site: In this window, enter: - Site name foi example, '0fficial site of fuel station N 1S', Eleven horde or Site of John Smith (one or two words); - Site design click on the [Select design] link, and you will see more than 200 templates for every taste: Chapter 3. Creating a website 26You can choose whatevei you like. Be suie to finu something suitable. In the future the design can be changed (an entire chapter of the book is devoted to this). After selecting the desired design, mark it and click OK. Having selected the design, specify the language for the site. At the time of writing the book, there were 13 languages available in the system: After completing all three settings, click Continue. The next step is the selection of modules for the site. The site will con-sist of modules that you specify in this step:In uCoz a site is assembled, like a construction set, from a variety of pieces. To create a forum it is enough to select forum. Want a Guest-book. Feel fiee to put a tick next to this option. 0nuei the name of each module there is a brief description of its purpose.Chapter 3. Creating a website 27I do not recommend activating all modules at once the site will be overloaded. Choose what you think is really important, and in the future you will always be able to add or remove something. Make a choice and click Continue.After that, the system will require a few seconds to build the site you iequesteu anu you will finu youiself in the Website Control Panel. An untrained eye could be confused by the wealth of menus, buttons and labels. Just stay calm! We'll come to it. The site now exists on the Internet! You can verify this by typing its address (the one you have chosen) in the address bar of your browser. Chapter 3. Creating a website 28The site consists of the site itself, a thin strip the adminbar, for site management, and tool tips in the bottom right corner. Clicking on a tip, you can read it in its entirety or turn off the hints on the site. Do not rush to turn these options off you can learn many interesting things about the system through them.If in the process of creating the site there was a power failure (electricity was cut off, you accidentally closed the browser, or your cat pulled the cord out of the wall outlet ...) and instead of a site at your_site.ucoz.com. Please visit your_site.ucoz.com/admin and activate the complete registration option!Although the site is empty, there is a menu: You can click through its elements, moving to different pages of the site.While reading the book, always remember that the location of the described elements may vary depending on the chosen design. WarningImportantChapter 3. Creating a website 29The site records statistics, which show that at the moment a single visi-tor is on the site, and that visitor is you.On the site there is also a calendar, a block with links and a search fea-ture.Let's go back to the home page by using the main link in the menu. Find the [add new entry] inscription on the page: anu click on it. In the new winuow fill in the entry name and entry full text fielus.Chapter 3. Creating a website 30Then, ignoiing all othei fielus, scioll uown to the add button and click on it. Congiatulations you have just auueu the veiy fiist content to the site! The system should respond with such a message:Click on Go to entry page, and you'll see what the news you've added looks like:It is possible to rate it or to leave a comment click through the but-tons, explore the site . You are now acquainted with the sit. Now we will keep at it and get back to the administration panel to start turning this ersatz into the site of your dreams. Chapter 3. Creating a website 31Website removalRemoving a site is done from the control panel. To do this on the main page select the Website removal menu item: To confiim the ueletion, it is sufficient to entei the passwoiu of youi account and answer the secret question. After removing the site, the domain name will be available for re-registration after an hour. Chapter 3. Creating a website 32Chapter 4Workspace of the webtopIcons on the webtopAnalogues of these icons are the program shortcuts on a desktop. Immediately after activation only three icons appear.- My sites a list of all the sites you have created. To see them, double-click with the left mouse button. While it is empty now, after you create some sites, the list will look like this: From this list you can get to any of the sites listed or enter its admin panel right away for customization. - Secure login a special form to access the sites of the system that support uID. It exists, so that fraudsters can't intercept passwords of the users. If you are afraid of this kind of fraud, you can visit the sites of the system using a secure login to the 33webtop. To enter the site, simply enter the address and click on the Login to the website button. You will immediately be taken to the site as a user. If the nickname you gave when you registered is in the system isn't taken you will login us-ing it and enter: If a user with this nickname already exists on the site, then numbers will be added to yours and you will be able to replace it with any other by clicking on the Set nickname line on the blue bar at the top (userbars): - Create a web site the very icon, which allows you to acquire your own site. To do this is quite simple. Click on it:Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 34Here you have to select an address for your future site and click on the Continue button. You can add other icons to the webtop. To do this, simply click the right mouse button on the shortcut menu and select the Add a shortcut option:In the pop up dialog box you enter the type of the label and its name. There are the following types of labels: - Create a web site, websites list and secure login form are already on the webtop;- Minimize all windows will create an icon, clicking on it will roll all the open windows on the webtop to the bottom right corner next to the clock;- Projile settinqs change the settings of youi uNet-piofile; - Open URL the transition to an arbitrary link. For example, you can get a useful symbol, leading to the uCoz user commu-nity forum. Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 35To change the icon, click Change and select a picture you like:Once you click the Apply button, a new icon will appear on the webtop. Webtop Menu The webtop menu is opened by clicking on the button in the bottom left corner of the screen. It consists of six items: - Logout logout of webtop with the loss of authorization. Be sure to leave the webtop, if you are not working on your personal computer!Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 36- Websites consists of options already familiar to us: Create a website, My websites and Secure login. - Settings allows you to access youi piofile settings anu configuie the webtop.- Applications a set of useful tools, incluuing a full-fleugeu image editor Pixlr.- Games many well-known toys a la Mahjong and Tetris.- uNet profile link to youi piofile at uNet.Webtop settingsThese settings apply to appearance and consist of two tabs:- webtop background, where you can adjust the picture on it, the background color and font; - Webtop theme, which changes the form of pop-ups. Select the option most pleasing to your eye and click Apply. Piofile settings This part of the webtop is fully responsible for the appearance of your uNet-piofile. It consists of multiple tabs. Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 37The General tab is responsible for your personal information. Here you can make changes to the infoimation specifieu in the iegistiation anu add some details:Foi any fielu, except Nickname and Gender, you can set access rights by clicking on the padlock icon and selecting the desired option from the list:On the second tab Contacts and Address you need to indicate any means of communication with you. Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 38For each group visibility can also be set separately.The Photo tab contains your avatar and a real photo (if you want to put it theie). The avatai is automatically loaueu into youi piofile at all sites, where you go under your uID.The Security tab is responsible for all of your passwords:The following can be changed there:- uNet password you visit sites by entering it as the password and your email address as the login;- administrative password used to login to the webtop and other purposes, which will be described just below;- secret question / answer. To change any of the above data, you must click in the desired line and entei new uata into the fielu. Foi example, if you want to change the secret question, click on Change secret question: Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 39To confiim the changes you will also be iequiieu to answei the cuiient question and enter the current administrator password, and after mak-ing all uesiieu changes in the piofile, click on Apply. Exit from the webtopWhen you click on the Log out button in the webtop menu there are three options:- Logout from uNet will log you out from webtop and uNet;- Logout from webtop exit the webtop with the loss of authorization;- Back returns you to the webtop. Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 40Re-entry Sooner or later, after registration you will need to close the webtop. But how uo you get in theie again. 0se one of the following methous:- from the ucoz.com homepage through the login form in the upper right corner, enter your e-mail address and password for the uNet-account:- enter the same data on the main page of unet.com: After that, in both cases, you'll be prompted to enter the password for the webtop:Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 41To get in you must enter the administrator password and select a level of security: Private computer or Shared computer (this option is re-sponsible for the length of a session).If you forgot your password... If you forgot your password for the uNet account or the webtop, do not despair! Recovery of forgotten passwords can be done! Go to unet.com and click on the remind password button, and then enter your email address:and the answer to your secret question: After that, you will be sent a message by e-mail. The Password will not be in there, but there will be a link on which you can click to see your password from uNet and webtop. You can use this link only once, so remember your passwords and do not lose them again!Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 42But the answer to your secret question cannot be retrieved or sent somewhere! Do not lose it, or you will have to obtain access to your ac-count in a long dialogue with the service's tech support.For more information about passwords, changing them, as well as stor-ing and restoring them can be read in a special chapter called Security.At the moment the webtop is in its alpha version. It is constantly being impioveu so uon't be suipiiseu if you finu elements not uesciibeu heie.Chapter 4. Workspace of the webtop 43Chapter 5Account AdministrationAccount Administration is something that, to some extent, all the chap-ters of the textbook are devoted to. In this chapter we consider the interfaces for content management, the administration panel and how to work with it. It's not necessary to investigate this panel thoroughly, for this there is information in the forum or in the FAQ of the system. When creating and managing the site the main thing is not to learn all the checkboxes by heart, but to under-stand what each one is responsible for where to look for which settings.Administration panel of the website The administration panel for the website is its sacred place. No kidding. From here you can even remove the site. That is why hackers hunt for a password to it so often. This panel is often referred to as the Control panel. You can get to the administration panel in two ways:- By adding /admin to the name of the site in the address bar, to get http://your_site.ucoz.com/admin ( ), and entering the password for the control panel and the CAPTCHA (the numbers from the image) in the window that appears:44- Through the webtop, clicking on the CP icon opposite of the site's name in the list of sites:If there is no personal password set for the site, the password for its administration panel will coincide with the password for the webtop. In this case, you immeuiately finu youiself in the auministiation panel. If the site has a personal password, you must enter it:To set a personal password, see the Security chapter. The administration panel looks as follows: Chapter 5. Account Administration 45It can be uiviueu into five paits.- Adminbar through this menu you can access almost all the features offered by the administration panel. This part always remains in its place.- Information panel composed of the following elements:- Interface here you can choose the color of the adminis-tration panel, making it, for example, black (as they say, each to his taste) - Language allows you to select the language of the admin-istration panel. If you prefer to work in English or Arabic, select it. The language of the site will remain unchanged!- Logout returns you to the form for the password. Always close the administration panel, or exit it after making changes, if you are not working at your personal computer.- The rectangle in the corner pointing the cursor to this item, you will see how much space on the site is currently occupieu by youi files:This part of the panel always remains in its place.- Column with modules. On the left is a list of activated modules. Clicking on the name of a module, you will proceed to its indi-vidual preferences. Using the links below the list, you can switch between Active and Inactive modules. Clicking on the arrow to the right of the name of each module opens a menu allowing you to get uiiectly to a specific section of the management mouule:Chapter 5. Account Administration 46This part of the panel always remains in its place as well.- Panel with basic information about the site. Here the basic information is shown: your name, address, website, settings for the FTP-client, available space, as well as a variety of informa-tion from the administration of uCoz.- Main panel. The largest part of the main page of the admin-istration panel is reserved for the most necessary and often called upon functions. Almost all of them are duplicated in the upper menu. This part of the panel changes when switching to different functions; it is here where their settings are displayed.Let's look at what constitutes the top menu, as it concentrates all the power of the control panel.Common This tab contains such important and necessary information, as the number of the server where your site is located (it may be useful in case of any failure), IP-address of the server, links to the main pages of the administration panel, and the site itself. In the example in the picture the site is located on the server s24.Almost every menu item will be described in a separate chapter of the book, so here I will just say a few words about what each function is responsible for and where it is described in full.Chapter 5. Account Administration 47SettingsThe Settings menu includes the following items:- Common Settings carefully and thoughtfully read through them in this chapter below. A great deal depends on these set-tings;- Substitution of default phrases this feature is intended to change the majority of system labels shown in the code of the system that cannot be replaced simply by editing the design. For details, see the Basic tools for working with the site chapter;- Ad banner customization determines the appearance of the advertising bar on your site. See below in this chapter;- Domain transfer (own domain) behind this option is a huge tool for attaching a domain to the site and working with DNS.DesignThis menu contains functions for working with the appearance of the site (their detailed descriptions are given in the Design chapter) - Design management (templates) function for customizing the appearance of all the site's pages;- Design management (CSS) function to customize the CSS for the site; - Site menu builder a very handy feature for creating a vari-ety of menus on the site; - Quick substitution of template parts a function that facili-tates the making of repetitive edits to the code of the pages;- Importation of remote code a function to adjust the interaction with third-party sites, described in the chapter Additional tools for working with the site;- Template builder function to create your own outline of a site;- Templates backup function to create a backup copy of the template.Chapter 5. Account Administration 48Tools Tools for working with different aspects of the site are grouped here:- File manager function to auu files to a site anu woik with them, described in the chapter Basic tools for working with the site; - Informers function to create a special page element, de-scribed in the Informers chapter ; - RSS import a tool for importing RSS-feeds to the site is de-scribed in the chapter Basic tools for working with the site;- Awards a function used by you to show your appreciation or recognition of a visitors contribution. You can award the visitor a specific icon oi symbol such as a stai oi heait, uesciibeu in the Administrating the site chapter; - Tell a friend a tool for creating a special e-mail form, de-scribed in the chapter E-mail Forms; - Banner rotator a tool for creating a unit with changing ban-ners on the site;- Smiles backup a tool to add your own emoticons to the site, described in the chapter Additional tools for working with the site;- Project backup a tool to create a full backup of the content is described in the chapter Security.Multimedia A set of tools for insertion of video and music into the site. The whole tab is described in the chapter Multimedia.Security Beie you can finu the settings ielateu to passwoius anu the auminis-trator session. The complete tab is described in the chapter Security.Help - uCoz support forum link to the system users forum, forum.ucoz.ru;- FAQ Link to the FAQ of the system, faq.ucoz.com;Chapter 5. Account Administration 49- Site promotion some theory about how to promote the site;- Technical support link to a form for contacting tech sup-port, it is described in the chapter The uCoz Community. Paid servicesTools for working with the basket for orders and paid services. The tab is fully described in the chapter Premium Services.Key account settings Let us return to the General settings tab in the settings. Here are the settings that affect all modules at once and largely determine the ap-pearance of the site. The tab is as follows: Chapter 5. Account Administration 50Parameter Name Capabilities How to getName of your site The name specifieu heie will be displayed in the top portion of your site, i.e. its title which is made up of the characters you chose. It is used for system code $SITE_NAME$Type name of your site in the text boxYour site's address (URL)Address to be used by the system as a link to the home page from anywhere on the site. By default it's the same as the address of the site. Used for system code $HOME_PAGE_LINK$It is best not to change this link.Site design You can replace the design selected when creating a site with any other standard templateClick on the link [select design], and select a new template for the site from the listSite language This setting specifies the language for all the inscriptions on the site. Site language and the language of the administration panel may be differentSelect your preferred languageLanguage of the control panel This setting specifies the language useu to work with in the control panelSelect your preferred languageSite is temporary downThe site can only be viewed by users of the Administrators group. This option may be useful when updating the site and setting its design. All the others will be shown a message about the reason for the inaccessibilityCheck this option if you want to activate itDescription for the visitors why the website is tempo-rary downIf you activate the Site is temporarily down option, you will be able to specify what label the user accessing the page will seeType the desired text into the fielu. Foi example: Site under maintenance or Site is closed for upgrade'Site takes part in our Rating and TOP 100At uCoz there is a rating of the most popular sites in the system: top.ucoz.com. Your site may appear in this ranking too, if it is heavily visitedCheck this box if you want to participateSite category If you agree to participate in the rank-ings, you will need to determine the category which is the closest to your site's topicCheck this box if you want to participateWe shall take a look at all the settings one by one:Chapter 5. Account Administration 51Brief site descrip-tion (150 charac-ters)Describe your site in a few sentences Fill in the text boxUse Builder for the website design customizationIn the admin bar tab on the site the Builder tab will appear. With its help you can visually customize the site at your discretion. For people with insuf-ficient knowleuge of BTNL anu CSS this feature will be indispensable. For details of the Designer, see DesignCheck this option if you want to activate itActivate Who's online featureActivate this option if you want codes $ ONLINE_COUNTER $ and $ ONLINE_USERS_LIST $ to work. For more information about the function, see StatisticsCheck this option if you want to activate it. In the next fielu entei the number corresponding to the maximum number of users to appear in the listActivate PDA templatesEnabling this option adds special templates designed to browse the site from a PDA or mobile phone. For details about the PDA-version, see DesignCheck this option if you want to activate itUse tree-like com-ments structureThis mode allows users to access easy dialogue during Commenting materials. For more on this see BlogCheck this option if you want to activate itDisable AJAX for page switchersIf Ajax is enabled, then when you change pages only part of the list of materials will be updated, not the entire pageCheck this option if you want to activate itUse Friendly URL In the URL of your materials their names, but not the serial numbers will be displayedCheck this option if you want to activate itOverlay uploaded images with text (watermark)When the watermark is activated, the image of the JPEG format and a size greater than 100 100 pixels, will be imposed with the text you specifyCheck this option if you want to activate itWatermark text If you want to use the watermark, a fielu foi its text will appeaiFor example, enter your site's name or an inscription like All right reserved. You can use only Latin letters and ASCII charactersChapter 5. Account Administration 52Contact details Used to create messages in case of any activity on your site (if the necessary settings are turned on). All characters sent from the site will get to the speci-fieu e-mail auuiessIf necessary, change your name and contact email addressSmileys set The selected set will be used for all modules and functions that use smiliesYou can choose any option from the list or upload your own. For details, see the chapter Additional tools for working with the siteLocal time Specify a time zone according to which the site will display the current timeSelect your time zoneDate and time formatHow to display the date and time on the site. So:25.02.2005 23:23 or, perhaps, like this: 05/02/25 11:23 p.m. There are plenty of options Select your favorite display optionDisplay current date as Today If the material is added to the site on the day of viewing, not the date, but the word Today, will be displayedCheck this option if you want to activate it When opening the main page, redirect toAfter typing a website address, the visitor will automatically be linked not to the main page, but to your chosen page. This may be the main blog page, the file managei page oi any of the content modulesSelect any module or the main pageDefault form type for entries editingDepending on your preferences, select the type of form for editing materials to be used by defaultYou can choose from: The visual editor; BB-code + HTML; Pure HTML tag valueThis tag is used to specify the type of the current document DTD (docu-ment type uefinition, uesciiption of the type of the document)This tag will be added in the very beginning of the document. Use this option only if you understand its meaningChapter 5. Account Administration 53Admin bar of the site In addition to the administration panel, in the system there is another very important tool for managing the site the Admin bar. This panel is located at the top of the site, in the same place where the ad bar is situated and is visible only to users from the Administrators group. In the approximation it appears as follows: Adminbar is very similar to the top menu of the Control Panel. It also consists of drop-down tabs. General The veiy fiist tab contains basic infoimation about youi account anu setup for cosmetic settings. - My profile on tbe site allows viewing your group, nick, ava-tai, etc. within the site. Foi moie infoimation about the piofile, see Users; - Unet profile management transition to your uNet-account; - Login to control panel the entrance to the administration panel; - Admin bar color repainting the bar in a more pleasant color; Chapter 5. Account Administration 54- Log out exit the site with the loss of authorization; - Close admin bar the closure of the bar. Control This tab contains functions for managing the site's content. - Inactive materials shows the list of the site's materials hid-den from the users, for further description, see Administering the Site; - Comments management management of user comments in the various modules; - File manager management foi uploauing files to the site; - Notifications about updates allows to receive private mes-sages or e-mails with every new comment or material in the section to which you subscribe; - IP blocking protection from unwanted users; - URL blocking protection against spammers. Addition This tab displays a list of activated content modules of the site. When you click on the name of a module, an add new content form will appear. For the Blog it will be a new record, for the Page Editor a new page, for Photo album a new photo etc. Users - Site users list of all users of the site;- Removal of user's entries a tool against spammers. Described in the chapter Administrating the site; Chapter 5. Account Administration 55- Mass PM dispatch designed to send messages to groups of users. Described in the chapter Administrating the site; - View site as ... view the site on behalf of other groups. The function is described in the Design chapter. MultimediaThe tab is designed to work with video, audio and graphics: - Craffiti a tool that allows users to draw. Its full description is given in the Basic tools for working with the site chapter; - All other items described in the Multimedia chapter. Design This tab is visible only when the designer is turned off in the general settings page. Otherwise, the Builder tab appears instead: - Site design customization directs you to a list of page tem-plates. For more information about this process, see Design; - Page design customization redirects to the template of the current page; - List of page variables a list of current values of a number of system variables. For more information about variables, see the System Codes chapter. Builder This tab appears instead of the Design tab when you activate the re-spective adjustment in the general account settings. - Enable builder switches the site to designer mode. For more information about this, see Design chapter; Chapter 5. Account Administration 56- List of page variables a list of current values of a number of system variables. For more information about variables, see the System Codes chapter. Help A tab, labeleu with a question maik '.', Contains backgiounu infoimation: - uCoz support forum link to the support forum; - FAQ Link to the FAQ of the system; - Enable tips activates site tooltips if they are disabled. Magnifier This icon appears in the admin bar when viewing the content, if since your last visit, new comments have appeared. Clicking on the icon you can navigate to the new comments (see details in the Blog chapter). User bar The User bar is a very stripped-down version of the admin bar. By de-fault it is shown for all groups except Guests and Blocked. This bar is designed to allow the user to manage his account, add content to the site (if members of his group are allowed to do this), etc. The user bar may consist of the following tabs: General Similar to the corresponding tab in the admin bar.Chapter 5. Account Administration 57Control - My entries displays a pop-up list of materials of the user, which he/she added to the site (if he/she is allowed to do it); - My comments displays a pop-up list of the user's comments, which he added to the site (if he/she is allowed to do it); - Comments to materials prints all comments to the articles on the site on a separate page; - Notification about updates allows you to receive private messages with each new comment in the section to which you subscribe; - Site search displays a pop-up window to enter a search query. Appendix List of modules that have been activated on the site, which a user can add materials to. Users - Site users displays a page with a list of all users; - Send private message a function to communicate with other site users. Multimedia This tab represents a truncated version of the corresponding tab of the admin bar. New comments exactly the same as in the admin bar. Chapter 5. Account Administration 58Chapter 6Basic tools for working with the siteIn this chapter, I will introduce and explain the integrated tools of the system, as well as third-party programs, you cannot do without when creating a website. Woiking with files In the process of creating the site you will of course need to add content: be they your own pictures or music tracks that you want to share with the entiie Inteinet community. While these files aie on youi computei, they are not suitable for such things. Each user is allocated a certain amount of space on the server, to meet their needs. A newly created site is allocated 400 MB of space and with each second the quota increases. Let's examine the technical side of the issue: how to get access to the site, uownloau anu uelete files, etc. FTP This abbreviation stands for the File Transfer Protocol. FTP does not imply some sort of weird protocol, but a program that al-lows you to connect to FTP servers, browse the contents of directories anu uownloau files fiom the seivei oi uploau them to it. But how can it help us. veiy simple on youi computei, you acquiie anu install such 59a program, enter data for the connection to it and there you have it, access to your 400 MB, do with them what you want!Some popular programs, which are actually called FTP-clients, are: - FAR Manager; - FileZilla; - CuteFTP; - FTP Commander; - FTP Navigator. You can also use a simple file managei, such as Total Commanuei, Niu-night Commander etc. To woik with the FTP-client, you fiist neeu to choose an FTP-passwoiu on the site. The fiist way is to click on FTP-details in the header of the administration panel: You will then see a series of data for the connection and the link password not set: Click on it and type in any FTP-Password, according to the rules: Chapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 60To save the password, you will also need to answer the secret question. In future, these data can be viewed through the link FTP-details. The second way go to the Page editor ( ). Look to the iight, in the uesciiption of the file managei you will see the necessaiy options: The password in this case is not shown, but you still need to remember it. If you forgot your password, change it in the security tab.Bow to use this uata in piactice. I'll show how in Total Commanuei as an example. Open the program, select the Net FTP new connection and enter your settings: If you have entered everything correctly, then after connecting you will have access to the files:Chapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 61To connect to FTP you must meet the following conditions: - Piotection piogiams (antiviius, fiiewall) shoulu not piohibit a connection over the FTP protocol. - Passive mode has to be turned on. File managerFTP-clients are user-friendly when working with the site, but not always available. If you are working with the site, for example, from school or from an institute, making such a connection on a shared computer is extiemely uangeious! To quickly uploau files fiom anywheie wheie the Inteinet is accessible, theie is a built-in file managei (in two veisions, by the way). It can be used in three ways: - Through the Common settings of the site. - Through the adminbar in the Tools tab. In this case, the man-ager will open in a new window. In addition, access is available from the adminbar of the site through the Control tab. - Through the page editor file manager tab. Information on the amount of space used is shown, for example, the numbei of folueis anu files is uisplayeu (in the heauei of the managei). 0nuei it theie is a list of files anu folueis. 0pposite each file its size is displayed. Chapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 62Actions with files To the iight of the file oi the foluei a panel, which allows the usei to manipulate it, is displayed- view file. The file opens in a sepaiate biowsei winuow. Available foi images anu text files; - Image HTML code. Opens a window from which you can copy the code to insert images into the template: ; - Link to the file. A winuow appeais fiom which you can copy a direct link to the object you're interested in; - Rename. Opens a window where you can enter a new filename. Be caieful with extensions if you change them, the file may no longei open; - Euit file contents. Available foi text anu BTNL-files. 0pens a special editor;- Remove. Aftei confiiming, the object is iemoveu fiom the server without the possibility of recovery. For references like it is better not to neglect the altfield and enter a description of the picture. 0ploauing files is uone via the Browse button at the bottom of the page: Beie the path on youi computei is specifieu, wheie the files foi uploau-ing to the site are stored, and you click on the Upload file button. For organizational matters, you can create a folder using the File manager (in the upper right corner): NoteChapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 63Folueis will help you stiuctuie the files. If they aie all stoieu in the ioot directory then you personally at some point will become frustrated with disorganized data. Restrictions- The volume of the uploaueu files cannot exceeu the space as-signed to you. Over time, it is increasing, but if you urgently need to increase it, you can purchase additional storage (see Premium Services). On a paid basis you can obtain as much as 10 GB. - The maximum length of a filename plus extension 4S chai-acters. - The maximum file size you can uploau 1S NB. 0vei time, the size also incieases. Stiictly speaking, the size of the file is pio-portional to the used space and is calculated via the formula: f (x) = (15 + (85 (x 100) / 1948)) 1024 For an orientation, Ill provide you with the following data. Maximum file size for the FTP: - without payment 15 MB; - package 400 25 MB;- package 800 40 MB;- package 1500 70 MB; - package 2500 110 MB; - package 5000 220 MB; - package 10000 440 Mb. - 0n one level of nesting theie may be no moie than 2uu files and folders. - The file name can contain only Latin chaiacteis, uigits, underscores and dashes. - Files with the same name will be overwritten. - When you delete a folder, it is deleted and all its contents are deleted as well. NoteChapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 64It is forbidden to use the site as a file storage system. Such sites are removed as a violation of the rules of the system. Page content editorsThere are three ways of populating the pages of the site with content: - Visual editor. - BB codes panel. - HTML codes panel. Visual editor It strongly resembles the panel for editing text in Microsoft Word. In the white box you type text, set its alignment and formatting. Foimatting is uefineu by the uppei panel: The role of each icon can be easily learned by placing the cursor on it. - Save. - Save as XHTML. - Preview. - Search. - Paste. WarningChapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 65- Undo/Redo. - Foreground color. - Background color. - Bookmark. - Hyperlink. - Image. - Flash. - Video. - Insert table. - Edit table / Cell. - Absolute. - Special characters. - Line. - Form Editor. - Adding conditions to the material. - Styles & Formatting. - Style selection. - Choosing header type. - Choosing text font. - Choosing text size. - Choosing the tracing type of the text. - Superscript / Subscript. - Justify. - Creating a bulleted list. - Right and left tabulation. - Remove formatting. - View / Edit source. After entering all the desired text, you must click on the Save icon that looks as a floppy in the uppei left coinei. Aftei auuing the mateiial to the site it will look like this: Chapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 66In the example I added an entry to the Blog module. Pictuies, viueo anu auuio, as well as flash-movies aie not visible when editing in the visual editor, but are displayed on the site. About adding content to the site using BB-Codes and HTML, see chapter Modules (Adding materials to the modules). Editing graphics for website design If you plan to auu pictuies oi flash-movies to the website, iemembei to adhere to certain rules (here I want to clarify that we're going to talk about images you display on your site, not about the images that you will lay out for downloading by other users). Custom design starts with the header of the site. Everybody wants to make his own, the greater and more beautiful, the better! You use can friends skills or your own knowledge of Photoshop, something en-chantingly-brilliant and ambitious is crafted, then you can barely shove it into the 15 MB allowed for uploading to the site and ... No joy here! The pooi site giunts anu is baiely loauing. Why.You have committed the most common mistake for novice Web devel-opers. Your graphic is not adapted for the network it is too large. A picture with a resolution of 300 dpi, which easily opens in Photoshop, your unfortunate browser may as well choke on it, and those who use a mouem. Think of them! Youi site will loau one page in half an houi! Why fiustiate youi auuience like that. For such incidents not to occur, before putting some images on your site they must be pre-processed. Chapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 67Image formats As elements of design, the following image formats are allowed: GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG. If the picture has clear margins, no smooth transition of colors (eg., logo), it is better to use GIF or PNG, and if there are transi-tions but no sharp contours JPEG, JPG or PNG, which will provide the best balance between size and quality. On this subject there is a lot of information on the Internet.Do not try to save images in formats like TIFF, BMP, etc. They will not be displayed on the site. Only the four formats named above are suitable.Chapter 6. Basic tools for working with the site 68Chapter 7ModulesuCoz as a construction setTheie aie many uefinitions one coulu give foi uCoz! It has been called a hosting system, a CMS, a SaaS. But we know what is hidden behind all the simple or complex words, a CONSTRUCTION SET. Every boy and some girls certainly had one in their childhood a beautiful box where many construction parts were stored. Some of them could be disassem-bled, others couldn't. Out of these parts one was able to do anything, combining them according to the personal wishes. (I, for example, had a LEGO Fire Station, which didn't prevent me from making dragons and caves out of the cubes). In the same way from the parts of uCoz modules you can construct everything your heart desires, in the end getting a site, which will be exactly the one YOU need. Modules can as well be called Web applications. Current modules are improving at a regular basis and new ones are added.Modules Enough of the common woius, let's move on to the specifics. What tools aie open foi us to builu the site. Apropos! 69When this book was written uCoz contained 20 modules; 12 of them can be grouped under the general title of content modules. Adding a content module to the site, you get a full section with a unique purpose: - Forum allows site users to communicate on a variety of topics. - Publisher makes it possible to create a set of structured information on any topic. - Site Catalog here we collect any sites in a systematic manner. - Site News the most convenient system for conducting news feed on your site.- FAQ any questions and answers in a form that is convenient for you. - File Catalog stoiage anu uistiibution of any files. - Ad Board the formation of a special set of pages on which messages can be posted. - Blog your on-line diary. - Photo Albums a place to store photos with commentaries. - Guest-book a place for feedback on the site, suggestions and healthy criticism.- On-line games an extensive collection of flash-games. - E-shop a powerful module for the sales organization in the network. - Page Editor Management of the site's pages. Additional modules can help you make your site more interesting and interactive: - Tests allows you to include a test on the site, either from the standard collection or your personal one; - E-mail Forms is responsible for sending various messages within the site; - Web Polls here you can create any kind of poll; - Tag Board adds a site form for instant messaging. - Service modules. Chapter 7. Modules 70- Users uefines what can anu cannot be uone on the site; man-ages mailing lists, registrations, and avatars; - Statistics allows to see how many people visited the site, how they interacted with it, etc. A module on the site can only exist in one copy. You cannot make two Guest books, two tag boards, etc. A separate chapter of the book is devoted to each module.Activating the modules Modules can be Active or Inactive. In the left column of the control panel only those modules, which are active are visible and available for configuiation. These are the very modules you would like to be seen on your site and which you've chosen when creating the site. If you are only interested in, say, just having a blog, why clutter up the control panel with the pho-to album or tag board settings. In futuie they coulu be easily auueu anyway. To do this, simply navigate to the inactive tab, select the mod-ules you like and activate them.After that the selected modules appear in the list on the control panel, anu theii settings become available. The following figuie shows the just activated Photo album module.Apropos! Chapter 7. Modules 71Once activated, it immediately appeared in the menu of the site:This will happen if you have a standard template menu, which you did not make drastic changes to. Otherwise, you will have to link them manually.Module managementAll mouules have geneial anu specific settings. Chapter 7. Modules 72You can control the design of each content module and its settings sepa-rately. Under Module utilities there are a number of auxiliary functions. The module can be checkup, that is, open in a browser and see what it is like. Some modules are not available for viewing, instead they are provided with a Get the code icon. Clicking on it, you will receive instructions for further action.Choosing Uninstall the module, you will uestioy all of its specific set-tings, and the module will be inactive.To confiim the ueletion you will be piompteu entei the Answei to the secret question. This precaution will protect you from accidental dele-tion or, God forbid, intruders actions. After removing, the module, it can be reactivated at any time.Design of the modules Design is primarily determined by the template you've chosen. But the system allows you to alter it at your own discretion. Changing the de-sign is based on editing HTML-templates and CSS. Chapter 7. Modules 73When transiting from any module to the Module design customiza-tion section, you are taken to the main design settings menu for all pages of the site.Pages in it are grouped according to their belonging to different modules.In fact customizing your website design deserves a separate chapter, so if you want to do it now, skip to the Design chapter. If you are not ready for such achievements yet, we will continue. There are many many in-teresting things here too. Adding material in the module As we have seen, there are two types of administration: the administra-tion panel of the site, which should grant access only to the owner of the account, and the administration directly at the site itself, without calling on this panel. The password of the owner of the site is different from that of the site administrator's password! I describe this in a detailed manner, because very often users make the mistake of trying to enter the username and password from the webtop in the site entrance form: Chapter 7. Modules 74and are surprised when they are not allowed on the site: When login to the site as an administration-user, is exactly where you can add, delete and edit entry in the module. Always keep to using your uID (e-mail address and uNet password)!Enter the password that you used when registering the uNet-account. If all data is correct, your status will change from the status of Guest to Administrator: The appearance of the site has changed a bit. At the top appears the adminbar described above: And now let us return to what we entered the site with administrator rights for: supplementing information into modules. Depending on the module, the link for adding new data may look different. Usually it is at the top right of the site and is enclosed in square brackets: Chapter 7. Modules 75 This link appears in the Blog module: And this one in the FAQ module:After clicking on the link an interface for adding content to the site opens: Chapter 7. Modules 76Do not be frightened by the abundance of buttons and ticks. It's rather simple. Any optional material is labeled. You can exercise an option by selecting it from its related Category. Adding the text itself can be ac-complished in three ways. To do this, there is a panel with three switch-es. The selected panel is active at the moment. Visual Editor Even if you have no knowledge of all the subtleties of page layout for the Web, you can easily add beautifully structured content to the site using visual editor. With all its icons, it somehow resembles Word:You simply fill in the text fielu, make it bolu, italic, choose any coloi anu font size. Equally fast is drawing tables and pasting images. And after you save everything you see it on the site in exactly the same form. Too fast anu not cleai enough. Then look foi uetaileu instiuctions on working with the visual editor in the Basic tools for working with the site chapter.Chapter 7. Modules 77The HTML-code panelHaving mastered the Visual Editor, you may want to do something more complicated, such as the addition of music or video. In this case, you must understand HTML at least in general terms. Let's start with uefinitions. BTNL is a hypeitext maikup language, a special foim of text, tables and pictures, which is comprehensible by browsers. When downloading the page, a browser interprets the code and properly dis-plays it on the computer screen. Virtually in every browser you can right-click on the page and choose View Page Source in the shortcut menu. Usually it looks very intimi-dating:This for example is just the HTML-code of the ucoz.ru main page, which you are well familiar with.The basic unit of HTML is a tag. Tag is a set of characters in angle brack-ets, f. e.: , , etc. Located on the right and left of the word, tags can set how it is written: text displays it bold in the browser: text; text the text will be italic: text; Chapter 7. Modules 78As you can see, these tags are paired. The opening tag placed before the text, and the closing means the end of the selection. The tag inserts the image on the page, and it has options as: , where http://s0.ucoz.net/img/ma/box_ru.jpg address of the image on the Internet. The
tag means an empty string. In general, tags are like hieroglyphs, they are numerous and each has its own meaning. Four of them can be considered learned! Write them on the add content page to the panel HTML-code (for the transition to the panel simply click on the string HTML Codes Panel):Save the changes everything turned out as planned! The bold text became bold, the italic one italic, and underneath a picture appeared.There are many thick books devoted to HTMLmany are very basic with graphics for those who are visually oriented. You can buy these books in any store or use Internet resources for further study.Chapter 7. Modules 79BB Codes Panel BBCode (abbreviated from the Bulletin Board Code) the markup language used to format messages on many electronic bulletin boards (BBS) and forums. To format text tags such as tags HTML are used, but, unlike them, they are enclosed in square brackets. BBCode was introduced to provide a simple, secure and more limited compared to HTML way of formatting messages.BB-codes are most often used when writing posts, but not when arrang-ing a full layout of the text. So I wouldn't advise to get too involved with them, but for the overall broadening of your mind the most common examples of codes can be found in the Appendix. Example text, formatted with BB-codes:And this is the result on the web page: WikiChapter 7. Modules 80Other settings of content additionFor those who are somewhat familiar with HTML, Ill explain some of the settings. If Substitute line feeds by the tag
is checked, you can write text in BB-code or HTML mode and when breaking a line the system will au-tomatically add the
tag (equivalent to pressing Enter) after saving. Enable HTML tags will activate the HTML-markup. If it is not checked, a tag will be interpreted as part of the text. Consider an example. Enable HTML tags is checked:If there is no tick, instead of nicely colored text the following picture will be displayed: Therefore, if you arent planning to write articles with codes, put this tick. Let's pioceeu to configuiing basic text. Image you can load images from your computer to add them to a paper and insert using special codes. Maximum image size is 2000 KB. Allowed formats are GIF, JPEG, PNG (for more information about graph-ics for the network, see the chapter Basic tools for working with the site). Download the desired image via the Browse button .... You get its code and size. Chapter 7. Modules 81$ IMAGE1 $ is the image code. 400 500 the pixel size, to which the image will be reduced, if it was larger. If the image was smaller, its size will not change. Bow to use this coue. In the visual euitoi, paste it in the text wheie the image should be. This is a convenient way to insert images into the article, but along with it, you can use the tag in HTML or [img] in BB-codes.The following fielus aie piesent in some mouules, in otheis not. It depends on what you are adding: an article to the articles catalog, a re-cord into the Blog, photos to the Photo album, etc. Foi a catalog of aiticles, foi example, the following set of fielus is uisplayeu: Chapter 7. Modules 82- Link to entry source if you are adding content written by another author, please indicate where you got it; - Entry added by data about the person under whose name the publication will be added. By default its your name. But you can choose any othei usei, finuing him by nickname. If the option Entry is not available for viewing is chosen, the content wont be visible to anyone except the administrator and the modera-tors. This makes this material a draft you can work with it, see how it looks on the site, change something. However, users will not see the process of changes until you remove the tick.By selecting the appropriate checkbox, you can allow or disallow com-ments on the article. Edit Entry After adding any content it can be edited. In the upper right corner there is a tiny triangle, clicking on which you can access a small man-agement menu. The menu consists of four elements . - Entry tags. In this context tags are not codes, but special words to describe the content of the material. - Counters managements you can change the rating and the number of views. - Edit you can change text and image, as described above. - Remove when clicking, the paper is removed permanently.Chapter 7. Modules 83Chapter 8Page EditorThe fiist mouule, which we take a closei look at, is Page euitoi. It seives to integrate the site into a coherent whole. With this module you can create pages with arbitrary content. Its settings affect the key aspects of the site's management. The fact that the main page of the site is deter-mineu exactly by this mouule, alieauy testifies to its impoitance. When creating a new site through the webtop, at the step of module selection the page editor is selected by default. Pages of this module differ from the pages of other modules, mainly because their content is not iegulateu by the system. I'll explain: pages of the blog you fill with records, pages of the photo album with images, but here you can cre-ate a page with anything you like. By default on the site you will see two pages, the appearance of which is determined by the page editor module: - main page (it is completely empty);- site info. 84Once logged in as administrator, you will see a slightly different picture. For example, the page site info will look like this: At the very bottom, below the text, icons for page content management are displayed. Using them, you will be able to make any changes to the text. Note that in this way only the contents of the page can be changed! The menu's, right-and left-hand columns' and page header's looks are set under site design customization (for details see the Design chap-ter, but it's better to do it later, after learning how to work with the con-tents.) In uCoz the contents of the site is separated from its appearance, which allows you to easily change one without affecting or recasting the other. Chapter 8. Page Editor 85Module design customization So, for content management the following icons are used : - Edit in Visual Editor. - Edit in HTML Editor. - Remove. Clicking on the fiist icon in the foim of eyes, you'll be taken to the con-tent management page: At the very top is a box called Page name, now it says Site info, but you can write in any other text. After saving the new name will appear in the menu instead of the old one.Below is a huge white box dedicated to page content. The text in this fielu is foimatteu using the Visual editor. You can immediately see it in the way it will be on the site. Type in any text. If you want something to be Bold, click on the icon with the letter B . To align the text in the center, select the alignment icon . Nany configuiation settings aie similar to the ones of a common text editor such as MS Word (to get to know all the subtleties of visual editor in detail, see Basic tools for work-ing with the site virtually all of its features are described there). It is not recommended to copy already colored and formatted text from Word into the visual editor! In this case, all the invisible setting will be Chapter 8. Page Editor 86copied to and this can clog the code, which can mean that you may not manage to stay within the allocated number of characters. Yes, there is a limit of 60 000 characters (it is approximately 20 pages of A4 format) to the length of the text.If you need to place an even greater text, split it into several pages still, no one will read it in one sitting. Under the text box the following settings are placed: - Add-ons consisting of two buttons: Widgets and Gadgets. With their help, you can add already made programs decorat-ing your page's body. For example, calculator, weather forecast, mini-game, and many more. To learn more about Widgets and Gadgets, see the Multimedia chapter. - Images by using the Browse button you can upload images to the text. The only allowed formats are GIF, JPEG and PNG. You can insert images anywhere in the message, using special codes $IMAGE1$, $IMAGE2$, $IMAGE3$ etc. Chapter 8. Page Editor 87To add one more picture click on the button with a plus sign. In the visual editor this code will look as follows: You can align the picture in the text in three ways: - left $IMAGE1-left$; - right $IMAGE1-right$; - center $IMAGE1-center$. Max. Size of the image restrict the maximum size of the loadable images. Bimensions aie specifieu in pixels. The system automatically ieuuces laige images to fit youi neeus. In this case, clicking on the im-age, the visitor can see it in full size. The following are two Options for the content: - Page content is temporarily unavailable if you activate this option, instead of the contents of the page users will see the inscription: Information on this page is temporarily una-vailable. Please accept our apologies. This option makes sense, if you alter the page and do not want users to see the process works. - Apply personal template to the page this setting will make the page totally unique. For example, all pages are created us-ing the page editor, will be gray with a left menu and the page for which you activated a personal template will be pink with a menu in the header of the site. Typically, personal templates are used for the main page, to make it unique, memorable, or Chapter 8. Page Editor 88use as an intro on the site. There cannot be more than 20 pages with a personal template.- Groups that have access to this page You can restrict ac-cess to the site, prohibiting certain groups of users to view it. When attempting to go to the page this group will see such a warning: Guests are prohibited from viewing this page. Please, authorize yourself. For this warning the access denied page is responsible, you can edit its content using the Template editor (for details see the Design chapter). What coulu theie be on such a seciet page. Well, foi example, you have a school site, and you can make a page with answers for the test avail-able only to users of the Teachers group (creation of such a group, see the Users chapter). After clicking the Save button, a window will ap-pear with the inscription Entry successfully saved. Click on the [Go to entry page] link and you will see the result of the changes:The text appears exactly as it looked in the visual editor, and instead of the $IMAGE1$ code an image appeared. If you have the desire to edit entry in HTML-codes mode, click on the icon in the form of lines of code under the text to get to the exact same interface as the one we have just discussed. The only difference is that instead of visual editor there will be the control codes panel:WarningChapter 8. Page Editor 89Administration of a module You can get to the administration panel of the module by clicking its name in the left column with a list of modules:The panel looks as follows: Let's examine it with a dedication to detail, so as to study only the differ-ences in the remaining modules.Chapter 8. Page Editor 90The panel consists of three parts. At the top the homepage of the mod-ule is shown. Because the home of the page editor module coincides with the main page, you will see http://your_site.ucoz.com. Below is the information about how much space there is on site at the moment, and how much it is alieauy occupieu with files. In the top iight coinei the name of the module is displayed. Beneath it is a reference to the inter-face for adding another page to the site.In the bottom part of the control panel is Module management, con-sisting of links to the sections that allow you to manipulate content and settings of the module.The lowermost part is Module utilities. In the page editor there are two utilities:- Module checkup takes you to the main page of the module; - Uninstall the module after removing, all the module's set-tings are reset, and it goes into the inactive modules column. Consider the subsections that make up the Module management section.Manage Pages Site This section is intended to create new pages and manage existing ones. Chapter 8. Page Editor 91The control panel section is as follows: Top right is the add page button. Clicking on it brings you to the inter-face, which is identical to the page editor window in visual editor mode, which we covered earlier in this chapter: Under the button two drop-down lists follow that allow to separately output active and inactive pages of different modules (in the page ad-ministration mode you can switch between different modules).An active page is a page visible to users; an inactive page is a draft vis-ible only to site administrators. Chapter 8. Page Editor 92Next is a list of pages that are created using the page editor. By default, there are three pages: - main page; - site info; - contact us. The fiist two aie visible on the site, anu the thiiu one will be available only after the activation of the E-mail Forms module (for details see chapter E-mail Forms). Each page has: - ID a unique number. Numbers can be out of order, if you delete the third page, the one added next will be the fourth, not third. If a page is not active its ID is highlighted in red; - page name the name that will be displayed in the menu and the page title;- Files links to the page attached to the picture;- Date date and time of adding the page.Clicking on the [Edit information] link, you get to the editing page con-tent interface. In the last column the following icons are displayed: - ( ) go to page; - ( ) Edit entry; - ( ) remove (if the cross is gray, the page cannot be deleted). If you add or edit a page with the Apply personal template to the page option activated, an icon will appear in the column ( ), allowing to uefine this same pattein foi the page as well (foi uetails see the 'Design chapter).Opposite the name of each page, there is an underlined plus icon. It allows you to create subpages attached to the current page. Subpages differ from the other ones only by the presence of a parent page:Chapter 8. Page Editor 93In the menu on the site it will look like this: In the auministiation panel subpages aie iuentifieu by a tab anu a giay pointer from the parent page: File manager Second in the Module management section is the File manager refer-ence. It is uesigneu to uownloau anu manage files on the site (foi ue-tails, see the Basic tools for working with the site chapter). In addi-tion to the manager on the page there is a link to the FTP-details, which you will neeu if you want to woik with files via thiiu-paity FTP-clients. Chapter 8. Page Editor 94Common settingsThe General Settings of the Module management section are the same settings that you used to create site. They can also be called from the admin bar settings tab. We covered these options in detail in the Account Administration chapter. Module design customization The Module design customization options will guide you to the general site uesign configuiation inteiface. The 'Design chapter is devoted to this issue.Adding static page to uCoz In addition to the pages that are created using the modules, pages with the extension *. html (or *. htm) can also be added to the site. This is a static page of absolutely any appearance and content. It is not subject to the restrictions on the number of characters. This page can be created in any editor, such as Dreamweaver or even Notepad. To be added to the site, this page shoulu be uownloaueu using file managei.Chapter 8. Page Editor 95In what scenaiio might you neeu such a page. Foi example, if you neeu to add a huge public document that cannot be broken into parts. In other cases it is better to create a page with the page editor module.For static pages the system codes and the uCoz visitor counter won't work.Let me remind you that if a site consists only of HTML-pages, it could be removed from the system as inactive! NoteChapter 8. Page Editor 96Chapter 9UsersBo you neeu useis on the site. }ust uo not confuse useis with visitois. A visitor is any person who opened your web site in his browser. The presence of users however implies a registration on the site, or the means to access it using his or her own login and password: What is the significance of the existence of useis. 0sually they have more rights than the guests. The presence of users on the site involves interactivity: comments to materials, discussions in the forum all that is impossible without the users.The most that ordinary visitors can do is to leave a message in the guestbook or contact administration via the feedback form. This you can do without the login and password. Online Business Cards can do very well without users. They do not in-volve any communication and exist only to convey some information to the public in the most simple of ways.When creating a site, the users module is enabled by default, and for the account holder an administrator-user is immediately created. To enter your own site as administrator, you simply enter your email address and password from the uNet-account (ie., global login and password). 97Registration on the site Registration on the site can be done in two pure and one mixed form. By default, when registering, a user creates himself a uNet-account. Then with the existing login and password, he cannot just go to your site, but also to any other site, created in uCoz (if the owner of this site did not specify any other way of registration). In the settings you can allow local users then the user registering on the site, will receive a login and password, but they will only act within this site. In this case the registration on the site will be a mixed one: it will be possible to enter using the global uNet password or using a local one. Accordingly, the users will divide into local and global ones. However, with the global user, you cannot manually change the password and piofile settings, he iegisteieu in the global account, as you can uo with a local one (though changing user settings yourself is not a very good thing to do anyway).Module management The Users module has a unique set of settings and is not like any other. At the top, information on the module is displayed its address (as Chapter 9. Users 98in itself the users module does not have an address, the main page's address is displayed here), the total number of registered users and in-formation on the last one who registered.Search users by nick name will output the following information: All parameters that are displayed here, we will be examined just below. In the upper right corner there is a link to manually add users to the site.This feature may be required if the registration on your site is closed, and all users you add personally. This option may make sense for example, you do not intend regular users to be on the site, but want to auu some auministiatois, who will woik on filling the site with you. List of users shows all the registered ones: This option has the following items:- ID a unique user ID; - User name (login) aka nickname, which will stand next to the comments and user's messages. If there is a blue star after the name, its a global user (i.e. , he has a uNet-account). You Chapter 9. Users 99can change the login by clicking on the blue square at the end of the line; - Reg. IP the IP-address from which the user registration on the site took place; - Group usei's gioup, uefining his iights on the site. uioup can be changed by selecting an option from the drop-down list; - Full name full name, if he specifieu it; - e-mail user's e-mail address; - avatar a smaller version of the avatar, if the user has chosen one. There follows a column with three icons: - this picture is only for local users, clicking on it allows the user to set the new password. It may be necessary if the user forgot his password and cannot ask to send it to his e-mail. As mentioned above, global users can not change the password, since it acts not only on your site; - piofile settings. Beie you can change uenuei, Avatai, etc.; - remove user. It only works with local users. You can simply ban a global one, to teach him. Why. Because theie is a global account, regardless of your site. User groups User grou