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Setting up your website template: For more templates and pre-made sites visit: Allwebco Design For the best hosting on the planet visit: Allwebco Step 1: EDIT FLASH ANIMATION: | Click for more details Open the "flash.txt" in Notepad or any text editor and edit "Realty Company Name" with your name or company name. Be sure not to delete the "logo=". Replace the "Edit with your optional slogan or phrase" with your slogan. Be sure not to delete the "&slogan=". This will update the Flash logo on all pages. If you wish to use a graphic logo, there are instructions later in this document. THE FLASH IMAGE CHANGER: | Click for more details The left sidebar Flash changer is showing 8 .jpg images. You will find these images in the "flash" folder. You can simply replace "image1.jpg" through "image8.jpg" with any standard .jpg images and the flash will update. Make your images 165 wide x 125 high pixels in size. Edit the "imagechanger.js" to change the changer size. You can make this higher but not wider. Step 2: EDIT COPYRIGHT: | Click for more details Open the "copyright.js" file in Notepad or any text editor and edit the "Your Company" text with your name or company name. This will change the footer info on all pages. Step 3: EDIT CONTACT INFO: | Click for more details Open the "contact.js" file in Notepad or any text editor and change the company name, address, phone number and e-mail address. This will update contact info on the "contact" page and also on the contact form return page named "thanks.htm". Step 4: EDIT THE CONTACT FORM: Click for current info on setting up the template forms. Click for info on adding more fields to the forms. Click for changing form sizes or colors. If you want to use only e-mail on the contact page you can remove the contact form by deleting between the "REMOVE FORM" notes in the "contact.htm". Or... you can delete the "contact.htm", rename the "agents.htm" to "contact.htm" and remove the "agents" link in the "menu.js". Step 5: REPLACE THE FEATURED HOMES PICTURES: | Click for more details The best way to setup the pictures in the gallery is not to actually edit the HTML pages and change the pictures on each individual page. The fastest way is to simply replace the pictures in the "gallery" folder with your own by overwriting the files that are in there now and using the same generic names.
There are a total of 11 images per featured home. Example, for home #1 edit the "homes-page-1.jpg" the "Fhomes1-1.jpg" through "Fhomes1-5.jpg" and the "homes1-1.jpg" through "homes1-5.jpg" images. Step 6: EDIT LEFT SIDEBAR: | Click for more details You will edit the "sidebar-left.htm" like any other HTML page. Editing the "sidebar-left.htm" will update all the pages at one time. If you need more height in the sidebar you can edit the "sidebar-frame" height style in the "coolstyle.css". Step 7: EDIT RIGHT SIDEBAR: | Click for more details You will edit the "sidebar-right.htm" like any other HTML page. Editing the "sidebar-right.htm" will update all the pages at one time. If you need more height in the sidebar you can edit the "sidebar-frame-right" height style in the "coolstyle.css". Step 8: SETUP THE MLS IDX HOME SEARCH: Click for MLS search setup info. Allwebco does not provide MLS search code or support. All MLS search forms included in this template are examples only. Step 9: EDIT PAGES: | Software choices | Notepad Editing Edit the text on all HTML pages with your information. You can use a text editor like Notepad, Frontpage, Dreamweaver or any wysiwyg editor. Take care not to delete any of the HTML tags that surround the text. You will find notes inside each page to help you navigate. NOTE: You will not see the footer and header in some software because they are .js include files so you can globally edit your header, footer, sidebars and other info. Step 10: EDIT TITLES, DESCRIPTIONS AND KEYWORDS: | Click for more details Open each of the pages and change the titles (at the very top of the page) and also the description and the keywords with your product or service info. You can edit one page and copy and paste to the other pages. Be careful to only change what's inside the "" so you don't disturb the html code. Page titles are important so your site will get a good listing at Google or MSN and other search engines. Click for optimization help. Step 11: UPLOAD: | Click for more details Upload the pages on to your hosting company's server using ftp software or Windows Explorer or your control panel. Be sure to upload the "picts", "gallery", and "flash" folders and all files in these folders. Options: USING A GRAPHIC LOGO: You can replace the Flash logo with a graphic one. To do this, delete or rename the header.js, then rename the "graphic_logo_header.js" to "header.js". In the picts folder you will find a graphic called "logo.jpg", open this graphic and edit it with your logo. This image is now 80 pixels in height but you can make this any size you would like. RIGHT SIDE LOGO: The logo and image on the right side is located in the picts folder and is named "logo-side.jpg". Edit this image with your parent company logo and/or your own image. There is a layered PSD file of this image in the "extras" folder. HEADER BACKGROUND IMAGE: To change the logo header background image edit the "background-header.jpg" in your "picts" folder. This image is now 100 x 1200 pixels in size. You can make this width any width that you would like. The height should remain 100 pixels. RIGHT SIDE RATES BOXES: The rates on the right side of each page are linked "live" rates. Click here for details on this content. To remove this code, open the "sidebar-right.htm" and remove all code between the "DYNAMIC RATES" notes. To change the Illinois rate. Edit the "sidebar-right.htm" and find this code: http://www.mortgageloan.com/tool/mortgage/TodaysRates?state=IL then edit the "IL" at the end to your state letters. Example, edit IL to CA for California. SITE MAP PAGE: The "site_map.htm" is linked from the index.html. It is best not to remove this link so search engines can find your site map and properly list all your pages when users search at major search engines. FONTS: | Click for more details You can change your font colors and sizes by editing the "coolstyle.css" with a text editor. You can find other font colors by clicking here. You can also change the font sizes in the "coolstyle.css" file. Change the "TABLE" px size to change the copy on all pages. Change the "subtitle" px size to change all the subtitle sizes. CHANGING / ADDING MENU BUTTONS: | Click for more details You can change the names on the buttons like "About" or "Services" to other page names by editing the "menu.js". Only change the one instance of the name and not the name with the ".htm" after it. Whatever you change in the menu.js will change every page on the website. Keep the names short so you have more room in the menu. You can add more pages by copying one button in the menu.js and pasting it right below the next. Be sure to back up your menu file before you edit it. TOO MANY PAGES FOR THE MENU: | Click for more details You can add extra links or links with long names to either of your 2 "sidebar?.htm" pages. Sample links are included in the "sidebar-left.htm". You can also add as many links as you need to the site map page. Click link above for more solutions. PICTURES: | Click for more details You can replace all template images with your own. You will find all pictures in the "picts" folder. Left sidebar Flash changer images are in your "flash" folder. ADDING PAGES: | Click for more details | Add a gallery You can add pages to your website by copying and pasting any one of the pages and renaming it to whatever you need. You can then add links for the new pages to the menu by opening the menu.js. See adding to the menu above. PAGE HEIGHTS: | Click for more details Page height in this template is set by either the right or left sidebar IFrames. Click above for help setting these heights. EXTRAS FOLDER FILES: The files in the extras folder are optional files. You can use any of these files as indicated elsewhere on this help page and related support pages. This folder does not need to be uploaded to your hosting area. |