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The Page Tab gives the site administrator control over the degree to which the sub-sites are controlled by the central settings. The red numbers on the following image correspond to the functional summary of each of the controls or control groups that follow.
1) Allow Users To Override Admin Format
Allowing users to override the site administrator's settings is not advised on new installations because it removes the control of formatting control and some links in all of the sub-sites. Use this check box ONLY if you can accept that the sub-sites may not adhere to the administrator's settings.
Note: If this check box is checked (allowing user overrides), users can still opt to adopt the administrator's settings, but in this case, it is a choice, not a requirement. In most deployments, users are limited to the Basic Builder Form which means they have no way to override the Admin settings anyway – we recommend that this field be set to YES
Please see the RWDe Logic Diagram - Formatting logic for a detailed explanation of how a web page will appear with respect to the format of the page, based on how the system is set up.
2) / 2a) User Font Face Override / User Font Size Override
Users who create pages do not always understand the necessity of using fonts that are common to most computers in order to have their pages display properly on the web. Because of this, RWD can be set to override all fonts used in the page body of all pages to a specific font and font size (2a). You must enter BOTH a font name and a font size in order for the override to take effect. Leaving the settings for both or either fields will result in fonts being taken from the user's pages themselves.
3) Page Body Background Override
Background: Users In earlier versions of RWD, you could (and still can) set the web page background to a specific color or background image and determine if you want the image tiled or not. This setting was pervasive and was manifest both outside the bounds of the web page (if the Page Size in Browser was less than 100%), and in the page body itself. The only way you could achieve a different color for the page body than the outside bounds of the web page was to set the page background in each individual page form. This resulted in a somewhat cumbersome management model because any changes you wanted to make would have to be made in every page in the website (potentially many thousands of pages) and also because if a user decided to set their own background image or color, you could do
nothing about it regardless of how bad the match was to your site design.
The Page Body Background Override feature allows you to override all pages in the system to have a specific image or color as the background for the Page Body portion of the web page only. This opens the door to page effects that have a different color border and background outside the page confines as is inside the page body area of the page.
Checking this checkbox enables the functionality.
4) Use Color
Sets the override function to whatever color is chosen
4a) Or Use an Image
If you choose to use a tiled image or pattern instead of a solid color, enter a valid path and file name of the uploaded image here. Remember, don't forget to use an absolute path when referring to images.
5) Object Border Effect
A graphical shadow can be added to the main objects on an RWD web page to create a raised effect. There are two separate shadow effects to choose from or, the option can be set to none. This feature is a little stale and is rarely used in newer sites.
6) Background Color of Page / Background Image Path
Administrators can set the background color of the various elements of the RWD pages within their site. On the page tab of the RWD system, the background color affects the central component of a page - the header section, Navigation Sidebar, and Information Sidebar sections all have background setting of their own. The most common setting for backgrounds is white however, due to the new Page Body Background Override feature, this does not have to be the case anymore.
6a) A background image can dramatically change the look of a web page. Using a background image overrides the background color setting. The background image must be uploaded to the images folder before it can be used. Once the image is uploaded, the path to the image, and the image file name must be entered in the background image field. NOTE: the path syntax for this form is different than that of the RWD form - a / must precede the folder name
in which the image is stored. (eg. while in the RWD builder form itself, a path to an image would be: images/picture.gif but in the administrator form, that equivalent path would be slightly different: /images/picture.gif)
7) Tiling
If a background image is present in the Page, Administrators have the option of displaying the image as a tile or in one of several other ways, depending on the nature of the image itself.
8) Preset Skin To Apply
The skin selection field is not likely to be used very often because the skins are pre-set and most implementations of RWDe will involve custom colors and formats, but it is available if needed. The function is exactly the same as the skin setting in the RWD page form itself except that it has the power to propagate that setting across the entire site.
9) Page Size In Browser
The page size field is extremely powerful. If the RWDe Administrator desires, the pages that pick up formatting information from the Admin form (as opposed to the local RWD Builder form) can be displayed such that the page width is less than the width of the web user's browser window (or, if desired, potentially greater than the width of the browser window. If the value entered in this field is less than 100, the page will render itself, regardless of the web user's screen resolution, at a width that corresponds to the value entered in the field (75 would be 75% of the browser window, for example). While this is a powerful feature, it does not always work as expected because images (banner images, logos, images in the Page Body, etc) will not respect this limitation but will display at their actual
size. This can lead to a banner image that either exceeds the page width or is too small for the page, depending on the resolution of the various web user's computer screens.
A remedy to this circumstance is built right in to the field itself; if you enter a value greater than 100, the page width will restrict itself to that value in Pixels, not as a percentage of the browser window. With careful planning, you can actually build a page for a specific resolution (for instance 800 x 600) and know that the page will use up that many pixels, regardless of the browser window resolution. The issue of images rendering full size remains in effect in this circumstance, however you can make sure that your images are of a certain pixel size before using them. This knowledge of the actual image size that you are using, coupled with the ability to restrict the page width to a specific size can give you all you need to make a page display perfectly, regardless of the browser window
resolution (of course, you should create your page to the smallest resolution likely to be used which is currently 800 x 600 pixels).
10) Include Last Modified date at Bottom of Page
If desired, the last modified date for each page in all sub-sites can be displayed at the bottom of those pages.
11) “Help” Link To
In the event that the administrator wishes to provide links to central help pages, the link to those pages would be put in this section of the administrator form.
12) Enable Text Only Feature
Checking this option will put a link on each page that, when clicked, will convert the web page to text only which is more screen reader friendly. Note: Not all elements of RWDe or FirstClass web pages are screen reader friendly, particularly content in the Page Body. To make images compliant with screen readers, make sure to enter a description of any images in your page so that the screen reader software can 'describe' the image to a visually impaired web user. To do this, right-click on an image in your page, click on the Format Image option (a faster way to do this is to click once on your image and use the Ctrl-M key combination). When the Format Image dialog window opens up, enter a description of your image in the Comment field. (see the illustration that follows which is an example of a
graphic with the comments field filled out to make the image more screen reader friendly)
13) Include Breadcrumbs at the Top of the Page
Breadcrumbs appear at the top right side of web pages and contain a list of links back to the different levels of the website that the user has visited. The text used to display Breadcrumbs text gets its formatting from the .sitepref Summary Text font setting (Appearance Tab of the .sitepref, Fonts
14) Search Options
You may wish to include a search option on all pages in your site without having to rely on the individual web publishers to include the search control in their pages. This control allows you to set the location of a global search control in either the Navigation or Information Sidebars, at the top or bottom of the list of items.
Note: you may also include a global search control in place of the second banner image (also new in this release) but that control is available in the Header Tab, Banner Image Subtab.
15) Search Options
Sometimes, you may want your page content to be printable in such a way that only the content prints and not the rest of the web page (the navigation links, headers, graphics, etc.) This control creates a special link at the top of the Page Body section which will open a version of the page content that is stripped of all web wrappings and contains a print button. The options in the control allow you to choose between having a Print link appear in text or as a button.
16) Change Default Link Color To
In some websites, you may wish to set the color of text that is associated with links in the page body. Normally, this color is blue and underlined. Using this control in addition to the quoted text feature in the page body editing toolbar (see image), you can set the color of links to whatever you wish. It is important to understand that the individual users who are creating pages in your site must be trained to use the quoted text feature on their links or the feature will not work.
The quoted text feature in FirstClass is normally used to highlight text with a grey background. If you wish to change the color of links in RWD using the Change link color to control, create the link in the page body, highlight the text, and click the quoted text button as the image below illustrates:
17) Remove Link Underline
Normally, the text for links made in the page body is underlined. You can remove the underline using this control.
18) Global Page Footer
A new footer feature has been incorporated into RWD for version 2. This feature allows for a custom footer to be rendered at the bottom of every web page in the system.
The two controls that affect this feature must both be set in order to make it work. First, you can select a combination of two footer messages, one that comes with FirstClass when you are logged in and one specific to RWD. You may choose any combination of these.
19) Global Page Footer - Content
The second field is the actual text of the footer. This control also supports an image syntax that is unique to RWD - [img=path/filename] where the path and filename point to an image that is uploaded to a central graphics folder.
20) Global Page Footer - email address
If you want an email generated when a web user clicks on your footer, enter the email address in this unlabeled field.
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