Site Settings
This allows you to control various website wide settings. To edit these settings select Site Settings from the Site menu item in the Toolbar. Listed below is a brief overview of settings available
All the settings available for your website in Site Settings.
Lock Site Updates
Clicking this button will prevent users from editing the website whilst the website administrator carries out website maintenance.
Site Mode
The three modes available to a BamCMS website are Live, Maintenance and Holding Page.
- Live is the setting most commonly used, that is all pages you have specified as viewable will be live to public users of the website.
- Maintenance is a mode used to notify public users of scheduled maintenance and website updates. You may wish to provide email or phone details on this page so that users may still contact you.
- Holding Page is a setting used to inform users of your intent to launch. Again is it useful to provide your audience with other contact details in lieu of your big launch!
Site Name
This input field is used to give your website a name. This will usually be your company name.
Site-wide Description
The website description input field is used to explain your website and company offerings. Providing descriptive keywords and search terms here is beneficial to Search Engine Optimisation.
Site-wide Keywords
This is a list of keywords and search terms used to find your website in the many search engines available on the web. More specific terms may be entered on any given page using the Page Properties dialog box.
Contact Name
Input fields have been provided for a Contact Name and Contact Email regards your website project. It is useful to place the contact details of the person in charge of your website project here in case website specific questions need to be asked in future.
Contact Email
Input fields have been provided for a Contact Name and Contact Email regards your website project. It is useful to place the contact details of the person in charge of your website project here in case website specific questions need to be asked in future.
Page/File Not Found Message
Using the Page Not Found Message dialog box you have the ability to craft your own error message. If a visitor mistypes the URL or finds a link that is no longer on the website they will be shown your message, a search box to search
Stats
Choosing Stats from the BamCMS Toolbar will open a new browser window, and take you to our website statistics server, using Urchin software.
You will need to provide your username and password for the statistics server the first time you sign in. In future visits, the system should remember who you are. Please note that the username and password may be different to your BamCMS details.
Web Statistics Log-in Screen.
Once logged in, you will be able to view reports showing traffic to your website, where they were referred from, what pages users visited and the like. Use the date range filter on the lower left hand side to change the range in which you are viewing reports.
An in-built help system will guide you through the rest of the features, or alternatively visit the very in-depth help area, at http://www.google.com/support/urchin45/
Please note that we are unable to provide support answers for this software. Most questions can be answered using one of these two methods.
Link Checker
The BamCMS Link Checker is a automated method of checking all of the hyperlinks throughout the content of your website, to discover any broken links, which no longer direct users to the right place.
Simply click the ‘Check content for dead links’ button to re-index the content of your entire website to find any broken links. Note that this only works on the content area of every page of your site, and does not work on navigation items or template driven links within the website.
The Link Checker could take a few minutes, depending on the size of your website. Once complete, the link Checker will display one of two messages.
No broken links were found. This means that no broken links were discovered when indexing the website content.
Broken links found. In this instance, it will also show the page where the link is, and the text that appears on the link. You can then edit this page (see Page 11) to make the required link changes.