Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder 3.2 Windows User guide

Brand: Parallels

Model: Plesk SiteBuilder 3.2 Windows

Type: User guide

Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder 3.2 Windows is a powerful website building tool that allows you to create and manage professional-looking websites without any coding knowledge. With its user-friendly interface, drag-and-drop functionality, and extensive template library, you can easily create a website for your business, portfolio, or personal use. You can also add e-commerce functionality to your website, allowing you to sell products and services online. Additionally, SiteBuilder offers a range of marketing and SEO tools to help you promote your website and reach a wider audience.

SWsoft, Inc.

SWsoft SiteBuilder 3.2

for Windows

Site Owner's Guide

ISBN: N/A

SWsoft, Inc.

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Suite 325

Herndon

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Phone: +1 (703) 815 5670

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Contents

Preface 4

About This Guide.........................................................................................................................................4

Who Should Read This Guide......................................................................................................................4

Organization of This Guide..........................................................................................................................4

Documentation Conventions ........................................................................................................................5

Typographical Conventions ..............................................................................................................5

General Conventions.........................................................................................................................6

Feedback.......................................................................................................................................................6

About SiteBuilder 6

Getting Started..............................................................................................................................................6

Logging in to SiteBuilder..................................................................................................................7

Recovering Forgotten Password........................................................................................................8

Learning SiteBuilder Interface..........................................................................................................9

Getting Help....................................................................................................................................13

Submitting Feedback on SiteBuilder Functionality.........................................................................14

Managing Sites 15

Adding Site.................................................................................................................................................15

Configuring General Settings..........................................................................................................16

Configuring Publishing Settings .....................................................................................................17

Previewing Site...........................................................................................................................................20

Editing Site in Wizard ................................................................................................................................20

Publishing Site............................................................................................................................................21

Editing Site Parameters ..............................................................................................................................22

Assigning Your Trial Site to Your Account...............................................................................................23

Removing Site from User Account.............................................................................................................23

Maintaining Published Sites 24

Managing Site Users...................................................................................................................................24

Adding Site User Account...............................................................................................................25

Editing Site User Account...............................................................................................................26

Changing Site User Account Status ................................................................................................27

Managing Site Statistics .............................................................................................................................27

Configuring Site Statistics...............................................................................................................28

Viewing Site Statistics.....................................................................................................................29

Submitting Site to Search Engine...............................................................................................................30

Managing eShop Orders.............................................................................................................................31

Configuring Your System 33

Viewing System Information......................................................................................................................34

Configuring Your Profile Settings..............................................................................................................35

Index 37

Preface 4

In This Chapter

About This Guide.................................................................................................................. 4

Who Should Read This Guide...............................................................................................4

Organization of This Guide................................................................................................... 4

Documentation Conventions................................................................................................. 5

Feedback ............................................................................................................................... 6

About This Guide

SWsoft SiteBuilder 3.2 for Windows Site Owner's Guide instructs you how to manage and

maintain web sites created in SiteBuilder.

Who Should Read This Guide

This guide is intended for users who manage and maintain web sites created in SiteBuilder.

Organization of This Guide

SWsoft SiteBuilder 3.2 for Windows Site Owner's Guide consists of the following chapters:

Chapter 2, About SiteBuilder, describes the logging in procedure, Administrator Panel interface

elements, and the way you can get help in case you encounter any problems with the

Administrator Panel.

Chapter 3, Managing Sites, describes all operations you can do on sites created in SiteBuilder.

Chapter 4, Maintaining Published Sites, describes operations concerning site maintenance and

customization.

Chapter 5, Configuring Your System, provides instructions on how to view your system

information and edit your profile settings.

C HAPTER 1

Preface

Preface 5

Documentation Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation conventions

used in it.

Typographical Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation conventions

used in it.

The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Formatting

convention

Type of Information Example

Special Bold

Items you must select, such as

menu options, command buttons,

or items in a list.

Go to the System tab.

Titles of chapters, sections, and

subsections.

Read the Basic

Administration chapter.

Italics Used to emphasize the importance

of a point, to introduce a term or to

designate a command line

placeholder, which is to be

replaced with a real name or value.

The system supports the so

called wildcard character

search.

Monospace

The names of commands, files,

and directories.

The license file is located in

the

http://docs/common/license

s directory.

Preformatted On-screen computer output in your

command-line sessions; source

code in XML, C++, or other

programming languages.

# ls –al /files

total 14470

Preformatted

Bold

What you type, contrasted with

on-screen computer output.

# cd

/root/rpms/php

CAPITALS Names of keys on the keyboard. SHIFT, CTRL, ALT

KEY+KEY Key combinations for which the

user must press and hold down one

key and then press another.

CTRL+P, ALT+F4

About SiteBuilder 6

General Conventions

 Chapters in this guide are divided into sections, which, in turn, are subdivided into

subsections. For example, Documentation Conventions is a section, and General Conventions

is a subsection.

 When following steps or using examples, be sure to type double-quotes ("), left single-

quotes (`), and right single-quotes (') exactly as shown.

Feedback

If you spot a typo in this guide, or if you have thought of a way to make this guide better, we

would love to hear from you!

If you have a suggestion for improving the documentation (or any other relevant comments), try

to be as specific as possible when formulating it. If you have found an error, please include the

chapter/section/subsection name and some of the surrounding text so that we could find it

easily.

Please submit a report by e-mail to

[email protected].

SiteBuilder consists of two parts: the Wizard and the Administrator Panel.

Wizard is a web application enabling its users to create web sites and publish them on the

Internet.

The Administrator Panel is a tool for managing and maintaining web sites created in the Wizard.

Getting Started

This section describes your first steps with the SiteBuilder Administrator Panel.

About SiteBuilder

About SiteBuilder 7

Logging in to SiteBuilder

After you have accessed SiteBuilder for the first time, enter your user name and password each

time you launch the SiteBuilder Administrator Panel. These credentials can be changed at any

time on the My Profile screen. This procedure is described in detail in the Configuring Your

Profile Settings section, later in this guide (see page

35).

¾ To log in to SiteBuilder:

1 Enter your login in the Login field.

2 Enter your password in the Password field.

3 Select a language of SiteBuilder interface from the Interface language list.

4 If you want your credentials to be remembered by SiteBuilder, select the

Remember me check box.

5 Click Login.

Figure 1: Login to SiteBuilder

About SiteBuilder 8

Recovering Forgotten Password

¾ To recover your password:

1 Click Forgot Your Password.

2 Enter your login in the Login field.

3 Enter your e-mail address in the E-mail field.

4 Click Send.

After your e-mail address is received, the system checks if it is stored in the database, and

sends your password to your e-mail address.

Figure 2: Recovering Forgotten Password

About SiteBuilder 9

Learning SiteBuilder Interface

SiteBuilder Administrator Panel interface enables you to use two ways of navigation through

the application: desktop view and standard view.

The standard view is a customary view of the control panel divided into two main areas:

navigation pane on the left and the main screen, where operations are performed, on the right.

Figure 3: SiteBuilder Administrator Panel Standard View

The desktop view displays system statistics and shortcuts to the main functionalities of the

Administrator Panel.

About SiteBuilder 10

Figure 4: SiteBuilder Administrator Panel Desktop View

About SiteBuilder 11

Using Navigation Pane

The navigation pane is located on the left of the Administrator Panel window. It gives you

access to the following administrative functions:

 Sites. Enables you to add and manage sites.

 My Profile. Enables you to configure your account parameters.

 System Info. Enables you to view system information.

 Logout. Finishes the current session with the SiteBuilder Administrator Panel.

 Feedback. Enables you to submit your opinion or suggestions on SiteBuilder usability and

functionality to SWsoft team.

 Support. Enables you to submit a request to your administrator.

 Help. Provides the online version of this guide.

To navigate through the SiteBuilder Administrator Panel, you can also use a path bar: a chain of

links that appears in the upper-left part of the screen. To return to a previous screen, use the

Up level icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.

To find items in lengthy lists, use search boxes located above every list of items: type a search

criterion into the input box, and click Search. A list will show the items matching the search

criterion. To return back to viewing all items, click Show All.

To sort a list by a certain parameter in ascending or descending order, click the parameter's title

in the column heading. The order of sorting will be indicated by a small triangle displayed next

to the parameter's title.

Below the Help icon, there is a context help tip area. It provides a brief description of the current

screen or available operations. When you place the mouse pointer over a system element or

status icon, it displays additional information.

About SiteBuilder 12

Using Desktop Interface

When you go to the Desktop screen for the first time, in its upper part you can see the additional

section containing the following options:

 Short tips describing basic management options of the SiteBuilder Administrator Panel and

shortcuts to these options.

 Shortcut to the SiteBuilder Wizard that enables users to create and edit sites. More detailed

information about SiteBuilder Wizard is contained in the SWsoft SiteBuilder 3.2 for

Windows User's Guide (available here

(

http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/sitebuilder/win/docs/)).

If you do not want these options displayed ever again, click Close. When you log into

SiteBuilder for Windows next time, this section will not be displayed.

Figure 5: Desktop Welcome Section

The other two sections of the Desktop are:

 Tasks. This section shows shortcuts to the operations that you can perform through the

Administrator Panel.

 Statistics. This section displays the following statistic data about the system:

 Sites. The number of created sites, the total number of sites, permitted for creation by

your Plan, and the number of sites, available for creation.

 Hits. The number of registered users that visited your site.

 Users. The number of created site users accounts and total number of accounts that can

be created according your Plan.

 New eShop orders. The number of e-shop orders made on your site.

About SiteBuilder 13

Figure 6: Desktop Interface, Tasks and Statistics Sections

Getting Help

The SiteBuilder help system has been created to assist you in solving problems you might

encounter when creating your site. To find the information you need, you can do the following:

 Use on-screen context-sensitive help. It is the easiest and quickest way to get instant help

with your immediate tasks. At the bottom of the navigation pane, you can find short

instructions on the operations that are available on the current page.

 Use FAQ. For the fastest way to solve your problems with SiteBuilder, check out the

SiteBuilder FAQ page (

http://faq.swsoft.com), which provides instant access to solutions for a

variety of issues. Select the SiteBuilder category and view the list of FAQs related to

SiteBuilder.

 Go to online forum. If you failed to solve your problem using the FAQs published on

SWsoft site, join our online forum (

http://forum.swsoft.com/). Here, all users can post

questions, exchange ideas, and troubleshoot common problems. Note that SWsoft does not

provide official support through this forum.

 Contact your SiteBuilder services provider. If you have any problems or questions that are

not covered in the user documentation or FAQs, you can click Support located on the

navigation pane and submit your problem to your SiteBuilder services provider.

About SiteBuilder 14

Submitting Feedback on SiteBuilder Functionality

You can share your opinion or suggestions regarding SiteBuilder functionality with SWsoft

team.

To submit your feedback:

1 Click Feedback on the navigation pane.

2 Select the type of feedback from the Type list.

3 Enter you e-mail address in the Your e-mail field.

4 Enter feedback you would like to send to SWsoft in the Message field.

5 Click Send.

There are two types of sites in SiteBuilder:

 Trial sites are sites created by unregistered SiteBuilder users. These sites cannot be

published on the Internet and have a limited lifetime period. When the lifetime period

expires, trial sites are removed from SiteBuilder.

 Regular sites are sites created by a registered SiteBuilder user. These sites can be published

on the Internet and do not have a lifetime period.

You can do the following operations on sites:

 Add a new site (see page

15)

 Publish a site (see page

21)

 Edit site parameters (see page

22)

 Assign a site to your account (see page

23)

 Remove a site (see page

23)

In This Chapter

Adding Site ........................................................................................................................... 15

Previewing Site..................................................................................................................... 20

Editing Site in Wizard........................................................................................................... 20

Publishing Site ...................................................................................................................... 21

Editing Site Parameters.........................................................................................................22

Assigning Your Trial Site to Your Account..........................................................................23

Removing Site from User Account.......................................................................................23

Adding Site

¾ To add a new site:

1 Click Sites on the navigation pane.

2 Click Add New Site.

3 Configure the required settings of the site.

4 Click OK.

The new site appears in the list of sites on the Sites screen.

C HAPTER 2

Managing Sites

Managing Sites 16

Configuring General Settings

¾ To configure the general settings of the new site:

1 Click Sites on the navigation pane.

2 Click Add New Site.

The following screen opens.

Figure 7: Configuring General Settings

3 Enter the site title.

You can enter any title that will be easy for you to remember.

4 Click OK.

The new site appears in the list of sites on the Sites screen.

It is not necessary to provide the parameters for site publishing at this stage. You can provide

them later on.

Managing Sites 17

Configuring Publishing Settings

In order for the published sites to work properly, the location you specify for publishing a site

should be checked for SiteBuilder consistency. During this check, the system verifies whether

the specified publishing parameters are valid and the publishing location meets all the

requirements. To launch this check, click Verify Location on the Publishing Settings tab. After

completing the verification, the publishing location is given one of the following statuses:

 Error. This status is assigned due to the following reasons:

 Some of the host parameters (IP, DNS, login and password) are invalid

 The specified site URL is invalid

 Static only. This status is assigned if the server you are trying to publish your site to

supports only static pages publishing. If the site does not contain any dynamic pages (i.e.

SiteBuilder modules), the site content is automatically converted into statics and the site is

published.

If the site contains modules, publication fails. In this case you can complete static

publication, if you delete all the dynamic pages from your site. The reasons why a

publishing server may not support dynamic content publishing are the following:

 ASP.NET 2.0 software is not installed on the server or is configured incorrectly

 ASP.NET version is earlier than 2.0.50727

 The working directory must be mapped on the IIS server as web application

 ASP.NET account has not a read\write\delete permission for the App_Data folder

 ASP.NET account has not read\write permission for the sitebuilder.mdb file

 OLE DB Provider is not installed on the server

 Dynamic. This status is assigned if the publishing location meets all the requirements and is

ready for publishing.

¾ To configure the publishing settings:

1 Click the Publishing Settings tab.

Managing Sites 18

Figure 8: SiteBuilder Hosting Provider Publishing Scenario

2 Select a default publishing scenario from the Default publishing scenario list.

3 In SiteBuilder hosting provider publishing scenario area, select a publication

mode.

It can be FTP, XCOPY, or VPS.

4 If you select FTP publication mode, provide the following parameters:

 Host is an IP address or DNS name of the FTP server.

 Web site URL is the address the site will be available at after publication.

 Working directory is the path on your FTP server where the site files will be stored after

publication.

 If hosting provider host requires your credentials (login and password), click Specify

account option and fill out the fields in the Specify account section. Otherwise, click Use

Anonymous account.

5 If you select XCOPY publication mode, provide the following parameters:

 Host is an IP address, DNS name, or machine name of the publishing server.

 Web site URL is the address the site will be available at after publication.

 Working directory is a name of the share on the server and the path to the files of your

site. Do not include the name of the server into this path. For example,

SiteBuilder\Site1

6 If you select VPS publication mode, provide the following parameters:

Managing Sites 19

 Physical server is an IP address, DNS name, or machine name of the computer running

the virtual server.

 VPS identifier is an integer number of a virtual server identifying it on the physical

server.

 Web site URL is the address the site will be available at after publication.

 Working directory is the path on the virtual server where the site files will be stored after

publication.

 If hosting provider host requires your credentials (login and password), click Specify

account option and fill out the fields in the Specify account section. Otherwise, click Use

Anonymous account.

7 Click Verify Location.

Location verification starts. The Verification Results screen appears displaying the status

assigned to the publishing location.

8 In the Publishing to known FTP host scenario area, provide the following

parameters:

 Host is an IP address or DNS name of the FTP server.

 Web site URL is the address the site will be available at after publication.

 Working directory is the path on the FTP server where the site files will be stored after

publication.

 If hosting provider host requires your credentials (login and password), click Specify

account option and fill out the fields in the Specify account section. Otherwise, click Use

Anonymous account.

Figure 9: Publishing to Known FTP scenario

9 Click Verify Location.

Managing Sites 20

Location verification starts. The Verification Results screen appears displaying the status

assigned to the publishing location.

10 Click OK.

Previewing Site

¾ To preview a site:

1 Click Sites on the navigation pane.

2 Click the Preview icon beside the site you want to preview.

Note: In order for the Preview screen to be refreshed every time your click Preview, do the

following: in your Internet Explorer go to Tools > Internet Options > General > Temporary

Internet files > Settings and in the Check for newer versions of stored pages area, select the Every

visit to the page option.

Editing Site in Wizard

¾ To edit a site in the SiteBuilder Wizard:

1 Click Sites on the navigation pane.

2 Click the Edit icon beside the site you want to edit.

 The detailed description of SiteBuilder Wizard functionality is provided in SWsoft

SiteBuilder 3.2 for Windows User's Guide here

(

http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/sitebuilder/win/docs/).

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