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Anuko Web Hosting with CMS User Guide

This section describes how to use Anuko CMS to create and maintain a web site. We trust Anuko CMS and host our primary business site http://www.anuko.com entirely in it. All Anuko CMS capabilities that are available to us are available to you, too! For the sake of illustration, this User Guide will refer to site building examples on our own site where applicable. In other situations, a default web content template will be used - the one that you get upon creation of your first web site in Anuko CMS.

Anuko CMS supports business and individual customer sites. You can look at some examples of sites under Anuko CMS control on Anuko CMS Clients page. Because Anuko CMS supports business sites, you can expect powerful features from it. Furthermore, new and more powerful content management / e-commerce features will appear as the system evolves. If you need something specific from Anuko CMS, which is currently missing, please make sure to let us know by using the Anuko CMS Feature Request form.

Brief Content of This Section

The following list briefly outlines the content of Anuko CMS User Guide:

Trying Out Anuko CMS

To try Anuko CMS free of charge you first need to register. You can do so on the Try Anuko CMS page.


Type in your name, email, phone number, and password in the registration form and click Save. Anuko CMS will send you an email with a link to confirm your registration. Click on the link in the confirmation letter to confirm. After confirming your registration with Anuko CMS you will be taken to Anuko CMS login form.



Your email, which is used as your login name, will be already filled in the form. Type in your password to login to Anuko CMS. If you are logging in for the first time you will be taken to Anuko CMS Create New Site screen where you have to select a name for your new site.



Here, on the Create New Site screen, you need to define a name for your site. You only need to come up with a unique prefix, because it will end in anuko.com. Anuko CMS is free for personal use for customers who do not have their own domain name. Free users will get an address (URL) such as http://your_prefix.anuko.com You must update your site at least once every 60 days to keep your free hosting.

Enter a unique prefix for your site and click Submit. If the name is already taken the system will let you know. Otherwise, Anuko CMS will create an initial site for you and take you to it. To edit your site just click on the Edit link located in the left bottom corner of your new site.




Logging in to Anuko CMS

Click on the Edit link in the left bottom corner of your site. If this is the first time you are logging in to edit your site you will be presented a login screen. Type in your login and password and click Submit.




If you entered your credentials successfully you will be taken to your site administration screen. Here is how it looks.



The menu entries here are as follows.


Changing Design

The first thing to try after creating a site is change its design. Here is how to do it: click on the Site Attributes link to change the design of your site.



You can select your website title, design template, and style on this page. Design template defines general look of your site. The Style can modify this look by introducing different color combinations and other minor style differences. Experiment with different design templates and styles until you find the one that suits your needs!


Uploading a Logo

You might want to upload a logo to your site so that it is displayed in the header. It's very simple. You need to upload an image onto your site with a name like small_logo.png, small_logo.gif, or small_logo.jpg. If several images are present then small_logo.png takes precedence over small_logo.gif, which in turn takes precedence over small_logo.jpg.

To upload an image select the "My Images" link in your site administration interface, find an image on your computer with the Browse button and then click on the Submit button. Please refer to the Working with Images in Anuko CMS section for additional information about how to upload images.




Changing Content of a Web Page

You can start editing content of a web page with 2 methods:


Editing pages is very easy. You just type in or copy and paste text in the large text area titled "Text". It's that simple. You might want to use a few occasional tags to distinguish portions of your text when necessary. Other than that it's just typing. Click on the Save button below text area when done. You will be immediately taken to the page view screen. Look at your page and if you don't like something just click on the Edit link again, and so on...

A complete reference for Anuko CMS tags can be found on the Anuko CMS Formatting Tags page.


Creating a New Web Page

To create a new web page go to your site map and then click on the "Create new page" icon.



You will be taken to an empty new page in an edit mode. Provide a proper file name, page title, type something for content and click on the Save button below.



Here are a few tips: simple text will be displayed as simple text. If you want a header surround it with "equal" signs. If you want a list put an asterisk in the first position like this:

= Header =
Simple text.

* List item one.
* List item two.
A complete reference for Anuko CMS tags can be found on the Anuko CMS Formatting Tags page.


Creating a New Directory (File Folder)

If you have a big site you might want to organize it into several subfolders. For example, each subfolder may contain pages about one product or service you are offering. For example, on http://www.anuko.com site we have:

http://www.anuko.com - root of the site.
http://www.anuko.com/content/auction_sniper/ - web pages for Anuko Auction Sniper.
http://www.anuko.com/content/anuko_cms/ - web pages for Anuko CMS.

and so on...

It's very easy to add additional directories to your site. You can do it on your site map. Just type a directory name into the field provided and click on the "Add directory" icon.



After creating new directory you will be taken to a screen where a new page in this new directory can be created. You must create at least one new page to keep your new directory.

Anuko CMS allows for an unlimited number of pages and directories, which can contain one another.

Note: each directory can have its own navigational menu. When such menu exists it is displayed instead of the main (root) navigational menu.


Working with Images in Anuko CMS

Working with images is very easy with Anuko CMS. First, upload your images to Anuko CMS using the "My Images" link in your site administration interface. Then, just reference them in your pages. For example:
<img small_logo.gif> becomes


Or, if you want advanced image formatting, use HTML inserts to specify exact parameters for your image placement and look. Here, the same image with 1-pixel border, horizontally centered in the page:

<html>
<center>
<img src="$IMG_PATH$/small_logo.gif" border="1">
</center>
</html>



Note: A complete reference for Anuko CMS tags can be found on Anuko CMS Formatting Tags page.


Working with Navigational Menus

Navigational menus allow your site visitors to get to site pages and sections. The root of your site and each folder within your site can have its own navigational menu. This way you can customize navigational links to be sensitive to context. For example:

http://www.anuko.com - navigational menu in the root of this site points to different products of the company.
http://www.anuko.com/content/anuko_cms/ - navigational menu here points to different pages describing one product - Anuko CMS.

Note: navigational menus throughout your site don't have to be different. The main (root) menu can be shared for all pages and sections. But if you need to have different navigational menus you can easily set them up. Here is how to do so:




You will be taken to menu edit screen, where you edit your menu by typing or copying and pasting in exactly the same manner as when editing simple pages. The same Anuko CMS Formatting Tags apply. For example, items enclosed in double brackets are links, 4 dashes on a single line define a horizontal ruler, and so on.





Working with RSS News

Sometimes you would want to mark certain pages as news items to announce something. Such news are automatically aggregated into an RSS news feed from your site. Visitors can subscribe to such news using the red RSS button visible on your site.

Working with RSS news is just as easy as working with normal pages. To mark a page as a news item just specify your news headline and date in the "News Headline" and "News Date" fields on the page edit screen. The format for "News Date" field is YYYY-MM-DD. For example, to set news date for September 15, 2007 type in 2007-09-15.

Links to pages marked as news will appear in the News section of your site, sorted by dates.




Buying a Domain Name

At some point you might want to have your site hosted on your own domain. You need to buy a domain name first. There are many companies that sell domain names. Shop around as prices may vary. Do an Internet search for "buy domain" to find places where you can buy a domain name.

Hosting sites with Anuko CMS is very easy with separate domains.


Ordering Web Hosting with Anuko CMS for Your Own Domain

The following procedure describes how to host your web site with Anuko CMS.

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