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General help: Contents
1. Basics
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Supported web browsers
1.3 Logging in / Logging out
2. Photos
2.1 Uploading photos
2.2 Edit information, show/hide or delete uploaded photos
3. Galleries
3.1 Add / remove and change order of galleries
3.2 Add/remove images, change order of images, select a cover, change name and show/hide of galleries
4. Journal
4.1 Adding new, editing and deleting journal entries
4.2 Adding / editing contents of journals
5. Contact page and guest book
5.1 Enable and disable the contact form and guestbook
6. Custom pages
6.1 Create, edit and delete custom pages
6.2 Adding / editing contents of custom pages
7. Front page
7.1 Customize the front page
8. Control Panel
8.1 Control Panel
8.2 Publish your homepage
8.3 Edit the title of your homepage
8.4 Custom logotype
8.5 Home-link in the top navigation
8.6 Edit the top navigation
8.7 Change appearance with themes
8.8 Edit privacy settings
8.9 Add a custom domain to your site
8.10 Google analytics
8.11 Facebook connection
1. Basics
1.1 Introduction
Welcome to your new personal photo homepage! With this homepage you can upload an unlimited number of photos and order them into galleries as well as making your own completely customized pages! The homepage includes two types of pages, standardized and completely customized. The standard pages are the gallery, journal, and contact pages. When you are logged in you can access the "Control panel" in the "Manage"-menu to change settings and customize your homepage. Your homepage will not be shown to anyone but you until you publish it in the control panel, see 8.2.
1.2 Supported web browsers
We strongly recommend using firefox, it's the only browser which follows standards, to manage your site. You can download it here: http://mozilla.com/firefox. Your site can be viewed your site in any browser, but editing works best and is only supported in Firefox.
1.3 Logging in / Logging out
To manage your homepage you need to log in. There is a log in and log out link at the bottom of the page. You can also log in and out at http://1x.com, you will be logged in at both places at the same time.
2. Photos
2.1 Uploading photos
To upload a new photo click the "Manage"-menu and choose photo directory. The file must be in jpg format and smaller than 10 megapixels. Click "Browse" and browse for a photo on your hard drive. As soon as you have clicked ok, the file will start uploading. You can click browse again to start uploading another photo, while the first photo is still uploading in the background. As soon a photo is finished uploading, you can enter information about it. Click on "Photo title" and "Photo description" to edit information about the photo. Tick the button "Publically visible" to make it visible in your galleries. You can show the photo in journals even if it's not publically visible. Click "Save" when you are done. The photo will immediately appear below the upload section in the "Uploaded photos"-section. To edit information about the photo or show/hide it or delete it, just click on it.
2.2 Edit information, show/hide or delete uploaded photos
To edit the information about a photo open the "Manage"-menu, and click on "Photo directory". A dialog box with all your uploaded photos will appear. Click on a photo to edit the information about it, tick/untick "Publically visible" to show/hide the photo in the galleries or tick "delete" to delete it. Above the thumbnails of your uploaded photos there is a search field where you can search for photos by title or description.
3. Galleries
3.1 Add / remove and change order of galleries
Click on "Gallery" in the top navigation and then "Manage galleries" in the "Manage"-menu. Click "Add gallery" to add a new gallery. Click "Add gallery category" to make a new gallery divider in your gallery page. You can drag to reorder galleries within categories or drag and drop them on another category. Click "delete" next to a gallery to remove it. To add and remove photos in galleries, see the next paragraph. At the bottom of the dialog box you have three different options about what size to display your galleries in. The middle usually works best if you don't have very many or very few galleries.
3.2 Add/remove images, change order of images, select a cover, change name and show/hide of galleries
To edit a certain gallery, click the "Gallery"-tab in the top navigation, click on the gallery and choose "Manage gallery" from the "Manage"-menu. In the top of the dialog box, you can change the name of the gallery and control whether it should show up in the "Gallery" tab or not by activating and deactivating it, using the "Published" checkbox. If a gallery is unpublished it will show up for you but not for others. To select a cover for the gallery to show up in the "Gallery"-tab click "Select gallery cover" and click on one of the photos in the gallery. Click "Add and remove images" to do so. Click on images you want to include in the gallery, click them again to deselect them. Images appearing in the gallery will be marked with a red check. Click "Finished with the selection" when you are done. To reorder images in the gallery simply drag and drop them in the desired order.
4. Journal
4.1 Adding new, editing and deleting journal entries
To create a new journal entry click on the "Journal"-tab and go to "Manage" --> "New journal entry". See, 5.2 for how to edit the contents of journal entries. To edit a journal entry click on its title in the "Journal"-tab and choose "Edit journal" from the "Manage menu". At the top you can delete it by checking the box "Delete journal entry" and then click "Save". Using the "Published" checkbox you can hide the journal until it's finished.
4.2 Adding / editing contents of journals
Access a journal entry for editing by clicking on it in the "Journal"-tab and then choose "Edit journal" from the "Manage"-menu. A bar appears at the top of the page, where you can choose font, text size, text color, background color, alignment and make lists. You can also insert pictures, links and tables by using the three buttons to the far right. When you are done remember to save in the "Manage"-menu. When you click insert image, you will be asked for which of your uploaded images to insert. You can change the size of the image by dragging in its corners. Tables are a good way of organizing the layout of your page.
5. Contact page and guestbook
5.1 Enable and disable the contact form and guestbook
There is a predefined page including a contact form and a guestbook. When a visitors uses the contact form, your email address will never be visible until you reply to a message. This page also includes a guestbook, to disable it go to "Manage" --> "Control panel" --> "General settings" --> "Privacy settings" --> and uncheck "Enable guestbook on the standardized contact page".
6. Custom pages
6.1 Create, edit and delete custom pages
On a customized page you can arrange pictures and text in any way you like. Custom pages can be added to the top navigation, or hidden and instead linked from somewhere else inside your homepage. To add a custom page go to "Manage" --> "Control panel" --> "Pages" and click "Add a new custom page". To enable or disable each custom page you have created, check or uncheck the checkboxes next to them. When you have clicked "Add a new custom page", you will be able to enter a title, a short name, which will be the address to the page, have the option to publish it and decide if it should appear in the top navigation of your homepage. To edit the above information and settings of an already created custom page click the small pen-icon to the right of the custom page in the "Pages"-tab. Click "Delete page" to delete it. You can unpublish a custom page that you are working on at any time and publish it when it's finished. You can change the order of the links in the top navigation by dragging them around in the "Pages"-tab.
6.2 Adding / editing contents of custom pages
To edit the contents of a custom page, access it by clicking on the link in the top navigation or enter the address to the page in your browser if it's not visible in the top navigation. Go to "Manage" --> "Control panel" --> "Pages" to find out the address to the page. Then go to "Manage" --> "Edit this page". A bar appears at the top of the page, where you can choose font, text size, text color, background color, alignment and make lists. You can also insert pictures, links and tables by using the three buttons to the far right. When you are done remember to save in the "Manage"-menu. When you click insert image, you will be asked for which of your uploaded images to insert. You can change the size of the image by dragging in its corners. Tables are a good way of organizing the layout of your page. You can make your images and text links to any internet address, a photo, one of your other standardized or custom pages or a journal entry. Select an image or text and click the "insert link" button. To remove the link select the same object click the "insert link" button again and select "no link". You can create several custom pages and link them together using the link feature. You can choose only one of them to show up in the top navigation to create a flow of linked custom pages with a certain starting point. The link-feature is also useful for creating your own links-page with links to your favorite photography pages and so on.
7. Front page
7.1 Customize the front page
The front page is the first page a viewer of your site will visit. Click on the title, your custom logo above the top navigation or "home" to access your front page at any time. You can edit the front page in the same way as custom pages, choose "Edit front page" from the "Manage"-menu. It's edited in the same way as custom pages and journals, see 5.2.
8. Control Panel
8.1 Control Panel
In the control panel you can edit a number of preferences. Open up the "Manage"-menu and click "Control panel" to access it. In the control panel you can show/hide your whole site, edit the title of the site, add a cusom url, change privacy settings, edit the top navigation and add new sections, change the appearance of the site with different themes and connect your site with Google analytics to keep track of visitors.
8.2 Publish your homepage
To enable public access to your homepage go to "Manage" --> "Control panel" --> "General settings" and tick the box "Publish my homepage". Until your homepage is finished, you may want to hide it to the public.
8.3 Edit the title of your homepage
To edit the title of your homepage go to "Control panel" --> "General settings". The title will be visible above the top navigation if you have not uploaded a custom logo instead. To remove a custom logo, see 7.5. The title will always be displayed in the top bar of the browser window.
8.4 Custom logotype
You can upload your own custom logo in "Control panel" --> "Appearance. The logo will be shown above the top navigation and replace the title of the homepage. If you have already uploaded a logo, but want to remove it and just display the standard text-title instead click "Remove logo". There is no gap between the custom logo and the top navigation links, so you might want to add a bit of space at the bottom of the custom logo. The background color for the dark theme is "1a1a1a" and for the light theme "eaeaea". Remember to convert to srgb and then save for web when you save your cusotm logo file. The maximum width is 975 pixels.
8.5 Home-link in the top navigation
The home-link in the top navigation is a link to the front page, it has the same effect as clicking on the title or the custom logo of your homepage. To enable or disable the home-link go to "Control panel" --> "Appearance.
8.6 Edit the top navigation
You can edit the links just below the name of your site in the top navigation, by opening up the "Manage"-menu, clicking "Control panel" and then click the "Pages"-tab. Drag different pages/sections to order them. Click on the small pen-icon next to a section to edit it. Here you can edit the title of the page and decide whether or not it's going to show up in the top navigation. You may want to create pages which do not show up in the top navigation, but are merely linked from other pages you create. When you are working on a section/page which is not yet finished, you may want to hide it from the public. Use the "Publish" tickbox to control whether other people than you can see the page. You can also use "Published" to deactivate whole sections, like journals or the contact form.
8.7 Change appearance with themes
There are two different themes, light and dark. To change the theme of your homepage, go to "Control panel" and then "Appearance".
8.8 Edit privacy settings
In "General settings" in the "Control panel" in the "Manage"-menu, you can control who is able to write comments on your pictures, If you untick both the checkbox for anonymous visitors and registered members, nobody will be able to leave comments on your photos. if your photos can be marked as favorites and if you want to enable the guestbook in the contact page.
8.9 Add a custom domain to your site
If you posses a custom domain name like http://yourname.com/ you can select it as the url to your homepage. Here is a link to a complete guide: http://1x.com/homepage/customdomain.html
8.10 Google analytics
You can track visitors statistics about your site by connecting it to Google analytics. Open up a Google-analytics account and add the UA-tracker number in the field in the tab "Google analytics" in the "Control Panel".
8.11 Facebook connection
In "Manage" --> "Control panel" --> "Connections" --> "Enable facebook connection" you can alert your friends of facebook when you have uploaded new pictures, so they show up in their newsfeeds. You need to have the 1X-facebook application installed for this to work. More info here: http://1x.com/fb/help.html
