Advanced Site Properties

With our tool it's easy to host your site under your own domain name, add search engine meta-tags, password protect your whole site, display your own logo and copyright (business designs only). To open Site Properties enter Admin view, roll over the Control Panel  icon on top right and choose Site Properties.

On top of Site Properties screen are located the options to set site title, page and site title delimiter, and the area for defining custom domain for your site. You can also view and change the design used for your website.

To read more on changing the site title and the design used for your site, please refer to Site Design and Title tutorial.

Page title delimiter

In the page title delimiter field you can change the character used for separating the Site title from the Page title in the Browser window title.  You can set the title delimiter to #, -, : etc.

My Domain

This option allows you to display your site under your own domain name. Please refer to the Domain Name Setup tutorial for detailed instructions.

Site Properties panel has several sections with advanced administration options. Click Show Options to see the editing options available in a specific section.

Access Control

The Access Control section allows you to protect all pages from your site by password or email address authorization.

• If you wish to restrict access to your site only to individuals who have been given a certain password, fill in the desired password in the Password field. Leave the Allow only for members of drop-down set to [No restriction]
• You can also make the site accessible to members of a mailing list. From Allow only for members of drop-down select a mailing list already added to your site.

• You can also restrict access to your site by a combination of password and mailing list membership.
   

Access protection takes effect immediately after updating, no need to publish. Depending on whether you have chosen to  pass-protect your site or restrict the access to the members of a mailing list, users will be asked to fill in a site password or an email address when they access your site.

Special Features

In section Special Features are located the options to define all search-engine related information about your site and set the number of news items per page (for designs with an option for news).

The keywords and site description typed in these fields will be added as meta tags on all pages of your site in order to facilitate proper indexing by the search engines.

You can file the keywords separated with a space so that they will form a maximum number of meaningful combinations. It is also recommended to use whole keyword phrases rather than single words. You can use different keyword popularity tools to arrive at the most appropriate keyword phrases related to your site.  The site description can be 30-40 words and should also include the most important keyword phrases.

Please note that adding search keywords and description will not guarantee your site will come up when you search for a keyword you have listed. Good search engine visibility can be achieved with high density of keywords in the main content of your site, as well as relevant links to it from other popular sites in the same sphere.

News per page

If you have selected a design featuring News (Bright Flower, Standard, Minimalistic, as well as all business designs), this option will allow you to define the number of news items to appear on one page.