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[edit] Overview

This document explains how to set up a website for your company or organisation from scratch using InfernoCMS. InfernoCMS is a popular and powerfull content management system which relieves website administrators of the burden of knowing HTML, javascript and the technical aspects of managing a website on a day to day basis.

InfernoCMS has been designed from the start to be simple, easy to use and above all reliable. With this Quickstart Guide you will gain an overview and understanding of the following:

• Login to Your WebAdmin Panel
• Managing Categories
• Managing Sub-Categories
• Managing Photo Galleries
• Managing Images
• Managing Articles

[edit] Assumptions

This tutorial assumes that you have already purchased and installed InfernoCMS and that the application has been configured and set up accordingly on your hosting platform.

• www.example.com is your web address for your website

[edit] Requirements

• Website Address
• Username
• Password
• Some Spare Time

[edit] InfernoCMS Quickstart Guide Instructions

[edit] Login to Your WebAdmin Panel

• Open your browser and visit www.example.com/webadmin
  
• Enter your username and password that have been supplied by InfernoCMS.com

• Once you are logged in you will be presented with the Admin Home page showing what has been updated recently

• You are now sucessfully logged into the system

[edit] Managing Categories

• To manage the categories click on the Categories option on the left

• Click on Add a New Category

• You will now be asked to fill in the fields accordingly
  • Title - This is the title for the category ie "About Example Company" or "Our Services" etc
  • Overview Title - This is an additional field allowing you to further explain the above category. Make use of keywords and business terminology as this is indexed by search engines
  • Parent Category - This field allows you to move a sub-category to another category
  • Category Description - This text will appear at the top of the category when a visitor clicks on it. Use this space to explain what this category will cover. Ensure you use keywords and business terms here that your visitors may search for on Google.com
  • Related Image - If you have uploaded an image a gallery on the server then you can associate an image with a category here. This image will appear on the the page along with the rest of your content.
  • Sort Order - If you wish to re-arrange the order of your list, use this. They are ordered by number so change this accordingly
  • Inactive - If you wish to deactivate a section of your site, use this option. This is useful if you want to promote sections seasonally or wish to work on a section before making it live
  • Over-ride URL - InfernoCMS can work alongside other web applications like phpBB or a wiki and this field here allows you to link directly to another part of your website or websites. For instance if you are running a shop at http://shop.example.com add this link here and people will be re-directed to the other website when they click the link

[edit] Managing Sub-Categories

Once you have created a Category, you can further compartamentilise your data by using sub-categories. This is exceptionally usefull if you are providing your clients with information on your product range or a detailed list of your services.

Having each of your services or products on a separate page, means that you can take time to explain it more thoroughly. Search engines will be able to easily digest this information and in turn this should help with search engine ranking.

• To add a new sub-category click on Categories

• Click on the category you wish to add a sub-category to

• Click "Add a Sub-Category"

• Populate the sub-category's fields and click Add a Sub-Category

• You will now be asked to fill in the fields accordingly
  • Title - This is the title for the category ie "About Example Company" or "Our Services" etc
  • Overview Title - This is an additional field allowing you to further explain the above category. Make use of keywords and business terminology as this is indexed by search engines
  • Parent Category - This field allows you to move a sub-category to another category
  • Category Description - This text will appear at the top of the sub-category when a visitor clicks on it. Use this space to explain what this sub-category will cover. Ensure you use keywords and business terms here that your visitors may search for on Google.com
  • Related Image - If you have uploaded an image a gallery on the server then you can associate an image with a sub-category here. This image will appear on the the sub-category web page along with the rest of your content.
  • Sort Order - If you wish to re-arrange the order of your list, use this. They are ordered by number so change this accordingly
  • Inactive - If you wish to deactivate a sub-category of your site, use this option. This is useful if you want to promote sections seasonally or wish to work on a sub-section before making it live
  • Over-ride URL - InfernoCMS can work alongside other web applications like phpBB or a wiki and this field here allows you to link directly to another part of your website or websites. For instance if you are running a shop at http://shop.example.com add this link here and people will be re-directed to the other website when they click the link

[edit] Promoting Sub-Categories from your Homepage

Driving visitors to parts of your business from a marketing point of view is normally a fairly difficult job. With InfernoCMS, we have made this less of a chore by introducing the sub-category "Featured Categories" function. Simply enabling this for a sub-category means that it is available from the homepage, in one click.

The above images show when a sub-category is featured, how it appears to your website visitors.

[edit] Managing Photo Galleries

All images uploaded to an InfernoCMS driven site are stored in image galleries, and as such are re-useable in each Article, Category and Sub-Category that you create. Additionally you can associate an image gallery with a Article and it will then be viewable by visitors to your website.

Images cannot be associated with an Article, until they have been uploaded, so before we can associate an image to anything, we must first upload it. This walk through will guide you through the process of creating a new Gallery, then Adding an Image to it.

[edit] Adding an Image Gallery

• Click on Image Galleries

• Click on New Gallery

• Populate the fields accordingly
  • Title - Give the Image Gallery a memorable name, something that groups the collection of images together
  • Description - This field is used to further explain the what is in the gallery
• Click Add Category

[edit] Managing Images

All images have to be added to a gallery before they are useable. This Quickguide will show you how to upload an image to a gallery. Once uploaded you will be able to associate it with any category, sub-category or article.

• Click on Galleries

• Click on the icon to the left of the Gallery you wish to add the new image to
• Browse for the image on your local machine - please note that it must be less that 2mb in size
• Alter the title as needed. This does not have to end .jpg or indeed have no spaces etc, this is purely so you know what the image is ie "A picture of a car". InfernoCMS will however attempt to work out what the title is from it's filename.
• Add a description as this helps when you are attempting to locate an image again for use in an article etc as well as explain to your web visitors what the image is

• Click Upload New Image to complete this process.
• Your image will now be available as an associated image for use with Categories, Sub-Categories and Articles.

[edit] Managing Articles

This is the core element of InfernoCMS, and we have left this to last, as it relies on all of the above being understood and covered. Each sub-category can have mulitple, almost unlimited Articles added to it. This allows for great scope and scalablity for your website.

Website visitors can then read articles, navigate to related articles and intuitively browse the website. This Quickstart will explain how to add a new article to a sub-category. The article management using InfernoCMS is extremely powerful and as such requires a bit more of an understanding be using it.

Articles can only be added to a sub-category, if you wish to add any text to a category or sub-category then please use the description field in the Category or Sub-Category Manager.

[edit] Addding a New Article

Please note this document is not complete