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Setting up your website template: KEY: MQs below indicates "media queries". The responsive css code for mobile located in the "media-queries.css". See MQs section below and also check the support details. When the MQs kick-in, the drop menu will "stack" the menu items. Step 1: CHOOSE HOMEPAGE: | More details
EDIT HEADER: | More details Edit the "logo.png" in the picts folder with your logo image. The background HEX color can be edited in the "css" file in the colors folder. A "logo.PSD" file is located in the "extras" folder. The default font used is 60 points "Century Gothic" bold with a letter spacing of -5. The logo width is set by the ".logo-respond" class in the "style.css". To use a different image type like a .jpg or .gif, edit the "header.js" and change the "logo.png" on about line #32. Optionally edit the "var logoslog" to yes, then edit the "Slogan or phone number 847-555-5555" with your logo slogan. OPTIONAL PLAIN TEXT HEADER: To use the text header option, edit the "var logotype" in the "header.js" from "graphic" to "text". Edit the text following "var logotext" (Your Website Title) with your website name. Step 3: EDIT COPYRIGHT: | More details Open the "footer-copyright.js" in Notepad or any text editor file and edit the "Yourcompany.com" text with your name or company name. This will update the footer info on all pages. Step 4: EDIT CONTACT INFO: | More details Open the "contact.js" in Notepad or any text editor file and change the company name, address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address (edit the email in 2 places). This will update the contact info on the contact page. Step 5: EDIT THE CONTACT FORM: If you DO want to use the contact form, move the "No-Form-contact.htm" into the "extras" folder and see the links below. If you want to NOT use a form on the contact page, move the "contact.htm" into the extras folder and re-name the "No-Form-contact.htm" to "contact.htm". Click for current info on setting up the template forms. Click for info on adding more fields to the forms. Click for changing form sizes or colors. Step 6: EDIT SOCIAL ICON LINKS: | More details Open the "social-links.js" in a plain text editor like Notepad. Edit the 4 links with your social network links. The "social-links.js" includes "yes/no" variables to turn off any or all of the social icon links. Step 7: PDF PAGE SETUP: | More Details In the "PDF" folder, replace the "PDFsample1.pdf" through "PDFsample6.pdf" with your PDF files. Edit the "PDFgallery.htm" with info for your PDF files. Click link above for setup details. Step 8: EDIT DYNAMIC FAQ PAGE: | More details In the "faq.htm" edit the text between the "FAQ 1" notes area for FAQ question #1. Edit only the question and answer text and do not delete any of the other code in this area. Edit or remove the other FAQ questions on this page. Step 12: SLIDESHOWS SETUP: | More details Replace the images in the "slideshows" folder with your images. Each image is named for what slideshow page it is used on. Example: Image "Fslide1-1.jpg" is for slideshow 1 image 1, "Fslide3-4.jpg" is for slideshow 3 image 4. Slideshow images are 700 x 467 pixels in size. The slideshows use a "responsive" jQuery script located in the "jQuery" folder. You can add and remove images in the slideshow 1-4 .htm pages. Click link above for details and options for the responsive slideshows. SETUP THE "slideshow-home.htm" PAGE: This page is an index of your slideshows. In the "slideshows" folder edit the 4 "thumb-slideshow-?.jpg" images with each slideshow 1st thumbnail. Edit the text on the "slideshow-home.htm". Step 13: SETUP THE VIDEO PAGES: | More details This template uses embedded YouTube video. Setup a free YouTube account, get the embed code from each video and replace the code in each video page. Replace only the following code highlighted below and do not remove the ?rel=0 and other Youtube options code at the end: <iframe width="300" height="183" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6tQR8HIOU1g?rel=0 &autoplay=1&loop=0&wmode=opaque" SETUP THE "video-home.htm" PAGE: This page is an index of your videos. In the "picts" folder edit the 4 "videothumb-?.jpg" images with each video thumbnail. Edit the text on the "video-home.htm". Step 9: EDIT PAGES: | Software choices | Notepad editing Edit the text in all HTML pages with your website information. You can use Expression Web, Frontpage, Dreamweaver, any wysiwyg HTML editor or a text editor like Notepad. Take care not to delete any of the HTML tags that surround the text. Step 10: EDIT TITLES, DESCRIPTIONS AND KEYWORDS: | More details Open each of the HTML pages and change the titles (at the very top of the page) and also the description and the keywords with your product or service details. You can edit one page and copy and paste to the other pages. Be careful to only change what's inside the "" so you don't disturb the html code. Page titles are important so your site will get a good listing at Google, Yahoo! and other search engines. Step 11: UPLOAD: | More details Upload the pages on to your hosting company's server using ftp software or Windows Explorer or your control panel. Be sure to upload all template files and folders and all files inside the folders. You do not need to upload the "extras" folder. Mobile Menu: The mobile menu includes only one "stage" width threshold of 640 in the "menu-drop.css". It will stack the menu items when viewed on smartphones. See "MENU EDITING" below and also testing MQs in support. The "media-queries.css" is for mobile and includes some of the same class names as the "style.css" to alter these classes as the browser width becomes more narrow. When editing any font sizes in this template you will need to edit the class in the "style.css", then edit the duplicate class(es) in the "media-queries.css" to setup the mobile font sizes. See responsive support details. MENU EDITING: | More details This template includes a responsive drop menu. You can edit the names of the links like "ABOUT" or "CONTACT" to other page names by editing the "menu.js". Only change the one instance of the name and not the name with the ".htm" after it unless you have also renamed the .htm page. Whatever you change in the "menu.js" will change every page on the website. Keep the names short so your menu does not get too wide. You can add more pages by copying one link in the "menu.js" and pasting it below itself. Be sure to back up your files before you edit them. Click link above for more details. NOTE: If you use a ' in a .js file add a slash before it like this \'. ADDING PAGES: | More details You can add pages to your website by copying and pasting any one of the pages and renaming it to whatever you need. You can then add links from the other pages or even add the page to the menu by opening the menu.js and copying and pasting one of the buttons below another. There are notes in the "menu.js" to help you add a button. FONTS & CSS STYLES: | More details | Media Queries | Google Fonts This template uses Google Fonts. The code that "calls" the font files is the first line in the "style.css". Click above for details. This template includes Media Queries css code. Edit font sizes in both the "style.css" and "media-queries.css". Click above for details. You can change your font colors and sizes by editing the "style.css" with a text editor. You can find other font colors by clicking here. Change the font sizes in the "style.css" file. Change the class after the note "THE NEXT LINE CONTROLS THE FONT SIZE ON ALL PAGES" px size to change the font sizes or colors on all pages. Change the "title" px size to change all the title sizes. PICTURES: | More details You can replace all pictures with your own. Hover over any image to view the size. You will find all pictures in the "picts" folder. PAGE HEIGHTS: So all your pages will maintain a standard height a "pageheight" class with a "min-height" is included. Edit this height in the "style.css". This class is not used when viewing on 482 and less width smartphones. PAGE WIDTHS: So all your pages will maintain a standard width, a ".pagebox" class is included in the "style.css". SITE MAP PAGE: The "site_map.htm" is linked from the index.html. It is best not to remove this link so search engines can find your site map and properly list all your pages when users search at major search engines. |