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Something to Start With

Have you ever noticed that it's easier to edit and refine something that already exists than to create something entirely from scratch? Well, this is the idea behind the Quickstart Wizard: to give you a foundation to work from.

In just a few clicks, you'll have a fully-functional website. This way you start out at "OK, I have a website. What do I want to change about it?" instead of "Ok, I have a blank white screen...What do I do now?"

If you’ve never used Edition before, and especially if you’ve never built a website at all before, this is a wonderfully fast and natural way to get into the swing of things.

QuickStart Wizard: Start

Wizard Start Screen
  • Already know your way around the product? Hit the "Skip Wizard" button.
  • Displays an overview of the each of the QuickStart Wizard's 4 steps
  • Step 1: Choose a template for your website.
  • Step 2: Choose some pages that you would like on your website.
  • Step 3: Enter your Site Title and Email Address.
  • Step 4: Preview & Edit your page content!
Step 1: Select Website Template

Step 1: Select Website Template
  • Choose from over 100 template designs
  • Browse and select by screenshot
  • Filter by 20 different categories (Art, Business, Neutral, etc.)
  • This choice doesn't have to be permanent: Swap your site-wide template on the fly at any time via the Template Manager
Step 2 : Select Website Pages

Step 2 : Select Website Pages
  • Choose as many as you'd like from list of common page names
  • Automatically creates selected pages
  • Pre-formatted content placed on each page
  • Menu navigation system will be automatically setup using the pages you pick.
Step 3 : Enter your Web Site Information

Step 3 : Enter your Web Site Information
  • Choose a title for your website (will typically display across the top of your site in large text). You can always change this later via the Template Manager.
  • Enter a primary contact email address
  • As an example of where this is used: If you choose to create a "Contact Us" page in Step 2 of the QuickStart Wizard, a standard contact form will be placed on that page and set to send data collected when a visitor submits the form to the email address you specify here.
Step 4: Preview & Edit your page content

Step 4: Preview & Edit your page content
  • You will be able to rename and/or delete any or all of the pages created by the QuickStart Wizard, and you can add new pages at any time.
  • All pre-formatted content is completely editable (and delete-able) via the Page Editor, just as if you'd typed it all in yourself.
  • You will have full control (via the Auto Menu System) over the navigation menu created by the QuickStart Wizard.

Website Template Manager

Once you have chosen, created, and/or uploaded your site's template(s), or consistent graphical layout, through the Site Templates Manager, you can then assign them to your entire website in a single click. For sites that warrant the use of several different visual themes to separate large sections, templates can be specified on a per-page basis.

Looking for more templates?

Sohotemplates.com - Largest collection of premium templates for Pro Edition. Sold individually or in server packs for web hosts.

Template Zapper - New Pro Edtion templates added weekly. Also available: Drop-down menu systems and Coupon Code module!

Manage site template layout and special features
  • Choose from over 175 pre-installed templates
  • Assign unique templates to specific site pages
  • Add your logo image, site heading, and company slogan.
  • Easy to add in your own custom templates, and also easy to convert html template designs you've already created or purchased elewhere.
  • Growing market for premium Pro Edition templates
Create your own designs with Template Wizard
  • Create and name unlimited site templates
  • Choose from thousands of different color combinations
  • Specify color name or hex values to match to company logo exactly
  • Integrate images and logos with each template
  • Apply your template to your whole site, or create several and assign them to individual pages or sections
  • Specify reply-to address, subject, and content of email receipt

Page Editing and File Management

The Page Editor is the heart of Pro Edition. What once required many lines of html coding can now be done by draging and dropping items through the page editor tool. This tool makes customizing each page a simple task.

Add rich, dynamic content to your site pages
  • Choose from pre-installed templates
  • Copy and paste text and formatting from Microsoft Word documents
  • Create tables for layouts and charts with borders and background colors
  • Create multi-level lists with auto-numbering, bullet points, and indentions
  • Control alignment of text, images, tables, and other objects
  • Link text and images to pages, files, email addresses, and other websites
  • Visually separate sections of content with horizontal dividers
  • Wrap paragraphs and text around images and tables
  • Change font types, colors, sizes, and styles
 
Drag-and-drop advanced features onto the pages
  • Linked images
  • Text content
  • Online forms
  • Documents and PDF files
  • MOV, .MPG, and .AVI video files
  • Automatic date stamps
  • Printable page view links
  • Hit counters
  • Maps and directions
  • .WAV and .MP3 audio files
  • PlugIn linkns with icons
  • Shopping Cart promotions
  • Photo albums with links
  • PopUp Windows
 

Website Navigation Menu

Your website’s menu navigation menu is the set of buttons/links that appear on every page of your website that visitors click on to navigate through your various pages. The Auto-Menu System gives you, the website owner, complete control over which site pages are linked-to on this menu, and how those buttons/links are styled.

Looking for custom menu systems?

Template Zapper - Check out these multi-level drop-down menus that integrate seamlessly with Pro Edition's Auto Menu System! Many different style and layout options available.

Web Forms Manager

Use the Forms Manager to create (and manage) your own online forms to collect info from your site visitors --- visitor feedback, sales leads, newsletter signups, and pretty much anything else you can think of. And because Pro Edition's are designed to work together, any forms that you create in the Forms Manager are available for you to use throughout the entire product. For example, if you sold personalized stationary you could require anyone who purchases your stationary to fill out the web form you created with the Forms Manager so that their stationary order comes through to you with their personalization info attached!

Web Form Builder
  • Create online forms to collect visitor information
  • Add new fields to forms you've already created
  • Collect info from your site visitors via standard text fields, big comment fields, radio options, checkboxes, and drop-down select boxes.
 
Drag-and-drop your form onto site pages
  • Aside from the forms you create, standard 'contact us' and 'newsletter signup' forms also come pre-installed.
  • Upload and use custom forms
  • Email collected data to a specified address(s)
  • Redirect site visitor upon form submission
  • Enable and customize automatic email receipts for submissions
  • Specify reply-to address, subject, and content of email receipt
 

Photo Album Overview

The Photo Album module allows you to create and manage slide-show type photo albums with captions. For schools and other organizations, this feature serves as an organized, attractive way to make pictures available online. Plus, because each image within an album can be linked to a site page or another website, the Photo Album can also be used as an online portfolio.

Create and edit your photo albums in Pro Edition

Photo Album Module: Edit Album
  • Create an unlimited number of separate Photo Albums
  • Place up to 20 pictures in each album
  • Easily make changes to existing albums
  • Annotate each image with captions
  • Link each image to other sites or full-size images
  • Drag-and-drop albums onto site pages

Photo Album Overview

The Photo Album module allows you to create and manage slide-show type photo albums with captions. For schools and other organizations, this feature serves as an organized, attractive way to make pictures available online. Plus, because each image within an album can be linked to a site page or another website, the Photo Album can also be used as an online portfolio.

Create and edit your photo albums in Pro Edition

Photo Album Module: Edit Album
  • Create an unlimited number of separate Photo Albums
  • Place up to 20 pictures in each album
  • Easily make changes to existing albums
  • Annotate each image with captions
  • Link each image to other sites or full-size images
  • Drag-and-drop albums onto site pages

eNewsletter Campaign Manager

Newsletters are a great way to generate repeat business. Simply select your desired newsletter, which you can build in the Page Editor, and then specify who you would like to send it to, such as your shopping cart customers.

Foster repeat business with email marketing campaigns
  • Choose from pre-installed templates
  • Create, send, and manage unlimited text and html campaigns
  • Design dynamic eNewsletters in the Page Editor
  • Populate send-to list with any data table
  • Create personalized greetings for thousands of subscribers automatically
  • Send eNewsletters to Shopping Cart customers
  • Include site pages, Shopping Cart items, Event Calendars, and Web Blogs eNewsletter campaigns
  • Unsubscribe email addresses manually or automatically
 

Web Blog Manager

Essentially the digital incarnation of newspaper and magazaine columns, Web Blogs are quickly gaining popularity with budding writers and experienced journalists everywhere! With a host of user-friendly features, the Soholaunch Blog Manager eliminates the technical barriers of Web Blogging, and lets you concentrate on what matters most - your opinion.

Just think of its as your own "Digital Soapbox"
  • Create unlimited Web Blogs to cover a infinite range of topics
  • Compose and post unlimited entries to each subject
  • Enhance your Blog with links, images, tables, bullet lists, and text formatting
  • Automatically organize blog entries by the date you post them
  • All entries filed in Blog Archives automatically
  • Drag-and-drop Web Blogs onto site pages
 

Event Calendars

Especially useful for membership-based websites, the Event Calendar Module makes it easy to create and manage interactive event calendars for your website. When used in conjunction with the Secure Login System, you can specify the extent to which users can view and/or edit calendars and events.

Searchable event calendars keep everyone up-to-date
  • Create unlimited searchable event calendars, organized into categories
  • Allow site visitors to submit events to calendars they have access to
  • Allow registered Secure Users to create and maintain private event calendars
  • Describe events with titles, short descriptions, and detail pages
  • Create individual and recurring events
  • Include site pages, Shopping Cart items, Event Calendars, and Web Blogs eNewsletter campaigns
  • Unsubscribe email addresses manually or automatically
 

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