A Tour of Total Control

Designed for Usability

The page layout of Total Control is designed to best practice usability standards to allow visitors to navigate your website easily. Each area on the page is available to be altered from your Administration screen.

The Administration Screen

The Administration screen is available via a secure logon and displays all the options available within Total Control. All screens within Total Control include Help notes giving a brief outline on each operation. For more detail, a Help button on each screen leads to a more complete explanation of the operations available.

Screenshot of the Administration screen

Troubleshooter

This option lists some of the more common questions that new customers ask when an operation doesn't behave as they expect. If an answer isn't found here then customers can contact support by phone or email during normal office hours.

Style Management

This option allows you to set your website style from a choice of 100 built in styles, modify built in styles or create new styles and save them. The number of different styles is almost limitless since you can change background colours for the page, the header, the side panel or the main panel. You can also choose from a selection of background images to place in these areas as well as choose from a selection of font faces, sizes and colours. You have the option of uploading your own graphic logo or creating a text logo and slogan using different fonts and font effects such as drop shadow or motion blur. You also set up to 4 scrolling text messages that appear at the top right of your pages.
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Page Management

This option allows you to add pages to your site. All you need do is enter the link text as you would like it to appear on your site menu and click a button for the page to be added. Pages can be set to show on the site menu or be hidden from the site menu. This is useful where you would like to have many pages but not many too many menu choices, but instead allow access to these pages via links from other pages. You can also rename pages if required, change the order of your menu links and insert headings above sections of menu links in order to group them.
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Content Management

This option allows you to add text and graphic content, as well as form replies and RSS feeds, to the pages of your site. Content Management displays a duplicate of your site with edit buttons, adjacent to each area that you can update, that take you to a WYSIWYG editor to allow you to edit your text. A page can contain 1 or more areas of content and each content area consists of a heading, a graphic image, a caption below the image and a block of text. Any of these elements may be set to show or hide and you have the option of altering the layout of the graphic image in relation to the other elements.
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Site Statistics

Each page that you create automatically creates a table of statistics for that page. When a user enters a page, details of the time they entered, the site they came from as well as information on their browser type, platform used and the number of screen colours their machine is set to, is recorded. This information can be viewed to allow you to gain an idea of how many site visits you're receiving for each page. Stats can be view of a chosen time period and displayed as a bar chart to allow you to track trends.
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Editor Management

This option (available with Professional and Cart) allows you to create logons for additional editors who have remote access to update pages of your choice. This is useful for organisations who would like external contributions or businesses who would like to divide responsibility for content among a number of employees. Additional editors only have update access to the pages of the site that you allow and no access to any other features of Total Control. The Administrator of the site always has overriding control over all aspects of the site and can add or remove additional editors.
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Document Management

This option (available with Professional and Cart) allows you to place links on your pages that allow site visitors to download documents that you have uploaded to a document library. The library can hold any type of file such as Word or PDF documents.
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Shopping Cart Management

This option (available with Cart) allows you to take online payments with a Paypal account that interfaces with your shopping cart. The cart allows you to create an unlimited number of products and place them on any of your pages. Features include products with variants, descriptions, thumbnail images and enlargement images.
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