Tutorial

Overview

The Kwik-Az Updating Content Management System is a small downloadable program (a Windows application) that permits the owner of a website to maintain their content.

Called K5 for short, it connects directly to the Internet, updating the website content, uploading images, files and documents.

Basic Operation

	Your Site Tree shows you all the pages on your website. You can Add, Move, Delete, View and Publish by RIGHT CLICKING on an item in the Site Tree page.
	The main Edit Form is where you will do most of your typing and content formatting. This screen allows you to type in pure HTML. All HTML tags are colour coded for easy identification. You may type, edit or paste content using the standard Windows commands, such as CTL+C to copy and CTRL+V to paste. Pressing ENTER will automatically insert the line break ( ) tags that are needed for display in web browsers. Simply press SHIFT+ENTER to enter a non-HTML readable line break.
	Easy-to-use Editing tools place HTML Tags around selected text. Select the text you wish to format, using your mouse or normal windows keystrokes (such as Shift+Arrows) and then click the button to insert the HTML tags. Common windows commands (such as CTRL+B, for BOLD and CTRL+I for ITALIC) are also available.
	Page Setting Tabs allow you to set up additional settings, such as Menu text, Search Engine Optimisation tags, to view or revert to historical versions and more.
	Save and Publish buttons. Kwik-Az Updating allows you to save your work WITHOUT publishing to your publicly visible website. You can commence your work, save it, check it, have a cup of coffee, come back to it latter in the day, or the next day, and then publish only when it is ready. Cancel will destroy any changes since you last saved. CTRL+S is the keyboard shortcut to save. CTRL+SHIFT+S is the keyboard shortcut to publish.
	Image and File processing allows you to upload, rename, move and delete photos, images, documents used on your website. Built-in selection and editing tools rename non-standard file names to a standard file-naming convention, and prevent the possibility of any broken links.

Advanced Features

Multiple websites

Users with more than one website can select their websites from the same program, making for simple and fast maintenance under one login and password.

Site Options

Kwik-Az Updating uses a hierachical page structure meaning that all global defaults can be overwriten on a per-page basis. Click the Site Options tab to view and set up your various global settings, including menu layout, Navbar content and options, left and right snippets, banner and footer settings, and your Company information.

CSS

Developers have access to full CSS editing

Linking Within the Website

This is useful when you refer to something, an article or event, and have more information a person can read on a separate page. You will need to create a new page with all the information and publish it but not have it on the Menu.

Then, on the page with the text link, use the Anchor icon, the one next to the Image icon that says on mouseover "Insert Hyperlink" choose the deafult "Link to a page in this website" and Browse to select the page you have created. In "Title" write in the text that you will link from, or even easier, highlight the word/s before you click on the icon and it will put it in for you. Click OK and it will put it on the page.