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Welcome to the world of SevenDaysWeb !
With our user interface, managing a website is an easy task. Understanding how to set it up, which are its initial contents and how to grow it may be a little more complex.
This guide aims to provide answers to those questions by offering you a learning path to quickly gain all the elements to plan, set up and develop your website in full autonomy.

First we will have a look at how websites are generally structured, in order to introduce the main aspects you need to consider when organizing your contents.
Then we will hover over the administration interface, by changing a few settings and seeing SevenDaysWeb functionality in detail.
After that we will talk about organizing your website in relation to your editorial plan, setting up your website sections and defining the navigation flow.
Last but not least are some useful tips about various aspects of on-line communication.

HOW IS YOUR WEBSITE STRUCTURED

Before starting to familiarize with the administration interface, let's have a look at the article "How is your website made", a quick note describing the general structure of internet websites and their basic elements.

The structure of a website can be compared to the one of a traditional document on paper, e.g. a brochure, a technical treatise, a magazine; as in those documents, your website generally has a title, an overview, a cover image and a structure of contents.

Those are the elements we will deal with in the administration interface.

FIRST STEPS

Below we will list a series of topics taken from our Quick Guide to allow you to get to know the administration work space and learn the basic skills for an effective use of SevenDaysWeb:

"The administration interface" is an introduction to the use of the admin work space of SevenDaysWeb, that will allow you to fully manage your website.
"Website information" describes your company information and general settings for your website.
"Categories" is dedicated to the most important tool to classify and organize website contents.
"Images" describes how to manage the image library, a collection of images that support.
"Covers and banners" introduces two elements that power up the website communication.
"Contents" is about the most important topic: editing and publishing contents, i.e. your website "detail pages".

PLAN YOUR WEBSITE

Before starting to modify your website to give it its final aspect, you should analyse your goals and define how to reach them by building an "editorial plan", i.e. a document which identifies the guidelines you will follow during your work.

The document should answer these questions:

which content categories do I have to create ?
which contents do I have to add in each category ?

In the guide Build an editorial plan, we focus o the most important aspects to keep in mind while setting up this document.

We also suggest you to read Classify contents and Define Keywords, another important aspect for web dynamics.

After understanding those topics and building the editorial plan, you can finally dive into action and start to implement the model you have created, using SevenDaysWeb.

Enter your new categories and change the existing ones that meet your requirements. Declare "private" all the others.
For what concerns the sample contents, you can put them off-line by setting their visibility to "private".
Enter new contents, starting from the ones that you have classified as "initial contents" in the editorial plan.
Then you can modify existing covers and banners or enter new ones.

We generally suggest to avoid deleting sample contents, as they may still come useful as examples.

THE USER MANUAL

To learn in detail about all necessary configuration settings, features and tips, please have a look at our User Manual in the Help section.

FOLLOW US ON OUR BLOG

In the Blog section we publish insight articles on the world of on-line communication and how to implement useful solutions with SevenDaysWeb.

Published on 13/11/2012 by Enrico Tozzi