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Appearance
In order to setup the appearance for your news system, you will need to login to your System Administrator account. You may login by visiting the admin directory via your web browser, such as http://www.yourdomain.com/admin/ and logging in to the system. After you are logged in, you will be presented with the administration control panel.
When you enter the administration control panel, you will see a list of links in the left hand column. This section of the manual deals with the "Manage Appearance" section of your control panel. After clicking the "Manage Appearance" link, you will be presented with the setup for your news system.
Only System Admininistrators are able to view this section of the admin panel.
The "width" control, controls the overall width of the application. It is suggested, that you set this to "100%", so that it takes up 100% of the space you give it within your main page, and in your templates.
The "Number of articles to display" section, will allow you to tailor what to show on the main index page. If you wish for example, to show 2 articles per category, then you would set the controls to "2" and "per category". If you wish to display 10 articles on your main page, then you would set the controls to "10" and "total".
Because news articles can become rather lengthy, you are required to choose how many characters to display before the news article is truncated on the main display page. After the article is truncated, it will be appended with ...[read more] which is a link to the rest of the article. If you choose to display headlines only, then only the article title is shown on the main index.
The URL mode selector tells the system how to create the URLs of the links for articles, categories, etc. There are three modes: Normal which creates regular PHP style links; Spider Friendly which creates pseudo-static URLs; and Spider Friendly Enhanced which creates static URLs. Examples of each are shown below:
Normal: http://www.domain.com/news/news.php?displayType=article&articleID=23
Spider: http://www.domain.com/news/news.php/displayType/article/articleID/23
Enhanced: http://www.domain.com/news/categoryname/2006/12/article-title.htm
Please note that the enchanced method does require that your server can use "mod_rewrite" via an .htaccess file.
The template system is used to create the full page display when a user is browsing a category, reading an article, etc. For complete information on the template system, please see the template section of this manual.
The last section of this portion of your admin panel, deals with the colorization/fonts for your news. BosNews utilizes CSS to setup all of the colors, and text generated by the news. If you are not familiar with CSS, you may read more about it at the official home for CSS, http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/. You may make changes to your CSS definitations in the box provided, or copy/paste your definitations into an external CSS editor to make changes there. You are more than free to ADD additional CSS definitations to this box, but do not REMOVE any of the definitations.
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