Gossimer’s Premier Web Hosting and Domain Registration Knowledgebase.
Just below the Main menu on your SuperSite, you will see a Static bar.
Like all other content on SuperSite, the links on this Static bar too are completely customizable. Ideally, you would want to customize the Static bar links to provide additional information about your business to your customers (such as information about your company, news, other products that you offer, etc.).
In order to customize the links on the Static bar on your SuperSite, simply login to the Admin Area for the SuperSite and modify the template for it.
Follow the process outlined below to do so, once you have logged in to the SuperSite Admin area:
- Login to the SuperSite Admin Area. Click here to know how >>
- In the Admin area, click on Add/Modify Content and Themes link to open this section. Here, click on Browse next to the Website Content folder.
- Click on Browse link next to the language for which you wish to make the modification.
- This will lead you to a Common directory that contains all HTML templates you can customize. Click on Browse, besides it.
- Further, click on the Browse button besides the Header directory. There you need to go another level deep to the Includes directory by clicking on the adjacent Browse button..
- Here, look for the page static_bar_under_menu.html, and click on Edit adjacent to the page name.
- The text-box on the subsequent page contains the primary template for the Static bar. You can modify the links here to point to external URLs, or to point to local HTML pages that you may have created. To learn how to add your own HTML pages, click here >>
IMPORTANT
If you have modified this file before then the Original content would appear in the left hand box and your customization in the right-hand side. Gossimer may modify the standard content of this menu and you would need to compare content in both textboxes (Original Content and your Modified Content) and decide what changes you want to incorporate.
- Complete the modifications you wish to make, and click on Save Changes.
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Gossimer, LLC allows you to have Branded Control Panel URLs. You may either use Partially Branded or Fully Branded URLs to develop your Reseller business with us. Fully Branded URLs allow you to have complete anonymity from Gossimer, LLC.
IMPORTANT
The Fully Branded Control Panel URLs can not be the same as that of your SuperSite or PartnerSite.
You must create different Branded URLs for these interfaces, in order to have the SuperSite, PartnerSite as well as the Control Panels functional at all times.
Partially Branded Control Panel URLs
Upon signing up as a Reseller of Gossimer, LLC, our system automatically generates Partially Branded URLs for Customer and Sub-Reseller Control Panels under you. Your Partially Branded URL would be of the form – http://prefix.myorderbox.com. The prefix can be modified to your liking as long as it is not being used by another Reseller in our system. Ideally, this prefix should be your Company Name or your Brand Name.
Once you have decided on your prefix, you would have to submit the same within your Reseller Control Panel, by following the below mentioned steps:
- Login to your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.com/reseller.
- Click on Settings -> Control Panel -> URL.
- Click on Set your Partially Branded URL Prefix.
- Under the Partially Branded URL Settings section, enter your chosen Prefix. On clicking the Update button, the prefix would be assigned to you. In case this prefix is not available, you would have to select another prefix.
IMPORTANT
- If upon changing your prefix, you wish to revert to the earlier one, you may do so by following the process outlined above. However, this modification is possible only within 30 days of making the change.
- Even after your Partially Branded prefix is changed, the old prefix cannot be used by anyone else except you for a period of 30 days. After 30 days, however, the prefix would become available for anyone to utilize.
Fully Branded Control Panel URLs
Besides Partially Branded URLs, you can point your own domain name to our servers and use those as your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs. Gossimer, LLC allows you to have as many Fully Branded URLs as you wish. However, you would have to create an Address Record for each URL you select. Also, please be aware that your selected Fully Branded URL cannot be of the form http://mybrandname.com/index.html.
Thus, if you have the Partially Branded URL in the form http://mybrandname.myorderbox.com and you want the Fully Branded URL as http://www.mybrandname.com, then you would have to create an Address Record for www.mybrandname.com pointing to 67.15.47.4.
Besides creating individual Address Records for each Fully Branded URL, you would have to submit the same within your Reseller Control Panel as well. Follow the steps mentioned below to accomplish this:
- Login to your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.com/reseller.
- Click on Settings ->
Control Panel -> URL.
- Click on Control Panel URL.
- Here, mention your primary Fully Branded Control Panel URL besides the Fully Branded Control Panel URL field. This URL would automatically be used by our system within emails sent to your Customers and Sub-Resellers.You may also submit Additional URLs in the text box underneath.
- Click on Update to save the settings.
IMPORTANT
- Upon submission of your Fully Branded Control Panel URL, you will notice that under the Control Panel URL section, your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs for your Customers and Sub-Resellers are automatically generated and displayed.
- Even though you have created your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs, your
Partially Branded URLs would continue to function. You may always rely on these, in case your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs
develop any issue.
- Without creating appropriate Address Records for your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs, your Branded URLs will not function, even though you may have submitted them within your Reseller Control Panel.
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Gossimer allows you to customize the JavaScript menus in your SuperSite or PartnerSite, such that you may modify/remove particular sub-menus, or even remove a particular menu altogether.
In order to make the changes required, follow the process outlined below.
- Login to your SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin area, click on Add/Modify Content and Themes link to open this section.
- Click on Browse link next to the JavaScript Menu folder.
- Click on Browse link next to the language for which you wish to make the modification.
- Click on the Edit link adjacent to the menu_data.js file.
IMPORTANT
The menu_data.js file contains the various Menu text as well as their links. On the other hand, the menu_style.js file contains all the style elements of your JavaScript Menu. So if you need to simply make modifications to how the menu is displayed, then you need to only edit menu_style.js file. Click here to read how >>
- You will presented with two textboxes; one on the left-hand side of the page with the title as Original Content and the other on the right-hand side with the title as My Modified Content. You can make the required modifications in the My Modified Content text box.
Example: The following code, extracted from Supersite, defines the main menu.
with(milonic=new menuname(“Main Menu”)){
position=”relative”;
alwaysvisible=1;
orientation=”horizontal”;
style=menuStyle;
menuwidth=760;
aI(“image=getImage.php?src=menu-start-cover.gif;imagepadding=0;imageposition=left;_quot;);
aI(“align=center;showmenu=Domain Names;text= Domains ;”);
aI(“align=center;showmenu=Linux Hosting;text=Linux Hosting;”);
aI(“align=center;showmenu=Windows Hosting;text=Windows Hosting;”);
aI(“align=center;showmenu=Business Email;text= Email ;”);
aI(“align=center;showmenu=Site Builder;text=Website Builder;”);
aI(“align=center;showmenu=Business Solutions;text=Business Solutions;”);
aI(“align=center;showmenu=Resellers;text=Resellers;image=getImage.php?src=menu-end-cover.gif;_quot;);
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You can modify the main menu here. You may even remove a particular menu by commenting the line in this code. For instance, the code defining the Business solutions menu commented in the fashion illustrated below, would conceal the menu on your Supersite.
/* aI(“align=center;showmenu=Business Solutions;text=Business Solutions;”); */
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- On completing the modification, click on Save Changes. The changes you have made will be reflected on your SuperSite or PartnerSite immediately.
IMPORTANT
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If you are not satisfied with the modifications and wish to revert to the earlier setting, simply click on Reset to Default from the Edit page, to restore the default settings for that file.
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Once you modify a JavaScript file using the above tool, the status of such a file will change from Default to Modified. Once you have modified a file, we would not be able to automatically update the content of the same when new content is added by us; you would have to synchronize the content yourself. Click here to synchronize the JavaScript Menu modified by you with any new content added by Gossimer >>
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The term ICANN Accredited Registrar and the ICANN Accredited Registrar logo, are trademarks owned solely by the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers [ICANN]. The use of these marks is permitted to only its accredited Registrars.
You can not use these Trademarks as well as any term, phrase, or design which is confusingly similar to the Trademarks or any portion of the Trademarks, without the explicit approval of ICANN.
Violation of the above will be considered as a breach of the Terms of Usage of OrderBox under the Reseller Master Agreement you have signed with Gossimer.
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Before being able to view your SuperSite/PartnerSite Statistics, you would need to secure both of them with a suitable Username and Password of your choice, to prevent any unauthorized person viewing your site’s traffic analysis reports. Follow the below mentioned steps to do so:
- Login to your SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- Click on the link Other Misc Functions and then, click on the Set/Reset the password of the Statistics area link.
- Mention a Username and Password of your choice and click on Set Password to save the same.
The change will take effect immediately.
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The SuperSite and PartnerSite are simply provided to jump-start your business. They have been designed with the intention of providing detailed information about all products and services that you offer, to new and existing Customers and Sub-resellers respectively.
The content on the SuperSite and PartnerSite is completely customizable. You can also add your own HTML pages to the SuperSite and PartnerSite with any additional content that you wish to display to your clients.
In order to begin using the SuperSite for your retail business you should do the following -
- Change the URL for your SuperSite. How?
- Customize the header/footer of Supersite. How?
- Specify the Additional Payment Options for your Customers/Resellers in the SuperSite. How?
- Customize the content of the Static bar on your SuperSite. How?
- Customize the content of the JavaScript menu on your SuperSite. How?
- If you have a retail-only business, then remove the Reseller tab from the SuperSite How?
In order to begin using the PartnerSite for your wholesale Business you should do the following -
- Change the URL for your PartnerSite. How?
- Customize the header/footer of Partnersite. How?
- Customize the content of the JavaScript menu on your PartnerSite. How?
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Gossimer offers its Resellers the option to customize the order in which Domain Name Extensions (Top Level Domains, e.g. .biz, .com, .org, .info etc. – hereafter referred to as TLDs) are displayed to your Customers on your Storefront/Supersite.
By default, the display order of TLDs is preset for you – which is identical to Gossimer’s. However, should you wish to modify this order, follow the procedure detailed below:
- Log in to your Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller
- Go to Settings -> Products -> Domain Registration -> Set TLD Display Order.
- Here, use the Move Up/Move Down buttons to modify the order in which you wish the TLDs to be displayed.
- Click on Update Settings to save the changes.
IMPORTANT
1. The SuperSite contains information about the various TLDs you offer to your Customers. This data is downloaded to your SuperSite from your Control Panel and cached (stored) on the SuperSite Server. Hence, you would need to refresh the cache of your SuperSite once you have completed the above process. You can accomplish this from within your Control Panel itself by clicking on Tools -> Reload SuperSite & PartnerSite Cache -> SuperSite & PartnerSite Domains and Additional Services Data. Click here to know what is SuperSite >>
2. This option only allows you to modify the order of display. If you wish to NOT display (sell) a particular TLD, you would have to revoke signup for it. Click here to learn more >>
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The SuperSite and PartnerSite are designed from the ground up keeping both you and your Customers in mind. We wanted to ensure that while your Customers enjoy the rich experience of browsing and buying your products/services, you on the other-hand are able to customize every-bit of your SuperSite and PartnerSite without any hassles. Please understand the below fundamental concepts.
While the below fundamentals refer to the SuperSite, the same concepts apply to your Partnersite as well -
1. Each SuperSite page is built from multiple HTML files (known as HTML Templates), images and CSS files which are completely customizable.
2. The SuperSite allows you to create Themes and apply them to your SuperSite content to make your SuperSite visually unique. A Theme consists of Images, CSS and Javascript that you may modify and associate with your website.
3. You can customize the Text, the Images, the Style or the structure of each HTML template. You can also add your own HTML templates to extend the capabilities of the SuperSite, and link these HTML templates from various existing sections. All of these can be achieved by using separate tools.
4. You can see the various templates that any SuperSite page is made up of by browsing to that SuperSite page and clicking on “View Source” in your browser
5. Inside the source you will see various tags of this type denoting various html templates that the page is built from -
<!– ### Supersite Template root.html starts here ### –>
<!– ### Supersite Template common/header/header.html starts here ### –>
<!– ### Supersite Template common/header/header.html ends here ### –>
6. As mentioned these HTML Templates and images are provided by us. Apart from these pre-existing templates you can further add your own templates too. The SuperSite Admin Area makes a clear distinction between the HTML Templates and Images that we supply to you by default and the HTML Templates and images that you have added separately (MyUploadedPages, MyUploadedImages).
Default SuperSite Content
- These are the HTML templates and Theme files in the SuperSite which we provide you. While you can make modifications to the default HTML templates immediately, to modify the Images, CSS and Javascript, you need to first add a new theme and then go on to customize it. Both these modifications can be accomplished from the “Add/Modify Content and Themes” section of the SuperSite Admin Area.
- Any changes you make to these files will override the default files.
- To make any changes to these files at anytime you will always use the “Add/Modify Content and Themes” section of the SuperSite Admin area.
- Note: Whenever we make any changes to the default files, those changes will not be directly visible on your SuperSite if you have made any modifications to those files. You will have to copy those modifications over. We will separately explain how you can do that.
Your Own Content
- SuperSite allows you to add your own HTML templates and images apart from the ones we provide.
- These files are stored in separate folders (MyUploadedPages, MyUploadedImages) and can be added and modified from the “Add/Modify Content and Themes” section of the SuperSite Admin Area.
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What is Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a reporting software which shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance their visitor experience. It provides powerful tracking for websites. It’s one of the most powerful web analytics solutions. It provides in-depth reports for everyone involved in the running of a website, from the developers and designers to the marketing and management teams.
Google Analytics supports a client-side data collection technique for capturing e-commerce transactions. With some simple additions to a couple of pages in your SuperSite, Google Analytics can automatically detect and record transaction and product information.
How to track e-commerce transactions on my SuperSite via Google Analytics?
Google Analytics can be integrated with your SuperSite by modifying a couple of pages as mentioned below:
I] Modifying the root.html file
- Login to your SuperSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin area, click on Add/Modify Content and Themes link to open this section. Here, click on Browse next to the Website Content folder.
- Click on Browse link next to the language for which you wish to make the modification.
- Click on Edit besides the root.html file.
- Place the following tracking code in the My Content textbox above the </body> tag -<script type=”text/javascript”>
var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’_quot; + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-xxxxxx-x”);
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
IMPORTANT
- UA-xxxx-x represents the Google Analytics Account number and needs to be replaced with your Account number.
- Tracking code provided by Google previously -<script src=_quot;http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js_quot; type=”text/javascript”>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
_uacct=”UA-xxxx-x”;
urchinTracker();
</script>
- It is recommended that the new code be used since it supports new features in Analytics. However, you may continue with the old code if you wish.
- You need to use either the new code or the old one, not both simultaneously.
- The tracking code needs to be generated from within your Google Analytics Control Panel.
- Click on Save Changes.
II] Modifying the complete_payment.html file
- Login to your SuperSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin area, click on Add/Modify Content and Themes link to open this section. Here, click on Browse next to the Website Content folder.
- Click on Browse link next to the language for which you wish to make the modification.
- Click on Browse besides the Shopping_process directory.
- Click on Browse besides the Complete_payment directory and then click on Edit link for the complete_payment.html file.
- Click on Switch to Advanced HTML editing mode link next to Basic text Editing at the top of the page and click Yes to continue.
- Add the following code at the end in the My Content textbox -<form style=”display:none;” name=”utmform”>
<textarea id=”utmtrans”>
<#tag:new_google_analytics_receipt /#>
</textarea>
</form>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
__utmSetTrans();
</script>
- Click on Save Changes.
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Gossimer maintains detailed daily logs of traffic visiting your SusperSite and PartnerSite websites. These website statistics are graphically displayed within your SuperSite and PartnerSite Website Statistics Area, for you to analyze traffic trends such as:
- Number of visits and number of unique visitors
- Visits duration and last visits
- Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, Bandwidth for each hour and day of week)
- Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list
- Most viewed, entry and exit pages
- Files type
- OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS, 35 OS detected)
- Browsers used
- Visits of robots
- Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site
- HTTP errors (Page Not Found with last referrer, …)
- Number of times your site is added to favorites bookmarks
There are three methods of viewing your SusperSite and PartnerSite Website Statistics:
I. From your Reseller Control Panel
1. Login to your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
2. To view your SuperSite Website Statistics, or PartnerSite Website Statistics, go to
Settings -> SuperSite & PartnerSite -> View SuperSite Stats
Settings -> SuperSite & PartnerSite -> View PartnerSite Stats
This will open the respective Statistics Area in a new window.
II. From the Supersite or PartnerSite URL
1. Go to http://<your supersite URL>/admin, or http://<your partnersite URL>/admin, as applicable.
2. Enter the Username and Password to your Reseller Account, and click on Submit.
3. Click on the link Other Misc Functions and then, click on the View Detailed Website Statistics of your SuperSite/PartnerSite link. This will open the respective Statistics Area in a new window.
III. By directly visiting the SuperSite and PartnerSite Website Statistics Area
If you know your Reseller Id (a unique number available in your Reseller Admin Control Panel under Settings -> Primary Profile), then you may visit the following URLs directly:
SuperSite Statistics Area -> http://<your Reseller Id>.stats.supersite.myorderbox.com/
PartnerSite Statistics Area -> http://<your Reseller Id>.stats.partnersite.myorderbox.com/
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When you signup for a Reseller Account with Gossimer, you are automatically signed up for all Products and Services that are offered by Gossimer. As such, your Customers and Sub-resellers can purchase all Products and services from you.
However, if do not wish to sell one or more of these Products/Services, you need to manually revoke signup for that Product/Service from your Control Panel.
How to Sign up for a Product / Service?
1. Login into your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller
2. Click on Settings -> Products -> Manage Product Signup
3. You can choose to either
a. Signup for all Products and Services – by selecting the Automatically Sign me up for all Products and Services radio button, or
b. Signup for some Products and Services – by selecting the I will manually sign-up for individual Products and Services radio button. Now you would have the option of setting one or more Products and Services as Active.
4. Agree to the Terms and Conditions at the bottom of the page and save your selection by clicking on the Submit button.
IMPORTANT
The SuperSite and PartnerSite contain information about the Products and Services you offer. This data is downloaded to your SuperSite and PartnerSite from your Control Panel and cached (stored) on the SuperSite and PartnerSite Server respectively. Hence, you would need to refresh the cache of your SuperSite and PartnerSite once you have completed the above process. You can accomplish this from within your Control Panel itself by clicking on Tools -> Reload SuperSite & PartnerSite Cache -> SuperSite & PartnerSite Active Products Data.
Reference:
What is SuperSite >>
What is PartnerSite >>
Upon signup, continue setting up this Product/Service by setting its Pricing Slabs and Legal Agreements.
Reference:
Understanding Pricing Slabs >>
Legal Agreements >>
How to Discontinue Selling a Product / Service?
1. Login into your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller
2. Click on Settings -> Products -> Manage Product Signup
3. You can choose to either
a. Stop accepting new Orders while keeping existing Orders – This can be accomplished by selecting the Stop New Sales radio button. This ensures that while your Customers/Sub-Resellers can continue Managing, Renewing and Modifying any existing Orders, new Orders can not be sold of this Product/Service.
b. Stop Selling a Product/Service entirely – If there aren’t any existing Orders bought by either your Customers or your Sub-Resellers Customers and so on, then you can completely decide to stop selling an entire Product/Service, by selecting the InActive radio button.
4. Agree to the Terms and Conditions at the bottom of the page and save your selection by clicking on the Submit button.
IMPORTANT
1. The SuperSite and PartnerSite contain information about the Products and Services you offer. This data is downloaded to your SuperSite and PartnerSite from your Control Panel and cached (stored) on the SuperSite and PartnerSite Server respectively. Hence, you would need to refresh the cache of your SuperSite and PartnerSite once you have completed the above process. You can accomplish this from within your Control Panel itself by clicking on Tools -> Reload SuperSite & PartnerSite Cache -> SuperSite & PartnerSite Active Products Data.
Reference:
What is SuperSite >>
What is PartnerSite >>
2. You have to compulsorily continue selling at least 1 Domain Name Extension and can not discontinue selling all Domain Name Extensions. This implies that at least 1 Domain Name Extension should be on the Active status.
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For any Customer to be operational under your Reseller Account. You would have to first get the Customer to signup under you. You can either have Customers signup themselves from your Storefront page or you can even explicitly Add customers to your Reseller Account. Please go through other Answers in this kb to know more about Customers.
Both the procedures are explained below -
I. Your Customer visits your SuperSite and clicks on Link for Customers Signup and fills the Customer Signup form.
II. You can also signup on behalf of your Customer from your Reseller Control Panel by going to, Customers -> Add.
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IMPORTANT
The StoreFront is now DEPRECATED and will be removed shortly. All Resellers are encouraged to stop using the Storefront and begin using the new powerful SuperSite and PartnerSite. This guide should ideally be used for branding your Control Panel URLs only. Click here to review the SuperSite and PartnerSite Guide >>
While Gossimer allows you to modify only the Header logo of your Sub-Reseller and Customer Control Panels, your Storefront is completely customizable. The following article explains the different components of the Storefront and Control Panels, and the process of customizing them.
Storefront and Control Panel Header logo
All the Control Panels and Storefront pages provided by Gossimer have a consistent look and feel. All the screens have a Header area, and the rest of the body. The Header that your Customers and Sub-Resellers see is entirely customizable to display YOUR Logo, and a background colour which suitably gels with the logo or you can put in any HTML content, which would be displayed in the Header area.
Customizing the Header logo
- Login into your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
- Click on Settings -> Storefront & Control Panel -> Header. Here, you would have 2 options, either you can select the radio button to upload a Logo, set its height and select a suitable Background colour or you can select the radio button for putting some HTML content.
- Click on Make Changes to submit your changes. The changes would be immediately reflected.
Storefront Static Menu
Our system allows you to completely customize the Static Menu of your Storefront, thus enhancing your Branding experience. In the Static Menu, you can insert your own links, thus promoting your other Websites.
Customizing the Static Menu
- Login to your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
- Click on Settings -> Storefront & Control Panel -> Storefront -> Static Bar Links from the buttons available.
- Here you would find the option to insert one or more links. You can enter the Title which will be displayed and the URL to which you want to send the user. You can specify up to 5 links here. Clicking on the Reset all Links to Default button allows you to revert all Static Menu modifications to the system default values.
Storefront Main Menu
At the top of your Storefront there is a JavaScript menu which you can customize. This Storefront menu consists of a Main Menu and Sub-Menu Items within it. Each Sub-Menu Item can be linked to a Web page. You can specify up to 10 Sub-Menu Items for each Main Menu Item, of which some are pre-filled by our system. Specifying your own Sub-Menu Items would be useful when you have your own products related to the Main Menu Item.
Customizing the Main Menu
- Login to your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
- Click on Settings -> Storefront & Control Panel -> Storefront -> Menu.
- Click on the Modify button next to any Main Menu item to customize the corresponding Sub-Menu items.Clicking on the Reset all Links to Default button allows you to revert all Main Menu and Sub-Menu modifications to the system default values.
Storefront and Control Panel Footer
The Footer is the blue-colored bar which appears at the bottom of every page in the Store Front and Control Panel. The default Footer provided by our system, consists of a series of links for various Services along with a Copyright Notice. If you wish to change this, you would have to put in any HTML content and this will be displayed as the Footer.
Customizing the Footer
- Login to your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
- Click on Settings -> Storefront & Control Panel -> Footer.
- On this page you would find 2 radio buttons. Select either the upper radio button (selected by default), if you wish to use the system default Footer or select the lower radio button for specifying your own HTML content. Upon selecting the lower radio button, you would need to specify your Footer’s HTML content in the box available there, before submitting the changes.
Storefront Home Page
You can choose whether you wish to display a Storefront Home page to your Customers / Sub-Resellers when they visit your Storefront Home Page URL or click on the Home Button of the Storefront. You have 3 choices -
Send user to the default Storefront Home page: This option is the default option. This will result in rendering of a Storefront Home Page as configured by you using the settings described below, when anyone visits the Storefront Home PAGE URL. This the option selected by default.
Redirect user to some other URL when he visits Storefront Home Page: If you select this option you will be allowed to specify a URL to which your Customers / Sub-Resellers will be redirected to when they visit the Storefront page URL. You also have the option to open this link in a New Window.
Display your own HTML content: If you choose to display your own content, then you can select this option and enter the content in HTML format. Here, you would have to insert HTML content without the HTML, Head and Body tags.
To choose from the 3 options above, you would have to follow the steps mentioned below:
- Login to your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
- Click on Settings -> Storefront & Control Panel -> Storefront -> Home. There you would find 3 Radio Buttons with the above mentioned options.
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| Once you have understood the manner in which a SuperSite/PartnerSite page is structured, you may proceed to customize – the textual content as well as the HTML structure of any page to suit your business requirements. Click here to read information about the structure of a SuperSite/PartnerSite page >>
Follow the steps below to edit the text or the HTML structure of any page in the SuperSite or PartnerSite. It is to be noted that while the instructions below reference the SuperSite, the concepts remain identical for the PartnerSite too.
STEP 1: Find the Template file which needs to be edited
- Browse your SuperSite through your web browser, to the page you want to modify.
- Click on View Source in your web browser. Inside the source you will see various tags of this type -
<!– ### Supersite Template common/footer/footer.html starts here ### –>
…. some html content here ….
<!– ### Supersite Template common/footer/footer.html ends here ### –>
- This means that all the content between these two tags, is contained within the file footer.html, which can be found at /common/footer/.
- Using these tags you can figure out which template, the content you wish to edit appears in, and the path to that template.
STEP 2: Determine whether you wish to edit the Text or the Structure
The SuperSite offers you two separate modes to make modifications to any HTML Template – Basic Editing mode and Advanced Editing mode.
IMPORTANT
- The Basic Editing mode allows quick editing/translation of the Textual Content of your SuperSite, and comes strongly recommended by us.
- The Advanced Editing mode is far more complex and is recommended for ADVANCED USERS only. This mode allows both text editing/translation as well as HTML Structure editing.
- Note:
a. If you switch to the Basic Editing mode after having saved changes in the Advanced Editing mode, then you would lose all changes made in the Advanced Editing mode. If you then start saving changes in the Basic Editing mode and then again switch to the Advanced Editing mode, you would even lose the changes made in the Basic Editing mode.
b. If you have saved changes using the Basic Editing mode and then switch to the Advanced Editing mode and save changes here too, then if you continue using the Advanced Editing mode, you would not lose the changes made in either of the modes.
For example,
i. If you saved changes to the Footer.html using the Basic Editing mode and then switch to the Advanced Editing mode and again save some changes in this mode (Advanced Editing mode) too. Now if you were to switch to the Basic Editing mode, then you would lose all changes saved in the Advanced Editing mode.
ii. In continuation to the above example – if you had not switched back to the Basic Editing mode and continued using the Advanced Editing mode, then you would not have lost modifications made through either of the modes.
- By default, a HTML file opens in the Basic Editing mode if the file contains any text that can be translated; otherwise it would open in the Advanced Editing mode.
- If you save changes in a particular editing mode, then it becomes the default editing mode for that particular file, and the interface would automatically open in this edit mode thereon (for that particular file only).
- Irrespective of your Default Language SuperSite, the left-hand side box (Original Content text box) would always display text in English within any edit mode.
- While switching from the Basic Editing mode to the Advanced Editing mode, the system confirms your action. Here you may select the checkbox Don’t show me this warning for the next 30 days. If you select this checkbox and continue, then you will not be displayed this warning message until 30 days.
- Note: You may be prompted to edit/re-translate your SuperSite content, if
a. you edited the content provided in your English Language SuperSite and then translated your SuperSite to another language, prior to May 1, 2007 6:00 AM GMT. Now if u want to edit this translated Language SuperSite content, you would be prompted to re-translate your SuperSite content.
b. you did not edit the content provided in your English Language SuperSite but translated your English Language SuperSite to another language and selected any other Language SuperSite than English as the Default Language SuperSite, prior to May 1, 2007 6:00 AM GMT. Now if you want to edit the translated content, you would be prompted to re-translate your SuperSite content.
c. the content of any HTML file is edited by Gossimer.
In the event that you are needed to edit/re-translate any HTML file due to any of the above reasons, the files that need to be reviewed -
a. would be displayed on the right-hand side of your SuperSite Admin page (immediately upon login) under the heading Recently Modified by us,
b. would appear with the Status as  Modified by you This File needs your Attention while listing files.
Upon opening this file (that needs to be edited/re-translated), you need to compare the content mentioned in the left-hand side box with the content edited/translated by you in the right-hand side box and check the following -
(i) If you perceive any editing/re-translation requirement -> just copy-paste the text from the left-hand side box to the right-hand side box besides it and edit/translate the text in the right-hand side box itself, and then click on the Save Changes button.
(ii) If you perceive that there is no editing/re-translation required -> simply click on the Save Changes button.
2.1 Basic Editing Mode
If all you wish to do is to edit the text content within an HTML page, then you MUST use this tool. If you like the layout of the page as it is, but wish to change the text then follow the steps below -
- Login to the SuperSite/PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to know how >>
- Under the My Languages SuperSite/PartnerSite section, click on Manage Site besides the Language SuperSite/PartnerSite, whose website content you wish to edit.
- Under the Edit/Translate Website Content section, click on the Edit Content button.
- Browse through the directory listing to the template, whose content you wish to modify.
- Some templates may in turn further contain other templates. You will be able to see this within the template itself. You may therefore have to edit within multiple templates.
- Click on the Edit link next to the template.
- Here you will see the Original Text as inherited from English on the left-hand side of the page and Your Modified Text in <your current selected Language SuperSite/PartnerSite> on the right-hand side of the page in a textbox. You can edit the content available in one or more textboxes (on the right-hand side) and click on the Save Changes button after completing the editing.
IMPORTANT
- The Basic Editing tool section solves two purposes – it allows you to translate your SuperSite/PartnerSite content as well as edit existing content in each Language SuperSite/PartnerSite.
- If you have not added another Language SuperSite/PartnerSite, then the same Basic Editing tool, allows you to simply add/edit existing contextual text.
- If you have already added another Language SuperSite/PartnerSite, then also this very same Basic Editing tool, lets you add/edit the translated contextual text.
- You can NOT remove any HTML tags (“<” “>”) and all data within these tags. For example, if there is a HTML tag – <a href=”content.php?action=show_agreements&requestfor=resellermasteragreement&from=agree_page”> mentioned within a textbox, then you can not choose to remove this tag.
You can however, choose to change the placing of these HTML tags within the textbox and can add any text surrounding these.
- If you are not satisfied with the editing and wish to revert to the text displayed earlier, simply follow steps 3 to 6 above. There you may either copy the text individually from the left-hand side to the right-hand side textbox and click on Save Changes or simply click on the Reset to Default button to revert the content of all textboxes in that template.
- Once you edit the Textual Content of a file using the above tool, the File Status of such a file will change from Default to Modified by you. If a file that has been modified by you, is also updated by Gossimer, then the Status would change to Modified by you This File needs your Attention.
Once you have edited a file, we would not be able to automatically update the content of the same when new content is added by us; therefore, you would have to synchronize the content yourself. Click here to synchronize the Textual Content edited by you with any new content added by Gossimer >>
2.2 Advanced HTML Editing Mode
If you wish to change the layout or positioning of any of the various elements in a page, or you wish to add your own elements in a page, you can achieve the same only through the Advanced Editing mode.
There is a stark difference between the “HTML Structure” and the “Textual Content”, used in the SuperSite/PartnerSite Admin section.
HTML Template Structure - implies the way text and images are displayed within individual HTML pages. For example, the layout, the position, etc. of the elements.
Textual Content - is all the text that appears in paragraphs, lists, tables, forms, etc..
If you wish to only edit the text within the template, then please refer to the Basic Editing mode explained above. If however, you wish to make changes to the HTML structure (code) and Textual content within the template, you need to use the Advanced Editing mode only.
You can use the Advanced Editing mode as follows:
- Login to the SuperSite/PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to know how >>
- Under the My Languages SuperSite/PartnerSite section, click on Manage Site besides the Language SuperSite/PartnerSite, whose website content you wish to edit.
- Under the Edit/Translate Website Content section, click on the Edit Content button.
- Browse through the directory listing to the template, whose content you wish to modify.
- Some templates may in turn further contain other templates. You will be able to see this within the template itself. You may therefore have to edit within multiple templates.
- Click on the Edit link next to the template.
- Click on the Switch to Advanced Editing mode link besides the Basic Editor and then click on Yes to continue.
- Here you will see the Original Content on the left-hand side of the page and Your Content on the right-hand side of the page in a textbox. You can edit the content available in the Your Content textbox and then click on the Save Changes button.
IMPORTANT
- All style related attributes with regards to the display of any of the layout and positioning of elements is controlled through CSS files. Upon viewing the source of the HTML file, at the very top of the page you will notice several .css files being imported. Click here to find instructions on how to edit the CSS files in your SuperSite/PartnerSite >>
- Modifying the Header and Footer: You can follow the process outlined above to edit the header and footer HTML for your SuperSite/PartnerSite; the templates for these can be located with in the Header and Footer folders respectively within the Common folder. You can also replace the default header logo with the logo of your company. Click here to read how >>
- If you are not satisfied with the editing and wish to revert to the earlier content, simply click on Reset to Default from the Edit page, to restore the default content for that file.
- Once you edit an HTML page using the above tool, the File Status of such a file will change from Default to Modified by you. If a file that has been modified by you is also updated by Gossimer, then the File Status would change to Modified by you This File needs your Attention.
- Once you have edited a file, we would not be able to automatically update the structure of the same when new content is added by us; you would have to synchronize the HTML Structure yourself. Click here to synchronize the HTML structure edited by you with any new content added by Gossimer >>
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The video tutorials below provide a detailed introduction to the SuperSite and PartnerSite, and complete information on how to go about customizing these to suit your requirements. Download these tutorials, or view them online, before you begin using the SuperSite and PartnerSite -
Note: Macromedia Flash Player is required to view the downloadable tutorials.
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If you have a website catering to several other products/services (than those offered by Gossimer) and wish to target Customers/Sub-Resellers from your website itself (rather than using your SuperSite as your website), then you may want to include the following domain registration forms on your website:
Integrating Domain Name Check Availability form on your website with the SuperSite
The steps for buying a New Domain Name are as follows:
1. Checking Domain Availability
2. Filling the Domain Order Form
3. Payment Process
4. Actual Registration
Of these steps, you can choose to have the Check Availability box at your end on your website. In order to directly link to the Check Availability page on your SuperSite, use the link below -
http://<#SuperSite URL#>/domain.php
This will bring up the Check Availability box from where any of your Customers can start placing an order for a Domain Name.
If, however, you wish to have the Check Availability box on your server as a part of your website, you can use the Check Availability form given below.
<form name=lookup method=”post” action=_quot;http://<#SuperSite URL#>/domain.php?goto=metarefresh&formaction=domain.php“>
<input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=_quot;check_availability_quot;_gt;
<input type=”hidden” name=”showrelated” value=”true”>
<tr>
<td colspan=”4″ rowspan=”3″>
<input name=”txtDomainName” type=”text” class=”inputbox” size=”22″ maxlength=”55″>
<b>.</b>
<select name=”tld[]“>
<option value=”com” selected>com</option>
<option value=”net”>net</option>
<option value=”org”>org</option>
<option value=”biz”>biz</option>
<option value=”name”>name</option>
<option value=”us”>us</option>
<option value=”info”>info</option>
<option value=”in”>in</option>
<option value=”co.in”>co.in</option>
<option value=”net.in”>net.in</option>
<option value=”org.in”>org.in</option>
<option value=”firm.in”>firm.in</option>
<option value=”gen.in”>gen.in</option>
<option value=”ind.in”>ind.in</option>
<option value=”eu”>eu</option>
<option value=”mobi”>.mobi</option>
<option value=”mn”>.mn</option>
<option value=”bz”>.bz</option>
<option value=”cc”>.cc</option>
<option value=”tv”>.tv</option>
<option value=”eu.com”>eu.com</option>
<option value=”gb.com”>gb.com</option>
<option value=”ae.org”>ae.org</option>
<option value=”kr.com”>kr.com</option>
<option value=”us.com”>us.com</option>
<option value=”qc.com”>qc.com</option>
<option value=”de.com”>de.com</option>
<option value=”gb.net”>gb.net</option>
<option value=”no.com”>no.com</option>
<option value=”hu.com”>hu.com</option>
<option value=”jpn.com”>jpn.com</option>
<option value=”uy.com”>uy.com</option>
<option value=”za.com”>za.com</option>
<option value=”br.com”>br.com</option>
<option value=”cn.com”>cn.com</option>
<option value=”sa.com”>sa.com</option>
<option value=”se.com”>se.com</option>
<option value=”se.net”>se.net</option>
<option value=”uk.com”>uk.com</option>
<option value=”uk.net”>uk.net</option>
<option value=”ru.com”>ru.com</option>
<option value=”ws”>ws</option>
<option value=”co.uk”>co.uk</option>
<option value=”org.uk”>org.uk</option>
<option value=”me.uk”>me.uk</option>
</select>
</td>
<td><input type=”submit”></td>
</tr>
</form>
Replace <#SuperSite URL#> with your Branded SuperSite URL, which you can find at Settings -> SuperSite & PartnerSite -> URL, in your Reseller Control Panel.
IMPORTANT
The code listed in red in the above form is optional. Setting the value for the showrelated variable to true will display availability of the same Domain Name under other extensions. By default (without the code being used), the value is set to true. You may choose not to display this information by setting the value to false. However, it is advised that the value be set to true so that your SuperSite presents more buying options to the user.
Other attributes that can be used are -
- shownotavail – indicates non-available Domain Names
- showinvalid – indicates invalid Domain Names
- showunknown – displays the check availability status for a Domain Name as unknown in case connection to the corresponding Registry could not be established
It is advised that the value for these variables be set to true so that proper messages are displayed to the user.
Integrating Domain Name Transfer form on your website with the SuperSite
You may use the example form provided below, to integrate the Domain Name transfer functionality of your SuperSite, with your website:
<form method=”POST” action=_quot;http://<#SuperSite URL#>/domain.php” name=”transferdomain“>
<input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=_quot;domain_transfer_summary_quot;_gt;
<input type=”hidden” name=”nextstep” value=”true”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”dom_action” value=_quot;transfer_quot;_gt;
<table border=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ class=”dataTable”>
<tr>
<td width=”30%” class=”frmLabel”><label for=”Domain Name Transfer”>Domain Name</label></td>
<td width=”2%” class=”required”>*</td>
<td><INPUT TYPE=”text” NAME=”domainname” SIZE=22 value=”">
<select name=”tlds”>
<option value=”com”>com</option>
<option value=”net”>net</option>
<option value=”org”>org</option>
<option value=”biz”>biz</option>
<option value=”name”>name</option>
<option value=”us”>us</option>
<option value=”info”>info</option>
<option value=”in”>in</option>
<option value=”co.in”>co.in</option>
<option value=”net.in”>net.in</option>
<option value=”org.in”>org.in</option>
<option value=”firm.in”>firm.in</option>
<option value=”gen.in”>gen.in</option>
<option value=”ind.in”>ind.in</option>
<option value=”eu”>eu</option>
<option value=”mobi”>.mobi</option>
<option value=”mn”>.mn</option>
<option value=”bz”>.bz</option>
<option value=”cc”>.cc</option>
<option value=”tv”>.tv</option>
<option value=”eu.com”>eu.com</option>
<option value=”gb.com”>gb.com</option>
<option value=”ae.org”>ae.org</option>
<option value=”kr.com”>kr.com</option>
<option value=”us.com”>us.com</option>
<option value=”qc.com”>qc.com</option>
<option value=”de.com”>de.com</option>
<option value=”gb.net”>gb.net</option>
<option value=”no.com”>no.com</option>
<option value=”hu.com”>hu.com</option>
<option value=”jpn.com”>jpn.com</option>
<option value=”uy.com”>uy.com</option>
<option value=”za.com”>za.com</option>
<option value=”br.com”>br.com</option>
<option value=”cn.com”>cn.com</option>
<option value=”sa.com”>sa.com</option>
<option value=”se.com”>se.com</option>
<option value=”se.net”>se.net</option>
<option value=”uk.com”>uk.com</option>
<option value=”uk.net”>uk.net</option>
<option value=”ru.com”>ru.com</option>
</select>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width=”30%” class=”frmLabel”><label for=”Transfer Auth”>Transfer Auth Code</label></td>
<td width=”1%” class=”required”></td>
<td colspan=”2″><INPUT TYPE=”text” NAME=”secretname”></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=”frmLabel”> </td>
<td class=”required”> </td>
<td colspan=”2″>
<ul>
<li><font size=”2″>Also known as: “Transfer Secret” or “EPP Auth Code.”
</font> </li>
<li><font size=”2″>This is not needed for a .EU Domain Name.</font></li>
<li><font size=”2″>In case of a .CC/.TV Domain Name, you may provide a Transfer Secret/Authorization Code if the Domain Name has a Transfer Secret/Authorization Code set at the Current Registrar. Otherwise, you can leave the Transfer
Auth Code field blank.</font></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=”4″ align=”center”>
<input name=”transfer” type=”submit” value=”Transfer”>
</td>
<tr>
</table>
</form>
Replace <#SuperSite URL#> with your Branded SuperSite URL, which you can find at Settings -> SuperSite & PartnerSite -> URL, in your Reseller Control Panel.
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PartnerSite is a complete private-labeled website to jumpstart your wholesale Business.
In essence, the PartnerSite is not much unlike the Supersite, except that it carries a significant Reseller-oriented look. The PartnerSite complements the Supersite and provides you a turnkey solution for attracting and signing up potential Resellers.
The PartnerSite consists of over 25 pages of marketing content directed largely towards attracting large-volume clients, or Resellers. It provides several interesting features apart from the marketing content, such as flash demonstrations for various products that you offer.
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When your Customers visit your SuperSite and order various products, they are presented with the different options by which they can pay you for these products on the final page after purchase. These include online payment via any Payment Gateways you may have setup, or paying from their debit accounts. Additionally, you can also specify other payment options that your Customers can avail, such as Wire/Bank Transfers, Check Payment Details, etc..
To specify and/or update these options in SuperSite, you need to modify the text template for the Other Payment Optionspage. Follow the process outlined below to do so:
- Login to your SuperSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin area, click on the Add/Modify Content and Themes link.
- Click on the Browse link next to the Website Content directory
- Click on Browse link next to the language for which you wish to make the modification.
- Click on Browse adjacent to the Shopping_process directory and then, click on Browse adjacent to the Checkout_step2 directory.
- Click on Browse adjacent to the Includes directory, look for the file named payment_other_option.html, and click on Edit adjacent to the page name.
- Here, you can modify the basic text content available in one or more textboxes and click on the Save Changes button beneath after completing the modification.
The changes you have made will immediately reflect on your SuperSite, and the additional payment options you have specified will be presented to your Customers when the Invoice is generated for the products they purchase.
IMPORTANT
a. You will have to repeat the above process if you have configured multiple languages for your SuperSite.
b. If you are not satisfied with the modifications and wish to revert to the text displayed earlier, simply follow steps 4 to 6 above. There you will have to copy the text from the left hand side to the textbox and click on Save Changes.
c. Apart from modifying the text of the Other Payment Options page, you may also modify the presentation of the displayed text. For example, you may want to display this information in a different Font Face or you may want to modify the Size of the Font or display your text in a Table, etc.. Click here to learn how to modify the HTML Structure of a page >>
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All modifications to your SuperSite or PartnerSite need to be done from the Admin Area.
There are 2 ways to login to the SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area.
From your Reseller Control Panel:
1. Login to your Reseller Admin Control Panel, from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
2. To modify the SuperSite, go to Settings -> SuperSite & PartnerSite -> Customize SuperSite.
To modify the PartnerSite, go to Settings -> SuperSite & PartnerSite -> Customize PartnerSite.
This will launch the respective Admin panel in a new window.
From the Supersite or PartnerSite URL:
1. Go to http://<your supersite URL>/admin, or http://<your partnersite URL>/admin, as applicable.
2. Enter the Username and Password to your Reseller Account, and click on Submit.
This will take you into the Admin area, where you can make any desired modifications to your SuperSite or PartnerSite.
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Gossimer allows you the ability to completely change the look and feel of your SuperSite and PartnerSite through the use of Themes.
What is a Theme?
A Theme is a set of design elements and color schemes that you apply to pages to give them a consistent and attractive appearance. Using a Theme is a quick and easy way to add interest to pages and give them a professional look.
A Theme allows you to alter the appearance of your SuperSite/PartnerSite by modifying its:
- Cascading Style Sheets. By tweaking individual CSS files in your Theme you can modify the fonts, colors, spacing, etc., being displayed on your SuperSite/PartnerSite.
- Images. You can replace the default set of images within your SuperSite/PartnerSite Theme. This is especially useful when you have translated your SuperSite/PartnerSite content and would want to display images with embedded text in that language.
- Javascript. The style of the Javascript Menu within your SuperSite/PartnerSite Theme can be equally easily modified, to suit your customized SuperSite/PartnerSite.
By applying a Theme you can immediately apply a predetermined set of design elements to your SuperSite/PartnerSite content. When you choose one theme to be the default theme for your website, the theme is applied to all existing pages and to new pages that you add later.
How to Add/Modify a Theme or How do I edit the CSS, Images, Javascript of my SuperSite/PartnerSite?
IMPORTANT
- To modify the CSS, Images and Javascript of your SuperSite/PartnerSite, you need to first add a NEW Theme.
- While adding a Theme, you need to select the Default Theme from where you want the default CSS, Images and Javascript to be initially loaded. As you modify these elements, your changes become a part of your new Theme.
Adding a Theme
You can create your own Themes using the default Theme as mentioned below -
- Login to your SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin area, click on the Add/Modify Content and Themes link. Then, click on Browse adjacent to the Themes folder.
IMPORTANT
The Default SuperSite/PartnerSite Theme cannot be edited. If you wish to change the look and feel of your SuperSite/PartnerSite, you need to create your own Theme and modify the same.
- In order to create your own Theme, click on the Create Custom Theme link on the top right-hand corner of this page.
- Provide a unique name for your Theme and click Create My Theme. The Theme thus created will be listed under Your SuperSite/PartnerSite Theme(s) section.
- Click on the Browse link next to the Theme to view the contents of the Theme.
- Here you will find folders for CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) files, Images and JavaScript files.
Modifying your Theme (editing your SuperSite/PartnerSite CSS, Images, Javascript)
You can modify the CSS files (Cascading Style Sheets) for different sections of SuperSite and PartnerSite, by following the process outlined below:
- Login to your SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin Area, click on the Add/Modify Content and Themes link. Then, click on Browse adjacent to the Themes folder.
- Click on Browse besides the Theme which you need to modify.
- Now click on Browse next to the CSS folder.
- This interface lists all the sections. Click on Browse, adjacent to the section for which you wish to modify the style sheets.
- The following page lists all the CSS files used in the section you have chosen. Click on Edit, adjacent to the CSS file you wish to modify.
- You will be presented with two textboxes; one on the left-hand side of the page with the title as Original Content and the other on the right-hand side with the title as My Modified Content. You can make the required modifications in the My Modified Content text box.
- Click on the Save Changes button beneath after completing the modification.
IMPORTANT
If you are not satisfied with the modifications and wish to revert to the earlier setting, simply click on Reset to Default from the Edit page, to restore the default settings for that file.
Virtually every image in SuperSite and PartnerSite is customizable – should you not find any to your liking, you can replace it with another at any time.
IMPORTANT
- In order to modify an image file in SuperSite or PartnerSite, you need to note its name. To get the name of the image, simply right-click on the image in your browser, and select Properties. Here, you would find the address for the image. For example, http://<prefix>.SuperSite/PartnerSite.myorderbox.com/getImage.php?src=image-name.gif, or
http://<prefix>.partnersite.myorderbox.com/getImage.php?src=image-name.gif
where image-name.gif is the name that you require.
- Also, there are some image files which are a part of the CSS itself; you would not be able to retrieve the filenames in the above manner. To retrieve the names of such image files, you need to check the style sheets for the section containing the image in question, and retrieve the image file name from there. Click here to find instructions on how to edit your SuperSite/PartnerSite/PartnerSite CSS files >>
- : You can follow the process mentioned below to replace the default header logo with the logo of your company. To do so, you need to replace the image named yourbrand.gif.
Follow the process outlined below to modify any Image files in your SuperSite/PartnerSite:
- Login to your SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin Area, click on the Add/Modify Content and Themes link. Then, click on Browse adjacent to the Themes folder.
- Click on Browse besides the Theme which you need to modify.
- Click on Browse link next to the Images folder.
- This interface lists all the images used by the SuperSite/PartnerSite.
- In the list, look for the name of the image you wish to modify. Click on Edit, adjacent to it.
- Click on Browse, and select the image you wish to upload in place of the default.
- Click on Upload Image. This will replace the default Image with the one you have provided, such that every page where the old image file was being displayed, would now display your uploaded image file.
In addition to the default images, you can add/edit your own images as mentioned below:
- Login to your SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin Area, click on the Add/Modify Content and Themes link. Then, click on Browse adjacent to the Themes folder.
- Click on Browse besides the Theme which you need to modify.
- Click on Browse link next to the Images folder.
- Click on Browse next to the MyUploadedImages folder.
Adding your own Images
- Click on the Add your own Images button on the top right-hand corner of this page.
- Click on Browse, and choose the image that you want to upload.
- Once the image is selected, click on Upload button.
Editing Images added by you
- Click on the Edit link next to the image you wish to modify.
- Click on Browse, and choose the image that you want to upload.
- Once the image is selected, click on Upload Image button.
After uploading an image using the above tool, you would need to link it from some HTML page on your SuperSite/PartnerSite.
IMPORTANT
- If you have translated your SuperSite/PartnerSite content to multiple languages, then you may want to have images with text embedded on them in that particular language itself. To accomplish this you would need to associate different languages to separate Themes and within each Theme have Images related to only that language.
- If you are not satisfied with the modifications and wish to revert to the earlier setting, simply click on Reset to Default from the Edit page, to restore the default settings for that file.
The manner in which the menu is displayed, can be modified just as easily:
- Login to your SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin Area, click on the Add/Modify Content and Themes link. Then, click on Browse adjacent to the Themes folder.
- Click on Browse besides the Theme which you need to modify.
- Click on Browse next to the JS folder.
- Click on Edit, adjacent to the menu_style.js file.
- You will be presented with two textboxes; one on the left-hand side of the page with the title as Original Content and the other on the right-hand side with the title as My Modified Content. You can make the required modifications in the My Modified Content text box.
- Click on the Save Changes button beneath after completing the modification.
How do I apply a Theme to my SuperSite/PartnerSite?
You can display your SuperSite/PartnerSite in either the Default Theme provided by Gossimer or use any one of the Themes you have recently added. Follow the below mentioned process to accomplish this:
- Login to your SuperSite or PartnerSite Admin Area. Click here to learn how >>
- In the Admin Area, click on the Configure Languages and Themes link.
- Here you may either set your Theme for the Default English Language or any other language added by you, by selecting the Theme from the Associated Themes drop-down.
- Click on the Save button to associate the selected Theme to a particular language.
IMPORTANT
The Theme you have selected will be applied to your SuperSite/PartnerSite ONLY after you have enabled that particular language.
Click here to know how to configure Multiple Language support to your SuperSite/PartnerSite >>
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