Getting Familiar With Presence Builder

The interface of the Presence Builder editor has two main parts: your website and the main menu.

A website consists of a number of elements, or modules. Each module can be edited separately. Here we will familiarize you with the basic principles of website module editing. These are similar for all modules.

When adding a module to a page, you can choose whether it should be shown only on the current page (page-specific module) or on all pages of the site (site-wide module). The only exceptions are the Search, Advertisement, Site Logo, Navigation, and Breadcrumbs modules: when you add them, they are placed on all pages of the website.

To place a module only on the current page, select the module under the Modules tab, and drag it to any of the areas marked with the text ONLY ON THIS PAGE. Such areas are located within the main content block and near the top of each sidebar.

To place a module on all pages of the website, select the module under the Modules tab, and drag it to any of the areas marked with the text ON ALL PAGES. Such areas are located above and below the main content block, in sidebars, header, and footer.

To locate or edit a website module, hover the mouse pointer over the part of the website you want to change. A dotted frame will appear around the module. A control panel prompting you to move, edit, or remove the module will appear next to the dotted frame.

The dotted frame around page-specific modules is green, but around site-wide modules it is blue.

The editor's main menu offers website editing options grouped under five tabs:

• Modules. Here you can choose necessary modules and drag them to any place on the page to fill your website with content.
• Design. Here you can select the layout and general color scheme for your website, change colors of different elements, and select fonts and border style.
• Pages. Here you can add and delete pages, rename them, edit page meta information such as descriptions and keywords for use by search engines, or mark a page as hidden so that your visitors cannot access it from the site menu.
• Documents. Here you can upload documents, images, and other files in various formats to your hosting account. You can then easily insert links to these documents into your website pages. Or, you can just keep the files on the hosting account for your own needs.
• Settings. Here you can edit your website name, description and keywords for search engines, upload a site icon (favicon), optimize the ranking of your website in search engine results, connect your site to Google Analytics, and add a copy of your site to a Facebook page.

From the main menu, you can also do the following:

• Access the Dashboard to perform the following operations:
  • View statistics on website visits. The statistics are provided by Google Analytics.
  • View new comments left by site visitors on your website pages. The commenting functionality is provided by Disqus.
  • View new orders from customers visiting your online stores. The online store functionality is provided by Ecwid.
• Save and load copies of your website by using the Save and Revert options.
• Access Presence Builder Getting Started video tutorial, view User's Guide, or send us your feedback. To do this, select the corresponding option from the Help menu.
• Publish your website by using the Publish button.
• Discard any changes made to a site and start creating the site anew by selecting More > Start Over. This does not delete your already published site copy.
• Delete a current website draft from the editor by selecting More > Remove Site. This does not delete your already published site copy.

You can drag the main menu to any place on the page for your convenience, or minimize it.

You can also access all options of the main menu in the context menu at any place on the page. To open the context menu, click the right mouse button.