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We are very careful to filter the advertising that shows up on our Free Lite sites, so please help us report any offensive ads by follow our instructions in this article. If the idea of advertising is offensive (rather than the ads) or the content is inappropriate for your particular site, the best thing to do is upgrade to one of our professional packages.
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We recommend using the in-page file uploader, rather than the file library edit page uploader, because the in-page file uploader allows you to upload multiple at a time and it monitors the progress....
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We take all complaints about usability and performance seriously. We work on our CMS all day long, just like you, and we understand how frustrating it can be when things are slow or don't load at ...
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Learn more about what a Content Management System is and how a CMS can help you.
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Learn the basic features of the Control Panel and how to perform the most important management tasks.
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Learn about the advanced settings that can be modified on every page.
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Learn about the different options available for uploading multiple files for use on your site.
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Login to your Admin account on from the Admin home page, click on the Manage Your Features button. Mouse over the features icon to learn more about each feature. Toggle on/off the features as desired, then hit "done".
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Add a Link from the Menu Page: The most obvious way to add a new link to your site is to go to the "Menu" section of your site and then click the bright orange "Add" button above you ...
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Your site consists of a lot of different content pages that are accessed through your Site Menu. How you organize and link to those pages, determines how important you think they are to your ...
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In this article we cover the following advanced topics: "Creating Sub Links", "Ordering Your Links", "Using Alternative Templates", and "Link Visibility for General Public or Accounts Only".
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Go to the Basic Pages Section: on your Admin home page (or the expandable "Tool Dock") click on the big icon that says "My Pages".
Create a Basic Page: above the list area click the big "Add" button ...
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The problem with Basic Pages is that you are probably not a professional designer, so your pages may look like boring documents instead of dynamic, rich web pages. If this is an important page, we ...
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If you are writing an article or blog, or just creating a basic "My Page", you will often need to insert an image into the page in a certain location. This may be accomplished through the image ...
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Finding Where Promo Modules Appear: You should first know whether or not your website has promo module areas included in the design, and if it does, where they are located. If you ...
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The Calendar Module allows you to display a list of upcoming events (limited to the next 2 months).
Add a Promo Module: On your Admin home page (or the expandable "Tool ...
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Create one or more "Location" modules with the address for the specific alternative location. Then the map page will automatically display all the locations on the map.
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We provide a Promo Module that you can add to your home page or sidebar that lets visitors do a quick search from anywhere.
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The Featured Content Promo Module is a flexible feature that you can use for almost any purpose. It allows you to add basic text or advanced HTML into a promo area, e.g. write simple welcome text, or ...
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The Linkable Images Promo Module is one of the most popular and versatile modules we have. It allows you to upload your own promotional images that promote content on your site (or externally) to ...
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The Featured Property Module allows you to feature one of your Personal Properties.
Add a Promo Module: On your Admin home page (or the expandable "Tool Dock") click on ...
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If you would like visitors to see a list of their recently viewed properties, you may add this module to your home page or sidebar.
Add a Promo Module: On your Admin home ...
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If you would like visitors to see quotes from your Testimonials displayed randomly on a page, you may add this module to your home page or sidebar. Please note that you must first add ...
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To schedule a blog article just select the desired publish date and the article will not be released publically until that date. You can preview the blog with the handy preview link, and share that link with third party social media scheduling tools if desired.
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Go to the Communities Section: on your Admin home page (or the expandable "Tool Dock" click on the big icon that says "Communities".
Create a Communities Landing Page: ...
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After you have created a Communities landing page (category), you will need to create individual community profiles. These communities will be promo ...
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There are two ways to offer event registration on your website with us:
CUSTOM FORMS
You can utilize our Custom Forms feature, in which visitors to your site simply fill out the onl ...
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The CMS has a great method for batch uploading multiple document, image or multimedia files into your Resource Library. This same method can be used to upload files and then simultaneously associate ...
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If you don't already have a site with us, then you'll need to first create a site. You could either use one of our free skins for your site design, or if you are a professional company we recommend ...
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It's super easy to enable Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking on your Gutensite. Our ecommerce store has Google Analytics tracking integrated with the checkout process, so we'll assume that you are ...
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The MLS has General site wide settings which control many of the MLS display and functionality preferences.
Go to the MLS Section: on your Admin home page (or the expandabl ...
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We provide basic aggregate statistics about the number of properties and open homes available for each Service, and each Property Type. If you have entered Broker information in the ...
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If you want to add pages to your site that list all the properties in specific neighborhoods or with specific predefined filters, you can create "MLS Target Area" pages. If you predefine a Target ...
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First you will need to be subscribed to your local MLS data feed (you will have to fill out a form and the MLS will approve your website feed). Contact us for more information.
After y ...
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The MLS also has Service specific settings (in case you stream MLS data from several MLS organizations).
Go to the MLS Section: on your Admin home page (or the expandable "T ...
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In order to stream audio on your website, you must upload the audio files as MP3 format (.mp3) to your multimedia resource library. MP3 is a standard encoding option for all audio editing tools. The ...
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We support the new HTML5 player audio/video formats (MP3 and MP4) as well as the old Flash player format (FLV). Our audio/video player is compatible with mobile devices that support HTML5 (e.g. iPhone, iPad, Android, etc) as well as modern desktop web browsers. And the old Flash player is retained for backward compatibility with older browsers (e.g. IE8, Firefox) that do not yet support the HTML5 player.
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Our video players will still play old FLV encoded videos, for any browser that supports Flash. But we do not recommend this format anymore, since it is not compatible with many of the new smartphones ...
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First create a Multimedia Resource Category, give it a good title since this will be the name of your Podcast. In the category details you can summarize the content, rate the podcast, provide an ...
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You could technically create a new podcast with iTunes using the standard method we recommend. However, if you have subscribers on your old podcast that's not an ideal solu ...
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Go to the Properties Section: on your Admin home page (or the expandable "Tool Dock") click on the big icon that says "Properties".
Create a Properties Landing Page: ...
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Add Individual Quotes: In the Admin Sidebar click the "Testimonials" link and above that list area click the big "Add" button to create a new record.
Enter Inform ...
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Go to the Testimonials Section: on your Admin home page (or the expandable "Tool Dock" click on the big icon that says "Testimonials".
Create a Testimonials Page: ...
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Gutensite has integrated Facebook Connect already, all you need to do is enter your Facebook App ID and Secret Key and people can login to your site with Facebook and your site can take advantage of the easy account creation and sign-in process as well as the many social and viral features of Facebook.
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Any Gutensite Administrative account can be enabled as a Master Password account. Once enabled, that Admin account can log in to any Customer account on your site by using a combination of the Customers username and the Admin account'Is username and password.
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We have a simple GFX (Gutensite FX) Library that allows you to create simple effects like hiding and revealing content. Or for advanced user you can write your own Javascript on any page, and if you want you can utilize the current version of the Mootools Library that is loaded on your site.
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If you want visitors to your site to able to search your site's content for certain topics, you can sign up for a Google Custom Search Engine and add it to your website.
You can sign up ...
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In order for email to be directed to a third party mail server, the domain name needs to have specific settings that point the Email portion of the domain traffic to the alternative third party ...
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Our servers are managed by a full time staff of engineers at Modwest, a dedicated hosting company in Missoula Montana. All sites are backed up every night onto a tape library. The backups are stored ...
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You can login to the control panel for your hosting account on the server by going to http://www.mydomain.com/hosting (where mydomain.com is your personal domain) or through our url: ...
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All email sent to mailboxes at your domain (e.g. joe@ mydomain.com), is routed to the mail server for that domain. Usually this is the same server that hosts your website, although sometime ...
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Yes. We will develop your site on our servers and you will be able to access it with a temporary domain name. Then when you are ready to go live, you will point your domain name to our Domain Name Servers (DNS) and then all the traffic to your domain name will be routed to your new site on our servers. If you don't know how to do this, you can just speak with the customer service at your domain name registrar (the company where you bought the domain). Alternatively, you can ask us to manage ...
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Very carefully. If you haven't selected your company name, finding a domain name should play a big part in determining what your final organization name is, because it doesn't do any good to have a great name but someone already owns the obvious domain name (which also means the name is not unique). You need an organization name with an available domain name if possible. Here are a couple of points to keep in mind:
It should be obvious what sort of site it points to.
It should contai ...
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Yes. When you buy a domain name, you are actually just leasing it, with the option to renew after it expires. It is easy to purchase and manage your domain name with any respectable registrar. However, after a period of time, it's also easy to forget to keep your contact information updated with that registrar. So when the lease for the domain name expires, the registrar won't be able to contact you to remind you to renew and you will lose your domain name. And if someone else buys your domain ...
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Yes, but why? Technically speaking, you can point as many domain names as you want to your site. You just need to let us know so that we can "receive" them on our server and set them up as "aliases" to your particular account. We charge a very small monthly fee to cover our costs. See our fees chart for details. This is a good idea if you own the .com, .net, .org, etc. versions of a single name.
However, just because it's possible to have multiple domain names pointing to the same site d ...
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Your site has a shortcut that allows you to view your website on our servers, even though your domain name is still pointed to another server. When you first signed up you selected a shortcut name. You can edit this in your Admin Control Panel under "Edit Site" > "Site Info" if you want to. Once you know what this is, you can view your site at that shortcut. If your shortcut is "goodbusiness" then your url will be:
http://goodbusiness.gutensite.com
This ...
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Our Domain Name Servers are:
NS1.GUTENSITE.COM
NS2.GUTENSITE.COM
Note: Please be sure to notify us of the domains which you are pointing to our servers. We will need to confirm that the server is setup to receive these domain names and point them to your site.
Most people will simply point their entire domain to our servers by using our DNS addresses. To point your domain name to our server, log in to your account at the Domain Reg ...
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You will need a mail server (an account with a email hosting provider), and you will need to point your domain's MX records to direct email to that mail server.
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This article includes specific step-by-step instructions and settings.
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The following instructions are general. Your version of Apple Mail may be slightly different, so keep your mind open to the general principles.
1. Open Mail.
2. Choose Preferences f ...
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The following instructions are general. Your version of Outlook may be slightly different, so keep your mind open to the general principles.
1. In Microsoft Outlook, select Tools > ...
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Companies like Google Mail, Yahoo!, and Hotmail, handle mail for a living. So it's no surprise that they have better than average SPAM filters. So if you find that our Industry standard SPAM filter ...
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When your hosting account was first created, the administrator was given information to access the hosting control panel, to control Email Mailboxes, etc. Your hosting adminstrator can enable admin ...
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Please keep in mind that email is not an ideal file transfer method. Emails with large attachments consume unnecessary amounts of mail server resources. There are better ways to transfer large ...
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To set up folders for your IMAP account:
1. Log in to your webmail account via Horde (http://webmail.mydomain.com - replace mydomain.com with your actual domain name).
2. Click on O ...
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SPAM is the bane of civilized man. We understand, from personal experience, how annoying it is and we say with all sincerity, "we feel your pain." And we're very sorry for the trouble it causes you....
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If you receive SPAM emails that look they are coming from your own email account, or from other people with email accounts on your same domain, they are not really coming from those people's ...
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1. Redirect your Email to Gmail
Set your website email account to Redirect messages to your Gmail Account.
Log into the mail control panel at: http://www.gutensite.com/hosting
User ...
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We recommend that people setup their own dedicated mail programs to check their email, via POP (download to local computer) or IMAP (read mail from server, good if you have several different ...
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POP
A POP connection will cause your computer's mail program to download all your email, from the mail server and store the messages and the attachments on your computer. This is useful if yo ...
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Most likely, your mailbox is full. So when people try to send emails, the server sends them a message back saying that it can't receive anymore emails because your mailbox is full. If you connect ...
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Let's throw some acronyms around, just for fun. Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) recommend that their clients use the Outgoing SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server of the ISP. This is ...
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Many search engines allow you to submit your site directly to them for faster consideration. When your site is submitted, they will know that it exists and soon send out little spiders (programs ...
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"SEO"is a buzz term that gets thrown around a lot these days. It stands for "search engine optimization," and basically refers to steps you can take to increase your website's rankings on prominent ...
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If you are using SendStudio, our integrated Mailing List software, you'll be happy to know that displaying the archives of your newsletter is a feature that is already seamlessly integrated into your ...
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Yes you can setup tracking and statistics code on your website. We recommend Google Analytics. It's free, it's very powerful, and we already have an easy way to make it work with your site. But we ...
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Send all correspondence to our main office (address listed on our contact page). Make checks payable to "Gutensite" and include your client name and invoice number (if applicable).
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Unfortunately, it's too complicated to maintain special deals for each client, and we are confident that our pricing is very reasonable for the quality of design, advanced functionality, hosting, and support that we provide. We have packages that are priced for any budget, and we occasionally run specials that allow you to get a discount, or even get free months of subscriptions if you refer a friend.
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