This is a tutorial describing the steps to setting up a new fusesite CMS website.

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Create a Fusesite Website – Now!
Tutorial
Winter 2007
Steps to setting up your website:
1. Start setting up your Fusesite website by clicking: “Create your own” fusesite.
You can also find this link by scrolling down to the end of each webpage at
www.fusesite.com
2. Fill in the required information about you and your site. You can revise any of
this later including your site name. Please note that your email address and
password will become your website login information
3. Choose a template and colour scheme for your website. You can change these
later!
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2. Need help?
support@fusesite.com
819-328-1503
4. Submit to create your website:
Congratulations! You’ve just done the initial set up for your website. Just like an artist
starts with a blank canvas, this template becomes the canvas you use to populate and
design your website to your needs by adding text, graphics, colours, and changing
navigation. The next step: Login to your website to let the creation begin.
5. Login to your website:
a. Scroll down to the bottom of your website template page
b. Click on “Login” to this site
c. Type in your username (email address you provided in site setup, step
no. 2 above)
d. Type in the password you selected when setting up
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3. Need help?
support@fusesite.com
819-328-1503
6. Designing your website:
Once logged in, an administrator’s panel opens and content boxes appear. Both are
described below in more detail.
Administration Panel:
This is where you change your registration details.
Update or change your site setup details.
Select the font style that you want. Please note your visitors may see a different font
depending on their browser settings. Times, Verdana, Arial are web-safe fonts meaning
all your visitors have them on their computers.
You can swap templates at any time and all your navigation elements and content
automatically swap into your new template.
Choose colours for the different areas of your site. A good colour selector site is:
http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/wheel.asp -- Spin the colour wheel to be inspired.
Add webpages by selecting “add a new navigation element. Move them around by using
the up and down arrows. Turn them into subnavigation elements by using the right arrow.
Turn on the email features to enable your website with automated features for
guestbooks, photo albums and subscribe functionality.
Hide administration panel icons, such as the image upload icon, if you find them
distracting.
Click “logout” to close your website session. All the changes you made and new content
you entered is now live in the internet.
Content Box:
The content area also opens when you first login to your website. Click on the plus
Type your paragraph headline,
sign to open a content box: and add your paragraph text,
then click the save button.
Legend:
save
save and close
close without saving
Be sure to “write for
the web” using short paragraphs
and bullets.
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4. Need help?
support@fusesite.com
819-328-1503
7. (Optional). Our goal is for you to be really proud of your new website. If you
would like us to have a look at your site and make design suggestions, free of
charge, please send the URL (http://www.fusesite.com/yoursitename) to
sanderson@fusesite.com
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