3 steps to your first QnE website
STOP PRESS: QnE is no longer a commercial product - and is no longer being sold from this website.
- QnE will continue to be developed, though not as a commercial product.
- Existing clients and licenses will continue to be supported - and all existing agreements will be honoured.
- if you have any questions about this change please get in touch via the contact form.
These instructions assume you are already logged in to the administration area.
1 Add website sections
One of the advantages of using QnE is that it helps you to organise your site into different sections; sections organise your content just like directories did in old style static websites. This is a powerful feature that enables you to generate navigation automatically, or create content that is unique to each section.
How to add new sections
Click the control panel link (foot of any page when you are logged in). click the 'Manage sections' link from the Common Actions navigation. Fill in the sections form with a title and a description of the sections. For now set the 'Add text area' pull-down to, 'no additional text area'. Ignore the checkboxes under the content box and hit the submit button to create a new section for your site.
2. Add a new page
Click 'Add New Page' from the common actions list within the control panel. You create a new page by filling in a page title, choosing a section to assign the page to, adding the content for your page and adding keywords for that page. Those are the only fields required to add a new page to your website.
Add distinct text boxes to your page that can be edited Most website pages don't consist of a single column on text, they usually have one or two other columns for such things as navigation lists or news or adverts. QnE allows you to make these areas editable - just in the way you can edit the main page content.
When you create or edit a page - you can associate additional text areas with that page. The text areas are chosen via the pull-down menus marked 'Add text area 1' and 'Add text area 2' - on the edit page form.
How to add and manage text areas
From the control panel under the common actions section choose 'Manage text area 1' or 'Manage text area 2' to create or edit any number of additional editable areas for your site.
3. Turn on 'Automatic navigation'
If you organise your website well enough QnE can build your website structure for you. If 'Automatic navigation' is turned on and your template has the appropriate QnE include uncommented in your template - each time you add a page to a section it will automatically appear in the navigation for that section.
Those are the most important steps to building your first QnE website.