Please check out our tutorials below. These tutorials will describe some simple ways to manage your JCMS site.
1. Getting Started
• Login to your cpanel (http://www.yoursitename.com/cpanel) using the username and password given to your email
• Scroll down and click ‘Site Software' under the ‘Software/Services' tab
• Click ‘JCMS' link at the bottom of the page
• Create ‘Admin User' and ‘Admin password' for your JCMS admin section as you want, confirm the ‘Admin password' once again
• If you want to change your email default, change the ‘Email' field
• Leave the ‘Installation URL' blank (delete the name displayed after your site name)
• Click ‘Install'
• Click ‘Main' to get back to your cpanel home or click ‘View your site' to go to your site interface
• You can go to your JCMS admin section by typing: yoursitename.com/admin-cp at your browser. To organize the web as you want, please login with the “Admin User' and ‘Admin password' you just created in step 4 above
To create an email account:
• Go to cpanel home (if you're already logged out, you can login to your cpanel- please check step 1 above; or you can click ‘Home' button at the top left of the page if you're still logged in)
• Click ‘Email Account' under the ‘Mail' tab
• Create email name, password and quota as you want, click ‘Create' when finish
To manage your site, you can go to your JCMS admin section by typing: yoursitename.com/admin-cp at your browser, login with the “Admin User' and ‘Admin password' you just created in step 4 above. Below are tutorials on how to manage your site easily.
• Edit the text in the box and click ‘Submit' after editing process completed
• If you want to use content from your word file, use ‘Paste from Word' button at the text editor screen and insert your text there
• If you want to insert an image in your text, use ‘Insert image' button at the text editor screen, ‘upload' the image from your computer, and ‘select' the image you just uploaded
• Choose ‘Photo & Gallery' from the drop down list
• To create a new category or album, click ‘Create photo & gallery' at the top left of the page, a new editor window will show up
• Give title for your new category or album. If you want to give image to your post, click ‘Browse' or click in the box next to the ‘Image' field to upload the picture file from your computer. You also can give summary for your new category or album in the content box.
• Click ‘Submit' when finish
• You will find your new category or album added in the list. To edit the album, click ‘Edit' button next to it. To remove the album, click ‘Delete' button next to it.
• To add pictures into the album, click ‘View images' button next to it. You will be directed to new page where you can upload pictures from your computer
• Click ‘Upload an image' at the top left of the page, click ‘Browse' or click in the box next to the ‘Image' field to upload the picture file from your computer. You can give description for your picture. Click ‘Submit' when finish
• Now you can check the photo gallery in the interface of your site. The album will be displayed first when you click ‘Photo & Gallery' menu. If you click the album, the pictures inside the album will be displayed. When you click the picture, the pictures in the album will be displayed in slide show. The previous and next button is at the left and right of the picture. If you click the ‘Play' button at the top left of the page the slide show will be played automatically. Simply click the ‘Close' button at the top right of the page to exit the slide show
4. How to manage menu - Product Services, Promotion Events, News Article
These are menus which can be filled with several content items; the content items will be displayed as lists with hyperlink to the details of each content item. In addition, latest contents posted in ‘Promotion & Event' and ‘News & Article' menu will be displayed on every page of your site. You can edit these three menus with almost the same way, so let's try to edit ‘News & Article' menu as an example.
• Move your cursor to ‘Web Content' tab
• Choose ‘News & Article' from the drop down list
• To create a new news, click ‘Create a news and article' at the top left of the page, a new editor window will show up
• Give date and title for your new post. If you want to give image to your post, click ‘Browse' or click in the box next to the ‘Image' field to upload the picture file from your computer.
• Fill the summary of your post in ‘Preview' box and fill the rest of the details in ‘Content' box
• If you want to use content from your word file, use ‘Paste from Word' button at the text editor screen and insert your text there
• If you want to insert an image in your text, use ‘Insert image' button at the text editor screen, ‘upload' the image from your computer, and ‘select' the image you just uploaded
• You can choose which email you want to use to receive the inquiries. Click ‘Edit' button next to the ‘Send to' field and fill in the email address as you want. All inquiries of your site visitor will be sent to this email inbox. In addition, you also can see the inquiries in the table below ‘Page Content' field.
• You also can display your contact details where your site visitor can catch you. Click ‘Edit' button next to the ‘Page Content' field, fill your contact details, and click ‘Submit' when finish. Your contact details will be displayed in ‘Contact Us' menu above the ‘Contact Us' online form.
• For those who use Windows Live Messenger, please check out simple tutorial link in your JCMS admin section (under ‘Live Chat' tab) for the next steps
Now go to your JEHOS admin section and follow these steps below:
• Click ‘Live Chat' tab
• Click ‘Create Live Chat' at the top left of the page
• Fill the ‘Name' field with the support name you want
• Copy and paste the example code which you want to use into the box next to the ‘IM Status Code' field and change the ‘USERNAME' with your Yahoo ID or Skype ID. For those who use Windows Live Messenger, please check out simple tutorial link under ‘IM Status Code' field and then you only need to copy and paste the code which you get from step 4 above into the ‘IM Status Code' box
7. How to manage admin password and site configuration
• Move your cursor to ‘General Preference' tab
• Click ‘Administrator' from the dropdown list
• Enter your old password and new password, confirm your new password once again
• Click ‘Submit' when finish
• After changing password successfully, system will automatically logged out
• Just in case you forgot your password, please click ‘Forgot password' link at the bottom of administrator login box located in http://www.yoursitename.com/admin-cp
• Type your administrator email there and click ‘Submit', a new password will be automatically sent to your administrator email. You can use this new password to login to your JCMS admin section
How to manage site configuration
• Move your cursor to ‘General Preference' tab
• Click ‘Configuration' from the dropdown list
• You can fill your site title, your company name, description and keyword related to your site as much as you can and then click ‘Submit'. Enter all information for your site precisely as much as you can. This page preference will easily be detected by search engine, so that when people looking for something related to your site at the search engine, your site will show up
• In the ‘Email' field, you can change your administrator email address
You can change the header of the default template with your own picture (it can be your company logo, tagline, picture of your product, or anything you want). You can design your own header picture and save it in JPEG format file or you can simply browse picture in JPEG format file and use it as your header picture.
• Move your cursor to ‘General Preference'
• Choose ‘Template Manager' from the drop down list
• Click ‘edit' button next to the template which you want to modify. You will be directed to the page where you can upload your new header
• Simply click ‘Browse' button or click in the field next to the ‘Browse' button and choose your new header file and then click ‘Submit'. Don't forget to notice your new picture size, you can use the recommended size so that it can fit the template
• If the uploading process completed, you will see your new header picture in your site interface. You can go to your site to view your new header picture
• Choose ‘Template manager' from the drop down list
• If you have new template file and want to use it, click Browse or click the box next to ‘Template file' field and you will see a dialog box
• Choose the new template file which you have in your computer
• When you directed back to ‘Template manager' page, simply click ‘Submit' to install the new template
• If the installation succeeds, you will find the new template preview added in ‘Template list'. Choose the template you want from the ‘Template list' and click ‘Default' next to it
• Now you can check the interface of your site in new template
If you don't want to use other template for your site, you can simply delete the template from the ‘Template list' by clicking the ‘delete' button on each list
• To add new banner or advertisement click ‘Post an add' at the top left of the page, a new window will show up
• Give title for your banner and choose image file from your computer by clicking ‘Browse' or clicking the box next to ‘Image' field
• If you want to insert hyperlink into your banner, fill the ‘URL' field with the web address you want. If your site visitors click the banner, they will be directed to the URL you've been added into the banner
• You can edit the banner you have added to the list by clicking ‘Edit' button next to the banner. A new editor window will show up. You can change the title, image, URL, and choose whether to publish the banner or not.
• You also can remove the banner simply by clicking ‘delete' button next to the banner
• The order field is to manage the banner display; banner with smaller number will show up first, while the others will show up below