Creating
a site with Qool is pretty straight forward. Click on the Create a
new site link on the system wide options section and you
will get this page:
The
options are explained here:
Site Key
Each
site must have a unique name that will let Qool install modules for
it without messing up all other sites. It should be a word without
spaces and special chars except the underscore “_”. Choose this
name wisely and note it down cause you will not be able to change it
later.
Site Title
This
will be your site's title. You can change it later.
Keywords
Keywords
are used to fill the meta keywords value of each page in your site.
So if your new site is about sports, then some good keywords could
be soccer, basketball, premiere league etc.
Meta Description
Describes
what your site is about. Useful for search engines.
Slogan
The
slogan is a line of text that in some templates might follow your
title and in others it will be placed in the footer.
Footer Message
Some
HTML code or plain text to put on your site's footer.
Authorization Type
Whether
the site will use Sessions or Cookies to track user activity.
New Users
Whether
new users need to verify their email upon registration.
Main Module
Which
module to set as the main module for your new site. For new sites
only the System module is present. After creation all active modules
will be listed there.
Rich Text Editor
Which
RTE to use. Some options are: TinyMCE, FCKEditor, Yahoo Editor and
more...
# of page reloads before the anti Spam
system starts to work
We give a
number of times a page has to reload in a specified time for the
anti Spam system to start anti flood protection.
Duration of Spam ban in seconds
Set
the time a user will be displayed the banned page for in seconds. So
300 seconds is 5 minutes.
Default Template
Set
the default template for this site.
Default Language
Choose
the language you want the Qool interface to be displayed.
Site Url
Now
this is very important. If for example you have installed Qool on
www.example.com
and you want to create a site for sports like:
http://sports.example.com
then fill the field with sports.example.com omitting the http://
part.
Site Status
This
is where you set if you want your site to be published or not. This
is very useful if you want to publish the site later but let users
see a message that the site is under construction.
Site Password
Site
password is very important because you will need it every time you
edit your site. Note this down too cause you will not be able to
change it through the admin panel any more.
For
the example I will use these settings (I omit some for convenience ):
Site Key
: sample
Site Title
: This is a new site
Slogan :
The Ultimate New Site
Footer Message
: The New site is powered by me and © by myself
Rich Text Editor
: Yahoo Editor
Default Template
: Art
Site URL
: www.example.com
So lets create a new site. We fill in the fields like the image above
and we hit the Create button. The system informs us that the site has
been created and that the default modules has been installed. Then it
will redirect us to the admin panel and we should see something like
this:
Some
quick info for the screen above:
We can see that there are 2
sites now listed in the Available Sites Section and that the
second site has been selected. Just below you can see the installed
modules of this site and the module blocks for each module if any.
There is also a new section called Available Modules Section.
This will be explained later .
Now
lets explain what just happened.
When
you hit the Create button, Qool starts some internal checks to see if
all is OK for the site to be created. Then if all is OK, Qool creates
some database tables and stores some settings to the database for
this site. After that, the system creates the folders needed for this
site to work. These folders are:
