Saving Your Page

Click on the Save Options button to view save options.

When developing and editing your site you may not want your changes to immediately appear on the live version of your web site. For example, you may want to make some changes today and others tomorrow, but you may not want anyone to see your changes until all of the them have been made. MySiteBuilder allows you to do this by providing you with two save options:

Save My Work: This will save any changes you have just made, but will not update your live web site. When you return to edit your web site, your changes will be preserved. Use this option frequently while working on your site to ensure that you do not loose any of your changes due to a computer failure, power outage, etc.

Save and Make Live: This will save any changes you have just made, and will update your live web site. Use this option when you are ready to have all of your changes appear on your live web site.

Quit and Do NOT Save: This will allow you to exit MySiteBuilder without saving any of your changes in any way. When you click on "Quit and Do NOT Save" you will lose any changes you have made since your last save.

Previewing Your Page

Click the Preview icon to see how your page will look in a new window without any of the MySiteBuilder tools.

Password Protecting a Page

• Why Password Protect a Page?

  Password protecting pages in your web site is useful if you want to control access to sensitive or personal information or images that you place on your web site pages.

• What Pages Can Be Password Protected?

  All pages except the home page can be individually password protected. To protect your entire site, you must apply password protection to every page.

• How to Password Protect a Page?

  In order to password protect a page in your web site, you need to first define authorised users and their passwords.

  Define Authorised Users and Passwords

  1. Log in to your web site administration area using your itsmysite.com user id and password. For information on how to retrieve your password, click here.
  2. Click on “Password Protection”
  3. Create a new user by entering a User Name and a Password in the space provided, and select a group from the pull down menu for the user.
  4. Click on the Save Changes button. The user will be added to your list, and you will then be able to continue adding more users.

• Why Do Users Need to be in Groups?

  Every user you create needs to be part of a group. So, for example, you may want to make one part of your site available to your Friends and another to your Family. By organising your users into these two groups, you can easily remove and add a user to your Family or Friends groups without affecting the passwords of the other members in the groups.

  When you apply password protection to a page, you are restricting access to your page to one group. One page cannot be accessed by more than one group.

  You can group users into different categories such as Family, Relatives, Friends, Best Friends, Colleagues, Clients, Members, plus three more generic groups.

  If you want one user to be part of more than one group, simply create two entries for that user with the same name and password, but with a different group.

• Applying Password Protection to a Page
  1. In MySiteBuilder, go to the page to which you want to add password protection.
  2. Click on the Page Setting button at the top of the page.
  3. From the group pop up menu in the Password Protection area in the right frame, select the group that should have access to the currently visible page. Your options are: Family, Relatives, Friends, Best Friends, Colleagues, Clients, Members, plus three more generic groups.
  4. From the Timeout pop up menu select a password timeout period.
  5. Click the OK button at the bottom of the right frame

• What is the Password Timeout?

  For the convenience of your visitors, you can specify how long a visitor’s password will be stored on his/her computer. When a password is stored on a visitors computer, the visitor will not have to re-enter the password when moving from one similarly password protected page to another, or upon returning to the site after logging in once.

  We recommend a short Timeout period if you believe that your users will view your site from a computer that has public access (such as in a university, library, or internet café). In this way if the user accidentally

• Removing Password Protection from a Page
  1. In MySiteBuilder, go to the page to which you want to remove password protection.
  2. Click on the Page Setting button at the top of the page.
  3. From the group pop up menu in the Password Protection area in the right frame, select the group “Everybody”.
  4. Click the OK button at the bottom of the right frame

• Concerns About Passwords

  If you have set up a Password Protected page that you believe an unauthorised person is accessing, immediately change the password that controls access to that page.