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>4.2. The Preferences Page</H1
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>Here are the parameters needed for the configuration of the config.php file through the admin/preferences area:</P
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>Site name: It corresponds to the <A
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>Site URL: It is the internet address of your site.</P
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>Logo: It is the logo of your site. In standard themes and themes not modified much it is the Logo that appears up on the left.</P
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>Slogan: It is equivalent to the <A
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>Beginning date of the site: It's the date that appears in the statistics module.</P
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>Administrator e-mail : it is the e-mail which will receive the notifications for article insertions by third parties and the mails from the "contact us" module.</P
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>Articles in Top Page: Specifies the number of news articles that can be displayed in the main page of the news module.</P
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>Articles in Home: Specifies the number of news articles that can be displayed in the home page of the site (if the news module is the main one).</P
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>Stories in old articles box: Specifies the number of news articles that can be displayed in the old articles box.</P
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>Activate ultramode: specifies if other sites can take news titles from our site.</P
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>Allow anonymous to post : Specifies whether anonymous users can write comments.</P
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>Default theme: defines the default theme of the site.</P
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>Select language: defines the default language of the site.</P
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>local time format: defines the format of the local time (Depends on the server, if it is running linux, this is controlled in <EM
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>activate the multilanguage characteristics: choose whether the site should support a multilingual functionality or not</P
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>display the small flags in place of the list: if the multilingual option is activated then this decides whether the block should display the small state flags in place of a list of language names.</P
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>activate banners : sets up the option to use banner rotation on the site.</P
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>For the footer of the page, imagine we have to insert 3 texts in a table that is 100% wide and positioned centrally:</P
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>Page Footer Line 1: first text to insert</P
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>Page Footer Line 2: second text to insert</P
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>Page Footer Line 3: third text to insert</P
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>Backend title: The title that will appear in the file from which other sites get our newsfeed.</P
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>Backend language: language for the newsfeed file.</P
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>Notify new insertions via e-mail: It defines whether the administrator gets an e-mail when a user inserts a news article.</P
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>E-mail address to send the message: e-mail to which the notification message will be sent.</P
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>E-mail subject:</P
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>E-mail message: notification text (e.g. "you have received a new article").</P
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>E-mail account (From): who has sent the message.</P
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>Moderation type: chooses whether a moderation should be set up for the comments or not.</P
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>Comment limits in Bytes: sets up the maximum size for the comments.</P
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>Default anonymous user name: assigns a name to the persons who chose to remain unregistered.</P
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>Graphical administration menu: sets up whether to have icons or text in the administration area.</P
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>Minimal length for the user's password: for security reasons it is advisable to set up a rather long password.</P
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>Activate referring HTTP: whether statistics regarding the origin of the visits should be gathered.</P
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>How many referrers you want maximally: the maximum number of statistics pertaining to the origin of the visits (max 2000).</P
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>Activate comments in surveys: Whether comments are allowed in the surveys or not.</P
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>Activate comments in articles: Whether comments are allowed in the articles or not.</P
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