The Root |
 Left: the website root container. Do not rename or delete any of these objects.Objects in FirstMagic Root Homepage: depending on choices made in FirstMagic Preferences, this is the entire Homepage, its header, or a Splash Screen:  • Set [X] Articles to 0 to make it the entire Homepage• Set [x] Articles to show more than 0 and it becomes the Newslist Header. • Check the Homepage option and the Homepage becomes a Splash Screen without menus or sidebars. Content: Contains all web pages and Newslist Articles, as well as the Menu and Sidebar Containers. Digital Signage: The default Digital Sign Calendar creates a digital sign from Calendar Events, Tasks and FirstClass Documents. FirstMagic: The FirstMagic Preferences Form - configure all aspects of the website and it´s publishing capabilites here. Ensemble: editable system files [not needed for daily operation]. Ensemble contains CustomCSS (stylesheets), the FavIcon file, custom language resources, and a number of HTML include documents for installing external services. It also contains the SiteWidgets and SignWidgets containers - configurable footers where you can add features and extra content to the site. The root container also contains two invisible objects you should never need to modify: • robots.txt - a document that stops search engines from indexing system files • index.shtml - the actual index document to the site |
The Content Container |
 This is the website content area. The built-in containers are automatically published, unless you turn them off in FirstMagic Preferences.Documents archived directly in Content will become part of the Homepage Newslist and the site´s RSS feed. If Blog Mode is enabled, they will be shown in full on the Homepage. If not, the first 250 characters from each document will be rendered together with a thumbnail of any image in the first paragraph. Sub-containers in Content will not show up in the Newslist but must be linked to manually. |
Sidebar: add containers, widgets and documents to generate the Sidebar Menu. Documents will become text boxes, containers will become menus with links to what´s inside. |
Menu: add containers and documents to generate the Top Menu. Containers will become dropdowns with links to what´s inside. |
Comments: comments posted via the built-in commenting system is stored here, and can be moderated by opening and editing them directly. |
The root and the Content Container: how it ties together |
 Homepage: the document pinned to the top of the Content Newslist. Content: holds all web pages, menus and News Items inside: - Documents: becomes Newslist Items listed on the Homepage [like the QuickStart example]. - Sidebar: documents inside becomes sidebar objects, while containers becomes lists of links to the documents and folders inside. - Menu: the website Top Menu. Documents inside becomes links, and containers becomes drop-down lists with links to the documents and folders inside. All this can be tweaked and turned on/off in FirstMagic Preferences. |
Some important notes about publishing: Page rendering will break if you move (or change the name of) any of these objects: • Menu • Sidebar • Comments However, you can change the name of the Content container itself to anything you like. Just make sure any changes is reflected on Tab 1 in FirstMagic Preferences. FirstMagic uses icon IDs to determine how an object is to be rendered, so it can have undesirable side effects to change an object´s default icon. For example, changing the icon of a comment file in Comments will cause it to become searchable (which you will probably not want, as it will show up in hitlists with no reference to it´s parent page). |