This tutorial explains how to use our News Manager. This will step you through the four major sections of the News Manager and how each one functions to ensure you can obtain the information you require as quickly as possible and utilizing the least amount of navigation and keystrokes.

This Tutorial was last Updated on Friday, 14th of October 2011

For most of the applications we have developed for you to use on your website, there is the ability to upload pictures, however the issue always remains if the picture you wish to upload is not in the correct aspect ratio that the application would recommend.

Simply put, this is the ratio of the pictures width to the pictures height. To find the aspect ratio you simply divide the width by the height. For example our Trader / Advertising Manager requires images to be 300 pixels wide x 180 pixels high. So 300 / 180 = 1.66667 (this is 5:3 which means for every 5 pixels of width, there are 3 pixels of height). An Example. (300 / 5) * 3 = 180, and (180 * 3) / 5 = 300 and 5 / 3 = 1.6667

Our Image Manager will resize the image the best it can, but to ensure your pictures look correct (not stretched or squashed) it will retain the original aspect ratio. This means that your picture may not use the full space available when being viewed. We suggest that you take a few minutes to understand just how important the Aspect Ratio is and ensure that all pictures you upload are in the optimum Aspect Ratio.

This tutorial will demonstrate taking a scan of a business card for use with your Trader / Advertising Manager. Therefore we need the image to be in 5:3 aspect ratio. (1.6667 : 1).

This Tutorial was last Updated on Friday, 14th of October 2011

Our Product Manager also incorporates a Product Search Feature.

The Product Search is like an advanced website search feature, designed specifically for products. With it you can search using keywords, limit your search to a specific product Category, or limit your search to a specific product Sub Category, or limit your search to a specific Manufacturer.

You can also choose to apply just one of those search limits, some of them, or all of them. This is ideal if you wish to display all products available from a specific manufacturer. That way you do not have to manually check through every category or sub category. The Product Search will put all of that manufacturers products on a single page for you.

You can also choose to view as a text list (no thumbnail pictures), making it even faster.

This Tutorial was last Updated on Friday, 14th of October 2011

This tutorial will step you through how to create a Group Email address book entry, so that you can create periodical Email Newsletters.

This tutorial assumes that Outlook is configured correctly on your computer and that you have an email account configured so that you can send and/or receive email. It does not include information on how to setup Outlook.

This Tutorial was last Updated on Monday, 20th of February 2012