Part 4: Page & Module Layout
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Short Version
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General Module Settings: Once you have added a module, you will want to customize it and add any data.
- First: Go to your homepage after adding any modules.
- Second: In some cases you will have to initialize the module before using it.
- Third: You will set the general properties of a module including the title, style and security mode.
- Finally: You will make any module specific settings and add any data. See the individual module guides below for
more on this.
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Module Specific Settings: Each module type will have other settings or ways to add data. See below for links to the individual module guides.
Detailed Guide: General Module Settings
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Step 1: Open your user homepage in private mode, to do this you must be logged in and then just click
the Home button.
This button can be found in the same spots as the User Settings button; either at the top of any user page or
beside the navigation links on other pages.
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Step 2: Individual modules are setup according to your preferences, you must be on your homepage and logged in to
accomplish this.
- First: Look for the edit button on the right-hand side of the title bar of the module that you want to setup.
If you cannot see the link it means you are not logged in.
- Second : Set the common data meaning, the title, security mode and display style. The title and mode are the
same features that you can set in the Content Manager from Part 4 of this guide. The display style dropdown is where
you can choose from the two styles you created in Part 3.
- Third: You can set any other properties for the module. You may want to check out the specific module guides (see below)
before hand.
- Finally: Make sure to click the Save button when you are done other wise if you leave this page the settings will be
cancelled.
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Look for the edit link on the right side of a titlebar.
These properties are common to all modules.
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Specific Module Guides
You may want to review our guides for each module to learn more about what you can do to customize them to your needs. These guide pages
can also be found from the main page of the user guide.
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About Module Guide:
The About Module lets you give your user info, a biography and a user picture. You can type in your info
or copy it from your user profile. Your user pic can be any picture in your image folder and can be sized to several sizes.
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About Module Guide:
The Fan List Module lets you display all of your fans or specific fan groups. It also lets you display your fan's activities and provides a way for others
to make a fan request to you.
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Blog Module Guide:
This is a standard blog module. Like any blog functionality you can use it to post periodic comments, observations or practically whatever you would like.
You can use this for concert notifications, lyric sheets so on.
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Music List Module Guide:
The music list module allows other users to view a list of active songs under your account. Once we have implemented the full music player it will allow
users to listen to your music as well as view ratings and other data.
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Slide Show Module Guide:
Use this module to create an image slide-show. Each slide-show can contain upto 20 images with decriptions.
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General Content Module Guide:
Use this module to create banners, concert notifications or any sort of free form content.
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Embedded Media Module Guide:
Use this module to add embedded flash movies hosted on other servers like YouTube etc.
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Comments Module Guide:
Use this module to display user comments and/or song comments.
Part 4: Page & Module Layout
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