Vectorlight News

  • Chat App Converted to HTML and JQuery
    Sep 08, 2011

    Converted from Silverlight to HTML and Javascript/JQuery is the Vectorlight Chat App. Login using your Vectorlight password to chat using your username and avatar.

  • HTML5 iPhone,Android Big Guns Tower Defense
    Jul 02, 2011

    Big Guns has made the leap from Windows Phone 7 (XNA) to HTML5 so you can now play it on your iPhone, Android and other HTML5 compatible devices.

  • HTML5 Games - Word Poppers and Batty
    Jun 04, 2011

    As the take-up of HTML5 quickens (74% of users currently have a browser capable of HTML5 Canvas) we present two more games for both your browser and mobile.

  • Big Guns Tower Defense on Windows Phone 7
    May 06, 2011

    Coming soon to Windows Phone 7 is an XNA port of the popular Vectorlight tower defense game Super Tower Defense. Whilst retaining many of the graphical and gameplay features of the original Silverlight game.

  • Wakacube WP7 Update
    Apr 26, 2011

    Released to the Windows Phone 7 marketplace today is Version 1.1 of Wakacube the 3D physics game of skill. Included in the update are more levels (30 in total) and new mode Wakatime which generates random crate structures to keep players entertained long after the levels have been completed.

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Page Properties

Along with the visible page content there are many properties that are associated with a page that can be configured.  The Page Properties dialog can be accessed from the Toolbar or the Page menu and consists of 4 tabs.

General Tab

The default tab that is appears when the Page Properties is displayed is the General tab and allows you to specify the Long Title and Menu Title, template and SEO options such as Description and Keywords.

The Page Properties General Tab

Menu and Long Title

The Menu Title is limited to 50 characters and as its name suggests is used in the menu modules.  The Long Title which is limited to 120 characters is the full length name of the web page.

Changing the Template

The Template drop down list contains a list of all the available website templates.  When you change the selected template the page is automatically updated to show a preview of the new template.  Click Cancel to revert back to the original template.

Description and Keywords

When a web page is generated these two fields are inserted into the head metadata section and is used by some search engines for determining the content of the page.

Roles Tab

The Roles tab allows you to specify which user roles the page exists in.  This allows you to create pages that only certain groups of registered users can view.

The Page Properties Roles Tab

There is no limit to the number of roles a page can exist in.  See the admin tool Users and Roles to add/modify existing roles.

Visibility Tab

This tab controls when the page becomes visible and also whether it can be navigated to using the various website menus.

The Page Properties Visibility Tab

Start and End Dates

You can specify a date range that the page is visible for.  Before and after these dates the page will not be displayed by the CMS.

Show this Page in the Menu

When you select this option the page is not visible on the various website menus.  In the website navigation pane the page icon will appear faded out to indicate the page has been hidden.

Show this Page in the Menu to All Roles

When this option is selected the page is only visible in the menus if the logged on website user is in the same role(s) as the page.

Metadata Tab

This tab allows you to specify extra properties associated with a page called metadata.  Metadata categories can be added/modified using the admin tool Metadata Manager.

The Page Properties Metadata Tab

The properties displayed will vary from configuration to configuration.

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