Page Settings

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Page Width

Availability: Builder 1.4.2 and above
Default: 750px

This setting defines how wide the pages should be - either as a fixed number of pixels or as a percentage of the width of the web browser window that's being used to view your site.

Example widths:

Examples:

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Column width 50% Center Image Added 750px Column width 50% Center Image Added 90%

The smallest common It should be noted that the smallest screen resolution these days is around 800px x 600px (width x height). As such, we We reccommend that if you use a fixed width you do not exceed any more than 770px to avoid dreadful horizontal scrolling (something end-users loathe).

Remember that some of the screen width is taken up by scrollbars, shortcut bars, quicklaunch bars, etc., depending on the configuration of the end-user's machine.

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The information bar appears at the top of pages and newsitems and listslooks like this:

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As you can see, it contains the following information:

• Author
• Last Editor (and date)
• Change comment (if applicable)
• Page lables
• Favourites button
• Watch page button

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However, for glossy websites and/or intranets, this information is not needed and clutters up the top of the screen. To hide the information bar (and therefore all the items in the list above), de-select this setting.

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Enable PNG Support

Availability: Builder 1.5 and above. Became optional in 1.6 and above.
Default: Enabled (support for PNG images)

Builder 1.5 added full support for PNG image alpha-transparency support for Internet Explorer 5..5 and above.

Internet Explorer versions between 5.5 and 7.0 don't display PNG images properly. Instead of having transparent regions a pale blue colour is shown.

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Column width 50% Center Image Added PNG Support Enabled Column width 50% Center Image Added PNG Support Disabled

When selected, this option performs some magic to make sure that Internet Explorer 5.5 and above correctly display transparent regions in PNG images.If

On all other browsers, such as Firefox, Camino and Safari, PNG images are correctly displayed – this setting has no effect on those browsers. This setting only affects Internet Explorer.

When should PNG support be disabled?

You should disable PNG support if:

• you do not plan on using any PNG images

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• on your site
• you are using PNG images, but none of them use transparency
• nobody uses Internet Explorer to access your site

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• it's causing pages with lots of images to load too slowly
• you want to coax Internet Explorer users to upgrade to a modern browser that actually works

By disabling PNG support, you reduce the amount of work the web browser has to do in order to display a page, thus making your site seem more responsive. On pages with lots and lots of images, this can lead to noticeable speed increases within Internet Explorer.

Remove Dashboard from Breadcrumb Trail

Availability: Builder 1.5 and above. Distinct option in 1.6 and above.
Default: Disabled (show Dashboard link)

Builder 1.5 made it possible to remove the Dashboard link from The Breadcrumb Trail using CSS. Builder 1.6 and above makes this even more trivial by providing a checkbox setting within Page Settings.

By default, the first item on the Breadcrumb Trail is a link to The Dashboard.

In some scenarios, having a link to the Dashboard would be highly undesirable so you can use this option to hide the link!

When selected, as we've done in this user guide, When ticked, this setting will cause the "Dashboard" link to dissapear will be removed from the start of the breadcrumb trail.

Note: It's still possible to get to the dashboard, but hiding this link greatly reduces the likelihood of that happening. 

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