VWD-CMS 1.0 Configuration Checklist

Installing VWD-CMS 1.0 on a New Website

1. Download the VWD-CMS 1.0 zip file.
2. On your local machine, unzip the VWD-CMS 1.0 zip file into a temporary directory.
3. Connect to your website's FTP Server and go the the root directory (usually ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com/httpdocs/).
4. Copy the files and folders from the temp directory to your web server.
5. Follow the configuration steps below to complete the setup of the CMS.

Installing VWD-CMS 1.0 on an Existing Website

Installing a CMS over an existing website requires that you take care to avoid overwriting your existing pages and images. Experienced developers and webmasters should not have any problems during this process. If you are not sure how to change your website over to VWD-CMS, please contact me - I provide consulting services which include importing existing websites into VWD-CMS.

Post-Installation Configuration Tasks

There are a few things that you should do before you start building your site:

1. Security Settings
1. Set the Identity (Impersonation) UserName and Password in the VwdCms/Web.config file.
2. Make sure the User Account used for Impersonation has Write-Level permissions.
3. Protect the VwdCms folder (using IIS or Plesk) with a Windows Account and Password.


2. Web.config Settings
1. Set the Default Settings for Page Title, Description, etc.
2. Set the Domain, Company Name, City, State, etc.


3. Language Settings
1. If you only want to support English, you can comment out all of the other languages in the VwdCms/Languages.xml file.
2. If you want to support multiple languages, edit the VwdCms/Languages.xml file to have the languages that you want.
3. If you add a new language, you will need to get an icon for the flag (or whatever you want to display).