Once you have successfully installed MD in your system the first required action is to configure your site settings. You need to give all the mandatory settings to have your site working properly.
Settings Module
There are two sections available in Settings Module, these consist of General Settings and Allowed HTML Settings. Generally, you would not be required to make any changes in HTML settings as the default settings have been set to be secure for common sites. Unless you know what are you doing it is recommended to keep the default Allowed HTML Settings.
General Settings
Site Name: Fill your site name in this field. Browsers will automatically detect this field as site title. To use this label anywhere else in your page you can add the {site-name} tag inside your theme template files. Most of MD theme has included this tag inside the theme templates.
Site Logo: The default file name is logo.gif located under your-site/images directory. To use your own logo image upload the image logo file to replace the existing logo. You can use .gif, .jpg or .png extension file for your own logo.
You can locate the logo under your default theme. Use {images-path}/logo.gif tag inside your theme template files to replace the existing logo location.
Description of site: Fill this field with a short description of the site or its purposes. It will be shown in the browser window titlebar and in search engine as your website description as well.
Meta keywords: Fill this field with keywords of your site, comma separated, this will be used by search engines purpose.
Dynamic MetaKeywords: This option use the words of the articles from News module in key for the web search engines.
Use organized admin panel: Let you choose between a simple (all modules' name in a page) or graphical admin page (with Icons, divided per sections).
Site start date: Month and year of the site installation.
Administrator e-mail address: Enter the admin email address, the system will send any notification generated from modules to this address.
Default theme for your site: Select a theme to be an active theme from themes listed under your theme directory. All visitors and non-logged users will see this one. If you install MDChannel add-on module, this module allows you to assign specific theme for each user's group.
Locale time format: This allow the system recognize your local time formatted.
Time zone: Select your time zone. This time zone only work if your server is located in your area, otherwise you have to select a different zone that match with your local time.
Start page: Select a module from the dropdown list combo that will become active as your main index page. The default setting is News module where visitors will see News everytime they browse your web-site main page.
Number of stories to show on admin menu: You can configure the number of posted articles will be shown in
administration control panel main page. This feature will help you to maintain the latest posted articles from News module. The maximum list setting is 50 articles.
Number of stories to show on homepage: This feature only work if you use News module as your start page and in News module main page. You can configure how many summary articles will be shown in your homepage or News module main page. The default setting is 10 summary articles.
Sort stories on homepage by: Choose the list order of the articles in the home page [if you use News module as start page] or in News module main page by Articles ID or releasing date.
Enable icons in administration menu: This feature is not working properly yet. The concept is to allows administrator only see text links instead of icons in administration menu.
Enable AntiCracker: Email notification will be sent to administrators as warning of the cross site scripting possibilities into your site.
Activate MDadvice feature: Let the admin receive important news about updates and security fixes for MDLite, sent by maxdev.it - strongly suggested!
Activate tool tips: This feature will provide a help tips icon
enable in modules administration page.
