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Welcome to the EasyRealtySites – CoolSites Users’ Manual
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
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Step 1 – Set Your Site Up
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User Options – Change Login Info
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Change Design – Search for Your Site Template
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Change Design - Picking Your Design
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Configure Layout – Edit the Site Template, Update All Pages
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Configure Layout – Edit the Header
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Configure – Manage Agents & Brokerages –
Setting Up Your MLS Listings, Contact Info & Bio Pages
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Configure – Contact Settings
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Domain Registration – Request or Set  Up Your Domain
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Registered Users & Master Settings
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Home Scout
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Client Login – Customer Activity Tracker/Blog
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Client Login – Customer Activity Tracker/Blog
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Registered Users –
Setting Up Your Site Registration Strategy
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Registered Users –
Setting Up Your Site Registration Strategy
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Registered Users –
Setting Up Your Site Registration Strategy
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Registered Users –
Setting Up Your Site Registration Strategy
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Registered Users –
Setting Up Your Site Registration Strategy
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List Pages Organizing Your Site
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List Pages – Site Page Inventory
  • List Pages – Options


  • Navigation Style
  • Home Page
  • Rank
  • Page Name
  • Interior Arrows
  • Page Type
  • Use Layout
  • Page Access
  • Delete
  • Pages With Buttons
  • Pages Without Buttons
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List Pages – Navigation Style
  • Allows you to switch the navigation or
  • buttons on your site from standard text links
  • to graphical buttons that can be drop down
  • DHTML or roll over menus.


  • If you pick the Drop Down (DHTML) Menu
  • option, Interior Horizontal Arrows will
  • appear next to every page name in the
  • Pages With Buttons area, these arrows
  • allow you to make a child or nested page
  • which is a navigation menu item that will
  • pop out when a user moves their mouse
  • over the main line or parent button


  • To make a page a child of another:
  • Step 1 - move the page to the spot one
  • below it in the list (using the Rank tool pg6)
  • Step 2 - Click the arrow pointing to the
  • right, it will then indent that page and
  • change its color (2nd level is green, 3rd red).


  • To move a page back to the first level, click
  • the arrows pointing to the left.


  • Note: If you pick Standard Menu, you will
  • not see the interior arrows and will not have
  • the ability to create roll over buttons
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List Pages – Pages With or Without Buttons and Delete
  • Pages With Button = Are Pages that have a
  • button in your website’s navigation
  • (includes any roll over pages if you use
  • Drop Down (DHTML) Menu option (page 4)


  • Pages Without Buttons – This can include
  • pages that are not being actively used on
  • your site but are available to you or pages
  • that are actively used on your site but are
  • not in the navigation such as:
  • Pages that are linked from other pages on your site
  • Pages that you want to be private and don’t want others to see


  • To move a page from one area to the other:
  • Step 1 -  Click the Yes or No links in the
  • Button column & it will trade or move the
  • page to the opposite area


  • Note: If you want to get a page out of your
  • navigation, but do not want to lose your
  • work, chose to move the page to the Pages
  • Without Buttons area & remove any links to
  • it from your site, because if you choose to
  • Delete the page (last column) then it will be
  • permanently deleted, no recovery.


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List Pages – Home Page, Rank, Page Type & Use Layout
  • Home Page – designate starting or landing page, what a user will go to when they type in your www.name.com
  • Rank – move order of page in your navigation links up or down.  Must move each page one spot at a time.  Only available in the Pages With Buttons area.
  • Page Type – ties into Page Wizard style.  Don’t worry about this, intended for our support team to help us diagnose issues quicker.
  • Use Layout – Yes = the design (header, background, navigation) you have picked for your website will appear on that page.  If you click on Yes to change it to No, it will over-ride the design on that page & have a plain white background with no navigation allowing you to post flyers or insert your own design or code.
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List Pages – Page Access (registration or password pages)
  • Every Page of your site defaults to Public which means anyone can access that page, but if you click on either the Public or Set links you can make any page either Password Protected or Registration Based
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List Pages – Editing Page Content Overview
  • You can edit the content of any page of your site simply by clicking on the page name.  There are 4 kinds of page edit screens, Free Form, Wizard Driven, My Form & MLS Related.  Each page type is described separately in the following pages.
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Editing
Free Form Page Types
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Editing Free Form or WYSIWYG Pages
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Font Editing Tool
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Link Editing Tool
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Link Editing Tool - Advanced
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Anchor Editing Tool
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Image Editing Tool
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Image Editing Tool - Advanced
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Table Editing Tool
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Rename – Changing Page Button & Title Information
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Add Pages Using the Page Wizards
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Add Page – Page Wizards
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Editing
Wizard Driven Page Types
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Add Page – Link Page Wizard
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Add Page – Calendar Page Wizards
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Edit Page Header/Footer
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Editing
My Form  Page Types
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Contact/Lead Form – Managing Fields
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Contact/Lead Forms – Viewing Submissions
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Editing      MLS Related Page Types
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Add Page – Real Estate No Search Page Wizards
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MLS Search Page General Settings
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MLS Search Page Layout & Search Criteria Settings
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View My Listings – View, Edit & Add Your MLS Listings
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View My Listings – Managing Your Featured Properties
Step 1
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View My Listings – Managing Your Featured Properties
Step 2
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Other Cool Site Tools
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Page Stats - Basic
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Meta Tags – Search Engine Keywords – Site Set Up
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Meta Tags – Search Engine Keywords – Page by Page Option
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Upload Files – Storage on Our Server, Downloadable
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Configure – General - My List Shopping Cart Settings
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Administering
Your Intranet Site
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Registered Users – Manage Users
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Registered Users – Manage User Groups
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Important Info
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Important Support Contact & CoolSites Tutorial Information