SimZim Hosting Manual

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1. Introduction

SimZimTM is a universal web engine enabling its users to search, email, chat,
advertise and host their free websites in as many as 125 languages without
any coding and language specific key boards. As dependency on the English
language and the knowledge of programming languages is eliminated,
SimZimTM portal enables even a layman to host his full-fledged website.

2. Concept

SimZimTM portal introduces a new concept of codeless web hosting which

enables its users to host full fledged websites consisting several web pages,
without even a single line of coding. Defining and hosting a webpage on
SimZimTM portal is as easy as moving, resizing and filling boxes in a template,
and pressing a submit button. Boxes in a template represent content panels
or buttons in the corresponding webpage. Lines and images also can be
added and placed at required locations in the template. All the elements,
boxes, lines, images, forms etc, defined in the template web page are
displayed as is in the corresponding webpage through superposition,
providing the same look and feel as the template.

The base template provided initially for a user to start with contains a
number of boxes properly arranged resembling a typical website home
page. The template can be modified by removing existing elements and
adding new elements and resizing and relocating them to required locations
to achieve the desired look and feel of the website. This concept of codeless
web hosting completely relieves the users of SimZimTM portal from tedious,
time consuming coding efforts.

3. Language Bars

Apart from codeless web hosting, SimZimTM portal also provides language bars
for as many as 125 languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao,
Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Thana, Syriac, and all Indian, Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic
based languages. The language bars enable users to generate text in any desired
language, thereby allowing website hosting in various languages without any
special keyboards. A language bar contains base characters of the language from
which higher level characters can be generated by placing mouse over the base
characters. Characters can be typed in a desired box by placing mouse by bringing
mouse focus into the box and then by clicking the required characters.

4. Elements
A webpage template is constituted by number of elements such as boxes,
lines, and images. Existing elements can be removed and new elements can
be added to the template. The newly added elements can be further
relocated, resized and formatted by defining their attributes such as
background color, foreground color, border color, border width, font weight,
font style, text decoration etc. Even mouse-over effects can be defined for
boxes representing buttons in the corresponding web page of a template.
Mouse-over effects include background color, foreground color, font weight,
font style and text decoration etc.

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Make sure that the top and left sides of the home page are aligned with the
corner marker.

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230
260

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250

Fig. 1 Home Page Template

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Make sure that the top and left sides of the content panel are aligned with
the corner marker.
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Fig. 2 Secondary Webpage Template

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Enter your email address where you wish to receive your webmail
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 Position your Webmail form anywhere between the following two corner
markers.
195 196

270

Fig. 3 Webmail Template

Position your Registration form anywhere between the following two corner
markers.
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280

Fig. 4 Registration Template

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 Position your Forgot Password form anywhere between the following two
corner markers.
199 200

290

Fig. 5 Forgot Password Template

5. Control Buttons

The webpage template also contains control buttons 101 - 177 that enable a
user to define the home page and secondary web pages of his web site. The
set of control buttons 151 – 166 shown in Fig.1 enables a user to relocate
and resize the existing and newly added elements while another set 101 –
109 enables to define element attributes. The home page template also
contains control buttons 142 – 145 that enable to open templates such as
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 for a secondary web page, webmail form, user registration form, forgot
password form etc. The set of control buttons 131 – 135 enables to define
mouse-over attributes of elements. The set of control buttons 121 - 126
enables to align text in boxes. The set of control buttons 148 - 149 enables
to group and ungroup elements of a form. When the elements of a form are
grouped, the form can be moved horizontally or vertically as a whole. The
elements of a form can be groped by clicking any of the form elements and
then by clicking the Group button. Similarly, the elements of a form can be
ungrouped by clicking any of the form elements and then by clicking the
Ungroup button. Once the elements of a form are grouped, it can be moved
as a whole by clicking the relevant move buttons. Conversely, when the
elements of a form are ungrouped, the elements are moved individually.
Only the focused element is moved or resized on clicking the move or resize
buttons.

A webpage or form templates provides two kinds of motion and resizing

control buttons, one for quick action and another for slow action. The quick
resizing and motion buttons 151 – 158 resize and move an element on the
screen quickly whereas the slow resizing and motion buttons 159 – 166 does
the same activity slowly. For optimal performance in a web page design, a
user should initially use the quick action buttons until the element is resized
and moved to a size or position closer to the required one, and later use the
slow action buttons to fine size or align the element with the existing
elements. While quick action buttons resize or move an element by multiple
pixels per click at a time, slow action buttons resize or move an element
only by one pixel per click at a time.

6. Forms

The home page template also contains built-in forms such as for
subscription, login, send page etc. When a user hosts his home page, the
built-in forms 230, 240 and 250 are also hosted as part of the home page.
Also the registration form 280 of Fig.4 and forgot password form 290 of
Fig.5 linked to the login form of the home page are hosted automatically
with their default attributes. In case a user wishes to redesign these forms,
he can define the new attributes of the form boxes such as colors, fonts etc.

No programming or backend database set up is required by a user. SimZimTM

automatically does this part of hosting, thereby relieving its users from technical
tasks. User are only required to redesign their web pages through the selection of
attributes and filling the content related their business, products, interest,
information etc.

7. Domains/ Sub-domains

SimZimTM enables its users to choose sub-domains on the portal and allows to host
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 their websites on the chosen sub-domains. For example, a website hosted on a sub-
domain, books will be accessible at the web address books.simzim.com. Users can
also make their websites accessible at their independent registered domain
address, without referring to any sub-domain of simzim.com. The web pages of
websites hosted without a sub-domain are maintained on SimZim TM server and
linked from their independent domains through domain forwarding option on their
registrar server. Alternatively, if a user has his website physically hosted on a
different web server, he can still host his advertisement on SimZim TM server and link
it to his website.

Sub-domains are activated within 24 hours after their registration on simzim.com.

Until a sub-domain is activated, users can access their websites at the following
URL: simzim.com/webhost/showwebite.jsp?subdomain=subdomainname
The variable subdomainname in the above URL should be substituted with the
user’s registered sub-domain name.

Once a sub-domain is activated, a user can access his website at the URL
subdomainname.simzim.com. The variable subdomainname in the above URL
should be substituted with the user’s registered sub-domain name.

8. New Web pages

Once a user completes hosting his home page, he can further host the
secondary web pages of his website through the New Page control button
142. In order to open a new page template, a user should click the box or
image he wishes to link to the new web page and then further click the New
Page button 142, which will open a secondary web age template shown in
Fig.2 in a separate window. The secondary web page can be redesigned,
filled with content and hosted by clicking the Host 178 button.

9. Editing Existing Web pages

Existing web pages can be edited through Edit Website link after a user logs
into his account. When a user clicks the Edit Website link, home page of the
hosted web site will be displayed in a new window in edit mode. The home
page can be redesigned and modified by changing attributes of the existing
boxes, lines and images and by changing the existing content. Once the
home page is redesigned and modified, it can be rehosted by clicking the
Host button 178. Further, an existing secondary web page can also be
edited and rehosted. In order to open an existing secondary web page, a
user should click on the element linked to the secondary web page and then
click the New Page button 142.

10. Global and Local Element Options

Elements are marked as either global or local in the home page template

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 shown in Fig.1. Except the main content panel 260 of the home page
template, all its elements are marked as global elements. A global element
appears in all web pages of a website, including the home page and the
secondary web pages, at the same location as it is positioned in the home
page. On the other hand, a local element appears only in that particular web
page it is placed. While adding a new element such as a box, line and image
to the home page, a user should take care of this fact and accordingly
choose the global or local option before adding the element. Radio buttons
171, 173, and 175 are placed before the Box, Line and Text Area control
buttons of the home page template, respectively.

11. Corner Markers

Corner Markers are right angled line segments representing the physical
position of a web page corner. The home page template contains a corner
marker that represents the top left corner of the home page. Any relative
shift of the home page elements in its template from the corner marker is
reflected exactly in the actual home page that a visitor views in his browser.
The topmost and leftmost elements of the home page should be properly
aligned with the corner marker.

The secondary web page template also contains a corner marker

representing the top left corner of its main content panel 295. Any shift of
the main content panel from the corner marker is reflected as a gap from
the top and left boxes of the home page in the actual secondary web page
that a visitor views in his browser.

12. Linking

Secondary web pages are linked to elements of the home page which represent
buttons in the actual home page that a visitor views in his browser. Linking takes
place automatically and internally through the hosting system, without requiring
defining any URLs explicitly. Explicit URLs are required to be defined only when an
element is linked to an external web page on the Internet out side a user’s website.
Also linking between element of an internal web page and the forms such as
webmail, registration and forgot password are defined internally and automatically.
A secondary web page or form is always linked to the element that a user clicks just
before opening the corresponding template.

Linking an element to home page can be done by clicking the element that the user
wishes to link the home page and then by clicking the Set To Home Page button
141. Once any element is set to home page, a visitor click on the element in any
web page takes the visitor to the home page. Similarly, an element can be linked to
a webmail form by clicking the element and then clicking the Webmail button 143.
For hosting the registration form 280 and forgot password form 290, no element
need to be clicked before opening the form for redesigning. These forms are

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automatically linked to the appropriate elements in the Login form.

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