Quick Overview

Once you've signed up, you can reassign a portion of your subscription to another user who's account you control.

Walking through the process

First-sign up for an account. Choose a plan that has as many pages and image space as you think you and your customers/users will need (don't worry, you can upgrade at any time).

When you sign up directly, your account is a "master-account."

Once your account is activated and you have logged in to your My Services page, you can begin creating user accounts, called "sub-accounts" for "sub-users." (Not to imply that these people are sub-human in any way!)

You can assign a sub-account to anyone you choose: a customer, an employee, a content contributor to your site, or anyone you want to allow to edit content.

Each sub-account uses a piece of your master subscription. Imagine this scenario:

You sign up 10 pages and 1,000 KB image space. You need to use 4 pages and 200 KB for your own Web site, so you have 6 pages and 800 KB remaining to resell to a client of yours. You assign:

• Client A gets get 4 pages and 600 KB and
• Client B gets get 2 pages and 200 KB

From there on its simple: In your My Services page, scroll to the bottom under "Users" and click "add new user".

In the add user form, write the name and email address of Client A (the email address works as this new accounts username), set the necessary permissions (we'll explain those in more detail below) and click "continue".

On the next page you then choose how much of your subscription you'd like to assign to this account, so with the above example, we would here choose 4 pages and 600 KB image space. Click "next" and you have successfully created a sub-user and sub-account.

Repeat this for Client B, and instead of 4 pages and 600 KB, you'd assign 2 pages and the remaining 200 KB.

Back in My Services you'd now under "Users" at the bottom see the two new accounts.

"Edit Subscription" leads you to the page where you chose how much of your subscription to assign to the account, and under "edit profile" you can view or change the sub-users contact information, login and settings.

If you opted to have Edit My Site Online generate a password for the account, now is a good time to click "edit profile" and take note of the passwords that you will need to give to the users.

Each sub-user will at any time be able to use the login reminder on the login page, just as you can -- they will simply enter their email address, the one you specified, and an email will be sent to them with the username and password for their sub-account.

Note: You can change a sub-account's user name and password at any time if you want to restrict or reassign access to those pages.

The "Go to pages" and "Go to images" leads to what your users will see as their "My Pages" and "My Images". It works just as your My Pages and My Images, and this is where you can set up pages for an account, or at any time later edit an existing page, say for example your customer/sub-user accidently messes up a page, you would simply log on to your master account and click "go to pages" next to the account in question and from there fix any problems.

User settings and permissions

Any sub-user will only be able to see what is in their account, they can never edit or in any other way influence what is in your "master account" or any other users account, its completely separate.

You maintain 100 percent full control of sub-accounts, the users pages and images, the profile with login and contact information and the assigned subscription.

You can furthermore set permissions that controls what each user will be able to do within his/her own account. Under "edit profile" for an account you can see the following settings:

	Allow change of advanced settings: This lets you specify whether the user can enable/disable the "enable HTML view in editor."
	Enable advanced HTML editing in editor: This lets you specify whether the user can edit the HTML of a page or just work in the WYSIWYG/Normal view
	Allow user to add pages: If this is enabled, the user can add pages within the limits of the subscription you set up for the user. If this is disabled, the user can only edit the pages you have created under the account, so if this is disabled, you therefore have to actually add the pages for them, or they'll have nothing to edit.
	Allow user to delete pages: If you allow sub-users to delete pages, you'll probably want to also allow them to add pages. If not, they could end up with no pages to edit.
	Allow user to upload images: If you want the user to be able to upload images to his/her account, then check this. If disabled, make sure you have uploaded the necessary images the sub-user will need
	Allow user to delete images: This setting allows them to delete images from their account/image space. They can always remove an image from a page.
	Allow user to see EMSO Code: If you configure a sub-users Web site and insert the necessary HTML script code for them, you should disable this item. This is only needed if they will add or delete actual web pages themselves, in which case they'll need the code so that the Edit My Site Online content appears on the site.

If you disable an item, it will be hidden from the user completely.

Deleting a user

To delete a user, you simply log on to your "master account" My Services page, scroll down to the user you'd like to remove, and click "edit profile". There in the lower right corner, you'll see a button named "delete user", click that to begin the deletion process.

When you delete a sub-user, the pages and images under the account that you're about to delete will be removed permanently and the assigned subscription pages and image space, will be restored to your account.

Assigning a sub-account to a new user

Don't delete the sub-account! If you do, the pages in that account will be lost.

Instead, simply change the users profile, name and email address as well as the password. The old user will no longer be able to login.

Subscriptions and Payment

Since you're the master, you the man, you pick up the tab. You're the only one who receives the bill for the subscriptions.

If you have sub-accounts, it's up to you to separately charge your clients any way you'd like.

Its also important to mention that your sub-users follow you, in the sense that if your master subscription expires, then so will all the other sub-accounts, so its generally a good idea to pre-pay your Edit My Site Online subscriptions so there are no interruptions in the service for your users.

A sub-user cannot renew, change or in any way alter their subscription, only content. If they need more pages or image space, they need to contact you, the owner, the master.

Your User's First Login

If you resell our service, you can choose to have your customers to go to a separate site devoted solely to editing. This means their home page is their login page--there's no information about sales or pricing.

Your clients get the same easy editing experience--yet they'll think it came directly from you, since there's no mention of "Edit My Site Online."

To use this personalized editor, just instruct your users to log on to "Edit My Page":

http://www.EditMyPage.com

You can customize this Web site to include a custom header, ie. your name or the customer's name, in the main navigation bar. You can even customize the color scheme so that it matches your company's or your customers colors.

To change the header or color scheme for a user, go to the user's profile by clicking "Edit Profile" below the user account that you'd like to customize. Click the link that says "Customize EditMyPage.com appearance", a pop-up window provides options for changing colors and header.

On the left are values for each of the area's you can customize, and on the right is a preview of what this user's Edit My Page site will look like. You see the preview only after you click on the "Preview" button.

In the header field you can enter your company name, or the customer's company or personal name--whatever you'd like. Then text then appears at the top of all the Edit My Page management pages, and the editor.

To change a color click the blue/green icon next to each field to pick a color from the standard Web-safe palette or insert your own HTML color code.

Don't forget to click 'Preview' and 'Save' when you're done making changes if you want to keep them.

If you're not reselling our services or would like your users to access the Edit My Site Online support pages with FAQ's and these tutorials, or don't have a particular need to disguise your use of Edit My Site Online, your users can always log onto our main site at:

http://www.editmysiteonline.com/login

If they are already logged in, they will see their My Services page.

One final note

We recommend that you spend a bit of time playing with the different settings, so you're prepared for any questions your users may have. We cover a lot of things in our tutorials and FAQ's, but chances are your users will come to you before they begin to look for answers at our site.

We suggest that you create a sub-account for yourself, under another email address. Set up a couple of sample pages and change user settings from the master account, and then log on as the sub-user and see what its like, experiment a bit. You'll notice that its similar to your "master" experience, with only the user and subscription bits taken away, but its a good idea to try it nonetheless.

Good luck, and don't hesitate to email us if you have any questions-or suggestions on how we can make our service better for you.