When we built Spanglefish 3 we invested much effort in ensuring that it would included a lot of powerful, but simple to use, tool and functionality that would make your day-to-day task of managing your site as quick and stress-free as possible. Here are some of them . . 

You'll see at the top of this page a Home > Extras breadcrumb trail. This helps visitors in navigating around your site. You can switch it on in Site Settings>Advanced Settings. You can see a longer version where it works for other things on this News Story.

If you have Developer access you can change the colours of the breadcrumb in Appearance --> Site Styles --> Article.

Every site has a public sitemap which your visitors can use to navigate it. It is linked to in the footer of the site and automatically updated as you add new pages, news stories etc.

If you use the News block anywhere your site will automatically generate an RSS Feed for it. Don't worry if you don't know what this is - it's a way to help distribute your articles more easily.

You can switch on a Site Search function which allows visitors to search through your pages, news stories, calendar events, shop items, etc. Click the magnifying glass icon at the bottom left of the screen.

When you post a link to a website on social networks like Facebook or Twitter, their network 'spiders' the web page to find an image, a headline and text to show on your profile.

If you don't specify what the image or headline is Facebook will try to guess, which means it might show an icon or other irrelevant image. Spanglefish allows you to control which image is selcted and displayed.

You're able to place a copyright notice in the footer of your website.

Every page automatically has a 'Back to Top link' which appears at the bottom right of your site once you've scrolled down a bit. If you have a 'Page Navigation' block it'll scroll back up to there, if not it'll scroll back to the top of the page.

The system allows you to add a 'floating' overlay to the site which you can use  to highlight special announcements, etc. Each time someone visits your site they'll see the overlay on the first page they visit. Clicking anywhere on it will remove it and they won't see it again during that session.

Go to Site Settings --> Overlays to create and use overlays on your site. To view the one on this site again click here.

If someone tries to visit a page on your website which doesn't actually exist, they'll get taken to your '404 error' page. This might be because they've typed an page address in wrongly, but it may also be that they've clicked a link to a page or a news story which you've since deleted.

You're able to edit the text they get shown on the 404 page. Here's ours.

In the footer of this site you can see a 'hit counter'. You can add one of these to your site in a number of different styles by going to Site Settings --> Site Settings.

However you should be aware that this counter is pretty innaccurate, as it is unable to distinguish between 'real' visitors and bots, and also can't recognise repeat visits. However, as a very rough guide ti trafic it may be adequate for your needs. If you need something more precise see our Site Stats section for more information and options.