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After Inital Installation

When installing the BizDirectory program we provide a sample database, images, and coupon for testing the program and setting your colors and options for your site. After you have setup the program and made all the changes you want, you will want to delete the database and associated files.
  1. Backup: Make a backup copy of all the files for the directory.
  2. Database: /cgi-bin/bizdirectory/data/data.txt -> download this file and empty the file, then upload the empty file to your server. Do Not delete this file.
  3. Images: /bizdirectory/userimages -> delete all the images in this directory.
  4. Coupons: /bizdirectory/coupons -> delete all the coupons in this directory.


Changing the Look of the Listings

Some the colors, image sizes, etc are controled by the Configuration file ( biz-dir-setup.pl ). Read the configuration file very carefully and change the settings to suite your site. I recommend changing one thing at a time in the configuration. If you make an error in the config file none of the program files will work. Keep a working copy!
Page Layouts

3 page layouts come standard to assist you in setting up the program quickly.

Changing the Look of your pages

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