Main Menu

The "ListManager Home page" for your site is the starting point to all web interface functions. This is the page that is displayed when a user goes to the web interface URL for your site.

A sample URL might be:

http://www.yourcompany.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl.

(Note: this is not a real url, it is only an example)

The first page will say Main Menu, and has the following elements:

Site graphic
The graphic logo of your organization is displayed here. In ListManager terminology, one organization is a "site", and each site can have its own topics and mailing lists. There can be many sites defined on one server.

If there are multiple sites defined on one server, the site a user sees depends on the URL they go to. A different site can be specified in several ways, with a different CGI program, such as lyris.pl, yourcompany.pl, acme.pl, each for a different site, each having a separate configuration file (lyris.plc, yourcompany.plc, acme.plc). Or, each site might be defined as a "virtual domain" on your web server, in which case each domain has its own CGI directory, and hence its own copy of the ListManager Web Interface script, lyris.pl. Finally, you can also specify the site to display on the URL itself, by adding site=<sitename> on the URL, as in:

http://www.yourcompany.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?site=acme

Note: If no graphic is defined for the site, ListManager will instead display the name of the organization for that site as text. The Site Graphic is defined when the Site is created in ListManager.

Page Title
The title of each ListManager Web Interface page is displayed in this location. This will help you understand the purpose of each page, and keep you from getting lost.

Topic Description
This line of text titles the topics that follow. If there are no topics defined, this text will say so. Topics are created by the Site Administrator. See "Create Topic Page"

Topic listing
Every topic for a site is displayed here. If a topic has a graphic defined, then the graphic is displayed rather than the text of the topic name.

Graphics Off button
If you click this button, the Home Page will re-display, with no graphics on the page. From that point on, you will be able to navigate the web interface with all the pages using all text, no graphics. This option is useful if you have a slow Internet connection, use browsers which do not display graphics, and if you prefer to use the web interface faster (but less attractive), since the per-page load time is faster with graphics off.

Admin button
The admin button brings you to the Administrator Login screen.