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Control Panel Branding

There are two things you can change on your customers control panel.

1. The 737 X 124 image at the top. You can create your own image or just edit the default image.

2. You can also add your own links to the "Support Links" pull down menu. This will allow you to add links to your site, helpdesk, FAQ or anything you want.

Changing the header image

The header image must be 737 pixels wide by 124 pixels high. The image must be named cp.gif, cp.jpg or cp.png and uploaded into /cpanelbranding/recpanel directory. Please note the cpanelbranding directory is not in public_html. It needs to be in the root of your account. Once this is done your client's control panel will show the new image. You may have to create the cpanelbranding/recpanel directory.

Note: The image must be in the /cpanelbranding/recpanel directory not the /public_html/cpanelbranding/recpanel directory.

Note: The new image will only show on your client's control panel it will not show on your control panel.

Changing the Support Links pull down menu

This is a little more complicated but if your careful you shouldn't have any problems. Go to http://ez-web-hosting.com/supportlinks.txt to get a copy of this file to edit. You can copy and paste the text or right click on the link and select save target as. Then you can edit it. This file will look like this:

if(typeof(loc)=="undefined"||loc==""){var loc="";if(document.body&&document.body.innerHTML){var tt=document.body.innerHTML.toLowerCase();var last=tt.indexOf("ezcpanel.js\"");if(last>0){var first=tt.lastIndexOf("\"",last);if(first>0&&first<last)loc=document.body.innerHTML.substr(first+1,last-first-1);}}}

var bd=0
document.write("<style type=\"text/css\">");
document.write("\n\n");
document.write("</style>");

var fc=0x000000;
var bc=0x6d9fde;
if(typeof(frames)=="undefined"){var frames=0;}

startMainMenu("",0,0,2,0,0)
mainMenuItem("ezcpanel_b1",".gif",26,125,"javascript:;","","Support",2,2,"ezcpanel_plain");
endMainMenu("",0,0);

startSubmenu("ezcpanel_b1","ezcpanel_menu",125);
submenuItem("Support Main","http://ez-web-hosting.com/helpdesk/","","ezcpanel_plain");
endSubmenu("ezcpanel_b1");

loc="";

The only part of this you have to edit is the part that's highlighted.

submenuItem("Help Desk","http://yourdomain.com/cpanel/","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

To add items to the pull down menu just add lines like the one above just above or below the highlighted line.

submenuItem("Label","Link","Target Window","ezcpanel_plain");

There are three parts of this line you need to edit to add a new link to the menu.

Label - This is what it says on the pull down menu. In our example the label is Help Desk.

Link - This should be the full link to the page starting with http:// for example http://yourdomain.com/helpdesk/

Target Window - Leave this as _blank if you want the link to open in a new window. Leave it blank if you don't want the link to open in new window.

Do not change the ezcpanel_plain part of the line.

You can add as many links to the menu as you like just add a new line for each one. The links will appear on the pull down menu in the same order as you put them in the file.

Here is an example list. You can add anything you like and remove anything you don't want from this list.

startSubmenu("ezcpanel_b1","ezcpanel_menu",125);
submenuItem("Home Page","http://yourdomain.com","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

submenuItem("FAQ","http://yourdomain.com/faq/","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

submenuItem("Affiliate Program","http://yourdomain.com/affiliate.html","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

submenuItem("Help Desk","http://yourdomain.com/helpdesk/","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

submenuItem("Documentation","/docs/cpanel/index.html","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");
endSubmenu("ezcpanel_b1");

Here is an example of what your final text file will look like using the lines above:

iif(typeof(loc)=="undefined"||loc==""){var loc="";if(document.body&&document.body.innerHTML){var tt=document.body.innerHTML.toLowerCase();var last=tt.indexOf("ezcpanel.js\"");if(last>0){var first=tt.lastIndexOf("\"",last);if(first>0&&first<last)loc=document.body.innerHTML.substr(first+1,last-first-1);}}}

var bd=0
document.write("<style type=\"text/css\">");
document.write("\n\n");
document.write("</style>");

var fc=0x000000;
var bc=0x6d9fde;
if(typeof(frames)=="undefined"){var frames=0;}

startMainMenu("",0,0,2,0,0)
mainMenuItem("ezcpanel_b1",".gif",26,125,"javascript:;","","Support",2,2,"ezcpanel_plain");
endMainMenu("",0,0);

startSubmenu("ezcpanel_b1","ezcpanel_menu",125);

submenuItem("Home Page","http://yourdomain.com","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

submenuItem("FAQ","http://yourdomain.com/faq/","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

submenuItem("Affiliate Program","http://yourdomain.com/affiliate.html","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

submenuItem("Help Desk","http://yourdomain.com/helpdesk/","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");

submenuItem("Documentation","/docs/cpanel/index.html","_blank","ezcpanel_plain");
endSubmenu("ezcpanel_b1");

loc="";

Now just save the file as supportlinks.txt. The name must be exactly supportlinks.txt all lower case. Next upload this file into the cpanelbranding/recpanel directory. Then check it in one of your client's control panels. If it created a problem just delete or rename the supportlinks.txt file on server and the default file will start working again.