The "Lyris Home page" for your site is the starting point to all Lyris Web Interface functions. This is the page which is displayed when a user goes to the Lyris Web Interface URL for your site. A sample URL might be: http://www.shelby.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl.
Here is what a sample page looks like. The annotation numbers point to the notes below.
(1) Site graphic
The graphic logo of your organization is displayed here. In Lyris 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 Lyris 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 specified in several ways, with a different CGI program, such as lyris.pl, shelby.pl, acme.pl, each for a different site, each having a separate CGI configuration file (lyris.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 Lyris 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.shelby.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?site=acme
Note: if no graphic is defined for the site, Lyris will instead display the name of the organization for that site as text.
(2) Page Title
The title of each Lyris Web Interface page is displayed in this location. This will help you understand the purpose of each page, and keep you from getting lost.
(3) Topic Description
This line of text titles the topics which follow. If there are no topics defined, this text will say so.
(4) Topic listing
Every topic for a site is displayed here. If a topic has a graphic defined (as is the case in this example), then the graphic is displayed instead of the
topic name in text.
(5) Graphics Off button
If you click this button, the Lyris Home Page will re-display, with no graphics on the page. From that point on, you will be able to navigate the Lyris
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 does not display graphics, and if you prefer to use the
Lyris Web Interface faster (but less attractive), since the per-page load time is faster with graphics off.
(6) Admin button
The admin button brings you to the Administrator Login screen. Before you can proceed beyond that page, you will need to enter a username and password.
Depending on the your existing security level, you will be allowed to proceed to the list admin, site admin or server administrator menus. If you do not have an administrator account on this Lyris
Server, you will not be able to access the administrator menus.