This section alters some key information and usability for your site. Fortunately, you probably won't have to alter the data here very often.
If you have your browser open, look at the very top of the browser window. You should see something like the following: Title of Website - Name of Browser. phpWebSite ships with the page title set to, what else, phpWebSite. You should change that. Determine the name of your site and type it in to the text field next to the Change Page Title button.
The Internet has several search engines. Some of the ones you probably heard of are Google, Yahoo, Altavista, and Ask Jeeves. Each of the engines wants a quick way to get information about your site. Here is where meta tags come in. Choose one of the meta tags you wish to edit and click the Edit Metatags button.
Keywords - Marvelous. Informative. Great. These are words that may describe your web site. However, what you want to put here are words that describe the content of your site, not how you feel about it. Enter words you believe someone may type into a search engine and see your site listed. If you have a web site about board games, you could have a list like this:
board games, monopoly, sorry, Milton Bradley, twister, Risk
Put in as many words as you can think of that relate to what your site addresses. Do not put words that don't relate to your site just to get lost web surfers. It irritates people.
Description - Here you want to have a short (read that again: short) description of your site. Summarize all the great things your site provides within about 260 characters. Some search engines display this information when a match to your site is found.
Robots - When a search engine comes to your page, it will (sometimes) ask permission before it records it. Robots are your traffic guards. They tell the search engine whether to record this page (or index) or not and whether it can follow links on your page or not. You have four options:
all - This tells the engine that they may index your site and continue down all the links on your page.
none - The engine is told to leave you alone: don't index the site and don't follow any links. You may prefer this if you are running a private site.
index, nofollow - The engine can index the page but shouldn't follow any links.
noindex, follow - The engine should not index the page, but may follow your links.
This option is currently useless. Currently Layout reports these robots on every page. The engine goes down your link path but is not allowed to index any of the resultant pages. This will change in 0.9.3.
Author - This is your name or the name of the main content person. Not really required.
Owner - This is usually the email address of the person responsible for the site. Beware filling this out however as there are evil, nasty, horrible, people who steal these addresses to send you their useless spam email (not that I am bitter). If you wish to fill it out, consider entering your email address in a form that is hard to parse by the spam degenerates. For example, I might use: matt at hotmail dot com instead of matt@hotmail.com.
Content Type - This reports the character sets your site is using. Just let this sit at ISO-8859-1 unless you know it should be otherwise.
You can try clicking on this button if your boxes have become scrambled. It will try to recreate the default layout for the theme you are currently using. Be careful as some modules add boxes outside of their defaults. If that is the case you might have to go to that module and update the data to have it remake the box.
Click this button to purge the database of old box files that aren't supported anymore. This should be run if you remove a theme from your server directory.