This feature allows you to create image galleries. You’ve got three options:

• Create a gallery from Picasa
• Create a gallery from Instagram
• Create a gallery with your own photos

1. Create a gallery from Picasa

The “name” field allows you to give a name to your gallery. If you have several galleries, users will thus be able to choose the gallery they want to take a look at.
With the “search” field you’ll be able to retrieve all photos from Picasa that are relevant to this search.

And the result is:

2. Create a gallery from Instagram

Instagram gallery works like the Picasa gallery. You have to enter the name of your gallery in the appropriate field and then enter your username or the one of the user you want to integrate the photos in the second field.

And the result is:

3. Create from your own photos :

Name your gallery, and click on “0 image” to upload photos from your computer.

You can upload several photos in the same time, just select from one folder all the photos you want to upload.

It’s not mandatory, but you can enter a title and a description for all your photos.
Click on “Ok” to save your gallery.

To create a new gallery, click on  and repeat the above process.

With Siberian you’ll be able to integrate videos from Youtube, Podcast and Vimeo. If you want to integrate a business video gallery, the best is, if not already done, to create a Youtube or Vimeo channel in which you’ll upload all the business’s videos.

You create a thematic gallery too from other sources than the store (for example a fashion video gallery for a trendy bar).

Here is how it works, it’s quite simple:

1. YouTube

Begin by giving a name to your gallery, if you create several galleries, user will be able to select the one they want to watch:

Then, in the “search” field, what you’re are going to enter depends on what type of search you’re are going to select:

Display videos from a Youtube channel:

Let’s suppose this Youtube channel is called “RockCafé”, here is how you create the gallery:

Enter the name you want for your video gallery and then the name of the Youtube channel in the “search” field. Then choose “Channel” for “Type”:

If it doesn’t work with the Youtube channel name, just enter the id number of this channel you will find in the url of the channel.

Create a thematic video gallery:

Enter the name you want for your video gallery, the keyword you want to search for in the “search” field, and choose “Search” in “Type”:

Here is the result:

If you want to add another gallery, just click on  and repeat the process above.

2. Podcast

You can also integrate videos from podcasts. To do this, you have to enter the name of your video gallery and the URL address of your video.

3. Vimeo

If you want to add a channel you have to enter the ID of the channel in the “search” field and select “Channel” in the “type” select box.

You can find the ID of the channel at the end of the channel URL. For example, for this channel:

https://vimeo.com/channels/513799 you just have to enter “513799″.

For the other types of choices (User, Group, Album), it is the same process than for Channel. Just enter the ID that reads at the end of the URL. For example to import all the videos of this user:

https://vimeo.com/user24085556

enter “user24085556″ in the “search” field and select “user” for type.

This feature allows you to integrate feeds from blogs or news websites either from the business for which you’re creating the application, or other sources in relation with the business, or both. You can create as many feeds as you want.

Here is how it works:
It doesn’t matter if you know the feed link you want to integrate or not.
Just enter a title for your feed and then the url of the website from which you want to extract the feed. Click ok. If there are some feeds for this website, Siberian will display them and let you choose the one you want.
To enter a new feed, click on  and repeat the process above.

In a second case, you can just enter the name of the site you want to extract the RSS feed. Siberian will automatically scan this website to find the RSS feeds on this one.

Thanks to this feature you will be able to lock your app wholly or partly. The locked content will be accessible for authorized users only. We are going to see how to set up this feature.

First, you have to add the Padlock feature to your app, click on  from “Add pages” to add this feature to your app.

Then you can set it up.

“Allow all users by default”:

If you select “yes”, all users who have already an account on your app, or users who create an account on your app, will be allowed to access to the locked content. Setting on “yes” is useful to create a database of registered users who are the most engaged with your content.

If you let on “no”, that means you will have to authorize your users manually from the “Users” menu which is between the “Analytics” and “Extra” menus. We will see how a little bit later in this article.

“Lock the entire application”:

If you choose “yes”, your whole app will be blocked. And users will have to create an account or to create an account and to be authorized depending on what you have chosen for “Allow all users by default”. With this option you can create a private app.

If you choose “no”, you will just block some pages of your app:

Just choose from the list the pages you want to block. Of course, you need to have added pages to your app. You can add pages later and open this feature again to block them. The locked pages will not be displayed to the users until they are authorized to see them. Instead of seeing the tabs of this pages, they will just see one tab meaning there is a private content behind:

Once the user is logged in and authorized, the padlock tab disappears and all the tabs are displayed:

How to authorize the users.

If you have chosen not to authorize all the registered users by default, you will have to authorize them manually from the “Users” menu, in the editor:

Click on it. All the users who have created an account in your app, are listed.

Click on  to edit a user.

If you want to authorize the user, all you have to do is to check the corresponding checkbox “This user can access the pages locked by the “locker” feature. Then click on “Ok”.

A little warning regarding the publication of your app on the App Store. Before submitting an app, create a test user with authorized access. Then, when you publish your app on iTunes Connect just fill out these info in the user demo fields to let Apple reviews what is behind the padlock feature.

Here is the feature for creating menus or bundles for a business. You’ll be able to create as many menus as you want.

Necessary components:

• Menu name, for exemple: “Evening menu”, or “Family menu”
• Price. This field isn’t mandatory, as you can enter the price in the menu description
• Description: you’re going to use the text editor to create a menu. Look below to see how to create a beautiful menu.
• Conditions. This field isn’t mandatory. You would be able to use it to specify some conditions, for example “only available on mondays”.

Here is what it looks like:

How to create a beautiful menu with the text editor:
Apply a style to your titles (“appetizers“, “dishes“, “desserts” for example) and center all your text. In order to do that, select your title in the text editor and click on  in the text editor’s menu, then click on  and choose “title 1″ or “title 2″. Your title will be formatted with the Lobster police (the same police that is used for the discount title in the Discount feature).

Press Enter. Enter your appetizers if the title is “appetizer”, press Enter between each item.

To enter a new title (“dishes” for example if you’ve just entered the appetizers), make a separation by pressing Enter and clicking on  in the text editor menu. Then press Enter and reproduce the previous process.
These modifications won’t be visible in the text editor nor in the app preview but will be well considered in the application.
Then, if you can, enter a picture for this menu and save all.
To enter a new menu, click on  and repeat the above process.

You can obtain this:

With the “Radio” feature you can add a radio streaming inside your app.

It’s very simple to set up but you need to have the good streaming URL. Here is how a good streaming URL looks like for our “Radio” feature:

Example of good URLs for streaming:

• http://myradiostream.com/4/9754/
• http://89.111.189.3:6325/

Your URL mustn’t end by “listen.pls” or “listen.m3u”, etc. Meaning that if your URL is http://89.111.189.3:6325/listen.pls, you need to just keep http://89.111.189.3:6325/.

Note that sometimes you will need to add “/;” at the end of your URL to make it work both on Android and iOS, for example you will add to add the url like this http://89.111.189.3:6325/;

Then fill in the fields with the appropriate info, like in this example:

Then you just have to click on “save”, and you’ve just set up a radio streaming in your app.

This features allows you to create Product pages.

Little warning: if you have menus, don’t create them with this feature but use the “Menu” feature instead which is more appropriate.

1. Create a main category (click on “+main category”):

2. You’ve got 2 options:

• create a sub-category if needed (by clicking on “+ sub-category”) :
  
• or directly create a product (by clicking on “+ Product”) :
  

Notes :

• Think carefully about the order in which the main categories appear as they will appear in the same order they will be created.
• You can create all you main categories first, then all your subcategories and finally all your products in the appropriate subcategories.
• You can drag and drop all your subcategories (in a same main category) by clicking on .

An example of a subcategory order modification:
The subcategory “With Bacon” is 1st:

The subcategory “With Bacon” is 2nd:

You can do the same thing with products:
“Alabama” is 1st:

“Alabama” is 2nd:

You can obtain this:

We are going to see how to use the Facebook feature to integrate your Facebook fan page into your app with the design of your app, and with likes and comments enabled from your app.

First you have to add a Facebook page in your app by clicking  from “Add pages” to add it in the carrousel of your pages.

Then just enter the ID of your Facebook Fan Page in the appropriate field, for example for our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/VirtualMediaTechnologiesLtd, it will be “VirtualMediaTechnologiesLtd”:

Then press “ok” to import your Facebook Fan Page.

Once your application is featured on the App Store and Google Play, you’ll be able to send push notifications or your clients will.

It is quite simple. First of all, you have to click on the Push feature. This will appear:

Then, you have to click on the , to create a new Push message. This will appear:

Now, choose your message an click on . Once you have clicked, this will appear:

This option allows you to choose if you want to send your notification to all your users or only the ones who are in a specific location.

Case 1: Send a notification to all users

Click on “Send to all my users” and then click on . This will appear:

It enables you to choose if you want to send your notification now or on a specific date. If you choose “now”, you only have to click on OK to send your notification.

But if you want to send your notification on a specific date, this calendar appears:

Choose in the calendar the day and hour you want your notification to be sent. Then click on “Done” to validate your choice.

Finally click on OK to validate your notification. Your notification will be sent at the moment you choose.

Case 2: Send a geolocated notification

If you want to send a geolocated notification, click on “Send to a specific location”. This option enables you to only target people who are in a specific area. Once you have clicked, this will appear:

Here, you can choose where you will send your notification. Enter an address, then enter a radius in which users will receive the notification.

Here is an example:

Once you have done that, click on  to go to the next step. This will appear:

Like in case one, you can choose if you want to send your notification now or on a specific date.

If you only choose to send your notification to users in the selected area at a selected moment, click on “now” and then click on OK.

Finally click on OK to validate your notification. Your notification will be sent at the moment you choose.

Case 3: Send a geolocated notification to users in the area and the ones that will enter in it during an amount of time

To send this kind of notification follow the same process than in case 2. Then when “Additional Information” appears, click on “for a limited period”.

Here again a calendar appears:

The Folders feature allows to create an arborescence inside your app.
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The creation of a Folder

To create a folder, click on  in the “add pages” part. This appears:

First of all, you have to give a name to the root folder. To do this, click on + to add a folder. This appears:

The structure

Add pages to your Folders

Note: You can ONLY add to your folders the pages you have already created. The folders page only enables you to classify your pages.

Adding a page to one of your folders is very easy. First: select the folder in which you want to add a page and then click on the page you want to add. For example “Hosting”:

Then click on the page you want to add to this folder.

Here we are. We have added our first page to a folder. Do the same for each page you want to add. Here is an example of what you can create :

Editing your pages

– To go back to the root folder, click on the icon of the page you have just edited.

– If you want to go back to the main feature slider, click on “Main”

Removing a page from a Folder