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+User interface for web site configuration
+=========================================
+
+.. image:: ../images/lax-book.03-site-config-panel.en.png
+
+This panel allows you to configure the appearance of your application site.
+Six menus are available and we will go through each of them to explain how
+to use them.
+
+Navigation
+~~~~~~~~~~
+This menu provides you a way to adjust some navigation options depending on
+your needs, such as the number of entities to display by page of results.
+Follows the detailled list of available options :
+  
+* navigation.combobox-limit : maximum number of entities to display in related
+  combo box (sample format: 23)
+* navigation.page-size : maximum number of objects displayed by page of results 
+  (sample format: 23)
+* navigation.related-limit : maximum number of related entities to display in 
+  the primary view (sample format: 23)
+* navigation.short-line-size : maximum number of characters in short description
+  (sample format: 23)
+
+UI
+~~
+This menu provides you a way to customize the user interface settings such as
+date format or encoding in the produced html.
+Follows the detailled list of available options :
+
+* ui.date-format : how to format date in the ui ("man strftime" for format description)
+* ui.datetime-format : how to format date and time in the ui ("man strftime" for format
+  description)
+* ui.default-text-format : default text format for rich text fields.
+* ui.encoding : user interface encoding
+* ui.fckeditor :should html fields being edited using fckeditor (a HTML WYSIWYG editor).
+  You should also select text/html as default text format to actually get fckeditor.
+* ui.float-format : how to format float numbers in the ui
+* ui.language : language of the user interface
+* ui.main-template : id of main template used to render pages
+* ui.site-title	: site title, which is displayed right next to the logo in the header
+* ui.time-format : how to format time in the ui ("man strftime" for format description)
+
+
+Actions
+~~~~~~~
+This menu provides a way to configure the context in which you expect the actions
+to be displayed to the user and if you want the action to be visible or not. 
+You must have notice that when you view a list of entities, an action box is 
+available on the left column which display some actions as well as a drop-down 
+menu for more actions. 
+
+The context available are :
+
+* mainactions : actions listed in the left box
+* moreactions : actions listed in the `more` menu of the left box
+* addrelated : add actions listed in the left box
+* useractions : actions listed in the first section of drop-down menu 
+  accessible from the right corner user login link
+* siteactions : actions listed in the second section of drop-down menu
+  accessible from the right corner user login link
+* hidden : select this to hide the specific action
+
+Boxes
+~~~~~
+The application has already a pre-defined set of boxes you can use right away. 
+This configuration section allows you to place those boxes where you want in the
+application interface to customize it. 
+
+The available boxes are :
+
+* actions box : box listing the applicable actions on the displayed data
+
+* boxes_blog_archives_box : box listing the blog archives 
+
+* possible views box : box listing the possible views for the displayed data
+
+* rss box : RSS icon to get displayed data as a RSS thread
+
+* search box : search box
+
+* startup views box : box listing the configuration options available for 
+  the application site, such as `Preferences` and `Site Configuration`
+
+Components
+~~~~~~~~~~
+[WRITE ME]
+
+Contextual components
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+[WRITE ME]
+