Quick Start Guide
Once you've installed Censura, the next step is to set it up for your site. How you do this depends entirely on your site's concept, but usually the first thing you want to do is start putting in some categories.
Categories
What a category means to you depends on how you want to classify your "products" (things which are reviewed). Censura allows you to classify products by category, vendor and series, however categories are slightly different in that you can have unlimited levels of subcategories, and you assign attributes and rating fields to them. So categories should be used as the most significannt way of separating your products. For example, for books or DVD's you might have genre (eg Action, Comedy etc)as categories, or if you had a site that reviewed lots of different types of products (eg books, DVDs, electronics) you could have these as top-level categories and break it down further in subcategories. Once you've created you category structure it's a good idea to move onto creating attributes and rating fields.
Attributes
Attributes are custom fields for products in certain categories. Generally attributes are "facts" or "specs" about a product (objective, like height, weight, length, price etc), while rating fields are matters of opinion (subjective, like value for money, quality etc). Attributes are assigned to categories from the category details page.
Rating Fields
Rating fields are custom fields that the reviewer will fill in for products in particular categories.
Attribute and Rating Field Inheritance
Attributes and rating fields can be inherited by child categories. Child categories can also have their own attribute and rating fields.
Vendors & Series
Censura also allows you to classify products by "vendor" and "series" as well as "category". Again these can mean whatever you want them to, just as different ways of breaking down your products. Often vendor is used as the manufacturer of a product, and series is used to group related products e.g., if you had a DVD rating site you might have "James Bond" as a series.
Further Steps
You can now start putting in some products. You can do this manually by filling in the "add product" form, or you can import from an external source (amazon) by selecting "import products" from the admin control panel. You can customise many aspects of censura, so make sure to take a look at the config section in your admin panel. Here you can set things like user privileges, display settings, your e-mail address for site e-mails etc. Censura's template is also fully customisable. To create your own look to fit in with the rest of your site, it's a good idea to copy the /themes/public/censura2 directory, then rename it to something else (eg your site's name). This means when future upgrades of censura are released you don't have to worry about overwriting your changes. Select the theme you just created from admin > config > general > theme in order to use it. To write a new theme, copy the contents of css/blank.css into css/style.css, this gives you a starting point for your new theme. As censura uses CSS for layout, most layouts can be acieved without ever changing the html itself. The .tpl files contain the actual html, they use the templating engine smarty. See http://smarty.php.net for details about how to use smarty. All text comes through a $text object, to allow for multiple languages. If you want to use censura in a different language, or you want to change phrases on the site, you can do this in the "lang" folder. Copy the "en" folder and rename it, then translate each phrase. Again be careful about updating, which is why we recommend creating a new folder even if you're just changing phrases in English. Select your new language file from Admin > Config > General > Language.