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 #*This is discussed in the help and can be left blank for most people.
-Still within the '''Sites/Options''' tab you should see (Picture is Cumulus 1.x.y interface) in the top centre:
+Now we need to select the FTP settings:
-[[File:Web_settings.JPG | Right]]
+#In this 'frame' first click on ''Auto Update''; this tells Cumulus you want it to automatically process the templates and generate web pages.
-#In this 'frame' first click on ''Auto Update'' (so that it is ticked with recent versions of Windows); this tells Cumulus you want it to automatically process the templates and generate web pages.
+#The illustration (in Cumulus 1 interface on left below) shows ''Use active FTP mode'' un-selected as Cumulus '''Help''' suggests.  In active mode, Cumulus is listening for an incoming data connection from the server; in passive mode, Cumulus asks the server if it can establish a connection.
-#The illustration (Cumulus 1 interface) shows ''Use active FTP mode'' selected, as Cumulus '''Help''' says, normally this is NOT selected.  In active mode, Cumulus is listening for an incoming data connection from the server; in passive mode, Cumulus asks the server if it can establish a connection.
+#The illustration (Cumulus 1 interface) shows ''Use FTP rename'' selected as Cumulus '''Help''' suggests.
-#The illustration (Cumulus 1 interface) shows ''Use FTP rename'' un-selected, as Cumulus '''Help''' says, normally this IS selected.
 #Leave ''Delete before upload'' un-selected.
 #*You may need to experiment with changing these last 3 selections, which works best depends on your web server.
-#Leave ''UTF-8 encode'' selected (all standard Cumulus web pages use this encoding)..
+#Leave ''UTF-8 encode'' selected (all standard Cumulus web pages use this encoding). This selection is shown in both Cumulus 1.x.y and Cumulus MX illustrations below with red arrow.
 #Now look at ''Interval'', this is how often Cumulus will update your website.
-#*It has been set in illustrated example to '''5''' minutes as that is quite good when you first start so you can see all your pages being updated frequently.  Typically people set this to 10 or 15 minutes on established sites. It is tempting to change this to 1 minute, but little is gained from this as on most web pages very few figures change that frequently.
+#*It has been set in both illustrated examples below to '''5''' minutes as that is quite good when you first start so you can see all your pages being updated frequently.  Typically people set this to 10 or 15 minutes on established sites. It is tempting to change this to 1 minute, but little is gained from this as on most web pages very few figures change that frequently.
-#As part of the Standard set-up you can request Cumulus to provide pseudo real-time data. The blue box in the illustration shows the relevant items for Cumulus 1.
+[[File:Web_settings.JPG | Left]](Left hand picture is Cumulus 1.x.y interface, right hand picture is Cumulus MX settings screen)[[File:Cumulus MX realtime settings.png |Right]]
+#As part of the Standard set-up you can request Cumulus to provide pseudo real-time data. The blue arrows in the illustration shows the relevant items for Cumulus 1 in the left hand drawing and for Cumulus MX in the right hand drawing.
 ##There are now three 'Enable...' boxes for Realtime;
 ##* if you want Cumulus to upload the realtime.txt file for the 'Flash' gauges on the standard Cumulus 1 gauges page, you need to '''tick all three boxes'''.   In reality, the standard cumulus 1 web templates used in this Simple setup only include two ‘realtime’ elements to show wind speed and direction on the gauges page.
-##*For Cumulus MX, the steel series gauges page provided requires all 3 boxes to be selected.
+##*For Cumulus MX, the steel series gauges page provided requires all 3 boxes to be selected as shown in the right hand  illustration.
 ##*If you are running Cumulus 1.x.y and do not wish to provide realtime data untick the 3 “Enable Realtime” boxes, and comment out the last two graphics on the 'gaugesT.htm' template.
 ##The next selection is the time Cumulus will wait after sending a burst of real-time information until it re-starts for producing another burst of real-time information.