Site Options is where you system administrator or web master sets the basic rules of your web site – the default appearance, the default size of thumb images, add languages and fonts. Here is the place where you can define which section would be displayed as your homepage.
Here you can add new tags for Remove Formatting, define poll time, define whether your site uses cache.
Main actions: set homepage, define default setting, add languages or fonts.
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