| The information below helps in the day to day
management of your site. |
| Internal Site Linking |
| For the more advanced user to link to a single product on your shop you
can use the Product Search. |
| If you need to link to a product from some site content copy the product
name into the "Product Search". When the search returns right click and
copy the link on the product name. Here you will have a direct link to that
product you can use anywhere on your site. Paste it in to a notepad or wordpad
to save for use. |
| IMPORTANT - You need to know how to construct a
simple link with HTML inorder to use this method. If you are not confident
or unsure about the method DONOT USE. Entering incorrect HTML into the database
can produce nasty result |
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| Shockwave Logos |
| The shop supports flash ".swf" files. If you experienced with Macromedia
flash then you can produce a logo which is a lot more than just a picture |
| Within the flash logo you could create another navigation area which you
can use to link within your shop. This navigation can grab all the links
from a txt page that you can upload to the graphics folder. In doing so
you can update all your flash navigation very easily. |
This method requires you having a reasonable understanding of Flash
and a small amount of action scripting. |
| The simplist method would be to create a flash logo and include email
links in the flash logo in your graphics folder shows. To see this go to
your site colours administration area and select the flash logo as the site
logo and you can see how this will take shape. |
There are certain requirements on the file naming. The sample file is
called: "logo_W720_H100.swf". Make sure any flash file you create and upload
to the graphics folder follows the same naming convention:
W720 is the width of the flash file and H100 is the height. |
eg. A logo you create in flash with dimensions of :
Width 200 X Height 100 the name of the file must be "logo_W200_H100.swf"
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| Skins (BETA V5) |
| Using this facility you have the power to design your own site completely. |
| Using a basic HTML authoring program or if you are able a text editor,
you build a page to look how you want. |
| Adding the site components could not be easier. Simply type the placeholder
on the page where you would like it to appear |
| eg. For the shop navigation you would type [SHOPNAV] this will be replaced
by the shop navigation when the skin is applied. |
Now that is fairly simple, what about if you wanted to have your navigation
horizontal rather than vertical ?, this too is very simple.
At the top of your HTML skin you are authoring switch to code view and at
the top of the page type : |
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<%shopnav=1%>
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| By doing this the when the skin is applied "hey presto" the navigation
will be horizontal. |
| This new method opens up the design of your shop to incorporate any feature
you want to add. |
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| Download |
| If you use Dreamweaver there are some objects available to help you author
your pages here |