ShopSite Quickstart Guide
ShopSite Quickstart Guide
Tina decides that she wants to lay out the information on her main page in a way that makes it stand out from her other pages, so at the "pages" menu, she selects her main page from the list and hits the "page layout" button. Since the banner graphic she is going to upload contains her store's logo and name, she does not want the name to appear in plain text underneath, so she unchecks the "display name?" box. She sets the page width to "90%", which will make margins on both sides of the page. Tina doesn't know what all the features in the page layout section do, so she leaves them in their default settings. By clicking on the question mark, she can learn all about each item on the page. She changes the background and text colors so they will match the artwork, and hits the "assign items" button.
A word about the buttons at the bottom of the page: At the bottom of the "page layout" page, like most pages, is a bank of buttons. The "ok" button will save the changes she has made and return her to the menu. The cancel button will return her to the menu without saving any changes. The other buttons are shortcuts. They will save her changes and jump to another page, bypassing the menu page. So, hitting the "assign items" page at the bottom of the "page layout" page is the same as hitting the "ok" button, selecting the main page from the list again, and hitting the "assign items" page.
The "assign items" page prompts Tina to choose which types of items she would like to assign to the page. Links to other pages can be interspersed with products, and tina has already assigned each of her primary pages, "loud toys", quiet toys" etc., to the main page, but above those she wants to have her featured product of the month appear, the siren machine. When she added the product to her products database, she assigned it to the "loud toys" page, but now she also wants it to appear on her main page. So, at the "assign items" menu, she selects "products" and hits "ok". That generates a list of all her products with a check box next to each one. Every product that she checks will appear on that page. She checks the "siren machine" box, and hits the "arrange items" button which, remember, is the same as hitting the "ok" button, but it jumps her to the page she wants to be on.
She wants to be on the "arrange items" page because she sees that items on a page are listed top to bottom in the order in which they are created. "Arrange items" lets her decide what order they will be in. It brings up a menu of all the items on the page, and she can choose which one she wants to appear in each slot. She puts the product at the top and the pages underneath. Be careful, you need to make sure none of them are listed twice. If that happens, you will get an error instructing you to go back and check to make sure each item is listed only once.
Tina then hits the "page contents" button, because she decides that she ought to introduce her product of the week, the siren machine, rather than just plop it on her front page with no fanfare. So, in the "text 1" field, under her other text, she puts a <p> tag in to skip a line and then tells her customers that she will be highlighting a new product each week, and tells a little about the new siren machine. With ShopSite, it is easy for her to change that product and text every week, and it encourages her customers to come back often.