Edit Page Content

After selecting a page from the list of pages in your store, this button takes you to a screen in which you can enter or edit both the contents of that page and the text and graphics that will appear on links to that page. After entering the link info, you can choose the page or pages where you would like the to this page to appear.

Consult the list below for explanations of the different feilds. If there are any fields that you do not understand, leave the default setting.

Page Name

This is the name that appears at the top of the page and at the top of the browser window when viewed on line. This is also the name of the record in the database (the list of pages), so even if you have four pages of T-shirts, you may want to name the pages "T-Shirts Page One" and "T-Shirts Page Two," so you can differentiate.

Banner Graphic

Select the graphic, if any, that you want to appear on the top of this page. It will appear above the text and products on the page or down the left side of the page, depending on the page theme or template that you choose. There are three methods for selecting an image:

If you chose to select images from a drop-down list, the top radio button provides pull-down menus of the image directories and images that are in your media directory. Select the directory that contains the image that you want to use, then select the image. You can preview any image by clicking on the View button.

If you chose to select images in a pop-up window, click the Select button. In the Select Image window, you can select a directory name and then click View to see the files in that directory. Click on an image file name, then click Select Image to use that image on the page.

You can type the URL of an image or the directory path to an image.

If you want to insert an image anywhere else on the page, use an HTML tag in that field.

Text 1

Text you enter here will appear immediately below the graphic and page name, but above any products or page links, like this. You can enter any combination of text and into this field.

Text 2

Text you enter here will appear immediately below the products and page links, but above the page footer (if there is one), like this. You can enter any combination of text and HTML into this field.

Text 3

With the default template, text you enter here will appear at the very bottom of the page, like this. You can enter any combination of text and HTML into this field. Note: Further down the screen you will select a page template. Some page templates display Text3 text in other places.

Link Info

If other pages in the site are going to display links to the page that you're editing now, then you need to provide link information. The only page that might be left without link information is the welcome page, but you may want to consider linking every page back to the welcome page too. Remember that you are also free to use custom HTML to make links to your pages if you do not like the way that they are displayed by default.

Link Name

This will usually be the same as the Page Name you entered above. This is the text that will appear on the referring page. It will appear "hot" that is, clicking on the text will take the customer to the new page (the one you're editing now). You may decide to display either a text link, a graphic link, or both. If you don't enter anything in this field, and you don't specify a link graphic, ShopSite will use the Page Name for links from other pages.

Link Graphic

This is a clickable graphic that appears on the referring page. Clicking on the graphic brings up this page, just as clicking the link name does. You may decide to display either a text link, a graphic link, or both. Use the method for finding your image described for the Banner Graphic field, above.

Link Text

This is descriptive text that accompanies the link name and/or graphic on the referring page. It is optional. You can use it to entice customers to visit a certain page, such as by saying, "We have the lowest prices on granola bars!" next to the link to the page where your store sells granola bars.

Link Location

Click on the Select button to bring up a new window that will allow you to select which pages you want links to this page to appear on. The top box lists all the pages that are set to have links to your current page. To remove a page from the list, select it and click on the Delete button. The page name will now appear in the lower box, which is a list of pages that do not have links to the current page. You can select pages from the lower box and click on the Add button to move the pages to the top box. When you are finished making changes, click on OK to save your changes, or Cancel to close the window without saving.

Advanced Info

The fields in the Advanced Info section help search engines to find your pages, and help customers to find products on your pages.

File Name

This setting is optional. Use this field to give the page a file name that describes the page's contents, such as "wooden_toys.html" or "customer_service.html." Be sure to put a .html or .htm suffix on the end of the file name, or the page will not display correctly. If you do not assign a name to the page, it will have a default file name, such as page1.html or page2.html.

The file name cannot contain spaces or any of the following characters: '?', '+', '=', '&', '@'

Metakeywords

Metakeywords are used by search engines such as AltaVista and HotBot to match searches to the information on a page. Enter keywords that search engines should match to find this page.

Metadescription

Enter a description that you want search engines to display for this page when a search matches this page. Not all search engines use the Metadescription text.

You can also use this field to insert meta tags and other material into the <HEAD> section of the page, such as META fields or JavaScript code. First, type in any text that you want within the <META desciption= > tag and close the tag with ">. Then type in any additional tags or scripts (the field scrolls to hold more lines). Do not put the closing "> at the end of your last tag, as ShopSite will add that automatically. For example, to add a META name tag, you might enter something like this:

your, keywords, go, here"><META name="your meta tag" content="your content

Product Search Field

Check this box to add a Product Search box to this page, which allows customers to search for products in your store.

Index

Check this box to allow this page to be indexed so that it can be found when customers search for products.

Extra Fields

If you are using a custom page template to display this page, you can use the five Page Fields to include additional information about this page that does not fit in any of the predefined fields. Your custom template must include tags for these fields or the information will not be displayed.