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Switching Between Basic and Advanced Editing
When you go to the or sections of your back office for the first time, ShopSite will be in basic editing mode. This is a simplified interface similar to the ShopSite Wizard, designed to make it easy to manage a small number of very basic items. In basic mode, many of the features and options for your pages and products are hidden to remove potentially confusing clutter.
After you're comfortable with the essentials of managing pages and products, you'll probably want to check out the advanced editing mode, where you have a greater selection of tools and features available. To switch to advanced editing mode, simply go to the main screen for the section (click on the or icon in the navigation bar) and click the button at the bottom of the screen. This will switch that section into advanced editing mode. Each section has its own mode setting, so you can switch to advanced editing mode for one and still use basic editing mode in the other.
As soon as you switch to advanced editing mode, you'll notice a difference. There are a lot more buttons on the advanced editing screens. The screens for adding or modifying an item will also be different, with many more options than there were before. Although there's a lot more on the screen in advanced editing mode, it's still very straight-forward. You shouldn't have much trouble figuring out what each option is used for.
Note: Remember that if you do have a question about how any feature works, you can click the icon (
) in the navigation bar to go straight to the online help page that describes all the features and options on that back office screen.
As you grow familiar with what's possible in advanced editing mode, you'll discover how easy it is to use. If you ever want to go back into basic editing mode, there's a button at the bottom of that section's main screen that will switch you back to basic editing mode when you click it. You can switch between basic and advanced editing modes whenever and as often as you like.
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