Edit the Shopping Main Page

Overview:

DO NOT RENAME OR REMOVE ANY PAGE THAT CAME WITH YOUR SHOPPING CART

Your main shopping page does NEED to be edited.

THE ONLY TWO PAGES IN THE ENTIRE SYSTEM THAT NEED TO BE EDITED ARE \scart\shop.asp and your Disclaimer

Edit Your Shopping Main Page:

• BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN EDITING PAGES

• DO NOT EDIT YOUR ORIGINAL DOWNLOADED PAGE LOCATED IN C:\Ecomm\Pro

  • Edit only the copy that is in your web.

  • If you "mess up", simply go to your original and copy and paste to your web.

• Open your web page editor and open your web. (hopefully this is MS FrontPage)

• Open scart\shop.asp

• You will see the following:

  

• The page contains an html table with TWO columns.

• In the right column is a child table. You can add row or cells to that table or put another table in.

• DO NOT DO ANYTHING AT ALL IN THE LEFT SIDE COLUMN

• (you could backspace out the include page code if you do)

• EDIT ONLY THE RIGHT SIDE WHICH LOOKS LIKE THE ABOVE IMAGE

• Do anything you want in the right side. Get some hints from what's now there.

• Stay within the right column of the table.

  • DO NOT PUT ANYTHING ABOVE OR BELOW THE TABLE

  • You can put other tables INSIDE of the existing right side column for alignment or whatever reason.

  • Put images or whatever. (get yourself some Credit Card images to put in there)

  • You could also display PRODUCTS here. See the optional Method 1 or 2 for instructions. (1 is easy)

• You may also want to mention that for International (overseas) orders, shipping will be higher and that the shipping on that order will be changed to reflect the difference.

• THIS IS YOUR SHOPPING MAIN PAGE all web site visitors should be sent to this page for shopping.

  e.g. Put hyperlinks on your other web pages that link to this page.

  e.g. <A Href="http://www.yourdomain.com/scart/shop.asp">Go Shopping</a>

• Click Save then publish your web.

• If you "mess up", simply go to your original and copy and paste to your web then try again.

Helpful Hints:

• Try changing the page background, text and hyperlink colors from the page properties (body tag).
• Put links throughout your web site to the scart/shop.asp page.

Use the FULL URL e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/scart/shop.asp when creating links to any shopping page.

 

*Note - DO NOT LEAVE OUT THE www. This DOES make a difference. It's needs to be the same as you used in your Company Information setup in the Database Control Panel.

 

e.g. DO not use internal links to your shopping pages. 

e.g. do not use <A Href="scart/shop.asp">Shop</a> *Note - You can use this method in your forms. Just not from your pages to the shopping pages that you create.

 

Use below instead:

e.g. use this <A Href="http://www.yourdomain.com/scart/shop.asp">Shop</a>

 

*Note - If a user comes to your site using only http://yourdomain.com with out the www, and adds an item to the cart but doesn't purchase it, then comes back the next day to purchase and uses http://www.yourdomain.com, their item would not be found in the shopping cart. If you use the method mentioned above you can prevent this from happening. You would control the links used to reach the shopping area thus a user would always have their cart items. Other than that, it really doesn't matter if you use the FULL URL or NOT. It is up to you.

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