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How to connect the shop with the sitebuilder pages you will
create.
The steps for connecting/integrating your
site to the shopping cart are:
1. Log into your sitebuilder account and
create your home page to add content to it and let your customers
know about your site and why they should be there. When you make a
change to your site, go to the Publish tab and republish the updated
pages to your site. Your sitebuilder "site titles" should
incorporate the main keywords that you'd like to show for in
the search engines.
2. Create other pages like the About Us,
Contact Us, and other pages with titles that relate to what you sell.
Your page file names should incorporate keywords that you want
to be found under. For example, if you sell gourmet gift baskets,
then a good page name for your "About Us" page would be about-gourmet-gift-baskets.htm We do not recommend a generic page name like
about.htm
3. Connecting your sitebuilder site to the shopping cart:
The best way to do this is to create an "External Page" and set that
external page to link to the /shop url on your site.
The steps to do this are:
a. Click the "Pages" menu option in the sitebuilder.
b. Then under "Special Pages" select "External Page" and click
the right arrow button. That will create the external page.
c. Now double-click on the "External Page" page name to edit it.
Once the edit text box opens up, type in the new page name there.
Following our example above, you could name it something like "Shop
Gourmet Gift Baskets".
d. Click the "Edit" button from the main menu. Once on that page
select your External Page to the left and set the url for it.
To see steps a-d see the 2 screenshots below.
4. Now
that you have linked to the shop as external page, you may
want to use a custom header and footer within your shopping
cart. This will make the online catalog part of your site
look the same as your sitebuilder pages. We will set up the
custom header and footer for you in the shopping cart. Just
click here to email the helpdesk
and let us know once
you'd like us to set up your custom header / footer for
you.
An example of a shop using the custom header / footer is at
http://demoshop.precisionweb.net/shop/
The best time to do this is after you've created all the pages
that you want on your site; in that way the shop header has the
links to all your pages.
5. Now, separately, from the shopping
cart control panel at your /shop/owner area
You will need
to log in and create the categories, and the items that you want to
have for sale.
In steps 3-4 above we talked about using the "External
page" option in the sitebuilder to get your site's visitors
the shopping cart. As an extension of this method you can
also link to categories of items within the shop; it's just
a matter of adding the cat=2 cat=3 and so
on, to your links. You can see what the links to the
categories should be from the shop/owner Inventory page.
Two other options for linking to the shop are
explained below under the Option 2 and Option 3 headings.
Option 2: On the page where you'd
like your products to appear, click and drag the Script icon
from the right into the body of the page . That will cause a script
placeholder to appear on your page. Double-click the "Properties" text then within that script
text field, type the code below:
<iframe src=/shop/ width="760"
height="2800" frameborder=0>
Option 3: On a page or pages within your sitebuilder account,
put a link to your shopping cart at /shop or add links from your other pages in order
to link directly to a category of items or an individual item:
For example, a link to a category would look like the one below:
Click here to view
our denim items.
The links are generally in the format of:
/shop/?cat=1
/shop/?cat=2
And a link to an individual item would look like: :
We have the additional help information on linking
to the shopping cart at:
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