Customizing your
stores colors and fonts.
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| Your store has built in
customization capabilities for setting the background images,
colors and fonts. You can also specify the height of the top
frame as well as the Width of the left navigation frame to accommodate
your storetop.htm page and your button images, If you choose to
use any.
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| There are two graphical displays that will show
most of the settings as you change them. These are not to scale
and they are for reference only. |
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| Sections: |
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Colors |
| Product
Results Page |
| The "Product
Results Page" is the area that displays your products when
a Category Link is clicked.
You can customize the background
color, the cell color that contains the Category Title, and you
can apply a background image as well. Be sure to upload your
background image file with the upload utility.
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| Store
Navigation |
| The "Store
Navigation" is the Navigation Frame on the left side of your
store, it contains the category links to your products.
You can customize the background
color, the color of the font used in the nav frame, as well as
specify an image to use as the home and view cart buttons if you
should choose not to use the standard text links. Be sure to
upload your home and view cart image files with the upload
utility.
Note on the use of buttons
in the Nav Frame:
Please understand my concern on this. This aspect of your store
is the working portion of your business it may or may not be the
actual store front. If you are linking to this from a home page
I would suggest you keep a couple of things in mind.
Most surveys of on line shoppers indicate that if pages load
slow they are more prone to leave and shop elsewhere instead of
waiting for each page to load. this being the inside of your
store, they have already gotten through the front door so to
speak. Try not to dazzle them so much with your artistic touch
but with the fantastic products you have to offer them.
One way to accomplish this is if you should choose to use images
as buttons instead of the standard text, please keep them relatively
small both in size and in file size. This will assure there
quick load times and not distract from the products. As well it
may keep them shopping longer.
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| Shopping
Cart |
| The shopping cart
itself can have the following color customizations:
The background and font color of
the tile frame which consists of the headings Product Name,
Quantity, Unit price, and Total. As well as the grand total
title cell
The background and font color of
the Line Items, this is where the products they select shows in
the cart.
The background and font color of
the total dollar value of there order.
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| Fonts |
| the following font
styles can be specified:
Product results page, Left
Navigation frame, and the Shopping cart.
Note:
The font options given are safe web fonts that most browsers recognize.
You will not see any fancy fonts listed as web pages "Do
Not!" download fonts. If the computer of the person viewing
the web page does not have the same font installed as you
specify on your web page, they will not see it and there browser
will display the default font in the browsers settings.
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| Frames
Setup |
| In order to accommodate
your custom created top frames page and the width of the buttons
you use as links the height of the top frames page as well as
the width of the left nav frame are customizable.
Please keep your top page
(storetop.htm) and your button widths with in reason. If you use
a large top page or wide buttons you will take away from the
actual products page, which is the reason they are there in the
first place.
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| Product
Paging Display |
| This setting controls
the number of items to display per page. Again this is done to allow
your products to load quickly. You can specify any number
between 1 and 99 per page. I recommend between 4 and 6 to allow
a quick load time of pages. |
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