If you’ve done everything correctly, you’ll still see some things that need to be replaced before you can get your store running online. Let’s do a temporary patch to your front-page artwork. The first logo is the company logo in the upper left of the web site.
It is called logo.png and looks like this:
Simply right click on this and copy it into your favorite graphic editor. Make a new logo that matches this size and call it “logo.png”.
Just use your ftp editor to copy it to this location:
/khxc/skins/ClickCartPro/media/logo.png
If you want to get rid of this handsome fellow, the file is called
http://www.yourwebsite.com/khxc/media/ccp0/html/splash_contact1.png You can find it, make a file that is similar in size and replace it.
This may not be the optimal HTML and design protocol, but right now, we’re just trying to get your store up and running.
Also, the text on the front page may be too generic to suit your tastes; you can find this by going to your Web Pages: Web Page Management page and selecting Splash Page.
You simply click on the Update link to start your work.
You’ll find a box called HTML content.
It looks a little scary, but if you scroll down through the Martian language that you see here, you’ll eventually see the wording from the web site. It will be preceded by a <p> and then have a </p> at the end of it. You don’t have to get too tricky here. Just replaced the text that is contained within these html symbols which mean “Start Paragraph” <p> and “End Paragraph” </p> and you’ll now be writing your first html code. You can simply be careful and replace the boilerplate text with your own wording.
What starts as this…
…can now reflect your web site’s most important message.
Just experiment with this a little. It’s not rocket science and as long as you’re careful not to erase anything in the <brackets>, you can quickly create your first html message knowing absolutely nothing about html.
Again, you’ll want to eventually have a pro from either a local html company or the experts at
[email protected] help you really design the look and feel that perfectly fits your business personality, but for all intent purposes, we’re now done with all of the content and backbone information. We just need to add the “purdy” stuff as well as the background info needed to make your site “pop” in all of the search engines.
That’s the end of our Getting Started Guide. The next chapter delves a little deeper into ClickCartPro.
ClickCartPro Details
If you’ve just completed the Getting Started Guide, most of this will be provided to fill in the blanks. You’re already familiar with navigating the software and setting up your site. But we’ve provided this detailed reference guide so that no question remains unanswered.
The following Main Menu options are available for ClickCartPro. Each menu item is broken down and explained…from first click to every option available within that selection. This is where you’ll start and spend a majority of your time with ClickCartPro, stocking, managing and organizing your site and customer services.
This product is designed much like a database. Clicking on any of theses items will usually present you with table selections and tools for modifying those tables.
For instance, when you click on the Catalog: Categories, Products and Options menu item, you’ll be presented with the following sub menu:
From this selector, you’ll be able to launch the specific table that you wish to modify. In most cases, you’ll have the following menus to choose from:
1. Functions Menu- From here, you can either add new items to the table, like products, categories or whatever that particular table controls or you can search the table for a specific item. In the case of a large store with many products, you’ll simply type in a few letters of the product you’re interested in just like a standard search engine.
2. Navigation Menu- This will simply tell you how many items are in a particular table and also the number of pages necessary to display those items.
3. Data Overview Menu- This is the actual list of items in a particular table. In most cases you’ll have several choices for accessing the data listed.
a. Clone - This makes an exact copy of the item you’re looking at and launches it in the editor. This is ideal when you have several versions of the same product so you can quickly duplicate a majority of the information and then just change certain details.
b. Update- This simply allows you to access the detailed information of a particular table item so that you can modify it.
c. Delete- Just like the sign says…this allows you to delete an item from the table. There is a confirmation window that pops up during Delete, so if you make a mistake, you have a chance to reverse it.
4. Database Information- This displays the database SQL coding that tells the database what you’re requesting in this table.