 |
The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart
software also allows you to select and/or customize
the way your Product Categories and Product pages are
displayed.
Category
& Product Templates:
The FORTUNE3
Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software comes
with a library of ready-to-use templates (layouts) for
your Category and Product pages. If you preview some
of these templates, you will see the differences between
the layouts and how the product and category pages will
be displayed with each layout.
Categories:
By selecting
"Categories" from the "Page Type"
drop-down menu, you can view the different category
page layouts. Category Layout 4 allows your customers
to add multiple products at the same time, while all
others require that the customers add each product individually.
Find the category layout
that will best suit your needs by selecting the radio
button pertaining to the layout that you wish to preview
and clicking on the "Preview" button.
Once you have your desired category layout selected,
click on "Save & Close" to enable the selected
layout on your site.
Products:
By selecting
"Products" from the "Page Type"
drop-down menu, you can view the different product page
layouts. The differences in these layouts are purely
cosmetic.
Find the product layout that
will best suit your needs by selecting the radio button
pertaining to the layout that you wish to preview and
clicking on the "Preview" button.
Once you have your desired product layout selected,
click on "Save & Close" to enable the selected
layout on your site.
IMPORTANT NOTE ON EDITING CART TEMPLATES: FORTUNE3
does not recommend editing the html code in the cart
templates unless you are a programmer and are extremely
proficient with HTML code and with the Wizard's HTML
and template functionality all around.
If you want to modify our Category and/or Product page
templates, select the "Modify As" button to
download the selected "Cart Template".
The Wizard will now ask you to name your template ("New
Template Name") . Enter a name for the
"Cart Template" and click on OK.
The template's code will be displayed in the white-panel
and the Template's Folder Path will be displayed
below the white-panel.
Edit a Category Template:
Edit a Product Template:
If you would like to edit the "Cart Template"
in an HTML editor like Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage,
click on Apply, and then click on Yes, and click
here and proceed to follow the instructions for editing
the cart templates with HTML Programs.
Make your changes to the code carefully. If there are
any 'if conditions' or 'loops' that are not properly
formatted or closed, errors will show on the site. 'If
conditions' and 'loops' should not be altered or removed,
they look like this:
[% IF ... %]
[% ELSIF ... %]
[% ELSE %]
[% FOREACH ... %]
[% UNLESS ... %]
[% END %]
Click on "Apply" when finished.
Note: Because of their complexity,
customized "Cart Templates" cannot
be previewed. FORTUNE3 also offers very limited support
on customized "Cart Templates" because
of their complexity and the difficulty of finding errors
and problems with them.
Refer to new images and animated objects being incorporated
by specifying the file name followed by the corresponding
file extension (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .fla,
.swf, .swd, .spl / exclude the Folder Path.
i.e. <IMG SRC="imagename.gif..">).
Folder Path for the 'Cart Template Design' - where
to put your cart template's images and files:
This field specifies the Template's Folder Path
in your local drive for your custom cart template. The
Template's Folder Path is shown under the HTML
panel, which is usually:
For
Category Page Templates:
C:\Program Files\FORTUNE3
Wizard\PageTemplates\Categories\TemplateName\
For
Product Page Templates:
C:\Program Files\FORTUNE3 Wizard\PageTemplates\Products\TemplateName\
Incorporate all of the new
images and animated objects referenced in the HTML code
by saving their corresponding files (.gif, .jpg,
.jpeg, .jpe, .png, .fla, .swf, .swd, .spl formats)
directly into the specified Template's Folder Path
- do not use sub-folders.
The
Template's Folder Path contains many files,
particularly image files. You may change any of the
files and images in the Template's Folder Path.
When you upload, the changed images will be reflected
on your site.
Any new images or files you add to the cart
template must have the image files located directly
in the Template's Folder Path,
without any sub-folders,
and referred to within the HTML code as simply <img
src="file.ext".....>.
Image
Editing on "Cart Templates"
For Graphic Designers and Web Developers:
To edit the cart template's buttons and graphics
all at once, use Macromedia / Adobe Fireworks
to modify the colors and design of the template's
graphics ("Category Layout #.png or Product
Layout #.png" are the files that will
be downloaded with each template and should be
available in your Template's Folder Path).
Do not delete, change names, shapes, sizes and
positions of the predefined slices).
Once finished, use
the graphics software to export all of the slices
to the specified Template's Folder Path. |
Top:
Table of Contents | Previous:
Editing a Template in HTML Programs
| Next:
Editing a Cart Template in HTML Programs
|
|
|
|
|
