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Adding
Categories - The First Step |
By creating the appropriate Product Categories,
the products in your online store / catalog will
appear well organized and can easily be found
by customers (i.e. type, brand, location, etc.).
The FORTUNE3 E-Commerce Software and Shopping
Cart Wizard software allows you to display unlimited
nested categories (multiple levels of sub-categories)
in the same way as they appear on the shelves
of your store / warehouse, or as it has been printed
on the catalog of your company. On your site,
sub-categories will be shown as an expandable
(pop-out) menu coming from the main category when
the mouse is over it (or a non-expandable if you
choose to in the "More
Settings" button of the Wizard's
My Web Pages
section).
To add a Main (1st Level)
Category, right-click on the "My Products"
icon; click on Add "Product Category"
from the menu and fill in the appropriate information.
To add a sub-category, right-click on the parent
Category and click on Add "Product
Category" from the menu.
Category
Fields
Name:
This is a required field. This is the
field that represents your category. Your web
store's navigation menu contains the category
Name field for each category on your
Tree. Therefore, because of the space
limit for the menu, this field is limited to 24
characters.
Description:
This is a required field. Use this
field to write a description for your category
and possibly the type of products it contains.
This field will support general HTML tags to further
enhance the appearance of the text and is limited
to 250 characters (see HTML
Tags for more details). For larger category
descriptions, you may use the Additional Description
field.
Additional Description:
Use this field to add a larger description
for your category. This field will support a much
larger number of characters than the Description
field. The "Place Additional Text" drop-down menu
will allow you to choose where you want the Additional
Description to show up on each of your category
pages. It can either come up before the list of
products, or after it. This field will support
general HTML tags to further enhance the appearance
of the text and is not limited in its number of
characters (see HTML Tags
for more details).
Image:
You may Browse for an Image
if you would like your Category to be represented
by an Image. Images can have a maximum
size of 100kb. That size should be large enough
for an image that is up to 700 pixels wide and
in normal-high resolution. The only acceptable
image file types are .jpg .jpeg .gif and .png.
Category-based Discounts
can also be incorporated into each of your categories.
Each of your categories may offer a percentage
discount for a 2nd product purchase for products
within the same category (Products beyond this
point may reflect a 2nd product discounted by
a percentage - Buy one, get the 2nd Product Discounted
by ___%). For each product within this category,
you will be able to select whether or not that
product is eligible for this discount. The discount
will be advertised on your category pages and
on the product pages for each of the products
that participates in the discount.
Webpage
Meta Tags/Properties -
In this area, you can designate your own custom
Webpage Meta Tags and assign a filename for this
category's web page(s). If you do not wish to
do this, leave these text areas blank, and the
software will create default values for these
fields based on the information you have entered
into the Name and Description
fields for this category - and though these default
values will not be visible on the software itself,
they will be on your site. You can specify the
web page's Title, Description, Keywords and Filename.
This is mainly available for you to optimize your
pages for search engines. If any of these fields
are left blank, FORTUNE3's default optimization
will be used for that field on this category's
web page(s).
Title
- The
title and title Meta Tag for this category's
web page(s). The
title appears on the top title bar of browsers,
and is used by search engines to display
a title for this category's web page(s),
and possibly to determine where to position
this category's web page(s) on their search
results. Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default
Title Optimization for this page (which
is based on the category name).
Description
- A
description and description Meta Tag for
this category's web page(s). This
will be used by search engines to display
a description for this category's web page(s)
on their search results page (under the
title), and possibly to determine where
to position this category's web page(s)
on their search results.
Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default Description
Optimization for this page (which is based
on the category name and description).
Keywords
- Will
be used as the keywords Meta Tag by search
engines to determine the ranking and positioning
for this category's web page(s) on their
search results when people search for your
keywords. Because search engines prefer
it, every keyword entered here will be separated
by a comma on the category's web page(s),
even if you do not separate the words with
commas on this field. Please remember these
are keywords, not key phrases.
Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default Keywords
Optimization for this page (which is based
on the category name and description).
Filename
- The
name of the html file for this category's
web page(s). Simply enter the name, do not
enter .html at the end. If the filename
you enter has already been assigned to another
category or product, or if your category
is divided into several pages (because there
are too many products to fit in one page),
the system will automatically add a number
to the end of the filename (Filename_2.html).
Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default Filename
for this page (which is based on the category
name). |
When finished, click on "Save & Close".
You can continue adding categories and sub-categories
until the desired structure of your E-Commerce
website's navigation menu is complete.
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