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Your sites menu (if you have it switched on) by default only shows the following links:
Homepage link
4 Links to root category for:
Products
Articles
News
Links
About Us link
Also if the site administrator or a customer is logged in a ma...
It is possible to use your sites home page as a "Whats New" page by simply adding some parameters to the page as follows. To force the latest content to show on your homepage you need to use the following URL:
http://www.yourcompany.co.uk/default.aspx?...
Easywebstore uses something called lightbox to display large versions of images when the small version of the image is clicked.
If you want to use this in your own content (teasers or full descriptions for products for example), the html you will need ...
Several customers have asked us how they can embed videos on their websites, maybe to demonstrate products or something.
We recomend using Google Video to do this. The video can be uploaded to Google Video and then embedded into your own website so tha...
Easywebstore allows you to set up an unlimited hierarchy of categories.
For example if you wanted to set up categories like this :
DVDs
Action
Drama
Horror
Video Games
PC
XBOX 360
PS 3
DVD’s and Video Game’s a...
Add to cart and more details buttons are easily styled in css. The system automatically writes them out with the following classes:
.ewsProductAddToCartButton / .ewsProductMoreDetailsLink
To style with an image (using an image variable) you can use ...
What happened to the extra options in the WSIWYG / RTB editors in the admin area?
By default these editors are now disabled. We have made this change because we are unable to support problems caused by custom HTML and HTML editing. If you want us to re...
In EasyWebstore there are a few different options for what content can be displayed on the home page :
1) Products
By default products are shown on the home page. In your admin area under "Site look and feel" > "Display Settings" there is an option ...
A simple way to add an up to date easy to use currency converter is to add a simple link to a third party converter somewhere in either your header or one of your "Custom Text and Logo Area's" Log in and click the paper and pen icon for the area you wish ...
We would strongly advise against creating doorway / welcome pages. We find from experiance that they annoy prospective buyers, why would you want to force your customers to click on a link on a doorway page to enter your shop?
Ask yourself this; in you...
By default when you create a piece of content it appears at the root level of your category / menu structure as well as where you specify in the "Display Options" field.
By changing the "Display Options" field to "Always On Home Page" you can force the...
It is possible to embed flash movies / objects into easywebstore.
The movies have to be hosted on another server but the instructions
below should ensure that the movie embedding works correctly. The
method below uses swfobject (http://blog.deconcept.c...
When editing your content (using the rich text editing box with toolbar) highlight (by clicking on an image or dragging over a piece of text) the text or image you want to use for the hyperlink then click the "insert hyperlink" button on the editor toolba...
When editing a product you will see a "Related Products" option (under the "Product Options" option). Here you can list the product codes of products you wish to relate (eg batteries, consumables). When the product is viewed by the customer there will be ...
In your Admin Area go to "Content" > "Manage Products" then either create a new product or edit an existing one. About 2/3rds of the way down the screen you should see the "Product Images" field with a link titled "Browse for image…" to the right of this....
When editing your site design the editor allows you to upload certain file extensions so you can add and embed images, css files and flash content.
You can upload files by clicking the "browse" button and to insert the file you just double-click its en...
If you already have a website and just wish to add an online store this is easy, you just need to add a link from your existing site use the address (URL) given in your admin area, we can help you do this if you are unsure of what to do. The link text sho...
The systems product and article editors are primarily for "content management". This includes the rich text editing tools used for editing most of the content and text areas on the system (including the homepage editor).
It is possible for users of a...
Each product option can now have its own custom option fields
The following types of option are available:
Label, Textbox, Large text box (memo)
To add a customization box to a product you need to add the following to the option list field on...
You may want to protect your pictures and content from people who wish
to steal it, one way to attempt this is to disable the right click
menu using some sort of javascript.
If you think disabling right-click will protect your source code or
images, thin...
It is possible to set your store up so customers can add a custom product and custom payment amount to their cart before checkout. You can use this functionality to request payments for invoices from customers.
To activate go to your Admin home > Order...
If advanced templating is turned on within your store (you may have to ask our support team to do this for you).
In your admin area under "site look and feel" you should see two options "Basic" and "Template".
The basic option is the standard templa...
Each product option can now have its own price adjusment amount specified. We worked it like this to allow the system to be flexible enough to allow for multiple option types adding to the price for example if you were selling a new car (for example) you ...
You can find out more about advanced templates in the kb article below.
http://www.easywebstore.co.uk/tickets/Customer/KBArticle.aspx?articleid=66
The advanced template editor allows you to create new templates and edit the HTML for existing ones.
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It is possible to use variables and functions within the CSS area of the advanced style editor. These will be evaluated and cache within the client css file when requested.
Variables
At the top of the CSS area you can define variables as follows, th...
The weight per kilo option simply adds up all the weights of the products in the basket to get a total kg "weight" of the basket it the multiples this with the charge to ship per kg set in the shipping method.
As an example, you have 2 products in the ...
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