Edit an E-commerce Template in FrontPage 2002

After you have downloaded the bCentral Commerce Manager Add-in for Microsoft FrontPage®, created a product catalog in the bCentral Commerce Manager, and created your e-commerce Web site in FrontPage using the E-commerce Wizard, you are ready to customize your site to suit your needs.

You can change the look of your e-commerce Web site the same way you would any other FrontPage Web site. You can apply themes, add photos and graphics, change fonts, and add colors to your Web pages. In addition, you can change the way your product information is displayed by using the commands in the E-commerce toolbar.

About catalog templates

The E-commerce Wizard generates two folders when it creates your e-commerce Web site: the Catalog folder and the Catalog Template folder.

  • The Catalog folder contains a folder for each department you choose to list in your Microsoft FrontPage e-commerce Web site. Each department folder contains a product list page and a product detail page for each product listed within the department. These are the pages that users will see when they browse to your site.
  • The Catalog Templates folder contains the product list and product detail template pages for each department. These templates store the information that control the look of a page and the layout of the product information that appears on a page.

Note   All changes to your product pages must be made to the corresponding template in the Catalog Templates folder.

Changing the way product information is displayed in a template

You can use the E-commerce toolbar that was installed as part of the bCentral Commerce Manager Add-in to make the following changes to your FrontPage e-commerce templates.

Insert product fields

Insert shopping cart feature buttons

Insert a product-related link

Insert a department or product list

Add a product photo

For More Information

For more information on how to customize a FrontPage web site, refer to Microsoft FrontPage Help.

For more information on how to use the bCentral Commerce manager features, visit the bCentral Commerce Manager help page at http://www.bcentral.com/help/CommerceManager/default.asp.

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