 Remove the ShopZone accesslog db
files immediately
The accesslog files in your db folder corrupt very easily,
making your site inoperable. They alow down the speed of your
site. So you will want to remove these ASAP. You can still get
website statistics from your cPanel (yourdomain.ext/cpanel).
Removing these problem databases:
Delete all files beginning with "accesslog.xxx" in
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the "db" subdirectory on your remote website on our
server (through ftp), AND
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the db folder on your own computer (so that you don't
re-publish these files the next time you publish). (How to
install & publish ShopZone on moonSlice servers).
Style Sheet - Global Layout
You can customize your style sheet to completely fit your
look and feel.
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Go to the "Style" button and choose "File/Edit Style".
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Do a "save as" and rename the style in the "Style Name"
field. This will create your very own style, so that you
don't lose the default style you chose to begin with.
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To edit this style, including default font, table
widths, background colors, default text that goes on every
page of your ShopZone site, etc - use a program like
Dreamweaver and find your style sheet in the
c:/ShopzonePro30/styles folder.
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You can customize practically anything, but just be sure
NOT to put any content into the main large cell of the
table, as this is where ShopZone creates/allows customized
content for each page of the site. To edit this customized
content for each individual page, open that particular page
in Dreamweaver.
Customize individual pages
To edit customized content for each individual page, open
that particular page in Dreamweaver and edit the content in
the main large cell.
**Do NOT edit any content in any of the other cells (the
top, bottom, and left cells, as the content for those cells is
determined in the style sheet (see above).
Product images and thumbnails
You can keep your image file sizes down and obtain better
quality by doing the following:
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DON'T let ShopZone automatically size the main product
image
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DON'T let ShopZone automatically create the thumbnail.
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DO use a program like Macromedia Fireworks to create the
images and thumbnails. It produces great quality and keeps
file size very small. In fact, Fireworks can do a batch
creation of all thumbnails of all your images at once!
PhotoShop and PhotoPaint are alternative programs that can
also do this. (If you want to save the money, the ShopZone
forum said there is a free program that can do batch
creation of thumbnails called IrfanView, which you can get
from download.com)
Linking ShopZone pages with non-ShopZone
pages (so your shopcart isn't lost):
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FROM ShopZone pages TO other pages on your site... you
must put the full path - e.g http://www.yourdomain.ext/whateverpage.html
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FROM other pages TO ShopZone pages... you must use a
relative path - e.g.
/cgibin/webc.cgi/shopzonesubdirectoryifany/whateverpage.htm
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FROM ShopZone pages TO OTHER ShopZone pages... use a
relative path without the webc or directories in the path -
e.g. /shopzonepage.htm
Changes in categories won't publish
ShopZone 3.7 and below users will find that if you make
changes in a category, the changes won't be published, and you
will get an error message. You need to close ShopZone, reopen
it, and then manually select those category files (even if
they aren't selected by ShopZone) and publish them. |
