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[lifeforc]

I am getting confused about publishing to the internet. The claim is that I don't have to use a local computer. But I cannot transfer the buttons to the internet website only to the original version saved in a Publisher file. I suppose I can just now transfer the version with the buttons using File Zilla, but I have not been able to publish the admin forms to set up the store. After I hit publish, the instruction says that I can go to my store, but there is no store on the internet. There is an instruction about forcing the changes, but I can see no such edit drop down in Mozilla or internet explorer. If anyone can resolve these matters, I would be grateful - Dave

[Jim]

What is the domain for your site? Is your ShopSite store installed in a subdirectory of the main domain, i.e. /store or /shop or is it in the main domain? Without a link to your store we can't see what the problems might be.

[lifeforc]

I uninstalled the shopsite but I'll reinstall it tomorrow and get back to you. I liked the buttons because they transferred right to my publisher file. It turns out that you cannot paste code right into the Publisher pages and it does not seem to have a feature for pasting raw html code. My website if lifeforcetimes.com - I published the shopsite back office/admin pages directly to the website with no result. I am assuming now that I am supposed to paste in the buttons, transfer the file to the internet - I use File Zilla - and then publish the admin pages. When I tried that last time I got a message saying that I would have to force through the changes on my browser. The instructions did not correspond to anything on Mozilla or Explorer. Anyway, I'll try again tomorrow. Thanks.

[lifeforc]

My website is lifeforcetimes.com I placed the buttons into my publisher file and uploaded the new website via filezilla. But when I went thru the admin process, even though I received a notice that I could view my store, no admin pages were published. I'm supposed to force through the changes, but under Edit in Mozilla I have no selection marked preferences. The buttons of course do not go to any checkout pages.

[Jim]

There are 2 basic ways to use ShopSite,

1. Create all your page and product content in ShopSite and have ShopSite publish your pages to the web. ShopSite will put the pages on the web at the location specified in the url in the authorization file that your store runs from.
2. Create all your pages manually (or with some non-ShopSite tool like frontpage) and include the product description graphic etc on thoes pages. You also enter your product name, sku and price into ShopSite and then copy the Add to Cart and View cart links from ShopSite to the pages your manually create. This is called the Order Anywhere method.

From what you are describing it sounds like you are using the Order Anywhere method. Is that correct?

If you are using the Order Anywhere method there is no need to use the Publish option in the ShopSite merchant interface (backoffice) since your pages will be created outside of ShopSite. All you need to do is enter the Product information including just the Name, Price (and SKU if you use one) for each product you will be selling. Once that information is entered, in the backoffice of your store you go to Merchandising > Order Anywhere and select each product from the list. Depending on the software you are using to create your pages you may want to either Show Selected Links or Show Selected HTML buttons to display the buttons or html to add your products to the cart. If your browser and page creation software support drag and drop you can use the Show Selected Links method to display the buttons and drag them to your page. Otherwise use the Show Selected HTML and copy and paste the html to your page. Once you have your pages created manually you will need to ftp them to your your online store.

[Jim]

You may also want to checkout the ShopSite quick Start guide at http://www.shopsite.com/help/quickstart/index.html and a video of using order anywhere on for your website. http://shopsite.com/orderanywhere.html