CMS Guide

Content Management Help Topics

Manage Content By E-Mail
Using Adobe Contribute CMS
Using Admin CMS

Manage Content By E-Mail

You may use my free webmaster edit service to make changes to the pages on your web site. Just send e-mail something like ...
"hey Ted the following text goes in the ABOUT US page, and the image file attachment of our CEO goes on the HOME page. Thanks!" I'll make the changes on your web site by the next business day.

Note to Flash Super Store, OScommerce, and Cre Loaded business site owners: Adding new products to your web site is your job.. That's what Admin is for.

Self Editting Pages With Adobe™ CS3 Contribute

With Adobe CS3 Contribute CMS technology, web owners may edit their own web site with no special knoweldge of web code. Once Adobe CS3 Contribute is installed on your computer I'll provide you with a connection key to accesses and edit your site.

Using Contribute: For HTML/CSS and WebAssist Sites

Open Contribute
Click the Link to your web site which appears after a few moments near the top of your screen.
Click the Connect Button near the top of your screen
Navigate to the page you want to edit.
Click the Edit Page Button
After you have made a few changes to the page click the Publish button.
To make pages to other pages repeat steps 5 and 6.

Using Admin

Using Admin For OScommerce sites

Go to your website and add /catalog/admin to the address bar like this:
http://yourdomainname/catalog/admin

Login with your admin username and password:
Username
Password

You will see a blue menu screen.
Click on Catalog

Folders
Folders are created by clicking the "new category" button
Within each folder will be your products
Note: You cab also have sub categories within the first level folders.

Products
Products are added by clicking the "new product" button
Double click on any one of the folders you see in order to go inside that folder to add or edit the products within that folder category.

Use the products already entered as your guide to see how to fill out the form. I enter the first 10 products for you.

Edit a product listing
Click on the product name.
You will notice an arrow indicating the product is selected.
Click the edit button on the right side of the screen.
Change the description, price or photo by editing the form.

Add a product listing
Click the "new product" button within the category you want the new product to appear.

Attributes
Click on the "Products Attributes" link on your left side gray menu.
You will notice some attributes on the demo products or on the products we added for you if you ordered customization services. If attributes have been added, on the bottom of the page you will see a drop down menu bar with a listing of all the products in your shopping cart. Choose a product to add attributes to it. This is a bit complicated, so call us and we will walk you through how to add attributes if you have difficulty with this at first. Once you get the hang of it is relatively easy to do.

Note: You do not need to add attributes unless you want the customer to choose different things for that particular product.

Specials
You can put a product on special by clicking the "Specials" link on the left side gray menu.

Customers
To see a list of people who have registered as users click the "Customers" link on the left side gray menu. To view your orders and send customers Invoice Receipts (with price included) or Packing Slips (without price included) click the "Orders" link. You can add a note to each receipt by clicking edit.

Managing Orders Procedure: Customer orders product. PayPal, 2CheckOut or the merchant account company you have sends you an email. You go into your shopping cart and click "customers" - "order". Click "edit" to update the order from "pending" to "delivered" Print any invoice for your own records.

Other areas: Reports self explanatory
Tools To send customer emails and newsletters

SpeciaL

COMARE PRICES

Guarantee

Payment