This page describes both the "front-end" and the "back-end" of this template -- the catalog pages that your viewers will use, and the administrative interface that you'll use to edit categories and products.

You may wish to open the Administrative Area while you read this page so that you can refer to the different pages. Log in using "admin" and "password." You will not be able to make changes to the information, but you can view all the pages. Also please note that you must have cookies enabled to be able to log in and use the Administrative Area.

Keyword Search

This template features a sophisticated keyword search. Advanced searching techniques are described on the Help page.

You can control, through the Administrative Interface, which fields are searched! We'll talk more about this below.

Home Page "Features" Area

The Home Page has a "Featured Listings" area (picture below). This is also generated from the database. You may have up to five featured products, specified in the Administrative Area (see right). Note - the actual product information is drawn from the Product Table, which we'll discuss below.

Listings Page

After clicking on a category or performing a search, the user is brought to "catalog.asp," which dynamically displays the results. The user may then sort the results by various fields (year, name, etc), and choose how many results to display on the page. The user may use the search box area to perform a new keyword search or click on the Categories to browse more products.

The displayed results pull information from the Product Table. A small thumbnail is shown, along with the product name and price. If the product is less than 31 days old, a yellow "New listing!" notice will be printed. If the product is on sale, a notice will be displayed, along with the original price.

You may turn the displayed fields "on" or "off" in the Admin area - we'll get to this below. (There are some limitations, so you'll have to experiment with which fields show up in this area.)

The number of days to be considered new may be changed. See the Getting Started page, 4b. You may also change how many products are displayed on the page by default. See 4a on Getting Started. The listing name, price, sale price, image, and other details are pulled from the database, and may be modified using the Administrative Area -- we'll discuss this below.

Listing Detail Page

When a user clicks on a listing thumbnail, they are brought to the listing detail page (details.asp. This page dynamically displays the listing details, including the year, model, make, name, description, options... in fact, you can decide which listing fields display within the Admin Area (more on this below). You may also have up to four images for each listing -- or none at all. Clicking on the smaller images will change the larger picture.

The image sizes are very specific, but you may configure a default size. See 4f on Getting Started.

The product information is all pulled from the Product Admin area....

Listings Admin Area

The Administrative Area allows you to add more product, delete existing products, or change product information. In the screenshots, you can see the interface used for editing products. You may specify if the product is active or not, specify if the product is on sale or not, edit the product's name, price, sale price, short description, and long description, specify the file names of the "small" and "large" images, and finally specify which categories this product is part of..

A full list of your products can be viewed, with the ability to delete products, edit them, or preview them as they will display in the catalog. You may specify how many records to show on the page - see 4g on Getting Started. You may search and sort your products as well!

(And note that the rows "highlight" as you mouse over them so that you don't get lost!)

Adding products is as easy as 1) importing your images into your FrontPage web's catalog images folder and 2) adding product information via the Admin interface.

Username and Password

The Administrative Area is password protected. You will access the admin area by typing "http://www.myweb.com/admin", where "myweb.com" is the location of your web site. You will then come to a log in screen. Type your user name and password to access the rest of the administrative area. (In this example, log in using "admin" and "password.")

One of the first things you should do is to change the password used to access your administrative. The "Change Password" page allows you to easily do this.

User Accounts

You may create multiple user accounts. Each user account can be set as an "Administrator" or a "Writer." Administrators have access to all areas of the administration area, including the setup areas and listing editing areas. Writers will have access only to add listings, edit the listings they created, and change their password. All other areas will be hidden.

You can take a look at the difference -- log into the Administrative Area using "admin" and "password," then log out and log in again as "test" and "test."

Be sure not to change your access for the Administrator Account to "Writer," or you won't be able to edit anything on your site!

Each user account may have a "Display Name" and "Display Email" specified. These may be displayed with the listing information as well -- and now, we'll tell you how to turn the fields "on" and "off."

Setup Fields

The image to the right shows the complete list of listing fields available. This page allows you to turn fields off and on, and also allows you to change selected field names.

The implications are huge - this means that you can have almost any kind of listings template you want! Because there are additional custom field lines, you may configure your listing fields for cars, boats, houses... almost anything! (Of course, you will only be able to list one KIND of item, since changing the field names changes them across your web site.)

Hiding fields will take them out from the Product Admin pages as well as the "front end" listing display pages.

Pretty cool, huh?

Note - one exception is if you want to change the New/Used display fields. You will have to edit the variables include file. See 4h on Getting Started.

Setup Search

Similarly, you may change which fields are used in the Search. There are checkboxes for each field, and after you Update the page, you may also run a test search in the right column.

Other Notes

• Be sure to read the instructions on Getting Started for changing the global variables for your catalog image locations (if necessary), width and height of images, and more.