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  1. Make a new web...
    1. Go to File/New/Web (2000) or File/New/Page or Web (2002).
    2. In 2002, you will need to click "Web Template" in the right side taskbar.
    3. Choose the Listings Synergy DB web template, and specify the location you want to publish to. You will need choose an online location or somewhere within your IIS server for the ASP pages to work.
      *Note: Please see sidebar note about database information if publishing to a server.
    4. Specify the location of the web site in the right column. You may publish it to a server, or, if you want to preserve an existing web site and create a "test" web site, publish it to a subfolder - for example, http://www.yoursite.com/test.
    5. Type in your user name and password when prompted if you are creating your web on a server.
    6. If you are creating the web in a new folder, FrontPage may prompt you to "create a new web." Go ahead and click OK.
    7. Click "OK" and wait for FrontPage to create your new web.
  2. Preview your new web...
    1. Go to File/Preview in Browser.
    2. Click on Internet Explorer and click Preview.
    3. A browser window will open with your new web. Preview the pages of the web and decide what pages will be in your web site. We advise that you keep the following pages, as they are necessary to the functionality of the database-drive site:
      1. catalog.asp
      2. details.asp
      3. default.asp
  3. Change your administrative password...
    1. If you are working off an online web server, make sure that the permissions are correct (see "Database Information" in the right column).
    2. In the browser, manually type in "/admin" after the web location (for example, http://myweb/admin) to access the admin area.
    3. You will be asked to log in. Type in the user name "admin" and the password "password".
    4. The first thing you should do is to change your password so that no one else will be able to access your admin area. Type in your new password and click the "submit" button to change your password.
  4. Change other Site Variables...
    In FrontPage, open includes/variables.inc. You will see several variables listed. Change them as necessary. (Note - all non-numeric values must be within quotation marks - for example, the PayPal email and image locations must be surrounded by quotation marks.)
    1. NumPhotos - This variable determines how many items are displayed on your catalog pages. Currently this variable is set for "10." You may change it to any multiple of five. (Note - the "Images Shown" dropdown box will then show the option for NumPhotos, NumPhotos x 2, and NumPhotos x 3. For example, currently NumPhotos is 10, so the dropdown box shows 10, 20, and 30. If you change NumPhotos to 20, the dropdown box will show 20, 40, and 60.)
    2. NumDaysConsideredNew - This variable is set to 31. If a product added is within 31 days of the current date, a "New" note will be added. You can change this to any number of days that you wish.
    3. CategoryImagesLocation - This variable allows you to set the path of the location of your Category images. Category images are the "heading" image of the category type ("Birthdays," "Weddings," etc.). Currently these images are stored in "images/categoryimages." If you wish to change the location of these images, you will need to change this variable.
    4. CatalogImagesLocation - Similarly, this variable shows where product images are kept. Currently this variable is set to "images/catalogimages."
    5. PayPalEmail - This very important variable must be set for your PayPal buttons to submit to your PayPal email address. Change this variable to the email address associated with your PayPal account.
    6. SmallPhotoWidth, SmallPhotoHeight, LargePhotoWidth, LargePhotoHeight - These variables allow you to set the widths and heights of your product images. You will have to keep all your product images the same width and heights.
    7. AdminShowMe - This allows you to control the number of products shown on a page of the "Administer Products" page.
    8. Type1, Type2 - This allows you to change the text for "used/new" to something else, such as "buy/sell."
  5. Apply changes to admin folder include as well. There is another "includes/variables.inc" file inside the admin folder (admin/includes/variables.inc). Copy and paste the changes you made from the first variables file to the other.
  6. Modify your new web's non-catalog pages...
    Be very careful not to delete any of the ASP code and includes.
    1. Add your logo
      You may open the "includepages/top.htm", delete the existing logo image, and insert your own. Saving this page will update all other pages.
    2. Edit the copyright info
      Open "includepages/copyright.htm" to edit the bottom area.
    3. Add new pages
      In FrontPage, open a page that has the layout the way you want it, then go to File/Save As. Save the page under a new name - be sure to change the page title as well! Then, go to Navigation View and drag your new page into the navigation structure.
    4. Rename existing pages
      If you would like to use an existing page but want to rename it, you may easily do this in Folders View. Right-click on the file name and/or the page title and choose "Rename" to rename your file.
    5. Delete pages from your web
      Right-click on the pages you wish to delete in your Folder List, in Folder View, or in Navigation View, then select "Delete."
    6. Add your own layout if necessary
      This page has been very carefully formatted with different nesting tables so that it resizes both vertically and horizontally. Do not drag on any table lines - you may "freeze" the page so that it no longer resizes properly. We also suggest that you do not directly add columns to this layout, as you may accidentally "freeze" the page so that it no longer resizes. Instead, delete the page template content, then go to Table/Insert/Table to add your own table in the center area. You may click within a table and go to Table > Select > Table to get a better idea of the table structure of this page.
    7. Add your content!
      Type your text! Add your pictures! It's easy!
  7. Edit Product Listings and Category Listings
    Log into the admin area. It's pretty self-explanatory, but here are some notes:
    1. Click Setup to add more users and change field display names and which fields display.
    2. Click Admin Products to view your list of products and to add more products. You may Edit and Delete records, or Preview the page as it will show up in the catalog.
    3. Click Admin Categories to change the lists of categories or to make some categories active or inactive.
    4. Any new listing images will need to first be imported into your FrontPage web site into their respective folders. We've set ours to be in "images/catalogimages." See 4c and 4d for changing the location of your images.
    5. The Admin Featured Products page allows you to change the "featured" products that are listed on the home page.
    6. We have more help within the actual Admin section if you have questions about how to use it.
  8. Publish your web! (If you are working off of your local machine)
    1. In FrontPage, go to File/Publish Web.
    2. Type in the URL of your web site. For example, http://www.yoursite.com. If you don't want to overwrite your existing web site but just want to publish it temporarily to preview it, publish it to a subfolder like this: http://www.yoursite.com/test.
    3. Type in your user name and password when prompted.
    4. If you are publishing to a new folder, FrontPage may prompt you to "create a new web." Go ahead and click OK.
    5. Then, click Publish. FrontPage will publish your web. When it's done, you'll be able to click to view your published site!

Server Requirements

This template has been designed to work with Microsoft Web Servers, including IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0. The web server must have support for:

  • ASP 3.0 or later
  • Hosting a Microsoft Access Database
  • Internet Guest account Read/write permissions to the database directory "mydata"

Database Information

If publishing to a web server online, you will need to ask your host provider or web server administrator to allow read/write access for the internet guest account (normally ISUR_MachineName) to the directory that holds the database. (The database folder is "mydata" by default. We encourage you not to change the name of the folder.)

If the permissions are not correctly applied, you will be unable to update your database through the administrative pages included with this product. Please have your host provider or web server administrator refer to the following two Microsoft Knowledge base articles if they have any questions:

http://support.microsoft.com/
default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;253604

http://support.microsoft.com/
default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;253580

Compact/Repair Database

From time to time, your database may become corrupt or slow. This is a general Access problem that can often times be solved by “Repairing and Compacting” your database. Note: You can only do this if you have a compatible version of Access installed on your computer. Please refer to the following links for information on this procedure:

http://support.microsoft.com/
default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;209137

http://support.microsoft.com/
default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;283849

More Template Info

FP2000 users

If you use FP2000, you should still be able to use this template. However, the link bars that look like xxxx | xxxx | xxxx will instead look like [ xxxx ] [ xxxx ] [ xxxx ]. If this doesn't bother you, then go ahead and use this template!

Include pages

This template uses Include pages for your editing convenience. The top header area (logo) and the bottom footer (copyright) are in include pages. When you open the include pages and edit them, then save, the rest of your pages will automatically be updated.

Open "includepages/top.htm" or "includepages/copyright.htm" to edit the top or bottom areas.

Your Logo here Image

The "yourlogohere" is actually an image. You will need some kind of image editor to add your own logo to the graphic. We've included a Photoshop 7 file as well as a "blank" jpeg in the images folder for you. All you have to do is edit the graphic with your own image editor, save it, and replace the existing logo image.

Cascading Style Sheet

This template uses both a FrontPage Theme AND a Cascading Style Sheet. We've tried to keep most of the font and color formatting in the style sheet. However, some of the styles are necessarily generated by the Theme.

To edit colors and fonts, open the styles.css file and change the style sheet information. If you can't find a style there, it's most likely in the Theme. Go to Format > Theme > Modify > Text > More Text Styles to edit each style.

Photoshop files included...

  • top.psd - Sliced image used for top right area.
  • yourlogohere.psd - Used for logo.

Can I change the graphics?

You will need Photoshop in order to edit the top right graphics. We have included the necessary Photoshop files for the top right image, as well as the "your logo here" image. We have also included "generic" top-right graphics, as well as more "specific" graphics, which you may use instead. Simply drag the files from the locations below into the images folder to replace the existing images.

generic top right image:
images/generictop/topright.jpg

generic horizontal background:
images/generictop/horbg.jpg

"woods" images in images/woodtop:

"ocean" images in images/oceantop:

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