There are several ways that you can customize the ShopSite screens that your sellers see.

Put your company's name and address in the page footer

The default footer has placeholders for the name, phone number, and support e-mail address of your company. It is highly recommended that you replace these placeholders with the real information for your company. You can also edit some of the other text in the footer. Open the global.aa file in the SHOPSITE_DIRECTORY directory and make the changes in the footer paragraph.

Put your company's logo in the page footer

You can replace the ShopSite logo that appears in the footer on every page with your own logo. Edit the global.aa file and change the vendor_logo value to point at your own graphic.

Change the text on the "Next Step" page

When a new seller completes the store setup wizard, he is presented with a "Next Step" page that offers congratulations and gives a few bits of advice, including who he can contact for help. You can customize this information by editing the wiz_nextstep.dat file in the SHOPSITE_DIRECTORY.

Replace the standard graphics with your own

You can replace any or all of the graphics seen by sellers when they are configuring and administering their stores, including all buttons and logos. All of the image files are in the SHOPSITE_DIRECTORY/ssm_images directory. If you replace any images, the new images must have the same file names and be the same dimensions as the original images.

Change the List of Available Colors

You can change the list of colors available to each store by editing the pagepalette.dat file located in the store's data directory. You can add or remove any color that you want in the pull-down list that the seller sees. Just be sure the hex number has a '#' symbol in front of it (e.g. #FFE4C0). This does not allow you to directly enter hex color values from ShopSite -- you must still use the pull-down list. If you remove colors then certain Themes will not be available.

Customize the Order Form (ShopSite TX only)

Once a store is initialized on the content server, you can customize the order form screens for that store. For more information, see the Transact book Customization: Editing Smart Pages for a Global Audience, part number 42-11520-A01.

Customize Error Message Displays

You can customize the headers and footers displayed with error messages. The error message screen that a seller might see is comprised of an HTML header, the text of the error message, and an HTML footer. You cannot change the text of the error messages, but you can change the HTML header and footer. Edit the files bo_error_head.html and bo_error_tail.html in the ShopSite directory and in the Shopping Cart directory.