Create An Online Store Part 2

The requirements for building a basic online shop are fairly straightforward. It allows you to sell a small range of products, providing photos, descriptions and prices as well as accept orders online. More importantly, it lets your users to access your products from the storefront.

As described above, every online storefront needs two components: a catalog to display your products and to allow customers to make selections, and a method of accepting payment. There are numerous ways to present your products in a sellable manner. This article concentrates in a slideshow format. This script will scroll your containing products from right to left. Products can be set to click through to various URLs, and when the mouse moves over the "product", it pauses for the visitor to interact. I purposely choose to embed the above script into the sidebar. Using catalogue format to display product lines on your sidebar is not recommended due to space limitations.

Login to your Dashoard> Layout> Page Elements. Copy here and paste this code into your Html/Javascript. Look for these lines and change to suit your own preferences:-
leftrightslide[0]='<a href="http://"><img src="dynamicbook1.gif" border=1></a>'
leftrightslide[1]='<a href="http://"><img src="dynamicbook2.gif" border=1></a>'
leftrightslide[2]='<a href="http://"><img src="dynamicbook3.gif" border=1></a>'
leftrightslide[3]='<a href="http://"><img src="dynamicbook4.gif" border=1></a>'
leftrightslide[4]='<a href="http://"><img src="dynamicbook5.gif" border=1></a>'

Also, don't forget to add a page title as we all know a good page title is the most important page element to site users.

Save settings and you're done!