About the Home Page
First impressions can be lasting, whether it’s a job interview, a first date, a new restaurant, or a new Web site. That's why we believe it's important that when your shoppers open their Home page, their first impression is favorable. With this in mind, we've spent hours designing the software to be friendly, easy-to-use, and as intuitive as possible. It should be a place where shoppers want to return again and again. To help you achieve better results, we give you more control of the information that's shown on the Home page and the order in which you can display it.
In addition to links and buttons, the shopper's Home page defaults to display four main pieces of information and in the following order: Default News, Home Page Text, Product Browse Categories, and Specific Account News. You can change the order in which this information appears on the page using the Site Text Assignment Home Page Display Order tab. Place Account Specific News first, for example, or move Default News to the middle of the page. The order in which it appears is up to you. For more details, see Site Text Assignment.
Before you can assign the order of your Home Page news, you must first build text pages for your site using the Text Editor feature. In addition to Home Page text, the Text Editor lets you create plain text or HTML-capable text that appears on the shopper’s About Us, Contact Us, and Privacy Policy pages. With the HTML-capable editor, you can easily display objects you have uploaded such as images and flyer or catalog links, or links to specific pages, external sites, or customer-specific email addresses. You can also format the messages with fonts, color, bold, italic, and so on. Once your pages are built, assign them using the Site Text Assignment or Account News pages. For information, see Text Editor.
Yet another feature lets you further customize the Product Browse Category section of your Home page. A Site Preferences option lets you expand the content provider categories on the shopper's Home and Browse Catalog Web pages. You can choose whether to have top-level categories displayed in a specified order using either standard e-content or enhanced content from a provider such as S. P. Richards or United Stationers. You do this using the Site Preferences page. The Expand Category Display on Home and Browse Catalog Pages check box lets you expand the content provider categories on the shopper's Home and Browse Catalog Web pages. If you check this box, the system displays all level two categories on the Home page. However, this only applies if there are six or less top level categories. Then, to change how the categories display on the user's Home and Browse Catalog Web pages, simply click the Edit Category Display Order button. When the Regular and Enhanced Categories tabs open, you have the ability to rank the categories used. For details, see Site Preferences.