Site Text

Use the Site Text Assignment page to assign content to the About Us, Contact Us, Home, Inactive Account, Login, and Privacy Policy pages. This is the information displayed to the end user when the page is accessed. For example, if the end user clicks the About Us link, the text you set up to be shown appears. You can also use the Site Text Assignment page to assign the end user's Checkout Text, Confirmation Email information, New User Registration text, as well as set the home page display order. You create new text, such as About Us text, using the Text Editor page. For details, see Text Editor. For more information concerning emails, see About Emails. For more information about the shopper's Home page, see About the Home Page.

  1. Click Site Text and select Site Text Assignment.

  2. The Page opens, displaying five tabs: Site Pages, Checkout Text, Emails, Home Page Display Order, and New User Registration. Click the appropriate tab.

Note: While you can customize several messages that appear during checkout or credit card processing, HTML formatting is not used for checkout messages.

  1. When you open the Site Pages, Checkout Text, Emails, and New User Registration tabs, you can:

  1. Click blue_i_icon.gif to view detail concerning a page.

  2. Click edit_icon.gif to change the page assigned. Then, click the down arrow in the Text Description boxes and select the page to assign. You enter the text description when you create new text, such as About Us text, using the Text Editor page. When finished, click save_icon.gif. To discard, click cancel_icon.gif.

  1. Click the Home Page Display Order tab to rank the order in which information appears on the user's Home page. For example, to specify that Account News display first on the page, click the Account Specific News box and type 1. You can also view how the text appears on a specific shopper's page without leaving Site Text Assignment.

  1. To change the selected order in which text appears on the shopper's Home page, click each box and enter the new order. For example, to move Default News to the second position on the page, click the Default News box and type 2.

  2. To require shoppers to select their account to view Account Specific News, click the down arrow in the Select Account to see Account Specific News box, and choose the account from the list. The default is Not Select Account, which means all shoppers see their personalized news.

  3. To view how the text appears on a specific shopper's Home page, click the down arrow in the Select Account box and click the account to view. Click the View Home Page Content button. The user's Home page information appears at the bottom of the page. This allows you to actually view the information without the necessity of logging in as the shopper on the end user's Home page.

  4. To hide information from appearing on the shopper's Home page, click the corresponding check box. For example, to remove Default News from appearing, check the Hide box corresponding to Default News.

  5. When finished changing and viewing Home page display order, click Save.