Customizing your store
Using RealCart as the main page of your site
Creating an “index” file to make RealCart your home page.
NOTE: As always you should make a copy of one of your themes before modifying them.
To create an “index” or “default” file to serve as your home (main) page many ISPs will instruct you to make a file named index.htm or index.html while others may advise you to call your home page default.htm or default.html. Still others will want you to make a file named home.html. Since this is not something you can just guess (unless you’re up for some trial and error) you should either log on to your web server with an FTP program or refer to your web hosting plan setup instructions.
Using an FTP program like WS_FTP or GlobalSCAPE’s CuteFTP you can simply log in to your FTP server and navigate to your web documents folder (usually “www’ or “htdocs’) and take a look at the temporary index file. You should see either one, or very few pages in the web documents folder. Look for a file named one of the following:
- index.html (or index.htm)
- default.html (or default.htm)
- home.html (or home.htm)
Copy the file to your web document folder
RealCart creates several files in the cart folder with all of the filenames above. After you have determined the correct filename to use as your index page copy the file with that name in the cart folder to your root web folder (the parent folder to the cart folder on your FTP server.) You may be asked if you want to replace the existing index page. Indicate “Yes” if asked.
Making the changes to the index file
Next you will need to edit this file with a text editor like notepad or EditPad Classic. You will be looking for the <frameset ...> tags so you can add the cart folder to each src= value in the three framesets. Here is how to do it.
- Open your text editor
- Load the index file into the text editor
- Locate the lines of code that begin with <frameset src=... (usually on line 16 or so)
- In the src= portion of the tag you need to add the word cart/ at the beginning just before cart.html, cartbanner.html and wait.html.
- save this file and republish (re-upload) it to your web site.
If you edited the file correctly the frameset tags will now look something like this: (changes are in dark blue)
<frame src=cart/cart.html name=app marginheight=3 marginwidth=0 scrolling=no frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
<frame src=cart/cartbanner.html name=ad marginheight=1 marginwidth=0 scrolling=no frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
</frameset>
<frame src=cart/wait.html name=item marginheight=5 marginwidth=5 scrolling=auto frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
If you run into problems
If you make a mistake and the page doesn’t work right after you modify it just make another copy of the file in the cart folder and try editing it again. Basically all we are instructing you to do is place the word cart/ (with the slash at the end) immediately before each of the three filenames in the code. (e.g. cart.html, cartbanner.html and wait.html)
With the index page in the cart folder it doesn’t need the cart/ folder specified because the three files cart.html, cartbanner.html and wait.html are all present right there in the same folder. When we move a copy of the index to your web documents folder (the folder that contains the cart folder on your server) we must tell the code where to find the three files cart.html, cartbanner.html and wait.html. This is why we must add cart/ on each frameset tag. To tell the browser to look for these three files in the cart folder.
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