Procedure for getting a customised website template
The Process
- After the initial contact with us to confirm your needs and pricing you will need to start the ball rolling by paying your initial deposit.
- You then provide us with appropriate branding graphics and your objectives for your site, we will then prepare for you some static screen shots of your future website.
- These screen shots are non-functioning images indicating the general design, colours and navigation layout and look. You will then select a design and perhaps ask us to make changes if required - we will then build the website template based of the chosen design.
- Your new template can then be uploaded in the place of your existing default template (that you may have been adding content to in the meantime)
Steps taken to build and install the template
- What we do is make a specially coded HTML page,
- Then change the src location for all your images and related files.
- Remove the content area, and cut the file into a header and a footer.
- Upload the header and footer into the Content Management System, and also the related images and stylesheet.
Please refer to our advanced FAQ area for more specific details on this process
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FAQ Topics
Building your site
Advanced Page Types
E-Commerce
- Shopping Basics
- Category Management
- Products
- Product Options
- Layout and Formatting
- Payment Options
- Processing Orders
- Advanced Ecommerce
- Product Pricing, Currencies
- Plugins
- Wholesale
- Rental, Booking and Appointment Systems
- Freight - Couriers
- Stock & Quantities
- Vouchers, Discounts, Loyalty Points
- Selling Photos / Prints
- Shopping Cart Add-on Page types
- Advanced APIs / Add ons
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Reports
- Orders / Invoices
Email & Membership
- Member Management
- Members Pages / Template Customisations
- From Addresses and Reply To Email Notifications
- Global Enquiry form options
- Standard Field Names
- Webmail
- Bulk Email
- CRM Features
- Email Campaigns
- Forums & Blogs
- Pop3/Imap Email Services
- Scams and Hoaxes
- Lead Magnets / Growing Your Customer Database
- Form Spam Filtering
