MyStore3 can be entirely set up and tested right on your computer before ever going "live" with a single page. Use this Mentor to make this Your Store and try things out as you go along. The Mentor is for both the Commercial and Lite versions of MyStore3. Certain capabilities represented here are not supported in the Lite storefront.
This is innovative storefront software using a specially designed, modular system that lets you compartmentalize tasks and save those tasks as separate documents. This makes it easy to setup, make changes or additions, add products and product categories, or change the look and feel of your store. Each task remains independent of the other tasks.
Above you will see a row of buttons for working on a particular task. Each task represents a document (file) you will customize to make this your store. You might want to click through each one and read the introduction page for a quick overview. Click the squirrel to jump back to this page.
CONFIGURE is used to set up or modify the registration parameters, the business parameters, and the look and feel of your store.
CATEGORY is used to create or modify a list of product categories within the store. (Commercial version only.)
DATABASE is used to create or modify a table listing the products in a particular category.
MESSAGE is used to create various promotional, product, and pop up message groups.
GOING LIVE is an indexed list of in-depth information. It includes upload instructions, background material, and tips and tricks.
HINTS on getting started: NOTES: Please note that most documents you create are not viewable outside of
the storefront environment without unexpected results and/or errors.
Make a dry run. You can't do any damage and you can change things as often
as you want. This will give you a feel for the options available and how you want
your finished store to look and operate.
Not every task needs to be completed in one session.
You can simply save a partially completed document and reload it at a latter time to
complete entries or make modifications.
For instance: When you configure the store, don't worry about creating
background images, just add a few colors and move on to some of the basic business decisions. When setting up the
database of products and product categories, just create a couple of categories at first with only a few
items in each product table.
Remember MyStore3 with it's built in database structure will operate
from your hard drive before before ever going "live" from a Web host. This gives you a chance
to minimize errors, look over your work to date, and think more about how you want the store to look and
how you want to organize the products and categories.
It is not necessary to Browse and load an existing file where that
capability exists in one of the Mentors. All Mentors have built-in blank
templates that get loaded automatically.