Learn everything you need to know about setting up a product in AspDotNetStorefront with Scott’s new training video:  Products in Depth

Having trouble figuring out how to navigate the AspDotNetStorefront admin backend? Check out the rest of Scott’s instructional training videos to get introduced to some of the cart’s more basic administrative features.

• Adding A Product
• Organizing Products
• Managing Topics Part 1
• Managing Topics Part 2
• Adding An Admin User
• AppConfig Parameters

Is there something you’d be interested in learning more about in a video tutorial? Just let us know.

A handy yet often unused feature of AspDotNetStorefront is the product specs pop-up.

You can add additional product information to your product page by using the spec title and spec call fields found on the options tab of the product editing screen in the AspDotNetStorefront admin.

There are many different ways you could use product specs. One of the most common ways of using it would be for a product size chart. (more…)

There is quite a lot you can to do customize your store without having to dig into the code yourself. Changing string resources in AspDotNetStorefront is one easy way to customize the appearance of your site for your unique visitors.

Take a look at your category pages. If the AppConfig Parameters DisplayOutOfStockOnProductPages &  DisplayOutOfStockOnEntityPages are set to ‘true’, you will see text below the product on entity and product pages notifying your visitors whether or not that product is in or out of stock.  (Click here to watch a brief video tutorial about setting AppConfig Parameters)

By default this simply says “In Stock”, or “Out of Stock” depending on your inventory levels. By making a simple change to String Resources in your admin site, you can personalize this notification to appeal to your visitors.

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If you Googled “Enter your site title here”, what do you think you would find in the search results? Surprisingly, you get a lot of legitimate e-commerce sites, most of them using AspDotNetStorefront, that just haven’t figured out how to set their site’s meta title. By not making good use of this tag, a lot of store owners are missing out on an opportunity to make it easier for shoppers to find their site.
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Having trouble figuring out how to navigate the AspDotNetStorefront admin backend? Vortx is now offering a series of instructional training videos to introduce you to some of the cart’s more basic administrative features.

Click and watch our selection of video tutorials for great tips and hints.

• Adding A Product
• Organizing Products
• Managing Topics Part 1
• Managing Topics Part 2
• Adding An Admin User
• AppConfig Parameters

Is there something you’d be interested in learning more about in a video tutorial?  Just let us know.

Presented December 17th, 2009 by Jo Benson, COO of Vortx

ASPDotNetStorefront comes with a wide selection of utility functions you can use inside an XML package, but sometimes you need something a little more specific.

Let’s walk through adding a custom function that gives a greeting to a person based on the time of day.
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Every e-commerce business is unique and AspDotNetStorefront’s built in reports often fall short of the reporting you need.

In this article we’ll show you how to build your own custom reports in using SQL queries in AspDotNetStorefront.

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AspDotNetStorefront has a built-in Google sitemap that not many people know about.

Google allows website owners to submit sitemaps via Google Webmaster Tools. Submitting a sitemap to Google helps ensure that Google knows about all the pages on your site.

The built-in AspDotNetStorefront Google sitemap is dynamic; it changes as you add new categories, topics, and products to your site.

To get to the Google sitemap, type “googleindex.aspx” onto the end of your URL: www.YOURSITE.com/googleindex.aspx

You should see a page that looks something like this: (more…)

Did you know that your AspDotNetStorefront website has an advanced search page built into it?

Don’t feel bad if you didn’t.

Most people running AspDotNetStorefront never know it’s there because there are no links to it in the default skin. Try typing “searchadv.aspx” into your site’s URL: www.YOURSITE.com/searchadv.aspx

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