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

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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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Have you worked hard photographing or scanning products for your online store, only to find the pictures on a competitor’s site?

AspDotNetStorefront has a built-in, easy to use way to add a watermark to all your products’ pictures.

Watermarking your pictures makes them less likely to be lifted from your site and AspDotNetStorefront lets you add a simple text message or copyright notice to your pictures. You can even set the placement on pictures where the watermark will appear.

You can find this AppConfig by going to the admin side of your website and selecting:
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Sometimes web merchants need customers to accept terms and conditions before checkout.

Luckily, this feature is built into AspDotNetStorefront and it’s easy to enable and get set up.

To add this feature to your website, login to the admin side of your site and navigate to the AppConfigs screen:

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Product videos are a compelling way to increase customer interest.

According to this InternetRetailer.com article, Shoeline.com increased conversion rates by 40% after adding 100 videos showing how a shoe looks on a model’s foot.

We’ll show you how to add links to YouTube videos that pop up when the user clicks a link. To do this, we’re going to use a script called Thickbox. Thickbox opens a modal box displaying the content, immediately drawing the user’s attention to the video.

We’re going to do this in three main steps:
1. Download and install Thickbox on your site.
2. Modify the skin template to use Thickbox.
3. Modify the product description to add a link to the video.

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