Directions Printable Word Doc Version

Make a folder on your desktop called: (in class demo)

1. root folder(yourlastname)

Make two webpages using Composer (comes bundled as part of Sea Monkey (click to Download) and Netscape), Word, Dreamweaver, HTML or any authoring tool you know how to use:

• Make a home page titled Your Business Home Page (use the name of your business if you want) and name the file index.html. Save it in the root folder.
• Make a second page titled About Us and name the file about.html. Save it in the root folder.

On the index.html page type the following:

Home | (Shopsite) Catalog | About Us (this is a menu bar)

“Your Business Name”

Business Idea Summary: explain your business in a paragraph

• Link the word "Home" to the index.html page. Save this page.
• Link the word "About Us" to the about.html page. Save this page.
• Don't Link the word "Catalog" to anything yet. Save this page.
• Copy the menu bar to the About Us page. Save this page.

Add any graphics, logo or text that you want to any of the two pages as the class progresses.

Tutorial: Assuming many of you have never made a simple Web page, I borrowed our Reference Librarian Topsy Smalley's tutorial for making a simple site, with her permission.

Using Word http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/about/workshops/howmakewebpage.html

 Using Composer (Netscape aka Sea Monkey Composer) Make a Web Page Tutorial

For this class, we will use a FTP client called CORE, the HTML server called "webhawks", and a directory for your files called public_html. CORE is a free download. http://www.coreftp.com/

We will upload our website files to the server and be able to view them through any browser connceted to the Internet, anywhere. In other words, your website will be published on the Internet...but almost no one will know it is there or what the URL is to view it because the world hasn't heard about it.
Click here for the Bus89 FTP lesson

Class Demo

These instructions will help you configure and use a campus computer or any computer that has CORE installed on it to upload your website files to our student server called "webhawks".

• Site Name = webhawks
• Host/IP/URL = webhawks.org
• User Name = bus89 + first 2 letters of first +first 4 letters of last name + last 4 digits of your student ID#: (Your network Account name) For example bus89daambr1234 for me.
• Password = your birthday in the form of MMDDYY (110750 for November 7th, 1950)
• In the Connections Box drop down menu choose SSH/SFTP
• Click the "Advanced" button then choos e the "Directory/Folder" tab
  • in Remote Folder box type: public_html
  • in the Local Start Folder box type: Y:\Desktop (At home it would be something like C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop OR C:\Documents and Settings\daambros\Desktop)

The URL = http://webhawks.org/~bus89daambr1234

• Pick your domain name and note the URL for the home page
• 2 - 3 levels at least
• Decide if the Home page and other pages will all be on the Shopsite server OR if you will have the home page and some other pages on the domain server and others on the Shopsite server.
• choose file names for each page
• choose page titles for each page
• outline general or specific content for each page

Step 4 -Gather Resources

• Logo & other store graphics
• Product Graphics: Thumbnails and full size
• Product names, descriptions
• Product Prices
• SKU's & other data for shipping, order fulfillment, tracking and records
• Product shipping weights
• Gateway company and online Merchant account

Step 5 - Payment, Tax & Shipping policies

Step 7 - Use Shopsite templates or your own Web editor

• Web editor for homepage & catalog + Shopsite for cart, checkout & OrderAnywhere links to catalog
• Shopsite Templates for homepage, catalog, cart, checkout

Step 1- The URL for each student store will be: http://cabshop1.cabrillocollege.biz where you use cabshop1 to cabshop30 as shown below to see your site. Each site has a premade New ShopSite Store Initial Page, so if you type the URL you will see your intial homepage. You will want to replace it, soon.

Do Not use your assigned store yet! from the list below.

Step 2 - Access your ShopSite Store Manager Backend screen by typing the following URL into a browser window:
http://cabshop##.cabrillocollege.biz/cgi-bin/ss/start.cgi
(replace the ## with your cabshop #: for example - ## with 13 or ## with 7)

OR click this link Login

Your initial Login will be

Username = cabshop1 (Use your # 2 thru 30)
Password = CHANGEme (case sensitive)

I suggest you DO NOT change your password. Leave it as CHANGEme. You can change your password later but not your username. ..but I really prepfer you don't. (ALSO, if you do anyway, you will need to email your new password to me or I will be required to delete your site) Please do NOT change the password for your store!

Step 3 - Use the Template Wizard to start your site

A "'wizard" will open and you should follow the screen directions by clicking on the Next button. I'll walk you through this so I can explain some options as we go, such as uploading graphics and setting retail sales tax rates.

Click here to see your Retail Sales Tax Rate

Test the Credit Card feature using 4111 1111 1111 1111 where you have 16 digits with the first number being 4.

Step 4 - Finish the wizard and then Click on the ShopSite Tab to continue creating your Catalog and set other functions.