Super quick Aspdotnetstorefront site setup

Published February 13, 2012 | Categories: Ecommerce
There are literally thousands of settings that you can configure for a new AspDotNetStorefront site, but here is a set of instructions that we use to quickly set up a very basic non-eCommerce (catalog only) site in Version 8 of AspDotNetStorefront:
- Follow manual instructions to do a base install: Installation Guide
- Skin/Template set-up
- Review the available default skins or purchase a skin template
- Navigate to the docs/skins folder of your new AspDotNetStorefront site and rename the Skin_1 folder to Skin_old
- Copy the new skin to docs/skins and rename "Skin_1"
- Resize the company logo to the height of the logo.jpg file included in the skins/skin_1/images/ and save as logo.jpg in this folder (if not a jpg file, see #3 below)
- Template.ascx Set-up-- Open /docs/skins/skin_1/template.ascx in an HTML editor and make the following updates to the HTML code.
- If the company logo is not a jpg file (png, for example), change logo.jpg in template file to correct logo name
- Remove shopping cart and wishlist links from utility nav in template.ascx
- Remove all links and content from top and bottom nav that do not apply
- Update copyright line/year in footer
- Remove departments/sections from left nav (if not in use on site)
- Style.css Set-up-- Update colors and styles in docs/skins/Skin_1/styles.css as needed to match corporate colors
- Admin Set-up
- Log into Admin with default id/password and create super users under Customers/Add New Customer and then Customers/View-Edit Customers/Super User button. Notify new admins of id/password/Admin URL. Log in with one of the new super-user accounts and delete default admin user.
- Update store details under Configuration/Site Configuration Wizard including Store Name, Store email address, etc.
- Go to Configuration/Email and set email server information
- Appconfig updates-- Make the following updates in Configuration/Advanced/Appconfig Parameters
- Search for "meta" in the Appconfigs section and complete all relevant fields with search engine data/keywords
- Remove buy and wish list buttons by setting ShowBuyButtons and ShowWishButtons to "false"
- Remove items from site map that should not be displayed by searching appconfigs for "sitemap." and setting areas that should not be in site map to "false"
- Hit reset cache to force updates to appear on public site
- Topics-- Update the following under Content, Manage Topics in the Admin area
- Add content to all topic pages that are relevant to this company (about, service, security, hometopintro, etc.)
- Hyperlink any new topic pages to Help & Info box so they show in the left navigation
- Review each existing topic page and do the following:
- Remove topics that will definitely not be used using "Delete Topic" button
- Set topics that should not show in sitemap to "no" with "Publish in Site Map" field
- Update text on all topics that start with "Empty" and "Productnotfound" topic
- Update hometopintro with homepage content
- Update pagenotfound text
- Products/Categories-- Add Categories and Products using either a product import (our preference) or manually in Admin
- Complete "Go Live" checklist
- Carefully review and test the site, make revisions as needed
- LAUNCH THE SITE!
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