If you are using Macromedia Dreamweaver/UltraDev

If you are using Macromedia Dreamweaver/UltraDev as your web design tool, follow this section. If you have a different design tool, skip to the next section.

If your website is already created with Dreamweaver/UltraDev, adding SalesCart to your existing website is virtually identical to creating a new SalesCart website.

Before converting an existing website for use with SalesCart, we recommend that you read the chapter Getting Started and create your first SalesCart shopping cart from scratch. This will give you valuable insight into the creation of a basic shopping cart web. Once you have completed the Getting Started section, you can continue here to convert your existing Macromedia website for SalesCart.

Important: Before doing this, back up your original website!

1. Open Dreamweaver and open the website that you want to add SalesCart to.
2. Make a copy of your homepage if it is called default.php. Highlight default.php, then press Copy and Paste. When you create a new SalesCart web, this page may accidently get overwritten.
3. Click the Create button from the SalesCart menu.
4. From the Macromedia menu, go to SalesCart>>SalesCart Main Menu>>Create



5. The SalesCart Wizard will start.
6. Select the Wizard option Create New Pages and Modify Settings the first time since you will want to have the checkout template pages added.
7. Answer each of the questions presented to you by the SalesCart Wizard, and the template wizard will create a SalesCart Web within the current Web structure and add new pages to your existing website. The location of these pages and their names is only readily apparent if you created a basic SalesCart website from scratch. Refer to the Getting Started section for more information about each item on the SalesCart Wizard.

Converting existing shopping cart product pages to SalesCart product Pages

In SalesCart, any webpage can be made into a SalesCart Product page by simply inserting a Product Link. If you plan on using Include options, see the advanced topic entitled "Building a Product Page with an Include".

1. First open your website with your design tool and copy all of the webpages which you wish to convert to product pages to the /mall folder.
2. Rename each of these product pages to have a .php extension.
3. Click and edit each of your product pages.
4. Position your cursor where you wish to have an add-to-cart button and select SalesCart>>SalesCart Main Menu. The SalesCart Main Menu should appear.



5. Once you click on Add Product Link the following should appear.



6. Complete the details for each product you are selling. See the Building Product Pages section for information and explanations of each screen of the Product Link component.
7. Save your changes with the .php extension if you did not do so previously
8. Customize the rest of the pages to complete your shopping cart web.
9. You may delete the lobby.php and productpage.php example pages.