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Make the banner very wide while keeping the content centered, so that the banner can adapt to all device sizes.
Add ShareThis
Adds social count buttons on the home page, for the following social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest.
You must have a ShareThis button in order to use this module: http://www.sharethis.com/.
Once you have an account, enter your Publisher Pub Key in the module's configuration page, validate, and the buttons will appear on your homepage.
Cart block
Displays the products that your customers added to their carts; on all the pages. Visitors can then see their choices while shopping, change the quantity of product they are ordering, and delete or add a coupon. By clicking on "Shopping Cart", they see the "Shopping cart summary" of all products added to their cart, and their quantity.
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These are only sample pages: they do not have any content by default. It is therefore up to you (and your legal team) to fill it with the proper text. If some of the sample policies do reflect your business, you should delete them.
Click on the 'edit' icon at the right in order to add text that fits your shop's trust features. You can remove or add pages as you see fit.
Facebook Like Box block
Displays a new block on your home page with a link to your store's Facebook page, a Like button, and photos of people who liked your page.
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- Select a file. Note that you can have text on the image, and indicate the language of that text using the language selector.
Additionally, this means you can have a different image for each language. But be aware they these images will be tied: same position, inability to delete one without deleting the others, etc. - Title. The title appears in the "Slides configuration" section, and helps you sort the images.
- URL. You can choose to send the customer to a given page of your shop when he or she clicks the image. This is useful when the image promotes a certain product, category or manufacturer.
- LegendCaption. The alternate text to be used if somehow the image cannot be loaded. This is essential for accessibility.
- Description. The text appears when the mouse pointer hovers over the image.
- Active. You can disable an image whenever needed, for instance when the discount it promotes ends.
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The first option is always a nice thing to have. The other two are a bit trickier: on a successful product, it can be nice to see it has been recently bought; on the other hand, less-successful products will be seen as failures if they have not been bought for a long period of time.
This is why the "Do not display events older than" option is important: make sure not to change it to double-digit number, or you will without doubt make fewer sales of already-disappointing products.
RSS Feed (RSS products feed)
Enables you to generate a RSS Product feed for your shop's catalog. A RSS feed is a website content syndication format, which enables anyone to display the latest content from a website on another.
With this module, loyal customers will be able to get regular updates about products added to your catalog, by adding this feed to their own feed reader, without the need to subscribe to your newsletter. Also, other websites will be able to display your new products on their page. Finally, search engines may use it to discover your new content.
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In case of a multistore installation, you can display the new products from one shop, right in the sidebar of another of your shop using its RSS Feed Block module. |
If you would rather not have your content be available to anyone online, disable this module.
RSS feed block
Adds a block displaying an RSS feed. A RSS feed is a website content syndication format, which enables anyone to display the latest content from a website on another.
With this module, your visitors can stay informed about news from a site that you specify in the field provided in the module configuration. The RSS feed will then appear on the front of your shop in a block. Visitors can sign up for the RSS feed in this block.
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- Block title. Give the block a comprehensible name: you might not want your visitors to think that the content displayed is from your own website.
- Add a feed URL. Do not put your shop's address in this field, as it could create an error.
- Number of threads displayed. Usually, a RSS feed contains 10 to 20 of the latest articles from the source website. You could limit that to 5 or fewer, in order to not clutter your homepage with content other than your products.
RSS products feed (RSS Feed)
Enables you to generate a RSS Product feed for your shop's catalog. A RSS feed is a website content syndication format, which enables anyone to display the latest content from a website on another.
With this module, loyal customers will be able to get regular updates about products added to your catalog, by adding this feed to their own feed reader, without the need to subscribe to your newsletter. Also, other websites will be able to display your new products on their page. Finally, search engines may use it to discover your new content.
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In case of a multistore installation, you can display the new products from one shop, right in the sidebar of another of your shop using its RSS Feed Block module. |
If you would rather not have your content be available to anyone online, disable this module.
Send to a Friend module
Displays a "Send to a friend" link at the bottom of every product pages. Clicking it opens a window where the customer can enter the name and e-mail of the person who he wants to tell about this product. The e-mail sent contains a simple link to the product's page.
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In the configuration page, indicate how many keywords should appear.
Top horizontal menu
This is an important module: it adds a whole new block at the bottom of the header, where you can display links to the various categories and pages of your shop.
This is very useful, as it helps your customer quickly find their way through your shop. You can have simple links or menus with sub-menus, thus enabling customers to have a good bird's eye view of your content.
Theme configurator
Helps you configure some aspects of your theme.
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The block is not present in the default theme at first. You will have to hook it to a location, for instance the right column. To hook the module to the right column, go to the module's configuration page, then:
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Top horizontal menu
Adds a new horizontal menu to the top of your store.
This is an important module: it adds a whole new block at the bottom of the header, where you can display links to the various categories and pages of your shop.
This is very useful, as it helps your customer quickly find their way through your shop. You can have simple links or menus with sub-menus, thus enabling customers to have a good bird's eye view of your content.
The "Menu top links" section of this module helps you build your menu with links to a selection of pages, categories or to individual products.
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