Index page (non Actinic)

[simsy]

Apologies if this has been covered before.

I want to use my own index page instead of Actinic defined.
I want to create this with dreamweaver, but do not know what link to enter to go straight to the shop/shopping cart.

Can anyone offer any advice?

I have previously had a site up using the standard Actininc pages but it does not allow me to customise it in the way I want. Is there likely to be potential mine fields ahead if I stray away from the bog standard index page ?

Many Thanks,

[Jenny]

You certainly don't need to use the brochure pages.. all Actinic shopping cart pages are held in /acatalog/ eg /acatalog/index.html is the top of the shop. Just set your path from your link to this and you are off.. May need a "." or two to get the path correct. Preview your shop off line to see the other pages in the shop and you can link to any of them. Remove the P_ from the preview pages for your actual links.
Jenny

[simsy]

Thanks Jenny that makes sense but.........

What I have done is cut everything out of the actinic structure tree so all I have showing is the "online catalogue" so i can start from a blank canvas so to speak. This is however defaulting as the index page. So when I preview the catalogue it shows as p_index.

But I dont want this, I want to create a new index.html and then link to a cart. How do I know what the cart link is? surely it shouldnt be index.html as the preview is currently showing ??

I surely cant call my new homepage index as this will conflict with the cart currently being classed as index. Does that make sense ;-)

Sorry to be stupid !!

[Mike Hughes]

Actinic has historically seperated the website home page (index.html) from the cart home page (/acatalog/index.html).

Unless you specifically tell it to do so, Actinic will leave your web site homepage alone and just create the cart home page.

Your link to the cart home page from the website home page is then "/acatalog/index.html"

Mike

[pinbrook]

when you preveiw your siteon your PC you will see the preview pages ie all preceeded with P_

this will nor occur when you upload to the live webspace

the link to the store is

http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/catalog/index.html

(I prefer to use the full url)

[NormanRouxel]

Don't panic. As Jenny said your catalog home page will be index.html but in the acatalog directory. Your site will look like this:-


www.mysite.com
www.mysite.com/index.html (the one you'll make with Dreamweaver)
www.mysite.com/acatlog/ (this is a directory containin all your Actinic files)
www.mysite.com/acatlog/index.html (the shop index page created by Actinic)

Now in YOUR index.html just make a link like <a href="acatalog/index.html">Enter Store</a>

Norman

[simsy]

Thanks to all,

Very easy when you know how !!