Customizing Your Page Layout and Navigation

Now that you have created a section and added products, let's take a look at how to change the look and feel of the website. The Variables page has six sections that control the appearance of your site. Any changes made on this page will change the template for all your pages in your store. The best way to figure out how each setting affects the appearance of your store is to dive right in and test each of the settings to see whether it's what you want. If you don't like the changes, just change back the setting.

To get to the variables page

1.	Click on the Store Editor from the Store Manager.
2.	Click the Store Editor link.
3.	Click on the Variables button.

The six variable sections include

• Colors and Typefaces: Background color, link color, button color and size, font size and type.

• Image Dimensions: Image height and width for thumbnails, insets, and items.

• Page Layout: Overall page architect including page width, number of columns, position of the navigation menu, and elements in the head and contents area.

  Tip:

  You can also override global style properties to create pagespecific styles. There is an override variable button on the Product Edit form. Navigate to the page you would like to override the variable for, and click on the Edit button on the toolbar.

  
  

• Button Properties: Option to upload custom buttons for various buttons used throughout the site and capability to change order of the buttons in the navigation menu.

• Page Properties: Keywords and footer content for every page.

• Store Properties: Commercerelated properties such as price text, currency display style, and minimum dollar amount order setting.