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CoastCart has been designed to offer you options when integrating the cart into your web site.  Most of the fields are self-explanatory.  Unless a field is specified as necessary, if you leave it blank the cart will resort to the default settings.

 

Title will display centered in header of your cart.  If you are using customized headers and footers, this will only display during the secure checkout process.

Image Company Logo is a relative link to the logo image file from the root.  This field considers the root of your cart as its starting point. Unlike the header (which are links to html pages), a logo will not change the parameters of your html page, such as text font or color.  The Title of the cart will appear in the header with the logo.  Both will be centered.

Image Background is a relative link from the root of your cart to the background image file.  See an example

Company Name will display centered in footer of your cart.  If you are using customized headers and footers, this will only display during the secure checkout process.

 Postal Address will display centered in footer of your cart.  If you are using customized headers and footers, this will only display during the secure checkout process.

Phone will display centered in the footer of your cart.  If you are using customized headers and footers, this will only display during the secure checkout process.

Fax displays centered in the footer of your cart.  If you are using customized headers and footers, this will only display during the secure checkout process. 

E-Mail will display centered in the footer of your cart.  If you are using customized headers and footers, this will only display during the secure checkout process.

URL:  This is the domain of your site.  Use the full URL.  For example, use http://www.mydomain.com.  The Test button will bring you to your own homepage.  There are links in the cart that prompt your visitor to return to the homepage.

Color of Page Background:  If you are not using a background image, then you will want to set the background color of your cart. It is generally best to use a light color so your customer can print off pages easily if they choose.   If you don't choose something here, it will default to white.

Color of Text:  This will be the color of the text found throughout your site.  Be sure to pick a color that has enough contrast to your background to be legible.  If you do not choose something here, it will default to black.

Color of Link Text are for the hyperlinks in the cart.  This will occur on every page.  Note:  If you are using headers and footers, this setting may no longer be valid as the values will become the values established in the header.

Color of Visited Link are for the hyperlinks in the cart.  This will occur on every page.  Note:  If you are using headers and footers, this setting may no longer be valid as the values will become the values established in the header.

Color of Visited Link are for the hyperlinks in the cart.  This will occur on every page.  Note:  If you are using headers and footers, this setting may no longer be valid as the values will become the values established in the header.

Color of Active Link is the color of the hyperlink that you followed to get to the current page. This will occur on every page.  Note:  If you are using headers and footers, this setting may no longer be valid as the values will become the values established in the header.

Color of Navbar Background is the background color of the navigation bar. It defaults to lavender. This will occur on every page.  Note:  If you are using headers and footers, this setting may no longer be valid as the values will become the values established in the header.

Color of Navbar Text is the text for the navigational bar. This will occur on every page.  Note:  If you are using headers and footers, this setting may no longer be valid as the values will become the values established in the header.

Maximum Items Shown will limit how many items will be displayed at any one time.  This can be useful as it limits how long your pages will be.  For example, if your Category "Plants" contains 200 items and you specify a limit of 25, only 25 will be shown on the category page at any one time.  The customer will be prompted to see the next page.  This is important because items "below the fold," or further down the page than the average computer screen can see immediately upon entering the page, will stand a greater change of being ignored.

Max Items Stored  is the upper limit on the database.

Cookie Timeout sets the number of days the cookie retains cart data before expiring.  This allows the cart to "remember" what your visitor has ordered in the past.  It defaults to seven days.

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