Building the Website
Find your new domain name
Using Ipage is a great hosting site to find and register your domain name. Simply add the domain name to your cart and start the checkout process. During checkout, you’ll make some decisions like how many years you’d like to register it for, if you’d like to add site hosting, email, advanced security, auto-renewals, and other features. With ipage.com, buying a domain name is very straightforward. Simply use the search bar at the top of this page to check domain availability, then follow the prompts in order to complete the domain registration process.
Adding Products and Menu to your Website
Adding top-level categories
Select “Your aStore – Settings” and click on the “Add Category” button to add a new page to your aStore. A new Category page will appear in the navigation structure pane (on the left) with a default name such as New Category (1).
Adding Subcategories
To add a subcategory to an existing category, select the category under which you want the new subcategory to appear and click the “Add Category” button.
Ordering your categories using Drag and Drop
For most users re-ordering your categories can be done using our drag-and-drop interface. Simply click on a category and hold your mouse button to drag it to its new placement. Dropping it on “Your aStore – Settings” will make it a top-level category, dropping it on another category will make it a subcategory of that category, and dropping it between categories will place it in that order.
Add products to your categories
You can add products to the selected page using one of the three methods listed in the drop-down menu.
a) Add individual products – Click the “Add Products” button and select up to 540 products from the vast Amazon inventory. Help on using this feature is available at: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/tips/t11. Please note that there is only a limit of 540 products per Category page. You can create multiple pages and add up to 540 products to each of them. This gives you an ability to add an unlimited number of hand-picked products to your aStore.
b) Add products by Amazon category/subcategory – you can select any Amazon category or subcategory and display products belonging to the selected category. By default the best-sellers for the selected category will be displayed, and these will be updated as those best-sellers change. Additionally, checking the option to “Include all subcategories for this category” will add all of the Amazon subcategories immediately below (i.e. not all levels) for the given Amazon category.
If you would like to filter this set of products, you can provide keywords. Currently, we do NOT support operators like “,”, “+”, “and”, “or” in our search. As such, providing multiple keywords in this field will return only products that contain ALL of the keywords you input (e.g. Cubs, Cardinals would return only products matching both keywords, not products related to each).
c) Add products from a Listmania list – Amazon.com Listmania lists include products you find interesting. You can create your own lists of Amazon.com products on Amazon.com. To populate an aStore category from a list include its ID in the “Enter a Listmania! List ID” text box. The Category page will display products from the given Listmania list.
More about how to create your Listmania list is available at on the ListMania help pages on Amazon.com.
You can find the List ID by looking at the URL of your Listmania, which should similar to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R15GXTRDK2PMXZ