Part IV: Managing Your Web Site 249 in Java

Maker QR in Java Part IV: Managing Your Web Site 249

Connecting Major Tom to Ground Control 252 Viewing Site Activity 254 Checking Your Site s Status 257 Working with the File Manager 257 Uploading a file 258 Deleting a file 260 Have a Snafu Recover an Earlier Version of Your Web Site 261

Working with PayPal Buttons 266 Adding a PayPal Buy Now button 267 Adding a PayPal Donations button 270 Building an Online Store with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions 271 Adding a new field to the product catalog 272 Adding products to your product catalog 276 Publishing your product catalog 279 Enabling your product catalog for use with SiteBuilder 279 Importing your online catalog 280 Creating a store page 281 Adding a Shopping Cart button 284 Completing the final merchant requirements 285 Publishing your site 286 Additional Store Catalog Tasks 286 Adding a product module 286 Adding store tags 287 Viewing product module properties 287 Refreshing your catalog information 288 Deleting your catalog 288

Don t Reinvent the Wheel 292 Eliminate Counters, Clich s, and All Things Cute 292 Don t Let Your Site Grow Mold 293 Hobbit-Size Your Pages 294 Hey, They re Free: Test with Multiple Browsers 294 Don t Forget About the Text 295 Take the Ten-Second Test-Drive 295 Design for Technology Laggards, but Leave Behind the Stone Age 296 Publishing Your Text as an Image 296 Never, Ever, Ever, Ever Assume 297

Using the Insert Palette 299 Avoiding the Pain When Working with Panes 301 Automatically Saving Your Work 302 Working with Multiple Pages Open 303 Automatically Restoring Your Session 305 Managing Multiple Sites 305

Quick Access to the Yahoo! Web Hosting Control Panel 306 Embracing Gridlock 306 Turning gridlines on and off 307 Snapping to the grid 308 Adjusting the grid size 308 Changing the Look and Feel of SiteBuilder 308 Previewing with Multiple Browsers 309

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Yahoo! SiteBuilder For Dummies is one book that doesn t bow to convention or even bow at conventions (unless free food is involved) But I follow some usual practices to make life easier for you

I use the following formatting conventions: Italics are used for term definitions Boldface is used to indicate words that you re supposed to type

Monofont text is used for Web addresses; text that you see on-screen;