Setup Guide

Remote Cart : Setup Guide : Tutorial

This is a graphical example of adding a item to your catalog page using FrontPage Express. FrontPage Express is a free download with Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0 and can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ This example will also work with other versions of FrontPage.

NOTE: We still recommend you learn how to add the HTML manually as laid out in our setup guide.

  1. Open a document in FrontPage. To start a form field go to Insert -> Form Field -> One-Line Text Box. Frontpage Main Screen
  2. If a "Submit Button" does not automatically appear (as in FrontPage Express) after the text box you just created go to Insert -> Form Field -> Push Button.
  3. Right click on the text box and select "Form Field Properties". In the name field put in the products information in the following format (change everything in red to correspond to your item): item-idnumber|Price|Description|Weight. You can put a value in the "Initial Value" box (i.e.. 1) if you want a number 1 to automatically appear when the page loads. Change the "Width in characters" to 5. Click OK. Text Box Properties Dialog
  4. Right click on the push button and select "Form Field Properties". The Name must be "add", the Value/Label can by anything you want. Click OK. Push Button Properties Dialog
  5. Right click inside the the dashed lines around the "form field" and the "push button", everything inside the dashed lines are included in the current "form properties". After you right click select "Form Properties". Click on "Settings" and change the action to http://www.remotecart.com/cart/shop.cgi. Click OK. Form Properties Dialog
  6. While still inside the "Form Properties" click on "add" under "Hidden fields". In the "Name" type in you merchant. In the "Value" type in your merchant name. Click on OK and OK again. Adding a hidden field
  7. Here is what the final form will look like. You can repeat this for every item you want on your catalog pages. You can change to layout however you want, just make sure you keep each form within their "Form Properties". Final Form
  8. If you want to add options you can add them in the same way. Just add them inside the "Form Properties" (the dashed lines).