I want to make a custom home page for my webshop and chose the option in the setup menu (the menu where you say what content is included on your home and category pages) to have a custom home page (2nd option, down the bottom) but when I check my preview in the browser it's not overriding the default shop home.

How do you get your new home page to be the 'index' page so when a user goes to your site they get your custom home page rather than the shop home page?

Thanks for your advice.

In SCCP click on "Your Shop" at the top then on "Pages" tab then at the bottom of the page click "Link to" then enter the url at the bottom.

Thanks. I'll try that. I was trying to use the option: 'Use pages tool and enter your own content' but does that not work?

Use Erics solution if you are designing your homepage with an outside of SCC program, (ie) VSD or HTML editor. and placing it separately on your server (ie) yourdomain.com/homepage/

Use pages tool and enter your own content if you wish to use SCC homepage rather than an outside or other program, i believe you can create your design in the html editor and paste the code into the scc homepage using this technique

Thanks Viv. That's what I was trying to do - use the pages tool to add my own content.

I set up the page and pasted in my html code but it's not letting me use that page as the home page. It's still using the existing home page as the index, not the new one.

Hope that makes sense.

How do you get it to use the new page as the 'index'?

When you started your shop, at the outset it only had 3 pages

When selecting use pages tool and enter my own content, that created a new page called home

You seem to be correct SHOP HOME seems still to be default index.html page

I changed my shop home page name to INFORMATION then select put secondery navigation links under home in main menue :: this shifts home to left of categories bar and puts pages 4 and 5 below it as a drop down.

Not sure if that makes it index.html so lets ask someone else for help !!!

Scott are you about or anyone else hopefully someone has a solution Eric no doubt

I did a lot of testing and the Shop Home appears to be hard coded as the index no matter what choices you make in the settings.

Yeah it is, the only way to change what home page it uses is if you use one that is created outside of the program (Using HTML Editor or similar editor, or using VSD or similar editor). Then you can link to it as Eric explained in his first post. You cannot make one of the other pages you create within the program be the home page.

But... why not just put whatever you were going to put on the home page, on the home page? You do have the Shop Home home page that you can put whatever you want into it. There's not much you can't do with it same as any other page so why go through all the trouble of making a totally different page within the editor?

Take what you have in the other page and put it in your Shop Home page. Check your settings and alter them as needed to show or not show products on the home page (many like to utilize this to show new items on the bottom of the page and you can even put the title New Items right above where they would show up etc. Or you can opt to not show any at all, many variations of what you can show for the products. Truly that's about the only thing different on the Shop Home page than would be on any other page you're trying to create.

I think you're making it much more difficult on yourself than it needs to be

Thanks guys.

Jo Ann - I tried that first but the trouble is I wanted to add quite a few images and the CSS style default from SCCP overrides most CSS that you want to add yourself so it messes it all up.

I was also considering making a home page that although in keeping with the site was a bit different to get more people to investigate the rest of my shop rather than leaving on the home page.

I've had my site up and running for over a year now so this was just trying to make it a bit better now I have a feel for how people are using the site and where they enter and leave.

It looks like the only way to do it will be to create it separately and link to it as the guys suggest so I'll have to try going down that route.

Hiya Paul,

Although it's not the most widely used way, did you try using inline styling? Usually that will override whatever is included in the CSS files. I know many people have added a lot of different images and styles of images to their sites so I'm sure it can be done. Coding in the SCC programs is a bit strange though I'll admit. Many times you have to put the tags themselves within the HTML boxes [[[ ]]] and the content outside of it. Something like just centering a line of text or image would be like this:

[[[<center>]]]Text here you want to center, style this text using the tools above in the program, not with CSS[[[</center>]]]

With that you have the ability to then apply any text styling to the text via the program itself rather than using CSS. Same for an image only you'd put that within the boxes like so:


[[[<center><img src="http://imagenamehere.png" alt="Image Alt Here"></center>]]]

I'm sure you can take this a step farther and use inline CSS styling like so:

[[[<center><img style="border: 0; whatever other image styling you want;" src="http://imagenamehere.png" alt="Image Alt Here"></center>]]]

You don't need the CSS for text though, that you do within the program, just the centering of it is done through tags as shown above.

Hope that helps some.