Be patient waiting for this page to load, it may take awhile, depending on the speed of your internet connection.

This is the page that determines what color scheme and font you want to use for your website. To select a color put your mouse over a particular color. The name of the color will show in the status bar of your web browser. Simply click the color of your choice.

If you have questions as to what each color designates, click the question mark next to that field for more information.

You may have to play around with these settings until you find a color scheme that works for you. Don't be afraid to go back in and changes these settings.

You enter your contact information on this page. Make sure you enter your states sale tax as a decimal (ie. if you state tax is 7%, enter .07 not 7).

This is the message your customers will see after they place an order. It is useful to explain and final policies you have regarding fulfillment, and to thank your customers for their order.

This page collects information to further allow you to customize your site. Click the question mark next to a field for more information.

Setting up your website with real-time credit card processing means that when customers place on order through your website, funds will be transferred automatically from their credit-card to your bank account.

Setting up an Internet Merchant Account with real-time processing is a two setup process.

Step 1: Get an Internet merchant account

Click to GET AN INTERNET MERCHANT ACCOUNT!

Step 2: Get an account with a Internet processing service

Click to GET A SIGNIO PAYFLOW PRO ACCOUNT

You setup the look of your home page here. You can experiment with different layouts until you find one you like. Advanced users can enter HTML tags in the Welcoming Message section.

Extra links are for providinig links to outside websites, or for linking to custom pages that you upload. Make sure you designate the protocol of the link, meaning don't forget the "http://", "mailto:", or "ftp://" part.

Here you can add extra pages. These pages are helpful for adding biographies, directions, events, or schedules. You can add as many as you like.

Select the page by the title, that you wish to edit, and then change and mistakes you may have made. Hit "save" to confirm your changes.

Select the pages by title, and click delete. Note, this deletes the page permanently, so make sure you have selected the correct page.

The area allows you to select you shipping strategy. The page has descriptions of the different choices.

You can enter your shipping policy here. Customers will see it when they checkout.

This is where you build and edit your categories and sub-categories. First you must understand that "categories" are like folders on your computer. They allow you to organize your website, making it easy for online visitors to find what they are looking for. Categories can exist within each other, this is better explained by example.

Suppose you are a clothing store. Your categories might develop into something like this:

Mens
    Shirts
	Dress
	Casual
    Pants
	Jeans
	Slacks
Womans
    Dresses
    Blouses
    Slacks

Got the basic idea? Good. It's just like the folder or directory structure on your computer. Think about what type of products or services you want to display online. Coming up with a good category structure in the beginning will save you a lot of time down the road.

Adding categories to "Top Level" adds categories to the very first level of your catogory structure (ie Men's and Woman's, in the example above).

If you delete a category every category underneath it will be deleted.

To list items in a category click on the name of the category.

An item is a product, service, artwork, whatever you are selling or displaying online.

Items are stored in categories. Blueguru PK4 allows you to actually store the same item in as many categories as you like.

The key to making your site look professional and attractive is quality images and well written descriptions.

Blueguru PK4 asks for two descriptions. When someone visits your site, they will first see the "short description". If they are interested in the item, they can click on it, and that will bring up the "long description". Of course, if you don\t feel like writing two descriptions you can enter the same information in both boxes.

If you are shipping by weight, or by cost per product you will need to fill in those fields.

The selection lists are for items that have different sizes, colors, prices, or other distinguishing characteristics. If this doesn\t apply to a particular item, leave these fields blank.

You can select a product to edit by name, or if you do not remember the name, you can select a category first, which will generate a list of items in that category.

Editing an item is just like adding one, accept your old information will be retrieved from our database. Make sure you click save to make the changes stick.

You will get an email every time someone places an order on your website. You will want to go into this section to view new orders. First you will get a list of all new orders, click on the invoice number to pull up the order.

The next page will show you the order, customer, and shipping address. You can print this page out for your records. Once you've processed and shipped an order out click the processed button at the bottom of the order page. This will move the new order to the old order section of your database.

You can always view old orders by going into this section. As will new orders, you will first get a list of invoices, simply click an invoice number to pull up a specific order.

All customer information that was collected when someone ordered from your site is saved in this section. If you ever need to look up a customer's address or email check here.

You can also add customers info that you may have collected outside your website. Go here to add a new customer to your database.

This section is under construction. Soon you will be able to send out bulk emails to your customers.

This section is under construction. Soon you will be able to view graphs and stats to check the performance of your website sales.

Go here to view reports on your website traffic.

Go here for help on reading these reports.

You upload your images here. You can upload upto four images at once. The more pictures you upload the longer it will take, be patience while the files are transferred

If you want to remove an image from our servers, simple select it by name and click delete.

Go here to prepare your site for search engine submission. This includes entering a description and special keywords, called meta tags. This helps your site get a good listing.

Click here to goto freepromote.com and submit your site. This is an excellent site with helpful information about search engines.