General | Registration | My Account | Buying | Selling | Selling Advanced | Stores
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 Stores Overview  View Lesson in Text Form Hide Text |
To begin click Stores on the blue menu bar. |
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The featured stores with their 140 pixel logos are displayed. Below them you will find all the stores that have at least 1 item listed. |
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To access a store, click the store name or the store logo. |
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Inside a store you will see the number of items the store has listed and a breakdown for the total number of items by sub-category.
Scroll down to see listing summaries for the stores items. |
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The store item search box allows you to search within that store only. |
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Click the About the Store tab to see more information about the store. |
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The About the Store page is where you can read extra information about the store. You can also view the stores feedback, and see the listings the feedback was left on. |
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To access a storefront from a listing, click the "Ahwooga man in his store" icon. |
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Accessing Stores |
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Store Page |
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Store Search |
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About the Store |
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Store Feedback |
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The Ahwooga Man |
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| Your Ahwooga Profile Page View Lesson in Text Form Hide Text |
To begin the process of setting up your profile page, click My Account on the blue menu bar. |
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Click Public Profile on the lower left side of the My Account page. |
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The Public Profile Text Editor displays.
You can enter text and format it using the toolbar at the top. |
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Click Save to save your changes. |
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To view a users profile page from any listing. Click on the Ahwooga Man. |
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If you have basic html prepared you can click the html editor link at the bottom of the page.
Type or paste in your code.
Click the html editor link again. |
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In some cases you may still have to format your text. |
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Click Save to save your changes. |
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| There are a number of ways to search on ahwooga.com. You can search by Quick search box, catageories, browse, stores and bread crumbs. In this lesson we will take a closer look at each option and throw in a couple extra bits here and there. |
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| Title page Quick search - If you know what you're looking for this is the way to search for it. Just type in your search term and click Go. For best results use singular terms. For example, search tire instead of tires. or Packard instead of packards because listings are mostly done by individual item. capture hilite box with term in it and go box
If you know the listing number or seller name you can select the radio button and search by that.
You can click The advanced search button which will allow you to narrow your search using a variety of criteria. capture show advanced search button and page |
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Title page catagories - On the left side you will see a top level category list. capture |
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| To search a category just click the category name and all listings in that category will come up. capture |
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| Notice how the menu on the left now shows the sub catagories of (cars and trucks). capture |
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| The catagory menu will continue to show you the sublevels as you drill-down. capture |
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Browse -By clicking the browse button on the main menu you can browse through the featured listings and categories. capture |
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| If you click on a catagory you will see that in this mode, the browse feature only goes 2 levels deep. You get the main cataegories and the first level sub categories. capture |
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You could at this point go to more sub levels by using the categories menu on the left. capture
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Stores - After clicking the stores button you will see the featured stores and their store logos. capture |
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| This is a rotating area so it's not the same every time. You can also see additional stores and their descriptions below. capture |
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| Just click on the store logo you want to visit and you can see that stores listings as well as find out more about that store. capture |
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| In the stores listings you can click this little double arrowed icon and sort that store by when a bid ends for example. capture |
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| You can tell which are auctions by the hammer, the fixed price items have this price tag icon and the classifieds have this newspaper icon capture |
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| All the information I need about the store is here. If I am on this store page and I wanted to contact the store owner I can click the owners name and I can then send them a message. capture |
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| other things to note. If I click the stores button you will see a store search on the left. This search box will only search items that are within a store so single listings will not be returned. capture |
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| Bread Crumbs - Throughout ahwooga.com as you are viewing pages you will notice this text across the grey bar. As you can see these are actually links we call bread crumbs. capture |
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| The bread crumbs can help you move back to a previous level instead of using your browser back button. (show ac example go 3 or 4 levels) You can easily step back to where you were and take another path if you like. capture |
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| OK, that's about it for searching. At ahwooga.com we tried to make searching easy and full of options for you. If you have any questions you can ask in our forum and there are folks there that are always ready to lend a hand. keeping it simple, that's Ahwooga! capture show forum button |
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Using the Editor |
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Editing Text |
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The Ahwooga Man |
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Advanced Editing |
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Slide the video playhead to the time. |
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| Related Videos |
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Setting Up Your Storefront View Lesson in Text Form Hide Text
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Having your banners prepared and some text or HTML about your store ahead of time will speed up this process.
Store Banner = Up to 800 pixels wide and we recommend no more than 150 pixels tall.
Logo Banner = 140 pixels x 140 pixels
W recommend keeping your text or code in a notepad file so you can easily copy and paste. |
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To begin click My Account on the blue menu bar. |
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On the My Account page, click Storefront on the lower left. |
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The Create your Storefront message displays.
Click Create a Storefront. |
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Fill in your store title and write a short description.
In the about the store field you can enter text and format it using the toolbar at the top.
Click the Next button at the bottom of the page. |
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Upload your banner and your logo using the browse buttons to find your banner files on your computer.
Click Confirm Changes.
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Note: Confirming changes is not the final step. You have jut confirmed that you made changes, not saved the changes. After you confirm that you made changes, you must save those changes. |
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Click Save.
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Click View Store to see your store.
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Your Store displays.
The banner is at the top of the page. The logo is displayed on the Stores page when you have an item listed.
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| Click About the Store. |
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| The text you entered for your store displays here. |
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| In the text editor you can click the html editor link on the lower left side of the page and paste or type in basic html. |
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| Note: Sometimes after pasting in your basic html it is necessary to click the html editor link again and format your text. |
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| Click Next to save your html changes. |
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| Click Confirm Changes to confirm that you made changes. |
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| Click Save to save your changes. |
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| You can view your store and see your changes by clicking the About the Store tab. |
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| There are a number of ways to search on ahwooga.com. You can search by Quick search box, catageories, browse, stores and bread crumbs. In this lesson we will take a closer look at each option and throw in a couple extra bits here and there. |
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| Title page Quick search - If you know what you're looking for this is the way to search for it. Just type in your search term and click Go. For best results use singular terms. For example, search tire instead of tires. or Packard instead of packards because listings are mostly done by individual item. capture hilite box with term in it and go box
If you know the listing number or seller name you can select the radio button and search by that.
You can click The advanced search button which will allow you to narrow your search using a variety of criteria. capture show advanced search button and page |
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Title page catagories - On the left side you will see a top level category list. capture |
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| To search a category just click the category name and all listings in that category will come up. capture |
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| Notice how the menu on the left now shows the sub catagories of (cars and trucks). capture |
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| The catagory menu will continue to show you the sublevels as you drill-down. capture |
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Browse -By clicking the browse button on the main menu you can browse through the featured listings and categories. capture |
|
| If you click on a catagory you will see that in this mode, the browse feature only goes 2 levels deep. You get the main cataegories and the first level sub categories. capture |
|
You could at this point go to more sub levels by using the categories menu on the left. capture
|
|
Stores - After clicking the stores button you will see the featured stores and their store logos. capture |
|
| This is a rotating area so it's not the same every time. You can also see additional stores and their descriptions below. capture |
|
| Just click on the store logo you want to visit and you can see that stores listings as well as find out more about that store. capture |
|
| In the stores listings you can click this little double arrowed icon and sort that store by when a bid ends for example. capture |
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| You can tell which are auctions by the hammer, the fixed price items have this price tag icon and the classifieds have this newspaper icon capture |
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| All the information I need about the store is here. If I am on this store page and I wanted to contact the store owner I can click the owners name and I can then send them a message. capture |
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| other things to note. If I click the stores button you will see a store search on the left. This search box will only search items that are within a store so single listings will not be returned. capture |
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| Bread Crumbs - Throughout ahwooga.com as you are viewing pages you will notice this text across the grey bar. As you can see these are actually links we call bread crumbs. capture |
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| The bread crumbs can help you move back to a previous level instead of using your browser back button. (show ac example go 3 or 4 levels) You can easily step back to where you were and take another path if you like. capture |
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| OK, that's about it for searching. At ahwooga.com we tried to make searching easy and full of options for you. If you have any questions you can ask in our forum and there are folks there that are always ready to lend a hand. keeping it simple, that's Ahwooga! capture show forum button |
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Items to Prepare |
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Accessing Your Storefront |
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Uploading banners |
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Viewing Your Store |
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The HTML/Text Editor |
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Your Storefront |
3:34 |
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Slide the video playhead to the time. |
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Back to Top |
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