Home Page Specials - How to add more than 4?

Sam,

I'm not asking for a sofware re-write for this, but I've notice that my home page contains 80% of my entrance and exit traffic. Is there a method of adding additional home page products? I would like to have 10 of them for my products that have a major market demand.

Thanks!
Jim OLeary
www.IchibanCoins.com
A XLECOM Website

RE: Home Page Specials - How to add more than 4?

Jim:

Adding more than four (4) Product Ads to the Home page would involve a software re-write. In the meantime you can either create an alternative redirection "Pointer" home page using the code below or manually add the products to the home page by hand.

Condition 1:
The following instructions are for creating a redirection "Pointer" home page for a non-framed website. This method will redirect the users to the specified alternative home page when they visit your domain's home page.

How to create an HTML Pointer Home Page

(1) Copy the HTML Pointer code below into an ASCII text editor such as Window's Notepad.
(2) Change the xlecom.com page reference to the url of the page you want people to visit.
(3) Save the document as an HTML page using the file name index.html.
(4) Upload this page to your web server's root directory replacing the current home page file.

Pointer Page HTML Code

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>html relocation page - any title you want</title>
</head>
<body>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://xlecom.com/demos/demo-m/html/page_019.html">
</body>
</html>

For your information, the 0 in the CONTENT="0; statement means wait 0 seconds until the redirection. For example, if you use a value of 5, then the browser will wait 5 seconds until the redirection.

Note: This method is very similar to the method explained on the following page Creating HTML Pointer Pages for use in Email Advertisements.

Condition 2:
If you are going to manually modify the home page itself, keep in mind that all "relative" path references to the file assets must be in the following format:

./images/photo.jpg (Home page - use for all pages located in the root directory)
../images/photo.jpg (use for all pages located in the html subdirectory)

./html/file.html (Home page - use for all pages located in the root directory)
../html/file.html (use for all pages located in the html subdirectory)

Sam Raheb
XLEcom Program Developer

RE: Home Page Specials - How to add more than 4?

Sam,
I did the cut and paste method, and I'm very happy with the results!

Thanks,

Jim OLeary
www.IchibanCoins.com
An XLECOM Website

Jim OLeary www.IchibanCoins.com An XLECOM Website

RE: The cut and paste method

Jim:

The results look good.

You should however change the size of the fonts or the text itself within the left side navigation menu category titles such that they do not cause the shaded area to expand downwards. Try using a smaller sized bold font.

BTW. Since your site is featured on XLEcom's home page, you are probably getting a lot of referred traffic hits from this site.

Sam Raheb
XLEcom Program Developer