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Yahoo Store Editor Part 2 – Section

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Today we’re going over the Section button in the menu bar of the Yahoo Store Editor. This is the second button in the menu bar once you click on the Store Editor link in your Yahoo Store admin.

The first field is Name. This is the name of your category. This will show up in your navigation bar that customers will see when browsing your site. So be sure to name your section what people are looking for as related to the products that will appear in it. For example, I’m selling maces, crossbows, and flails in my Medieval Weapons category.

If you upload an image into the Image field this will show up at the top of your category page. When I want an image on my category pages I prefer to use the Inset field which I will talk about in just a bit.

Headline is the headline of your category page. I recommend filling this out. It’s important to have headlines on your pages. Your headline can be simple, for my Medieval Weapons pages it’s Replica Medieval Weapons – Maces, Flails, Crossbows, and Spears.

Caption is the field I use for my category page text. You don’t want a lot of text on your pages, you want to let your product images be what dominates the page – images are more appealing and engaging that text – but a short paragraph or two is good idea.

The Icon field should be used if you want to use an image icon in your navigation bar. I personally am not a fan of doing this, I think words are a best and using a icon in conjunction with your text can make your nav bar hard to read.

Inset is the field I mentioned earlier. An image uploaded here will show up next to your caption text and that text will wrap around it. That is why I prefer this to the Image field. To me it looks more professional. You should try both and see which you like better.

You use the Label field if you have your home page specials set to show As Thumbnails. Then this text will show, if not your name text will show.

Need Ship should be set to yes if you products require physical delivery.

Product URL is the URL of your category page. I recommend using the category name as the extension.

Condition is what condition your products are in. Most of the time this will be set to New.

I have added some Custom Properties which I recommend you also do. Mine are Head Tags, Keywords, and Title. These are where I add the Meta information for my category pages. The Head tags section is for the meta description, the others are exactly as they are named.

You go through this process for each of the categories you’re going to add to your store. Once you’ve got those you can start adding your products. That’s we’ll be going over next, the Item button is for adding products.