Making 'MyStore' ... 'YourStore'

At first this may seem like a daunting task, but we think you'll find that the files are well organized into relevant folders; and, if you follow the steps below, things should go pretty smoothly. All templates are in a Templates folder. Do not make the mistake of saving the document you're about to edit, back to this folder!

As a commercial user, you have available some utilities not present in the freeware. The first is Gypsy, a very friendly HTML editor. It is in the Gypsy folder as a zip file. Extract it to this folder. You can right click on msgypsy.exe and create a shortcut to Gypsy from an icon on your desktop. In Gypsy you'll find a Template folder with all of the documents you need to customize using a .mst extension. You can access this folder directly from Gypsy by clicking on the third button from the left on the Gypsy tool bar. We've also included a Templates folder directly under MyStore with documents using the .me extension. Use these if you prefer a simple text editor.

One more thing. You'll see that on these setup pages we list the templates as links with the .me extensions. These should launch a simple text editor when clicked unless the .me extension is registered with your browser. In that case, they may try to open in this window. This will cause a lot of JavaScript errors. So just open them from whatever editor you're using.

The home page ... not index, but mystore
The file, index.htm, is used to test a visitors browser for compatibility and switch them to mystore.htm if everything is OK. It should not need changing. First you'll want to create your own opening page. The template is:
mystore.me

This file is principally an HTML document which we assume you already know how to modify. The only JavaScript in the document is for rotating the messages which themselves are gif images. They're in the Gifs folder (MyStore/Gifs/text0.gif through text4.gif). You can create your own gifs using the same names. If you do not want to use the rotating text, just omit the HTML code from your document. Do not worry about the script.

When you're finished with your changes, save this document directly to the the main MyStore folder as:

mystore.htm

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