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3.1. Setting up main parameters
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The first thing that you need to do after you have installed ViArt Shop, is set up the main parameters. In order to do this please go to Administration > System > Global Settings.
Site Settings
These settings describe the main site's adjustments such as site URL and administrator's e-mail. See the picture below:
You need to fill out the following fields:
- Site URL specifies the URL to access your ViArt Shop via the Web.
It is widely used when sending email messages containing links.
- Administrator Email - specifies the default email that will be used
to send Administrator's email notifications.
- Active Layout specifies which 'layout' is currently used for the system.
ViArt Shop supports multiple-layout schemes i.e. there can be several different
layouts and administrator can select one as 'active'. For more information see section 3.4.1
Note: These fields have already been filled in with the data you provided while installing ViArt Shop, but you can make any changes if necessary.
- Default Country specifies the default country used on your store. The field is extremely
useful if you are going to run your e-commerce business only in one country. In such a case you
can remove the 'Country' field at all e.g. while registering a new client or setting up delivery options. It also effects the taxes added to your product cost (for more info about taxes see section 4.5).
- Password Encryption specifies how all the passwords will be stores in database:
non-encrypted or encrypted with MD5 algorithm.
Note: Should you choose the ‘Use MD5 for encryption’ option there won’t be any possibility to restore passwords but only to set new ones and therefore you won’t be able to change the setting to ‘None’. Please do choose carefully.
The option affects the process of restoring forgotten client passwords as well. For more information see section 8.3.
- HTML Editor specifies the type of editor you prefer while editing articles:
Textarea or WYSIWYG ('what you see is what you get').
Secure Site Settings
When dealing with private information such as credit card numbers you may want to guarantee its safety.
With ViArt Shop this can be performed very easily, all you have to do is enter your secure site URL and tick
the pages you want to be secure.
Note: There are two more security-related topics: security issues (see section 2.5) and credit card security (see section 4.2.1.2)
Tracking Settings
In general, tracking is monitoring a process or the results of an action. ViArt Shop helps you obtain more detailed statistics by offering the following two tracking labels: Site visits and Page Views. Knowing the data will allow you to have a closer look on your online shop's performance and might provide with some answers on what is right and what is not.
Reviews Settings
With ViArt Shop visitors of your store will be able to rate products and post their comments.
- Products Review enables/disables product reviews on your site.
- Approve reviews. This option specifies whether reviews are moderated before publishing.
Once set to 'Yes' all reviews will be shown first at Administration section and only after approval - on the site. For more information see section 5.9
- Reviews per page specifies the number of reviews per page. The default value is 10, however you can choose from 5 to 100.
Top Rated
'Products (Top Rated)' is an automatically generated section containing the most popular products.
By default it is displayed on the main page but you can easily change its location.
- Minimal Rating. This option determines which products should be added to the 'Products (Top Rated)' section.
By default it contains products that have a rating higher than the 'Minimal Rating' value,
so you can adjust the value to show more or less products.
- Minimal Number of Votes specifies the number of votes a product needs to be shown in the 'Products (Top Rated)' section.
Note: While rating products (or articles) your customers will be asked to choose from ‘Bad’, ‘Poor’, ‘Average’, ‘Good’ and ‘Excellent’ meaning ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’ and ‘5’ correspondingly. You can edit these values at the ‘Static messages' section. For more info see section 12.6.
HTML Settings on Main Page
With ViArt Shop you can specify HTML settings for all pages of your online store. Filling out the following fields will specify the ones for the main page.
- HTML Title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords. These fields assign corresponding HTML
tags of the main page of your store.
- Greetings/Introduction. Text from this area will be shown immediately under the navigation section
but only on the main page.
- Footer body. Text from this area will be shown at the bottom of all pages of your site.
You can put some information about your company or links to your policies here.
For more information about footer see section 1.
In order to save the changes you made click the 'Update' button. If you want to leave without saving, click 'Cancel'.
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3.1. Setting up main parameters
The first thing that you need to do after you have installed ViArt Shop is to set up the main parameters. 
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