6.21.2 

Back and front names 

These are the names by which the language is referred to on the front and 

back of the site. Typically, the language will be referred to by its local name 

on the front of the site and by the default language version in the back end. 

6.21.3 Skin 

location 

Since CactuShop supports multiple languages, each will require a skin of its 

own. The path to each skin is edited from here. 

6.21.4 

Contact email addresses 

In prior versions of CactuShop, the email addresses used to send orders to 

the store owner were stored as config settings. However, with the 

introduction of multiple languages, these email addresses have been moved 

to the language section. This ensures that you can (if you wish) set up 

different email addresses (and hence different support staff) to process orders 

from each language. 

6.22 News 

Items 

You can easily add news items here for display on the front of the site. The 

news items are added from the back end of the site and are stored in the 

database   no FTPing required. 

6.23 

Mark Up Items 

CactuShop includes a tool to help you make global changes to prices on your 

site in bulk. 

You can select a price range of the items you wish to re price, the category 

they are in and the amount you wish to mark them up or down by. The 

amount can be a percentage or a fixed amount. 

A confirmation screen listing all the versions that will be affected then 

displays. You can uncheck any that you don't wish to re price before 

confirming. 

6.24 

Static HTML Product Gateway Pages 

6.24.1 

The debate over search engine indexing of database sites 

All serious e commerce web sites use dynamically generated pages created 

from information stored in an online database. However, those vendors selling 

lightweight e commerce products often argue that static HTML pages are 

better because they can be indexed by search engines, whereas database 

content cannot. In the past, this was true. However, since most major news, 

e commerce and general interest sites are now databased, search engines 

have made major advances in indexing dynamic content. Otherwise, they 

would miss the best parts of the web! But just to be on the safe side, 

CactuShop now includes a facility to build static versions of the product pages 

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