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Checklist - Before
going live with your store
Once you have your store ready and think it's time
to unleash it to the world, it may be a good idea to go through
our checklist to make sure everything is as it should be.
General
Issues
- Make sure that each page of your site has unique TITLE and
META DESCRIPTION tags
 more
details
- Check your site on a different computer, preferably
in Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Pay particular attention to any broken links, screen resolution
problems or slow loading pages.
- Ask a friend or colleague to browse your store and make a purchase.
- Make sure that you have carried out demo transactions for your
payment provider and that emails are received as well as that
orders show correctly in the order admin page of the control
panel.
- Be sure that all your graphics are optimized and contain ALT
information.
- Include a site map, linked from all your pages with text links
to the most important pages on the store.
- Include your main keywords in a natural way on your home page
blurb.
- Make sure your product descriptions are unique and not copied
and pasted from your supplier.
- Make sure you have changed the default password and user name
for the control panel.
- Ask for a site
critique.
ASP
Version
- Make sure your database is not downloadable. You can test this
yourself by typing in the address eg www.yourstore.com/fpdb/vsproducts.mdb.
If you receive an option to download the .mdb file then it may
mean that people can access your database. Please check with
your host if you have any doubts at all. Most hosts will provide
you with a directory below the root of your web with the correct
permissions already set.
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SECURITY TIP
The best place for your database is outside the web root. Most hosts provide
a special folder for this with the database permissions already set. Using
a folder outside the web root will make it difficult for anyone to download
your database and gain access to your username and password. Otherwise
you must set the permissions on your database folder so that your database
cannot be downloaded.
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SECURITY TIP
Change the name of the vsadmin folder
This is quite simple. Download the vsadmin folder, rename it and
upload it to ther server again.
In the old vsadmin folder (the one that is still called vsadmin) open includes.asp
and add these two lines:
disallowlogin=TRUE
notifyloginattempt=TRUE
When updating remember you will need to upload the updater files to both
the new and old folders.
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PHP
Version
- Be sure that each of the cart related pages at the very top
in HTML view and before the opening HTML tag there is a little
bit of code that goes like this . . .
<?php
session_cache_limiter('none');
session_start(); ?><html>
This needs to be on each of the cart related PHP pages like
cart.php, search.php, products.php, categories.php and so on.
- Don't have spaces in your file names so use a pattern like
my-page.php rather than my page.php - remember they are also
case sensitive.
- Make sure all your currency symbols are displaying correctly.
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