Making the shop.html the default page

[ibrahimk]

I would like to make the shop (ie catalog ) become the default page that the user sees when he first loads up the site. Can anyone help


Thanks in advance

[completerookie]

most web servers use index.htm or index.html as the default page,
theres a couple of ways to go:

1) change the default of your server to serve shop.html - should be a setting somewhere - depndes which server you are running

2) create the index.htm and then use the re-direction tag to redirect the user to the shop.html - you get this when you see the sort of message "the page has moved, click here if nothing has happened in five seconds"


take a look at http://grizzlyweb.com/webmaster/java...edirection.asp for more information - this one seems to cover most eventualities (and browsers)

kev

[kenwen]

I would like to make the shop (ie catalog ) become the default page that the user sees when he first loads up the site. Can anyone help


Thanks in advance

I think you need to select the home page in the content tree and tick the little box that says use as website home page on the display view

[pinbrook]

I think you need to select the home page in the content tree and tick the little box that says use as website home page on the display view

if you do this you will have index at the root and also index in the acatalog.

I think the requirement here is to dispense with the root index.

When I do this, I use the server to go straight to the acatalog folder, I would ask your host what they can do for you as this is a better option than the meta refresh.

As already mentioned it is better to use index.htm or index.html rather than shop.htm as unix servers prefer to use this default value. And for these reasons

You may encounter SEO problems with spiders not finding an index.

You would have to place an index file in the folder anyway to stop people from viewing your contents.