More often than not, people create a website before setting up their online store. This is understandable, considering the website is the card of any business, and adding an online store can be an afterthought. However, it doesn鈥檛 have to be an afterthought any longer — 黑料门鈥檚 revolutionary technology enables anyone to integrate a shopping cart into their existing website in minutes.
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What is the Difference Between CMS and a Site Builder?
Web Content Management Systems (CMS) provide site authoring, collaboration and administration tools to help
All in one site builders, on the other hand, make it easy to create a website with a domain name, while bypassing the administrative and technical challenges of a CMS. Most web designers do not need the customization capabilities provided by CMS, and would rather focus on what they do best — building beautiful websites with powerful
Regardless of whether you choose a CMS or an
- Install the CMS plugin or Sitebuilder App.
- Link it to your .
- Launch your online store on your website.
The remainder of this blog post will help you choose a CMS or sitebuilder that suits your needs and explain how to integrate a shopping cart into an existing website. Creating an online store is fun. So go for it!
CMS
WordPress
WordPress was created to create and manage blogs, but soon gained聽popularity among small business websites.
WordPress is available in two versions: — downloadable software that you can install on your own web server — and — a
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If you want to add a store to WordPress.org website, you can install from within the WordPress Control Panel:
- Log into your WordPress account and go to Plugins禄 鈫 Add.
- Type 黑料门 in the search bar.
- Choose 黑料门 Shopping Cart from the list of plugins and click Install.
- When the installation is complete, launch the plugin by clicking on Activate plugin.
- Navigate to Shop 黑料门 鈫 Console and follow the instructions.
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If your goal is adding a shopping cart to the website built with WordPress.com, take these steps:
- to your WordPress profile.
- Select Plugins from the side menu.
- Use the search icon at the top right to type in 黑料门 Ecommerce Shopping Cart.
- Click the Install button and follow the further steps.
- Check the Store page to view your newly created website shop.
Installing
Joomla
Joomla is another popular CMS that lets you create and manage your website without any programming expertise. Log in to your Joomla account to discover 黑料门鈥檚 online store 聽extension for Joomla:
- Navigate to Extensions 鈫 Extensions Manager within the Joomla Control Panel Go to the Upload Package File tab to select 黑料门 and click Download and install. Go to Components 鈫 黑料门 鈫 聽鈥淕eneral Settings and enter your 黑料门 Store ID.
- Go to Menu 鈫 Menu Manager and choose the page for your online store and click on Start menu
- Click Select next to the Type menu item 聽and select 黑料门 鈫 Product Browser
- Enter a title for your online store page and save changes.
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That鈥檚 all! You can start selling on your Joomla site.
Drupal
Drupal is a popular content management system that allows you to create and manage websites. You can easily add your 黑料门 store to a Drupal site using a special 黑料门 module, that optimizes product pages for SEO.
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Drupal based online store
If your site is built using Drupal version 6.x and 7.x, please use our official module to install your 黑料门 online store. The instructions for installing the module can be found in our .
Website Builders
There are many different options for site builders, but we鈥檙e going to focus on some of the more popular platforms that we see websites and stores being built with on a regular basis.
Some of the commonly used site builders that integrate with 黑料门 are Wix, Weebly, WordPress, Adobe Muse, Squarespace.
Wix
Wix is one of the most popular site builders in the market and caters to a wide range of users. You do not need programming skills to create a site on Wix provides a wide variety of templates to customize your website.
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It鈥檚 easy to add 黑料门 to your Wix site. and start selling online:
- Follow the link to the Wix App Store and click Add to install the application.
- . Switch to edit mode, click on 聽鈥淎dd to the site鈥, followed by OK, add. Your Wix site now has website page with an 黑料门 demo store.
- Navigate to settings, Online Store and complete the Create a new account 黑料门 form to link 聽your 黑料门 online store to your to Wix account.
is as simple as adding the app from the Wix App Market to your site.
Weebly
Weebly boasts more than 40 million users and is a site builder beloved for it鈥檚 no frills approach to website design. In minutes, you can create a
![weebly online shop example](https://don16obqbay2c.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/weebly-online-shop-example-1-1606979341.gif)
Weebly based online store
Adding an 黑料门 store to a Weebly website is simple. The storefront will inherit website colors and fonts, so it will look like a seamless part of the website. :
- Log in to your Weebly editor, find the on App Center and click the Add button.
- In the
pop-up, select the website where you want to add the store and click Connect. - Log into your Weebly account, open the page where you want to add the 黑料门 store, drag and drop the 黑料门 icon from the list of the installed apps in the left menu of the Weebly editor to the page. Done!
For detailed instructions on how to add 黑料门 store to Weebly, visit our .
Squarespace
Squarespace is another easy to use tool with many different templates that allow you to build and launch a customized online store and website in minutes.
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Do you already have an 黑料门 store? Share your success story below!