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Originally Posted by Lawrence
You also have a similar problem with your HTML as Blackrhino. You have <html>, <head> and <body> tags within the main content of your page, the </body></html> signifies the end of useful content on your page and may stop some search bots from spidering the whole of each page. They may even prevent some browsers from displaying the page correctly. These superfluous tags need to be removed. If you need help to do this, just ask, someone on here will help you out.
This site will explain page structure in more detail http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
If you are serious about running your own ecommerce site, then I would suggest you reconsider the use of Lycos or any of the other all in one packages. They may be easier to initially set up for the beginner, but they are very limited, expensive and you're putting your whole business in the hands of one company. If anything happens to Lycos (it can happen) then you're out of business. If you're using a stand alone package and your host goes out of business, you simply switch to another host, upload your files and you're back in action. You aren't dependent on any single company for your site, you are in 100% control of it. From about £50/year for hosting (can go up if your site starts to get very busy), you can have virtually an unlimited number of products, compare that to the price plan you are currently on. Search the net for hosting only packages to see what I mean. It's something worth considering.
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Lawrence, because we are using an e-shop package, there is no way we can edit any html as these are ready made templates.
I'm interested in your comment about avoiding Lycos or any other packages. The reasons you give are valid but surely around 80-90% of all e-shop owners have absolutely no knowledge of html or website building from scratch (myself included) so have to rely on these ready to go options, whether they are from lycos, 1 & 1 or anyone else?
Obviously I would love a contingency plan because as you say, anything could happen. Lycos give you the option of exporting all your product details, pictures, data, etc to an excel file. Whether this could be used to import to another package I don't know.