Yahoo! Store Editor PUBLISH Trick
Mr. Allen Giglio, Steve's right hand man at Gun Dog, taught me this easy peasy Store Editor PUBLISHING trick.
NOTE: I recommend that you only have one PUBLISH button - the one on the home page (index.html), especially if you have multiple people in multiple locations working on your Yahoo! Store at the same time.
Why? To me there's nothing worse than being in the middle of something in the Yahoo! Store Editor and having your browser lock up because someone else decided to publish the site. It really irks my behind to lose edits or text or whatever I was working on just because SOMEONE clicks the damn PUBLISH button. Anyhoo...
You control where the PUBLISH / MANAGER buttons appear on the CONTROLS page with the SITE BUTTONS settings. Set it to HOME.
ALLEN'S COOL TRICK: Any time you need to get to the homepage, look in the URL window of your browser and chop off all the alpha-numeric gobblety goo past your account name. For example:
http://us-f4-edit.store.yahoo.com/RT/NEWEDIT.yhst-37770412209435/67ffac4eef62/CB2auA6Q
http://us-f4-edit.store.yahoo.com/RT/NEWEDIT.yhst-37770412209435/67ffac4eef62/CB2auA6Q
http://us-f4-edit.store.yahoo.com/RT/NEWEDIT.yhst-37770412209435
and hit ENTER and you're zipped back to the HOME PAGE.
or if you have an OLD, LEGACY store:
http://us-f4-edit.store.yahoo.com/RT/NEWEDIT.webstore-design/67ffac4eef62/CB2auA6Q
http://us-f4-edit.store.yahoo.com/RT/NEWEDIT.webstore-design/67ffac4eef62/CB2auA6Q
http://us-f4-edit.store.yahoo.com/RT/NEWEDIT.webstore-design
and hit ENTER and you're zipped back to the HOME PAGE.
Client: k, i usually just click on my logo
Well, that works most of the time, but sometimes you won't be on a "real" page. Sometimes you'll be on an RTML template or on the UPLOADS page or one of 20 other utility pages.
This'll save you 3 or 4 clicks per publish which means you might have time to read my blog while you wait for your site to publish...
Actually... Hey YAHOO! SMALL BUSINESS FOLKS! Why don't you add a link to the latest Ystoreblog.com post on the PUBLISH Status page, show it via RSS, or flash random e-commerce conversion improvement tips while folks wait for their sites to publish?
