Setting up two-tiered affiliate site templates
A two-tiered site, is pretty straight-forward. This is the simplest of designs utilizing detail pages for individual products, and a single index page for category navigation from your main page.
Generally speaking, we would build an index page containing
links to all of the detail pages. This is super-easy as WebMerge
does all of this for you once you have set up your detail template,
index
template, and saved the WebMerge settings file. The use
of Two-Tier design is rather limited for affiliate use, as only
the smallest of feeds can be built. This is because the
index page simply grows too large, having to contain links to
all of the detail pages.
Fig. 1 Two-Tiered Site Hierarchy
One setting, detail, and index file are required to create this type of site structure. Please see the documentation for preparing your detail template, index template, and setting up WebMerge in order to generate pages.
TIP: Please see the required file matrix for files and categories required for the Two-Tier design...
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