CatalogBuilder has powerful design setting option for user to build catalog without having to know programming issues.

• In Catalog Management Window, select a catalog  from Browse Catalog Pane
   

• Click Menu - Catalog - Catalog Operations -  Design Configurations / Settings
  
  
  
  or click button Design Options   to start the process.
   

• Upon clicking, Design Setting  Window will open
  
  
  
  
  This window states the statistics of date creation and date last modified. The wizard can be navigated by clicking Back / Next Buttons ( / ). To save design configurations / settings, user need to click Finish button . If user wants to skip the saving of changes made & exit , click Cancel button
  
  User can easily configure following design setting of catalog by selecting / filling / opting for necessary feature selection and design related issues.
   

  • Configure thumbnail design

  • Configure thumbnail collection page of catalog

  • Set the sequence of catalog items in published catalog

  • Configure catalog item's full view page

  • Set the navigation pane for catalog items

  • Configure the contents of catalog items on thumbnail collection and product's full page

  • Configure special features on published catalog (e.g. slide show, selection basket, power search on catalog, music on slide show, special view graphics, magnified map view etc)

  • Configure tool tip on graphic files in catalog

  • Configure page titles of catalog

  • Configure Catalog Headers

Using Design Setting Window, user can create highly customizable catalog.:

• How to Customize and configure Thumbnail of Catalog Item

  • customize size of thumbnail

  • configure thumbnail border setting in terms of color and width

  • configure thumbnail back color
     

• How to Customize and configure thumbnail collection page of Catalog Items

  • customize  catalog structure (i.e. whether catalog to be published with collection group or entire catalog items without reference to collection group)

  • configure view of collection page (i.e. list view or thumbnail matrix view)

  • configure collection group navigation pane

  • configure contents of catalog items (to be displayed along with thumbnail of catalog item)

  • configure collection page's background color or background graphic

  • configure tool tip to appear on mouse over event for thumbnail graphic on collection page

• How to Customize and configure thumbnail settings in collection view (Thumbnail Layout) of Catalog Items

  • customize  thumbnail matrix (rows * column) on collection page

  • configure thumbnail padding and distance amongst thumbnails

  • configure thumbnail alignments

  • configure thumbnail collection border settings in terms of color and width

  • configure thumbnail collection's background color or background graphic

  • configure display font setting for caption and contents along thumbnail preview of catalog item
     

• How to Customize and Configure Catalog Items
  
  In addition to catalog item's insertion option, user can also set additional options:

  • remove catalog items from selected catalog

  • set the sequence for viewing of catalog items
     

• How to customize  Catalog Item's full / detail  page view
   

  • customize  catalog item's detail page structure / layout

  • configure contents of catalog item (to be displayed in detail page of catalog item)

  • configure catalog item's full page's background color or background graphic

  • configure page title of catalog item's detail page and image Alt tags full size graphic on collection page

  • configure special view graphics and magnified map view graphic for catalog item

  • configure display font setting for caption and contents  of catalog item
    
     

• How to Configure special features on published catalog (e.g. slide show, selection basket, power search on catalog, music on slide show)
   

• How to Build uniform catalog header pages for entire catalog