Feature Pack 8: The Madisons store is deprecated. Most features demonstrated in the Madisons store are available in the Aurora store.

Madisons starter store customization tutorials

WebSphere Commerce provides tutorials that are designed to introduce the various tasks that are related to customizing the Madisons storefront.
Tutorial Learning objectives Description
Enabling Commerce Composer support for a Madisons starter store
By completing this tutorial, you learn the procedure for upgrading an existing store to use the Commerce Composer tool. By upgrading an existing store to use the Commerce Composer tool to design and manage store pages, you can gain the following benefits:
  • Business users can use Commerce Composer layout templates and widgets to design and configure store pages without the need for IT assistance.
  • Cleaner organization of code.
  • Separation of data and presentation.
  • Ease of reuse of code. For example, a widget can be easily used in the layout for all store pages.
 WebSphere Commerce DeveloperFeature Pack 7 or later In this tutorial, you learn how to enable an existing store to use the Commerce Composer tool to design and manage store pages. The Commerce Composer tool is a Management Center tool that you can use to create store pages and compose the layout design for the pages with reusable widgets.
Changing the appearance of the Madisons starter store
After completing this tutorial, you will be able to perform the following tasks:
  • Change the appearance of the Madisons starter store.
  • WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.0Feature Pack 1 Add a new store style to WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
  • Feature Pack 2Feature Pack 3 Add a new store style to WebSphere Commerce Management Center.
 The storefront appearance is an important factor in improving customer experience. In this tutorial, the cascading style sheets (CSS) are modified to change the color and layout of the storefront. The new style is then made available as a display option for the Madisons starter store. The new style is selected in the Change Style wizard in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator, or in the Management Center Store Management tool if Feature Pack 2 or later is enabled.
Adding support for a Management Center tool to the Madisons starter store
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:
  • Create a new Web 2.0 page
  • Create a pop-up window to display the information
  • Use refresh area
  • Invoke AJAX services call
 This tutorial shows you how to add a category, the Recipe tool, to Deprecated featureMadisons starter store. You will also implement some new functionality to enhance interactive and rich shopping experience when browsing a recipe.
Adding day-of-month scheduling support for recurring orders
After completing this tutorial, you will be able to:
  • Extend the noun part to include custom data.
  • Extend the scheduler to include a new type that is used for subscription.
  • Update the recurring order and checkout JSP and JavaScript files to accept the new schedule type.
 This tutorial shows you how to customize WebSphere Commerce to serve the day-of-month recurring order schedule type. For example, to allow customers to schedule a recurring order on the fifth of every month. The WebSphere Commerce schema is updated to store the new schedule type information. The Subscription service is updated to include the new user data in the Subscription noun.
Creating Search Engine Optimization (SEO) URLs
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:
  • Understanding the WebSphere Commerce FEP3 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Solution
  • Overview of simple extension and customization tasks.
 This tutorial demonstrates how to create Search Engine Optimization (SEO) URLs. Through SEO you can increase your online visibility in search engine results, driving more shoppers to your store. WebSphere Commerce provides several tools to assist with your overall SEO strategy, one of which is to create a short and meaningful search engine friendly URL.