Here’s a tip on how to design your Volusion template file without using the full URL. We do this internally so that we can recycle and reuse some of our HTML code for our clients.

The two tags we use the most are Config_ImagesFolder and Config_FullStoreURL . What do they do? Fairly simple stuff but makes URL writing much faster.

1. Config_ImagesFolder is the path to your template images. It ultimately takes this v/vspfiles/templates/NAME OF YOUR TEMPALTE/images/ and compresses it down to something much easier to use.

2. Config_FullStoreURL is the path to your store and it will change based on either a HTTP or HTTPS request. It takes http://www.YOUR SITE NAME.com/ and https://www.YOUR SITE NAME.com/ and compresses into a nice safe variable of sorts.

Let us give a couple template HTML examples so this is 100% clear.

Let’s say we have a store template called “schawel”. We have an image that I want to link back to a certain page. The long and sometimes problematic way of doing this would like like this example:

<a href="http://www.schawel.com/some-page-a/123.htm" title="some page"><img src="vspfiles/templates/schawel/images/template/logo.png" alt="logo" /></a>

With the Volusion attribute tags or config variables we can turn it into this…

<a href="Config_FullStoreURLsome-page-a/123.htm" title="some page"><img src="Config_ImagesFolder/images/template/logo.png" alt="logo" /></a>

These tags also called many other things in online (e.g. Volusion forum) all of which are more or less correct.

Volusion Configuration Variables

Volusion Template Variables

Volusion Attribute Tags

You can see all the Volusion tags (both as married attributes and free standing meaning you can use them in articles) at http://support.volusion.com/article/navigation-menu-customization

Questions, rants, raves?