First.html is the page that appears in your store's catalog before you click on a category to view the products. If first.html is not present then the products from the top category will be displayed.
Editing first.html
You can edit first.html to have whatever content you desire.
Create a web page and insert comment tags
<!-- AShopstart --> <!-- AShopend -->
into it. The HTML content placed between the tags is used to render content within the product listing area when the catalogue is first opened.
Example html code for the first.html page:
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" rightmargin="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0">
<!-- AShopstart -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr valign="TOP">
<td align="CENTER">
<p>Welcome to </p>
<p><!-- AShopname --></p>
<p><!-- AShoplogo --></p>
<p>Click on a category to view available products.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- AShopend -->
</body>
</html>
Notice the content that will appear when the catalog is first opened is all placed between
<!-- AShopstart --> <!-- AShopend -->
comment tags. It is a good idea to place the content inside a table that is between the AShop comment tags.
Some other AShop comment tags that may be useful are:
<!-- AShopname --> will display the name of your store.
<!-- AShoplogo --> will display your stores logo, which you can upload in the admin panel.