A Tutorial to Embed Social Sharing in Volusion Templates

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A Tutorial to Embed Social Sharing in Volusion Templates Volusion is an E-commerce platform for the small business owners who want their store websites online, through which customers can make purchases. This e-commerce platform has numerous volusion templates for small businesses to choose from. The volusion templates range from free to premium pricey, templates. Firstly, you have to choose which social media icons you wish to have on your homepage. Icons which follow the look and feel of your site must be chosen, including colors and textures so that the icons easily blend in with the storefront and become noticeable. After choosing which icons you want on your homepage you move forward to preparing a list of your social media business profiles with links to other profiles. In Volusion, a basic understanding of HTML will allow you to set where on the homepage you want your social media icons to live. For example, above the header, on top of the page, above the footer, below the footer etc. You then need to conduct a search on your social media business accounts for the graphic icons. This search requires an HTML code that you can embed or attach in the homepage code yourself or go for hiring a web developer to embed the code for you, Q&A the code and then deploy the linked social media icons. This example is for Volusion Storefronts and Volusion is a Content Management System or CMS. This complete approach works with Volusion Templates, volusion sites and volusion storefronts that carry their operation on other CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Expression Engine, Pro Stores and others.


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