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Are you a Web designer? Would you like to be able to create high-quality, secure online stores for your clients? Would you like to market your store-building services to merchants? Then Yahoo! Store is for you.

The Best Tool for Designers - Build quality online stores; fast free prototypes; easy integration with existing sites; and powerful tools for advanced users.

Promotion - Get listed in our Y! Store Designer listings





With Yahoo! Store, you don't have to maintain servers, install software, or write CGI scripts. You get to concentrate on design. Using our award-winning software, you can create top-quality online stores like these: without any programming. Y! Store is so fast that you will often be able to create a demo site for a client in under an hour.





Nothing helps to convince a client like a real, live prototype of the site. So if you ever need an additional account to make a demo for a prospective client, all you have to do is ask. It costs nothing till your client says yes.

Our software makes it so fast to create sites that you may well get them to say yes the very next day. Most of your clients have read that it takes weeks to make even a simple online store. It used to, before tools like Y! Store existed. With Y! Store, you can create a great-looking demo site in one evening, and show it to the client the next morning.





If your client wants you to add online ordering to an existing site, Y! Store is the best way to do it. Just make them a store with Y! Store and link the two sites together.

Many of our users do this, and it works perfectly. For example, Smith & Hawken's main site is on another server, but the "Shop Online" link points to a store made with Y! Store. The same technique was used for The Kennedy Space Center and the Denver Broncos.

Your store could also reside in a frame on the main site. Pennzoil, Lifetime TV & Columbia Tri-Sar use this approach.





Y! Store is not just easy to use. Underneath, it is one of the the most powerful programmable Web authoring tools available.

Everything that appears on the page, both text and images, is defined by templates written in a scripting language called RTML. The built-in templates are so flexible that very few users actually need to use RTML. But if you are an experienced programmer who wants to create completely custom sites for your clients, you will have a powerful tool to help you.

If you define your own templates using our online template editor, you can make sites that look however you want. And the predefined templates are freely available online, so you can get started by copying and modifying them.

RTML makes Y! Store a programmable platform for whatever you want to build. Designers who have tried it are amazed at how powerful RTML is. For an example of RTML in action, see Reebok Store or Denver Broncos.





Get a free listing in our Y! Store Design Listings when you open your first Y! Store. This directory is highly-trafficked by merchants looking to build Y! Stores. This listing could bring more customers to you. Your listing will include your contact information, examples of your Y! Store work and one company logo.





If you're a Web designer and would like to partipate in the Yahoo! Store Design Referral Program, please read the agreement; our Design Referral agreement is on the next page. By accepting the agreement, you'll be able to take advantage of the Y! Store Design Referral program.

If you have further questions, please email store-design-referral@yahoo-inc.com.

Read the Agreement