Contact information
The contact information is an important part of your Web site and may be a legal requirement. For example, the German Teleservices Act (section 6) has required commercial Web sites to include a contact information page since 01.01.2002. This must include the following information:
- Name and address of the company
- Telephone, fax, and e-mail address
- Managing director/board/stockholder/shareholders (depending on the company status)
- Company location/applicable court
- Registration number
- VAT identification number
- Party responsible for the contents (name of the responsible party in the sense of the media services national contract)
It must be possible to open the contact information page from every page in the Web site. A corresponding page element exists to do this. For more information, see Page elements and navigation, below.GeneralIn addition to some settings that are valid for all pages, General, above, you must also edit the following settings:Table 96: Fields for Contact Information
Field name Description Field type Example Merchant (Company) Provider name Entry field, alphanumeric Milestones Demostore GmbH Address Language-dependent address;For more on formatting, see Working with text fields, above. Text field MusterFirma Software GmbH <br> Leutragraben 1 <br> 07743 Jena, Germany Phone Telephone number Entry field, alphanumeric Fax Fax number Entry field, alphanumeric Job title Title for person responsible for Web site Entry field, alphanumeric Managing Director Name Name of person responsible for Web site Entry field, alphanumeric Matthew Merchant E-mail address for the company Entry field, alphanumeric info@provider.de
Save your entries by clicking Save.If you have run through the Setup assistant, some fields in the Contact page will be filled already.