Newbie Needs Help
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Forum Name: Getting Started
Forum Description: Installing, activating, and getting started with ProductCart
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Topic: Newbie Needs Help
Posted By: macleather
Subject: Newbie Needs Help
Date Posted: 23-June-2008 at 6:11pm
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Hi All.
Brand new to ProductCart. Purchased on Friday and spent half of yesterday and most of today trying to get set up. I now have the set up done and the header and footer.asp files somewhat adjusted to reflect my existing website. However, I have a couple of questions. Do I have to take my newly created template and remake all of my pages? How do I take an existing page and call the header and footer.asp files or is that not necessary? How do I add the add to cart code to my existing product pages.
Sorry to be so lame, but so far ProductCart has me stumped.
Thanks for any help
Alan
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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 23-June-2008 at 6:55pm
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Hi, The easy answer is no :-) . Where you place the store really depends on your business and your existing content. If you want your home page to be the store then you need to re-jig things and then provide a link from the store pages to your static ones. If your happy to have content pages in the front and then link through to the store pages that's fine as well. It's certainly possible to redo your existing pages as pages within the store, but is not at all necessary. ------------- Editing ProductCart Code? See http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/developers/editcode" rel="nofollow - WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code |
Posted By: macleather
Date Posted: 23-June-2008 at 7:03pm
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Thank you Hamish,
O.K. if I like my static front end, and I navigate to a product page (right now with a paypal script for standard cart) what do I change on that page to have the add to cart button call up the ProductCart. I hope this is not too much jibberish. God, I feel sooooo stupid.
Alan
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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 23-June-2008 at 7:34pm
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Hi, We've all been through the learning curve :-) It doesn't take too long to "get it" - honest. Certainly a lot less than the time to learn how to make custom saddles !! I just took a look at your site. I would advise moving all the products to be within the store as products, but the informational pages can stay as they are. You may perhaps also choose to move the info pages "inside" as well, if that aids a consistent look, but it's not necessary for any technical reasons. Once you have added the categories & products via the admin panels you can then either generate a menu of products from the admin panels, or build and maintain it manually, whichever suits your needs. ------------- Editing ProductCart Code? See http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/developers/editcode" rel="nofollow - WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code |
Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 23-June-2008 at 7:39pm
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Example : Your page : http://www.mcpcustomleather.com/saddles.htm - This would be the Category "Saddles" and the text on the page would be from the category. - Each saddle would be shown, just as they are now if you choose the horizontal display option. When the client clicks on a saddle they would then go to a page for that particular saddle and you can add options for the size and finish - with prices adjustments as well if you wish. HTH Hamish ------------- Editing ProductCart Code? See http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/developers/editcode" rel="nofollow - WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code |
Posted By: macleather
Date Posted: 23-June-2008 at 8:12pm
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Thanks again Hamish, I think I'm beginning to see the light. Somehow from the sales description it sounded so easy. I'll play with it using your advice and let you know how it goes. Alan |
Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 23-June-2008 at 8:39pm
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No problem, The manual is very good and actually quite readable compared with most similar documents and the forum is also useful. If you get stuck, then don't worry about asking - plenty, no ALL, of us have had to start from scratch and we're a friendly bunch  .------------- Editing ProductCart Code? See http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/developers/editcode" rel="nofollow - WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code |
Posted By: macleather
Date Posted: 25-June-2008 at 2:41pm
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Hamish, Well the light is getting brighter. I've set up products and previewed the page and most is what I'm looking for. I still can't get the text color changes for the Product Name, Price, List etc. I've changed the storefront.css and the headerfooter.css for the proper font changes and nothing works. Do you know whcih stylesheet contains the styles for these items? Is there some sort of listing of where the styles come from for various sections of pc?
Thanks again, maybe a little down the road I'll be able to answer some questions as well.
Alan
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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 25-June-2008 at 2:50pm
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Hi Alan, A great way to find what style is being used for any particular item on the page is to use Firefox with the Web Developer extension (Firebug extension is also great). With that you can examine the CSS used for any element (ctrl + shift + Y) then point the mouse at the element in question - infom appears in a bar at the top, clicking on it opens a style info box. You can even edit (temporarily) the CSS and see it changing before your very eyes (Ctrl + Shift + E) - You can then save your revised CSS if you wish & FTP it back to your site. It's very cool & very useful!! ------------- Editing ProductCart Code? See http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/developers/editcode" rel="nofollow - WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code |
Posted By: macleather
Date Posted: 26-June-2008 at 4:50pm
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O.K., its me again. I hope you don't get too tired of me soon. Those tools for Firefox are great and showed me the elements. However, for the title on the product page it shows H1 and I trace back to the class. I've now changed every H1 I could find for font and color and no change shows. This is also the case for the Category Links. Changed every one I could find and still no change. Do I need to submit a ticket on this? Thanks, Alan |
Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 26-June-2008 at 5:11pm
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If you change a style and you see no changes in the interface, the reasons can be: (1) The style definition is incorrect, in which case it is ignored completely by the browser (2) There is another style that is taking priority over your definition Finding (2) and resolving the possible CSS conflict can take quite some time in certain cases. There is a workaround. You can give total priority to your style definition by using the "!important" declaration. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#important-rules - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#important-rules This might help. ------------- The ProductCart Team Home of ProductCart http://www.productcart.com" rel="nofollow - shopping cart software |
Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 26-June-2008 at 5:23pm
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Hi Alan, Can you post a link to the page in question & I'll take a look. ------------- Editing ProductCart Code? See http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/developers/editcode" rel="nofollow - WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code |
Posted By: macleather
Date Posted: 26-June-2008 at 6:20pm
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Earlyimp, thanks for that tip. I'll make the changes to my stylesheet and see if that does it. By the way, are the stylesheets which are in header.asp supposed to be pcstorefront and headerfooter? Then I suppose I can add my stylesheet as well?
Hamish, let me try this first. If it works you won't have to spend the time reviewing my page.
Much Thanks to you all.
Alan
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Posted By: macleather
Date Posted: 26-June-2008 at 6:36pm
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YooHoo. That ! important statement did the trick. Can't thank you enough. Especially since I know I'm going to have many more questions. You guys ROCK! Now I can go add some more products.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
Alan
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Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 26-June-2008 at 6:52pm
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Alan: "pcHeaderFooter.css" pertains to the default graphical interface that ProductCart ships with. If you use your own design (most stores do), you should remove the line that loads that CSS document, unless of course you choose to use the styles that it defines in your own design.
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Posted By: macleather
Date Posted: 27-June-2008 at 8:47pm
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I hope you don't mind but I have another question. I think it makes sense for me to add my home page (index.htm) to the store. Since this is a static page now what is the best way to add it to the store? Do I place some sort of include statement? Make a new content page? I can't seem to figure this one out. My product pages look the way I want them at this point but now I need the initial landing page of my site to interact with the product pages. I hope this makes some sense to you cause I'm not sure I understand what I just wrote  Thanks again Alan |
Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 27-June-2008 at 9:28pm
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Hi, If you want the store home page to become your sites homepage see :- http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to - http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/how_to and either the section on moving the hhomepage or moving the homepage with ajax support. Be aware that the server will have an order of preference for selecting which page to use as the sites preferred page when just the domain name is added. You can try renaming any existing index.html or home.html etc if they get in the way, or check with your ISP. If you want a non shopping cart page thenn you can just use a regular HREF link to the store pages from there instead. ------------- Editing ProductCart Code? See http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/developers/editcode" rel="nofollow - WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code |