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Seasonal Themes

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Topic: Seasonal Themes

Posted By: avmndcom
Subject: Seasonal Themes
Date Posted: 07-December-2009 at 7:35pm

New to product cart, have used some others that have a theme concept. I have a site that wants to use seasonal thems, spring, fall, winter, Chirstmas, etc. Is there a way to do this in PC without manually renaming the css file (one for each season)? I'm not seeing this as a built in feature.

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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 07-December-2009 at 8:49pm

No, PC does not have such a feature. However, I do have a very cool tool that allows http://www.starmarinedepot.com - www.starmarinedepot.com to manage a collection of seasonal logos.

We built a small database admin tool that allows us to list a series of logos, both plain and decorated, in a table. When the client wants to change logos on the store, he marks the logo of his choice and submits a generator task. That results in a file being written to the site which is in turn referenced by the site header, and therefore the logo becomes active on the site - all with a couple clicks.

I'd be happy to build that into your store if you were interested. Contact me directly if you'd like to discuss.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 08-December-2009 at 3:06pm

Assuming you can control all of the seasonal site theme elements by external style sheets, this would be easy to do. You could add a bit of script to the header include to check the date against the date ranges you want each season to show for, and then conditionally link the appropriate style sheet.

A similar approach could be used to handle images which are called by src rather then via the style sheet.

Posted By: gessepi
Date Posted: 09-December-2009 at 6:04am

Where do you change the basic base colors for pc right out of the box.

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Tom

Posted By: netprofits
Date Posted: 09-December-2009 at 7:55am

Hi Gessepi,

The quick answer is edit the pcHeaderFooter.css and pcStoreFront.css. If you want complete details on changing the design of your site, check out these articles:

http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/storefront-integrate?s%5b%5d=integrate&s%5b%5d=template - http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/storefront-integrate?s[]=integrate&s[]=template

http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/storefront-default?s%5b%5d=store&s%5b%5d=design - http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/storefront-default?s[]=store&s[]=design

http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/storefront-css - http://wiki.earlyimpact.com/productcart/storefront-css

Hope this helps.

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Posted By: gessepi
Date Posted: 10-December-2009 at 6:33pm

Ok I have a question. I see where the old url strings that are presently indexed by the search engines will bring you to the specific products attached to those old url strings. However when you turn on the new Seo in the backend of 4.0 the new string has the category tree and product tree in them. Will the search engines consider this as duplicate urls and frown upon this?

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Tom

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 10-December-2009 at 10:01pm

Please see this post:

http://www.earlyimpact.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2879&KW=google&PID=12166#12166 - http://www.earlyimpact.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2879&KW=google&PID=12166#12166

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Posted By: gessepi
Date Posted: 10-December-2009 at 10:05pm

Ok then will the search engines start to index the rich seo content url's

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Tom

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 10-December-2009 at 10:47pm

yes, and you can help that process by using the built-in submission tools.

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GreyBeard Design Group

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11-December-2009 at 12:23am

And if you are really worried/conernced about this issue, you can use your robots.txt file to dissallow indexing/following of links to thinkgs like viewprd.asp?*, etc.