Website Widget

Julie,

If you are talking about your own personal website/widget I can not help.

But if you are talking about the AW, go behind the scenes to "default settings" where
you price your images. There at the top is the images v galleries choice.

Good luck,

Dave

Thank you David - I appreciate the response, I am talking about the shopping cart widget on my personal site.

http://juliebelton.com/purchase-prints/

Sorry I am no help.

I like this a lot.
http://juliebelton.com/portfolio/midnight-express/

Dave

PS why are you set to prints? Somewhere in the html must be a tag for galleries over prints.

Julie,

Out of curiosity, what hosting service and what website software are you using?

I need to know. Early next year I will build my own site. I need to suss it out more.

Dave

Julie,

I just ran a search into the recent threads on the shopping cart widget.

See Jennifer Suits. She has more than one thread in the last month. Worth the reads.

Dave

Julie - the shopping cart widgets currently display images rather than galleries. I doubt that will change. Remember, when images are first, customers are only one click away from a purchase. If galleries were displayed first, customers would be two clicks away. That actually can make a difference.

Greg,

Interesting. Perhaps the stats would bare that out fully, it is still very ritualistic thinking.

Julie,

Wendy at the bottom of one of Jennifer Suits' threads uses different solutions without the shopping cart widget.

Dave

Thanks David. If you look at bounce rates, they are almost never zero (and usually considered 'good' if less than 50%). Hence every click matters. For me, I want customers to be as close to actually buying as possible.

Greg, you are correct

I, too, will offer the shortest path from site entry to shopping cart. Even one "extra click" can drive away up to 20% of potential buyers.

@ David - There is an entire industry, developed over the last 15 years, dealing with Conversion Optimization Strategies. No facet of online shopping is too small to ignore. For example, there are even myriad tests that have been run on the effectiveness of the size and color and placement (position) of the "Buy Now" or "Add to Cart" buttons. :)

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This is very interesting. So it makes for smaller websites. From the viewing of the art to the cart should be only
a few clicks if not less.

I will really get into this early next year.

How much control over the displaying of the work does the widget give us?
Background colors? Size of thumbnails? Arrangement of thumbnails?

Probably none?

Dave

David - Thank you for the compliment.

I host my website with hostmonster. I have for the past 7 years now, and I love them!
My site is designed using wordpress, and I have a theme from themeforest.com.

Julie,

This thread you started has me wondering if I will build a much more basic website.

I think it is necessary as others are pointing out to get viewers directly to the sales sheets.

Sometime in February, March of this coming year I will have to make some decisions on this to get it up and running.

Dave

@ David

Recently I moved from Wordpress to Squarespace. Itīs not so flexible than Wordpress, but you donīt need a plugin for everything, and the themes are very clean. Here is my site: www.colinutzphotography.com

Squarespace is very popular, as is format.com > I just use wordpress because I am used to it, and can easily get around the backend to add what I like. Although, yes, I agree that the plugin itself is limiting, so I just used the free artist site provided by FAA, and styled it to be similar to the theme of my site. This way when you click on Purchase prints from the menu, it takes you to my personal FAA site to allow for comments, likes and views.

www.juliebelton.com

Just so people do not get confused, that print area on the site is not a free artist site. Julie is using the premium site

It sounds like Julie just wants to display a list of the galleries instead of images via the widget, which I have not yet figured out. However, I have figured out how to set the default display so that when the shopping cart widget loads, a certain gallery has already been selected. This can be useful if, like me, you have different types of artwork that you want to display/sell on different websites. For example, you might have a "photography" gallery but also a "painting" gallery, and you want to insert the widget into a website that is all about photography. It makes no sense to automatically display both your photographs and paintings. So you just need to modify the widget code to display the photograph gallery by default. It's actually quite simple.

TO DO THIS, YOU'LL NEED A PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP:

1. First, make sure you have created a gallery from within your profile, and added some of your images to it.

2. Then, head on over to the FAA widget manager page:
http://fineartamerica.com/controlpanel/widgetmanager.html

Copy the code that FAA provides you for a standalone shopping cart and look for this line:
https://fineartamerica.com/widgetshoppingcart/artwork.html?memberidtype=artistid&memberid=311431&domainid=0&showheader=0&autoheight=true
(NOTE: You will see your own member ID listed instead of 311431)

Add the "galleryname" variable to the very end of that line before pasting the code into your website, like this:
https://fineartamerica.com/widgetshoppingcart/artwork.html?memberidtype=artistid&memberid=311431&domainid=0&showheader=0&autoheight=true&galleryname=photography


Change the part that says "photography" into the name of your gallery that you want to be displayed by default. Use all lowercase letters, and if there are spaces change them to plus symbols. So if you had a gallery (like mine) called "Zombie Art" that you want displayed by default...you would modify that line in the code like this:
https://fineartamerica.com/widgetshoppingcart/artwork.html?memberidtype=artistid&memberid=311431&domainid=0&showheader=0&autoheight=true&galleryname=zombie+art

3. Past the modified code into your website in the spot that you want it displayed.

4. Sell some art!

Hope you find this helpful.
:)

Jeff

Jeff

I get asked this a lot in support. This is very helpful to me also, thank you

no problemo!

Jeff,

Thanks, I was expecting a solution.

I am not sure yet how I will organize around the FAA widget.

I will use WordPress. I read that the Google bots search it out better than other website building methods/code.

I have to call Bluehost in the new year to see if they will allow WordPress, but I am already quite sure
they will.

I may move the date up on when I launch my site to the end of January.

Dave

Wordpress.com don't allow codes

Wordpress is fairly flexible. I'm a Drupal guy myself, but I know lots of people who have used the Wordpress platform to develop a fully customized website. I believe that WP has a "code editor" that allows you to just past code into it when composing a post/page. If not, a quick search on Google reveals some WP plugins that may help:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hana-code-insert/

As for Google indexing WP more/better than other platforms, I don't think Google's bots give any preference to one content manegement system (CMS) over another. It's all about how your site fits into their current search indexing algorithms. That being said, Wordpress is probably more optimized for Google's indexing "out-of-the-box" than many other solutions. But I've had just as much success with hand-coded websites and those using other CMS systems. Like anything in life, its not the tool but how you use it that makes all the difference.

Hi, thanks all for the information here.. I am trying to copy and paste the code into my WP site - I know Isabella, that you mentioned WP doesn't accept codes - but I have been putting other widgets on my website (FB etc) and I just copied and pasted the codes in - it doesn't work with the code I am given on FineArt - can anyone help..?

Wordpress.com do not allow scripts should I say. Ours is not allowed. They strip it. Yes, there are plugins if self hosted that allow the input. Go into the plugin repository and look for html / php enablers

I will let you know when I get in again what I use but I'm just headed out. Won't be long