8 Years Ago

Embedded Shopping Cart Widget Not Mobile Friendly

I was linking from my personal website to my FAA artist website.
The problem was that from my FAA artist website, a potential buyer can't easily link back to my personal website.
Embedding the shopping cart widget seemed like a great answer to keep potential buyers on my personal site.
But when I open the page on my mobile phone, the widget is useless as 2/3 of the width is cut off. I can see "sort" and "products" drop down menu but nothing else to the right as in "Medium", "Size & Shape", "Colors" and "Galleries" menu. If I click on an image, the image is cut off and there is no way to add options or add it to the shopping cart.

Is this widget not mobile friendly? Or did I mess up in how I embedded it ?

my personal website is www.carlinart.com and the widget is currently on my "gallery" page link.

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Carlin Blahnik CarlinArtWatercolor

8 Years Ago

So does ANYBODY use the shopping cart widget on their personal website?????? Has anybody else tried to open the widget on their phone????

Crickets??

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

I see it, Carlin. It looks fine to me. But I'm looking on my PC not on mobile.

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

http://www.carlinart.com/gallery

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

This looks to be the same problem:

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2595821

Carlin Blahnik CarlinArtWatercolor

8 Years Ago

Yes Jessica, very similar but in my case all looks fine from a pc, the trouble is using the widget on a phone. Supposedly a high percentage of folks shop from their phones and I don't want to miss those opportunities for sales.

Sean McDunn

8 Years Ago

The widget is 100% mobile friendly.

Carlin - Your Google Sites interface isn't adding the widget to the page correctly for some reason. When you shrink the width of the browser, the container that holds the widget isn't shrinking. Therefore, the widget doesn't know that it should shrink, as well.

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Google Sites and can't tell you how to fix it.

The widget is mobile friendly, though.

Sean

Carlin Blahnik CarlinArtWatercolor

8 Years Ago

Thank you Sean. I used a "Google Embed" gadget to insert the widget on my Google site page. I am glad to hear the widget is mobile friendly.
I will try to adjust the pixel size of the embed gadget to see if it helps with the widget.

Update:
Problem solved by adjusting embed gadget dimensions to mirror the widget html = width 100% height 820 px
I tried this on my first attempt but the widget was sized wrong. What I didn't realize is that the full effect of the widget could not be appreciated until my web page was "saved" . Once my web page was "live" the shopping cart widget filled the screen properly.
The widget is now mobile friendly on my Google site.

I hope this info may be of help to someone who is hitting a wall with the shopping cart widget on their website.

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