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Ginger Concepcion

8 Years Ago

New Shopping Cart Widget

I'd like to put the new shopping cart widget on my website www.gingerconcepion.com but I don't know where to post it, as on which page or ??. Can anyone advise me? Thank you.

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Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

Copy and paste the "Embed Code" onto any page of your website, and the shopping cart, below, will appear.

 

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

Is this your site? You may want to redesign your site.

http://gingerconcepcion.com/

 

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

Here is another template from FineArtStudioOnline

http://laurarobb.com/

 

Cynthia Decker

8 Years Ago

You just cut and paste the widget code into the "body" section of the HTML page where you want the cart widget to appear.

I think you will want to clean up your site a little, make sure all the text falls where it's supposed to. One of your problems is your display area width.

Line 79 in your code: width:980px;
Change that number to somehting larger, like 1100 or 1200. That will keep your page link headings from wrapping to a second line, and it will give you enough room to embed the shopping cart. You may have to change this number on multiple pages.

If I were you, I'd create a new page just for the cart, and add a "shop for prints" link to your page link headings on all your pages.

Hope that was helpful!

 

Ginger Concepcion

8 Years Ago

Jessica and Cynthia, I didn't realize my site was in such poor shape so thank you very much for the help and insight!

 

Ginger Concepcion

8 Years Ago



Jessica and Cynthia, I took your advice and changed my site. Hopefully it looks better. I also added a link for the widget but I wasn't able to figure out how add it to each page (yet). Although I'm somewhat familiar with html, I was not able to copy/paste the code where I wanted it. I do see that I need to take better pictures of my art! And the site does need more work.

Again, thank you both for your help.

 

Cynthia Decker

8 Years Ago

Ginger, that's looking great!

You might consider either adding a page, or change a page in order to add the shopping cart. For example, the "galleries" page doesn't have that much on it.

Can you customize the link on the left to change the word "Galleries" to "Shop for prints" or something similar? Then you would edit the "Galleries" page and insert the shopping cart code in the body section. The widget is all you need on that page, you can take out all the other stuff if you want to.

 

Ginger Concepcion

8 Years Ago


Cynthia, now that's a good idea! I'll work on that when I get home tonight. I wish I'd asked for help with my website a long time ago! Thanks so much.

 

Jessica Jenney

8 Years Ago

Ginger, your site looks terrific now! I see you have a link to the shopping cart. What you want is the widget # 1 the standalone shopping cart. You can then remove the widget # 3 - the strip

 

Ginger Concepcion

8 Years Ago

Thanks, Jessica for all your advice, you and Cynthia. Yes, that's what I want, the stand alone cart which I'll work on hopefully today. Too much life gets in the way of art business sometimes!

 

Cynthia Decker

8 Years Ago

Let us know when you have it up and running, I'd love to see it all finished. :)

 

Terri Einer

8 Years Ago

I have a shopping card on my site, but assuming this is a new one(?). I can figure out how to copy the new code, but I can't figure out how to "embed" it. Can someone give me a step by step?

 

Ginger Concepcion

8 Years Ago


Terri, I had the same problem the other day and was helped tremendously by Jessica and Cynthia who gave me tips on redoing my whole website. It's taken some work as I'm not so fast with figuring things out. If I were you, I'd go by Cynthia and Jessica's instructions as written in this thread; they're much better at explaining it than I. My only tip that you may not know, is that you click on "html" in your editor on the pages that you want to put your cart, which will bring up the html code dialog box and then embed the new code somewhere there. Like Jessica suggested, go with Widget #1 which has the standalone cart. I THINK I did it right.

Jessica and Cynthia, I got a chance to work more on my site today but I'm probably not finished with it yet. Anyway, thanks to both of you, I have a MUCH more professional-looking site! See what you think :-) I think how it is right now will do until I'm able to do more tweaking.

Thanks again, ladies!

 

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