Hi All
Can anyone give me some pointers on how to integrate Ecwid into a freeway ecommerce site.
As much info as possible please.
Thanks
Mike
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Hi Mike,
I prepared just a small screencast on how to do. It’s still ripping but as soon I’m through I let you know where to find.
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Hi, Mike:
I’m no expert in Ecwid and barely have a store set up – though it works – and the fact that it does shows how easy it really it. Assuming you’ve already created an account for yourself:
You’ll probably want to go back and get the code for the shopping bag and install it the same way.
Then you’ll want to fill in the categories and the items for sale on the Ecwid site. You’ll also want to designate your credit card processor. There’s a lot of detail to fill in to actually populate the store as you want it, but if you just go through the Ecwid site’s menus and look carefully at the pages that come up, you shouldn’t have any trouble getting things set up as you want/need them.
HTH
Martin
On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Mike Thornley wrote:
Hi All
Can anyone give me some pointers on how to integrate Ecwid into a freeway ecommerce site.
As much info as possible please.
Thanks
Mike
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Hi Martin & Thomas
Thanks for the info, I had managed to suss this out this afternoon.
I have done a standard store in Freeway with Mals, see:
www.evs08.com
I need this new site to be a professional site with plenty of design input etc as its a commercial site.
Have you any store samples you can direct me to using Ecwid.
Its my client who think they need a CMS E-commerce site, I quoted less for a standard site like the above.
I would prefer to do the site in Freeway as I have more control over the design and layout etc
On the standard site I offered a years free updates, but what I can see will happen, is that I will have to show the client how to use Ecwid and when they forget and make a mess of things, I will get the call for help and end up doing it myself.
Which from my point of view I may as well keep it all within Freeway, if this is how things turn out.
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MIke,
I swear by ecwid and the ease of the use with freeway.
here is a link to my gallery page which shows a few ecwid stores
http://grassrootsweb.net/grwswebsitegalle.html
Julie
On Apr 17, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Mike Thornley wrote:
Hi Martin & Thomas
Thanks for the info, I had managed to suss this out this afternoon.
I have done a standard store in Freeway with Mals, see:
www.evs08.comI need this new site to be a professional site with plenty of design input etc as its a commercial site.
Have you any store samples you can direct me to using Ecwid.
Its my client who think they need a CMS E-commerce site, I quoted less for a standard site like the above.
I would prefer to do the site in Freeway as I have more control over the design and layout etcOn the standard site I offered a years free updates, but what I can see will happen, is that I will have to show the client how to use Ecwid and when they forget and make a mess of things, I will get the call for help and end up doing it myself.
Which from my point of view I may as well keep it all within Freeway, if this is how things turn out.
Regards
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Hi Mike,
the first step: the integration. A small screencast on how I do it:
http://www.kimmich-dm.de/kdm-factsheet.php?DOC_INST=5
the second: On Ecwid there is a showcase section within the forum:
Cheers
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Hi Thomas
Absolutely brilliant - thats all I needed someone to actually show me.
Now how do you change styles in Ecwid and does Ecwid have the same sort of functions for orders, like Mals?
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Hi Mike,
… does Ecwid have the same sort of functions for orders, like Mals?
I tend to say yes - but what do you mean exactly? You can proceed a “Test-Shopping” on Ecwids Demo-Shop to see if it comes up to your expectations. And you can throw goods into your cart by drag’n drop.
Now how do you change styles in Ecwid …
Hmmmm - OK, this is a bit more complicated - nothing out of the box, cause all the styles are driven by a huge CSS within your backend. There are really a tons of different styles and you have to find out what style belongs to what position (and believe me, I still found out a few…).
First step would be to copy the default style, giving it a new name. Go through the styles and make some changes to see if it comes up to your desires.
To make work easier I copied the complete css-file and put it into a CSS-Editor called, yes … CSSEdit.
It is btw. an editor I’d like to see as implement within the Freeway-Surrounding for all of those that need to work closer to css editing (just a suggestion).
All in all it’s a question of study and try-outs but it is to achieve.
And I forgot to point out another possibility:
Assumed you’ve got only a few products to sell, you could just insert the “add-to-bag” button and make a free design within freeway. We discussed this somewhere else on the board, but my example was:
http://www.kimmich-dm.de/ecom/ecwid-tables.php
This is all done within the WebYep-Surrounding (RichText Elements) and another way down the road. You see: I did a lot of try-outs and that was the key to open the world of Ecwid. If I find the time I should build a bit more inspired example and wrap this in another screencast.
So this is why I felt in love with ecwid as actually to most exciting cart solution. For sure Mal’s or Roman are nice as well - but to me personally a bit antique both and for a long time not seen any wow-developpements.
But it needs to match your selling-needs as well. For Germany for example it’s actually more than hard to use, cause the ecwid tax-issues are not really match the german tax-law (but there is no solution out there that do anyway - except of the German Big 5 Paid One).
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Hi Thomas,
I have been through your screencast, thanks for that. It certainly is helpful. I’m having one minor issue. Having set up the store page within the Freeway doc, everything works well, except that all graphic links, that I have in my standard nav menu for the whole site, suddenly don’t work on any of the store pages. ie. any page which pulls ECWID information into it, makes the graphic links that form a part of the original site design non functional. Any html links in the footer bar seem to be fine.
Would you have any ideas as to what would cause this?
Hope to hear from you.
Regards
Matt Covarr
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Hi Matt,
hmmm - definitely haven’t had this issue yet, cause I never use graphic links for navigation at all (and if you say that regular html links work it matches my experiences).
Can you share a link or something? However I’m not sure if or how I can help with that. But probably the experts does.
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Hi Thomas,
Seems to have rectified itself, i re named the map areas of the links in the master page and it sorted itself out. Thanks for your quick response!
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Hi again Thomas,
Hope you can help. I am having trouble with the page length on the shop pages. The length is fixed. Which of course causes trouble depending on how many products are in a particular category. Is there any way around this?
You can see the shop section here: http://www.genesissportstrading.co.za/sport-shop.html
You can see that I have some elements as the footer and the white area is an HTML item as the background for the shop section.
Ideally the footer and the white area would expand and shrink depending on how many items display in the shop.
Hope you can help.
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Hi Matt,
this is typically called “inline content” usually named BoxModel that you’d need here. The probably workaround (probably cause I only tested once) in Freeway could be the Relative Page Layout action that could help you out.
It is outermost important to note, that RPL does not like “overlapped items”. Please seek for Relative Page Layout (Softpress has a little video as far as I remember) for further informations.
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Thanks for your info Thomas, I have worked around this by making the shopping section scrollable should it run over the page height. It works.
I have one further question which you may be able to shed some light on. I would like to remove the SKU park of all of the product codes. Ecwid seems to put SKU in front of all product codes by default. So if the product code is ART123 it appears as SKU ART123 in the store.
Would you have any idea of how to change this globally?
Best wishes
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Well Matt,
the key of most changeable/adjustable things in ECWID is the CSS in the backend. I’m not sure but it should work this way:
Seek for the following styles:
div.ecwid-productBrowser-sku, td.ecwid-productBrowser-productsTable-sku
span.ecwid-Invoice-productDescr-sku
div.ecwid-OrdersList-OrderBox-sku
and replace them with the following settings:
( display: none !important; )
I know - the ECWID CSS is so big and confusing but I think actually there is no better and easier way to do.
Cheers
Thomas
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