I am using go daddy’s hosting account and they come with e-commerce applications. My question is, if I install one of the e-commerce applications, which will be its on directory/site. How can I get it embeded on a freeway based site?
Could I do something through scripty light box or maybe an i frame? Any suggestions would be awesome!
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I don’t have any experience with those directly, but they are usually something like OpenCart or FishCart or the like. These are full site applications that tend to want to run at their own subdomain, so they would take over store.yourdomain.com. As far as framing them in, you could do that, although it gets to be a little painful for your users, since the iframe will capture all of their interaction, and they will be constantly reaching through the keyhole of the iframe to deal with the larger store within it. (All form submissions will be sent through the iframe, and the results will display there as well. From the user’s experience, their browser will not be navigating from page to page any more.)
One thing to consider with any of these full-cart applications (rather than a service like FoxyCart or Mals, which is built in to Freeway) is that the checkout will happen in your site, which means you will need a security certificate and https hosting. And if you host a secure app inside an iframe on a non-secure page, that will throw off a bunch of warnings on many browsers. It’s called mixed content, and it’s really frowned upon.
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On Dec 6, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Howard Spaeth email@hidden wrote:
I am using go daddy’s hosting account and they come with e-commerce applications. My question is, if I install one of the e-commerce applications, which will be its on directory/site. How can I get it embeded on a freeway based site?
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Is foxycart or mals the way to go then? I was going to do an ebay store, but my client does not want to pay the fees( if he doesn’t have to)
Could those be embedded into facebook fan page( foxycart or mals)?
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My client wants to sell signed memorabilia, so he wants to be able to put pictures up and all that also
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Howard,
Broadly speaking, setting up some flavor of SSL is very easy and beneficial given Google’s stance on https and ranking. That, and in light of Cloudflare’s (free) Flexible SSL service it’s stupid-crazy-easy to do. However - and this is the big one - if you’re running a store and processing CC info etc. on your own server (vs hosted elsewhere) then you will need to use a full SSL cert. which isn’t free but can also be used in conjunction with Cloudflare.
Bottom line: consider using SSL on the client site even if you don’t technically require it.
Todd
One thing to consider with any of these full-cart applications (rather than a service like FoxyCart or Mals, which is built in to Freeway) is that the checkout will happen in your site, which means you will need a security certificate and https hosting. And if you host a secure app inside an iframe on a non-secure page, that will throw off a bunch of warnings on many browsers. It’s called mixed content, and it’s really frowned upon.
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Yeah. that I know about SSL, we were originally going to do an ebay store, but then found it can’t be straight embedded, but I think I may stick with ebay store, unless anyone else has options.
I like the fact I can embded an ebay store into the facebook page as well.
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If he’s doing anything where he is going to manage the content, then Mals is probably not a good idea directly, not without the Ecwid add-on. And I have no experience with Ecwid, or knowledge of how you would add images from that end, I’ve just heard other Freeway-talkers express their fondness for it. Mals (by itself) is geared toward static HTML pages that you create, containing static encoded links to add products to the cart. It does not have any features for remotely managing the catalog of products without you updating the HTML pages.
OpenCart and FishCart both manage inventory (you can set a quantity of stock on hand for each product, and they will decrement the stock as new items are purchased). I have not looked at either one since the late 90s and early oughts, so I don’t know if they have improved, but at the time, they had all the visual charm of a military freight vehicle. Functional, yes. Beautiful? Not even a little. Manageable by a client? Yes, after some training.
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I am going to the one who is doing all the content for the store. He is just going to give me the product and I am going to be the one who is putting it up on the site.
I am thinking of just doing an ebay store and having the pictures of products under a Memorabilia link, simply because I can add an ebay store to the facebook page.
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I love Ecwid!
On Dec 6, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Howard Spaeth email@hidden wrote:
I am going to the one who is doing all the content for the store. He is just going to give me the product and I am going to be the one who is putting it up on the site.
I am thinking of just doing an ebay store and having the pictures of products under a Memorabilia link, simply because I can add an ebay store to the facebook page.
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PS knowing the site… I also love woo
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I love Ecwid!
On Dec 6, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Howard Spaeth email@hidden wrote:
I am going to the one who is doing all the content for the store. He is just going to give me the product and I am going to be the one who is putting it up on the site.
I am thinking of just doing an ebay store and having the pictures of products under a Memorabilia link, simply because I can add an ebay store to the facebook page.
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