shopping cart question

I’m using Freeway Pro to build a wholesale website for my greeting card business. I want to incorporate Mal’s free shopping cart into the site. On the main card page are thumbnail examples of the card categories:

http://www.asis.com/users/jer/card%20page%20op%20copy.jpg

Clicking on an image takes you to the page with all the cards in that collection. Clicking on a card brings up an enlarged image on the right side. I have made enlargement files for all the cards in my collection with enough room to place a quantity box and a “add to cart” button(screenshot showing highlighted enlargement)

http://www.asis.com/users/jer/buddhist%20page%20op%202.jpg

Can I do this? If so, how is it done?

I asked a Mal’s rep. about this and he said the quantity box can be added with the web building software I’m using.

Your advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

jerry
OM Publishing


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Hi Jerry
Make each page in Freeway.
Link from the category images and text to their appropriate pages.
You can use the rollover action on the thumbs and the slave image action for
on-mouse-click larger showings.

I use Tim’s Mals action suite for Freeway so I have not used the built in
Freeway actions but I expect they also work.

With Mals you can use a simple buy me text link or image link and let
customers edit the qty in the cart or …
you can insert a qty text field and apply the Mals action to it. This would
also use a submit button. I would have the whole lot in a table and apply
the form action to the table.

There are many ways to approach this but essentially, yes, you can insert
form elements into your Freeway page and make them link to appropriate
functions via the appropriate Mal’s action interface.

I made up a card site for my pics at
http://www.clearlightcards.co.uk

It was done quickly but works enough for where I’m at.

If you haven’t a clue how to begin then maybe following some of the basic
tutorials just to get the hang of the Freeway interface etc.

I llok forward to seeing what you have when you get it together.

all the best
Brian_S
Jerry Pruce said recently:

I’m using Freeway Pro to build a wholesale website for my greeting card
business. I want to incorporate Mal’s free shopping cart into the site. On the
main card page are thumbnail examples of the card categories:

http://www.asis.com/users/jer/card%20page%20op%20copy.jpg

Clicking on an image takes you to the page with all the cards in that
collection. Clicking on a card brings up an enlarged image on the right side.
I have made enlargement files for all the cards in my collection with enough
room to place a quantity box and a “add to cart” button(screenshot showing
highlighted enlargement)

http://www.asis.com/users/jer/buddhist%20page%20op%202.jpg

Can I do this? If so, how is it done?

I asked a Mal’s rep. about this and he said the quantity box can be added
with the web building software I’m using.

Your advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

jerry
OM Publishing


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Thanks so much Brian. I’m a novice to this and am having a little difficulty understanding your method. I’ve got everything ready to go. I’ve carved out this weekend to get the site constructed.
Probably ask a lot of questions to the forum. Once I figure out how to add the quantity box and "add to cart"to and image, is there a way to batch process the whole collection?

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Under the Insert Menu are form items. The text field is what you can use as
the qty box.

You have to get to where you can ask the specifics and then ask again as I
have no way of covering all the bases or your way of working etc.

I’m not aware of any batch process but I have learned that if I am to add a
whole lot of similar action parameters to an item then if I complete one of
them in full and then use that as the item that I duplicate or copy and
paste - then I only need to change a couple of parameters in each instance -
rather than enter all parameters in all instances.

If using the Insert Button then this can be used as the add to cart - it
submits the form parameters to the address it is set to - in this case Mals
Cart. But you can also use an image and set that to be a submit button.

If I understand you right then you have the site together as a set of linked
pages and images and are now wanting to add the Mal’s cart elements?

all the best
Brian

Jerry Pruce said recently:

Thanks so much Brian. I’m a novice to this and am having a little difficulty
understanding your method. I’ve got everything ready to go. I’ve carved out
this weekend to get the site constructed.
Probably ask a lot of questions to the forum. Once I figure out how to add the
quantity box and "add to cart"to and image, is there a way to batch process
the whole collection?

jerry
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Hi Guys,
Where can I get Tim’s actions you mentioned?
Cheers,
Colin.


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Tims stuff

http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=016

David


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