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Caroline Schnapp commented on Product Feature Page

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:38:18 +0000

This was answered here I think (public ticket): http://support.myshopify.com/discussions/design/511-i-have-an-existing-store-and-i-want-to-make-a-pop-up-store-at-a-subdomain-with-different-theme

Or the question is very similar.

Solution

1. Stick these 11 items in a collection. You can create collections on the Collections page in your admin. Say you name that collection Special.

2. You can take this 1 step further and provide special styling just for the Special collection. Go to Assets -> Theme Editor, and under Templates create an alternate collection template, say collection.special.liquid. In that template, you can apply a special layout - which you would need to create as well. Or not. You can definitely generate your own special markup for that collection page. Once you've created and edited that alternate template to your liking, you go the Special collection page in your admin and you apply your special template to your collection in the sidebar.

If you use a special layout in collection.special.liquid, you call it that way:

{% layout 'special' %}

Where special is the name of the layout file for your aternate layout, minus the .liquid extension.

Jamie commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:36:11 +0000

You're reading my mind that would be a good one. I have not read the docs yet, but that one would make a great example.

I have a several others I can send you as well if you just want to experiment. I had one that was giving me hell and I ended up having to edit the flash and put the folders on dropbox to make everything work. I'll drop you a couple if you like. LMK. :)

dockane commented on add text on cart page...

dockane — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:33:20 +0000

Bumpity-bump.

And, Jamie and Caroline, yes...that was "beer(s)" I was mentioning. . .where do each of you live anyway? The States, or do I have to travel to Canada? Which I love by the way.... ;-)

Cheers,
D

Caroline Schnapp commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:31:49 +0000

Jamie,

Can you recommend a good Flash package to use as an XML/images/Flash/swfobject example? I'm thinking cu3er.

Jamie commented on Product Feature Page

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:27:20 +0000

I'll stick with my first statement :P and Gavin's follow up.

This is definitely a problem in the works. You are looking at a lot of overhead to hide pages and products from each other. Much easier to make a new store here.

Jamie commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:22:45 +0000

Nice! That will be a good addition. We need to address xml in that one. It can be confusing even to me sometimes. Most of these cheap flash files that people are buying use a folder based path and obviously we can't control and create a folder in the assets area. I have not had the need to use an xml.liquid yet, but this may alleviate the problem on most of these files.

BBG commented on Product Feature Page

BBG — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:21:27 +0000

I guess it could be done, but it sounds like it would be a lot easier creating a second store.

To do it:

Put conditional statements in theme.liquid so your header, nav, footer etc links don't go back to the original site. You will probably need to pull in a different style sheet as well.
Use an alternate template for the special collection and products.
You'd also have to consider corner cases throughout the store. For example, the user may remove all items they have added to the cart and if are showing a message "Your cart appears empty, please continue shopping" which links to your regular collection, you'd have to change that. Search would be tricky as well.
You can't style the checkout page twice, so you'd have to go with a generic one there.

Interactive John commented on Designer in the $900 range?

Interactive John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:49:51 +0000

Hi Larsomatic-

I would be able to help you out in that range. My portfolio can be found at http://interactivejohn.com/. Email me at john@iblackswan.com so we can further discuss your project. Thank you.

Best,

John

Caroline Schnapp commented on prettyPhoto and jquery

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:41:42 +0000

thob,

yes, you should.

Caroline Schnapp commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:40:41 +0000

Thanks Jamie, the last minutes of that screencast are perfect. You save me.

I am trying to use swfobject >=2, because down the road I want to write some FAQ or wiki article.