CAN someOne help..I will pay.

nate b — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:08:45 +0000

Can someone PLEASE HELP me with STEP 2 of HunkyBills tutorial for products options.. I mean I have tried hiring someone... He told me $500...I have gone to LIVEPERSON.com... where you hire HTML and CSS experts.....and all there so called experts won't help because I think they are afraid of SHOPIFY or just don't know what it is.... I have been to HTML and CSS forums all over the net.. and no one will even reply....or if they do... they never come back to the thread.....but $500 bux is completely out the question since I dont have that nor will have it until I sell something.....(can you see the irony) which I been trying to do for the past 3 months..but cant because I can't find someone to help me with the following tutorial ...

http://wiki.shopify.com/Product_Customizations

If you can explain this to me or help me I will PAY YOU... but not $500.. Is there anyone out there in the WORLD willing to help me with this... All I want to do Is open my store to the public....

I mean HUNKYbill called me a neophyte or watever but I just need help... I will pay someone just to better explain STEP 2.. Thats all I need is STEP 2.... Please someone...I am in dire need.. I just cant follow step 2... step 2 throws me completely off... Can I get a hand from a gracious soul???

HunkyBill commented

HunkyBill — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:32:10 +0000

Nate,

Pick 5 products you know will sell well online. Your Shopify store will have 5 products ok? Use the built in Shopify customization code on those 5 products and then wait for some sales. If they happen, you're happy because:

You spent no money other than on Shopify which is minimal
You prove to yourself that your products will in fact sell online

My tutorial there on the wiki, written many many moons ago, was not written for store owners with no code experience. It was meant for coders. I left out a ton of details because I am lazy. If you, or someone else really wants to know how to trick out a Shopify store with my code, just visit one I worked on, and take the code from there and see what you can do with it... I really don't care... since

that code is now indicative of how little I knew back then about coding nice Javascript
it may help someone go from a regular Shopify site to a nicer one

That being said... you cannot expect anyone to customize your store for anything less than $1000. And that my friend, is just a ballpark figure for doing some basic work. This is not work like changing the oil in your car yourself where you need a wrench and an old rusty bucket. It takes a lot of study, practice and skills to work these kinds of jobs.Shopify may be cheap and easy, but customizing it is not.

Keep it Simple... and good luck Nate...

nate b commented

nate b — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:20:31 +0000

First off no need to pick 5 of anything, all me things will sale. No need for tests. My marketing and etc is on point. Sales are the least of my worries, really. I just need options and variants for my many products. ANd I will be happy once I have the available options on the product page pretty and working properly. And I already upgraded to the 99 bux a month... not knowing that even 10,000 skus will not be enough for my store... So now Im stuck paying $99 which I don't have really because i can't get " STEP 2 " implemented under $500.... smh....

And someone should learn your tutorial and then re write it so others can understand it better, thats if you don't feel like it. If I learn it, best believe I am going to post a new STEP 2, so all the PEOPLE WITH CODE EXPERIENCE can understand it a lil bit better... cuz all the people I have shown it to for hire...were like uhhh.... i dunno man.. u may have to hire someone else..

thanks for the true words hunky..im not mad at anyone nor frustrated with anyone, despite how my post may seem. Im frustrated with me self and the website..and how " I CANT FIND SOMEONE TO HELP ME " I mean honestly if I knew how to do the shit and I saw someone steady asking for help, I would just say fuck it.. let me help the bastard just cuz I know how, and it won't end my life to do so. And help could be defined as getting someone going in the right direction, or asking them "where exactly are you lost"...or "your first step would be..." , or its not that hard ive made ton of these sites do it like dis.....

But I tried to hire some people and they couldn't even follow step two in the tut... Even the ADMIN at junior developers who is pretty knowledgable with code said step 2 made his head hurt.. and turned down the job...

And fact of the matter is that I don't have the money so I am going to push until I find a way... and hopefully that way will be the heart of some willing and helpful soul...if I never get it myself.

But with all that said thanks again. What are some sites that you worked on before...? Is there a list?? I would greatly appreciate if you could show me some sites so I can look at the code and actually start making money.. so I can pay you guys the " ball park figures " because this is the only reason why after 3 whole months i have not sold an item because i can't get the product page to work properly.

Jamie commented

Jamie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:14:18 +0000

I would personally appreciate it if you would stop spamming the forum with this Nate. Like I said before....you already have five threads on this spread all over the place!!! Please use the one you posted in the job board and bump it ever few days. If you need to edit it there, fine, but please keep it in the right forum area and keep it in one thread. Thanks!

Caroline Schnapp commented

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:28:46 +0000

If sales are the least of your worries, then maybe you should borrow money to make money.

Nate, you previously said that you wanted JavaScript attributes implemented for you and that you wanted your 'nasty' layout problems in Internet Explorer fixed for '50 bux' total. Now, unlike 'bux' is some sort of currency where 1 bux = $15 USD, I believe you are just wasting your time here pestering for help.

Let me break it down to you: JavaScript attributes in Shopify are one huge hack that only developers can wrap their heads around -- and even then, it's a lot more than a few lines of code, it is substantial work even when you totally (and I mean totally) understand what's going on. cart.attributes are attributes of the cart, they're not attributes of any Line Item - or god forbid: Item - in the cart. The whole JavaScript attributes trick is to do 'as if' and it requires a lot of logistic and gymnastic. It requires DOM scripting skills as well, because much of the implementation is theme-specific. FYI, when Shopify Options were introduced, Shopify's team went through their catalog and had to make some changes to each theme, so that Options would work...

Now explain to me why why someone who is not your friend or uncle will spend a day or two working for you, Nate, for $50 dollars total. Not only that, he'd have to drop anything that is doing because you need the work done now, with your '1-2 days' deadline. Where is your sense of entitlement coming from, that's what I'd like to know :)

Use Shopify Options, Nate, and if you have problems in IE, revert back to the original Showroom theme and build it again -- it always takes less time to go through the CSS customization again. And why o why did you have to pick the hardest theme of them all? :) Showroom is an advanced theme for advanced users, it's for web designers who know JavaScript. That is, if you want to customize it, and you did. Shopify's Catalogue page made that clear way back when -- you will notice that Jaded Pixel has removed this theme from its catalogue since. Sigh of relief. But you had been warned.

Hunkybill's advice is very wise: start with less SKUs if you can't afford to have more.

Good luck.

nate b commented

nate b — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:56:00 +0000

OKay since we got all that out the way... can someone show me a site where Hunkybill did this or a site where someone did this or hunky can you come back and tell me whats sites.. that would be a great help to get me going in the right direction...because I cant pay for more SKUS and can not NOT offer the products that I want to offer when I can by simply understanding STEP 2 of the tutorial And sorry if you think this is spam, I just want help, plain and simple, sorry if i ruined your day, sincerely, wasnt my intention. I didn't know it would this difficult to get help with STEP 2. So now I am not asking for HIRE or EXPLANATION, all I need is help from someone, and that help would be postng some sites where multiple options were used. PLEASE post one... PLEASE, thats all I need from someone.. thanks.

bless ur soul

itsryan commented

itsryan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:29:42 +0000

Take a look on the wiki - http://wiki.shopify.com/Resistor_Software

nate b commented

nate b — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:47:53 +0000

alright guys you were right.. I am going to just SELL SHOES, until I can sell my selection of cothes as well... I did a lot of thinking and you guys are wiser than you seem and I was being a demanding dick.. ..so thanks jamie, hunky, and caroline...and ryan you guys made some business like sense. So I am taking the good advice, so I can eventually pay someone those ball park figs.... he he... thanks people, and sorry that I stir things up so much, Im just from a diff type of forum atomosphere which is fine I guess, I just gotta get use to things round here... You people go ahead and have a good day, and no my intentions are always genuine... as I see you alls are also... PEACE ME PEOPLE..

And also I want to learn more...did you guys got to school? or learned on your own? iF you learned on your own.. Know any good sites that can possibly take my web development understanding further?