Opinion: Shopify Community

Caroline Schnapp commented on CAN someOne help..I will pay.

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.

Jamie commented on Happiness Is - The Movie

Jamie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:27:30 +0000

Looks great! I have two things here that I would tackle to polish it and make it perfect though.

The menu on the right is slightly popping out to the left.
You need to get rid of the dropdowns since there is no variations to choose from
Get rid of "Variations of this Product" in the product titles since there are no variations.
I also (personally) think a nice graphic "add to cart" button would look much better here and match the site better

For 2) http://forums.shopify.com/categories/2/posts/30338

Hope it does well from the Huffpost traffic!

Jamie commented on Targeting first and fifth item

Jamie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:15:02 +0000

You're welcome!

Jamie commented on CAN someOne help..I will pay.

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!

creativeBadger commented on Targeting first and fifth item

creativeBadger — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:59:43 +0000

perfect!

thank you Jamie.

Badger

Happiness Is - The Movie by ericlyleklein

ericlyleklein — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:44:22 +0000

"Happiness Is" is the second feature documentary from filmmaker Andrew Shapter (critically acclaimed for his first documentary called Before The Music Dies). Andrew wanted to try out a new DIY distribution model where his production company, Roadwings Entertainment, sells directly to fans. Additionally, he offers the film free to anyone who wants to host a screening. Charities all over the country are currently hosting screenings where they are able to keep 100% of the proceeds on donations from the screening while Roadwings only makes money if people like the film and want to buy a physical copy or a download.

We created his store with Shopify due to its flexibility, robust feature set, and ability to look like it is part of his own site - and because we only had one day to get it something set up. We also added on the Fetch application to handle digital downloads of the documentary. Support from both companies has been outstanding. The film is being highlighted on the Huffington Post on Monday (Nov 9) so we are hoping to start off with a bang.

Please check it out at http://store.happinessisthemovie.com

Making catalog horizontal? by defury

defury — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:32:55 +0000

Maybe I need to look harder but i figure while looking someone here might be able to point this out quick.

1) Do i need to use tables for products? is this simply the easier way?

2) using this code

<table id="products" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
{% tablerow product in products cols:3 %}
<div class="product">
     <h3><a href="{{product.url}}">{{product.title}}</a></h3>
     <div class="product-image"><a href="{{product.url}}"><img src="{{ product.featured_image | product_img_url: 'small' }}" alt="{{ product.title }}" /></a></div>
     <div class="money">
       {{product.price_min | money}}
     {% if product.price_min != product.compare_at_price %}
       <div class="original-price">
       {{product.compare_at_price | money}}
       </div>
     {% endif %}
     </div>
</div>
{% endtablerow %}
</table>

(this is from http://wiki.shopify.com/The_Shopify_Theme_Guide)

It ends up showing products vertically instead of horizontally, how can i control/change that? I want them to display 3 wide instead of 3 vertically

nate b commented on CAN someOne help..I will pay.

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.

HunkyBill commented on CAN someOne help..I will pay.

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...

Jamie commented on Bug with articles

Jamie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:18:47 +0000

Hey Roman,

I have this working fine on a couple of sites to deliver flash movies to product pages. I just checked and they are working fine still. If you continue to see this you need to put this in the support area.

Jamie commented on Targeting first and fifth item

Jamie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:16:07 +0000

Try:

<li class="{% cycle 'first', '', '', '', 'first' %}">

Targeting first and fifth item by creativeBadger

creativeBadger — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:55:08 +0000

I am hoping someone here can point me in the right direction, I wish to target the first and fifth items in my collection list, so I can give them a class. Both can have the same class as I just need to remove the left padding.

So I have :--

  <li{% if forloop.first %} class="first" {% endif %}>

which targets the first one fine, but how can i also apply the class "first" to the fifth item :S

Many thanks in advance!

Badger

Bug with articles by Roman I.

Roman I. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:03:43 +0000

Hi all,

I'm use this way of description for my collection.

{% for article in blogs.collectiontexts.articles %}
{% if article.title == collection.title %}
{{ article.content}}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}

It's work's fine for me, but i saw one bug. One month, after i was created the article, it's automatically hiding. Why?

For example. Article exist, but description doesn't show up in collection page.

Article — http://tibetansale.com/blogs/collectiontexts/1251682-ha-series

Collection — http://tibetansale.com/collections/ha-series

Collection with working description from the article that less then month.

http://tibetansale.com/collections/bhutanese-incense

Caroline Schnapp commented on Fetch doesn't use Shipping. How can I turn off the Shipping messages?

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:25 +0000

What we need here is a way to use global objects in .css.liquid files, not only the theme settings.

Caroline Schnapp commented on Fetch doesn't use Shipping. How can I turn off the Shipping messages?

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:09:45 +0000

@Jared,

You can conditionally add the custom checkout.css and hide the shipping fields as caroline suggests only if the cart weight is greater than zero. Something like this…
{% if cart.total_weight > 0 %}
    {{ 'checkout.css' | asset_url | stylesheet_tag }}
{% endif %}

Coding dyslexia.

Code should be:

{% if cart.total_weight == 0 %}
    {{ 'checkout.css' | asset_url | stylesheet_tag }}
{% endif %}

@Richard Bird

The code provided by Jared goes into the header element in theme.liquid. However, you won't see your HTML comment on the checkout pages. You will see your HTML comment on any page but the checkout pages. An that's normal.

Bad news:

Jared's solution won't work because linking in your own checkout.css file in the header is not even required for that stylesheet to be used. The mere presence of a stylesheet named checkout.css in your Assets folder will be enough for Shopify to 'link' it in at checkout. Unfortunately. So your own overrides will be applied, whether you have tangible goods inside the cart or not.

Richard Bird commented on Fetch doesn't use Shipping. How can I turn off the Shipping messages?

Richard Bird — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:12:20 +0000

I don't believe this solutions works any longer. Just for testing, I put the follwing in the head of theme.liquid

{% if cart.total_weight < 0 %}
    <!-- total weight is less than zero -->
{% endif %}
{% if cart.total_weight == 0 %}
    <!-- total weight is equal to zero -->
{% endif %}
{% if cart.total_weight > 0 %}
    <!-- total weight is greater than zero -->
{% endif %}

And it does not render on the checkout page no matter what.

Jesse Storimer commented on Option Google Base depending on country of store

Jesse Storimer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:58:20 +0000

Stefan,

This is unfortunately a Google policy.

Jamie commented on Option Google Base depending on country of store

Jamie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:10:54 +0000

This is a google thing not a Shopify thing as far as I can tell.

CAN someOne help..I will pay. by nate b

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???

Option Google Base depending on country of store by sfnkol

sfnkol — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:01:00 +0000

Hi,

I have two shopify store, one for the US and international and one for Germany.

I am shipping from Southamerica/Chile. So if I enter correctly my shop address I cannot opt for Google Base. When I chosse USA or Germany it is possible. The items for US are in dollar and english description and for the german site all are in german and Euro.

So this is near by discrimination. Is there any reason for that? Some stupid google policies?

Also the field country in the references is "not requiered".

Thank you

Stefan