Opinion: Shopify Community

Is there a Default or Fallback Image? by Mike B

Mike B — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:55:43 +0000

Hello,

I'm using cookies on one of my store's to save the last 6 most recently viewed products. Problem is, if the store hides/removes that product, and someone comes back the following day with that product still in there cookie, the image is 'File Not Found'. I believe the Admin section has a default image when someone adds a product but doesn't include a product image.

Can we specify a default image or fallback image if this is the case? (If not, I'll figure out a hack in JS.)

Thanks!

Conditions on cart page by Agnes

Agnes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:52:32 +0000

Hi, I'm new to shopify.

I hope someone can give me some pointers about my problem:

In my client's store you have to buy a minimum of 6 products to place an order. This code hides the checkout-button until 6 products are in the cart:

{% if cart.item_count < 6 %}

You have to buy at least 6 bottles.

{% else %}
 <input type="submit" value="Proceed to checkout" name="checkout" />

{% endif %}

BUT: I want an exception to be made for a particular collection of products (which are in themselves smaller sets of products). So I'm trying something like this, but I can't get it working:

{% if item.title == 'product title 1' or 'product title 2' or 'product title 3' %}
go to checkcout

{% elsif cart.item_count < 6 %}
buy more

{% else %}
 go to checkout

{% endif %}

Any ideas? :)

Jamie commented on Theme settings and Vision ?

Jamie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:43:03 +0000

Vision has not been updated to handle theme settings yet. So no, it's not you, it's vision.

Theme settings and Vision ? by Ghismo

Ghismo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:59:07 +0000

I was wondering if the settings (http://wiki.shopify.com/Theme_Settings) were available under Vision (4.1.0).

It looks like the settings are not valued, and the .css.liquid files don't get interpreted either.

Is it a problem in my code or with Vision ?

It would be nice to be able to submit the setting form under vision so that we can try our themes locally with different settings.

Alignment within tables by Hannah Joy

Hannah Joy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:54:31 +0000

I have my collection as a table with medium sized images, and was wondering if anyone could take a look to see why the following is happening. I'm sure it's some quick css issue that I'm just not understanding fully:

-the product titles are not aligned centered under the images

-the product images are not aligned vertically with each other, it appears they are centered vertically based on how much text is in the title. (I want the top of all the images in a row to be aligned.)

Here's the link:

http://www.runwayeveryday.com/collections/instock

Thanks in advance for your help!

Jamie commented on Frequency of submission in Google Product Search

Jamie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:48:48 +0000

I just had a client ask me this last night. Same question for me. I might add a post on the support side too for quicker clarification.

Frequency of submission in Google Product Search by -Mark

-Mark — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:36:13 +0000

Is there any guidance as to the frequency of product submissions to Google Product Search?

BaseSync did it nightly, was wondering how Shopify was going to handle this?

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

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

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