david_lundquist1

<p>I've built my own e-commerce website using Dreamweaver CS5. I created a template that has a vertical spry menu bar on the left. Near the end of creating my website I inserted my Paypal "View Cart" button below the spry menu bar on the template since it seemed like a great spot where it would fit...and it would be on every webpage since it was on the template. Doing this somehow now prevents me from viewing the blue spry menu selection tab, therefore preventing me from editing any of my sub-menu items. I checked the "View Invisible Elements" and it is selected under the view menu.<br /> <br />I thought about simply recreating the vertical spry menu, temporarily moving the "View Cart" button and deleting the spry menu. However, when I delete the menu and add a new one I still can't seem to make the blue spry menu selection tab appear. <br /> <br />I fear that I placed the "View Cart" button within the spry menu bar when I thought I was placing it below the spry menu bar. Unfortunately I can't seem to undo this.<br /> <br />I need to make an edit to one of my sub-menu items and now I can't access it.<br /> <br />Any suggestions?</p>

Does anyone know how to style a vertical spry menu bar in such a way that when you are on a specific page, that item on the menu remains highlighted. For example, if I'm on the "About" page the About menu item remains highlighted so that at any time you know what page you're on.

 

Any suggestions?

<p>Matt, I designed the website using Dreamweaver CS5. Your last paragraph seems to be what I'm looking for. I want to present and sell my work through my own website. Once the person's ready to cash out, then they'll go to Paypal. I have too many items to simply put a "buy now" button on my site where each option is location. I didn't know Paypal had an "add-to-cart" behavior. I just looked and it appears that I may be able to add Paypal's "add-to-cart" buttons on each location and it allows shoppers to continue to shop when they view their cart. Perhaps this is my solution. You may have answered my question. Thank you for your suggestion.<br>

David</p>

<p>I'm a newly professional photographer who is designing my photography e-commerce website. I’ve pretty much completed the website and now am ready to integrate a shopping cart feature. I’ve been doing a ton of research and it’s pretty frustrating trying to figure out how exactly to go about integrating this thing so that it does what I’d like it to do.<br>

Basically I need a dynamic application that allows shoppers to choose items to add to the shopping cart, remove items freely, keep a running tally of these items, and eventually lead them to a checkout option, which will then take them to a payment gateway like Paypal or Authorize.net.<br>

Everywhere I look on the web I basically see two options:</p>

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<li>Pay a monthly fee (~$30/mo.) to a company who hosts a shopping cart and manages everything, or</li>

<li>Buy the software and integrate it myself.</li>

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<li>With the first option, it seems to be geared more for those who need an e-commerce site built and a shopping cart integrated. These also appear to manage everything from processing and shipping the order. I don’t want the shopping cart host to print my photos and ship them to my customers. I specifically have a printing lab that I want to use for every photo ordered, and I’m using Shutterfly to produce any specialty items ordered (calendars, coasters, blankets, mouse pads, magnets, ect.). I think that these hosts also require you to still use a separate payment gateway like Paypal, which charges a small fee for each transaction. This is pretty pricey when you tack on the website hosting fee and other expenses each month.</li>

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<li>The second option seems geared towards e-commerce sites that sell products like clothing or other normal store items that have sizes or colors...not photography products. If I can use this method then it seems to be cheaper. The software is $200 - $300, but if that’s a one-time fee, then I’ll use it and pay the small fees to Paypal for each transaction. I just don’t know if this is the right way to go though.</li>

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<p>I just need a shopping cart that will, once a payment has been cleared and received, alert me with all the details of an order that was just made so that I can begin to process it myself (ordering the print or photography product and then ship it myself to the customer).<br>

Does anyone know the answers to these questions? This is literally all I have left on my website before I create all the “add to cart” links and launch it.<br>

David</p>