Re: Client-side Image Maps and WebCat?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 20892
interpreted = N
texte = >I had thought WebCat dealt with the product end of things. Since none of >the above dealt with the products I thought WebCat wasn't involved.Now I'm confused. You're saying none of those pages has anything to do with products on your site? None of the pictures, hyperlinks, text, etc have *anything* to do with the products? It sounded like they were pictures of the products, buttons that show more information about the products, even maybe buy now buttons -- all eminently dealing with nothing but products, which is where WebCatalog fits in.>I didn't see what I was doing as unique in a functioning sense. Each >product will have a buy now option (plus have specific info, be added to >cart, have shipping costs etc.) which is the same as other sites I >visited. They had things broken down into categories and subcategories >like I do. Everyone has multiple products displayed on a page.Yes, but what you're not seeing behind the scenes on those other sites is that those pages are being created on-the-fly by a database program like WebCatalog. None of those pages exists as actual HTML on the server -- that's the beauty of database-driven sites.>So my challenge has been how to incorporate WebCatalog in such a way >that it does function at its best while having multiple products showing >in a graphic.Can you bundle up your site (or at least a portion of it) and send it to me (not the list) in a .SIT file? Then I can see it without you needing to be on the net.Anyway, given that you're putting multiple products into a single graphic and using a client-side image map, the modifications you're going to make are all going to look *something* like this:(wherever the URLs are you've already got in the map, you change to this) ShoppingCart.tpl?command=add&sku=1234&cart=[cart] ShoppingCart.tpl?command=add&sku=5678&cart=[cart]Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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>I had thought WebCat dealt with the product end of things. Since none of >the above dealt with the products I thought WebCat wasn't involved.Now I'm confused. You're saying none of those pages has anything to do with products on your site? None of the pictures, hyperlinks, text, etc have *anything* to do with the products? It sounded like they were pictures of the products, buttons that show more information about the products, even maybe buy now buttons -- all eminently dealing with nothing but products, which is where WebCatalog fits in.>I didn't see what I was doing as unique in a functioning sense. Each >product will have a buy now option (plus have specific info, be added to >cart, have shipping costs etc.) which is the same as other sites I >visited. They had things broken down into categories and subcategories >like I do. Everyone has multiple products displayed on a page.Yes, but what you're not seeing behind the scenes on those other sites is that those pages are being created on-the-fly by a database program like WebCatalog. None of those pages exists as actual HTML on the server -- that's the beauty of database-driven sites.>So my challenge has been how to incorporate WebCatalog in such a way >that it does function at its best while having multiple products showing >in a graphic.Can you bundle up your site (or at least a portion of it) and send it to me (not the list) in a .SIT file? Then I can see it without you needing to be on the net.Anyway, given that you're putting multiple products into a single graphic and using a client-side image map, the modifications you're going to make are all going to look *something* like this:(wherever the URLs are you've already got in the map, you change to this) ShoppingCart.tpl?command=add&sku=1234&cart=
[cart] ShoppingCart.tpl?command=add&sku=5678&cart=
[cart]Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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