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Discussion in 'General' started by francieti, Apr 1, 2008.

  1. francieti

    francieti New Member

    greetings to all
    I need a web page to run my business on line. Trying to do it by myself but need some help. I was working on a template that I downloaded from this site, Dogcare. and was able to edit the text, add some links etc. I need for my business an introductory page HOME, where I could tell viewers about what we do. We cook fresh home made food for dogs and cats. I need to have a page with the three size meal plans we offer for small, medium, and large dogs, and one plan meal for cats.
    Would like for each meal to have a add to cart.
    an additional page for tips on how to keep and heat the meals,
    etc.
    Can someone help me out with this? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:(
    thank you
     
    francieti, Apr 1, 2008
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  2. ishkey

    ishkey Moderator, Logos, Sports Crests Staff Member Verified Member

    May I suggest you try Zencart, it's open source and uses a template system.
    It will take you about a week of nights of reading and trying. If you plain to sell on line, you can link it to Googlecheckout or even ugh paypal. Or you could pay someone about $5000.oo to make you a nice web store since they are alot of work.
     
    ishkey, Apr 1, 2008
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  3. francieti

    francieti New Member

    Thanks
    let me ask you, if I buy one of those templates that have a shopping cart in it. Can I edit it? and will that work? I'm planning to get an business account with paypal.
     
    francieti, Apr 2, 2008
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  4. ishkey

    ishkey Moderator, Logos, Sports Crests Staff Member Verified Member

    Yes you can. But before you do Read Zencart Forum or which ever store you like. All Store softwares have constraints on them. (boundries you work within, but then they have done all the work for you and you have tons of options) It is always easier when getting started to use one of the templates made for that software. Learn it, get your store up and running, and then go for the ultimate look. Change is good when customers come back latter and see a new look. The template you may want to buy may look great but you may find yourself pulling your hair out trying to fit it into the store software. When you understand the process, you will be able to incorporate parts or all of the look of the template you want. Most people when they dive into the area of php server side programming go nuts the first couple of months.
     
    ishkey, Apr 2, 2008
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  5. francieti

    francieti New Member

    thank you for replying. I thought it was going to be easy task. Buy a template, edit it, get an account with, say, pay pal and have the customers shopping from my site at no time. but it's difficult when like myself don't know nothing about codes, php, ftp's or the like.
    like I said before, I got a template from this site, Dogcare. Edit it a bit, and load it up to my host. Now for some reazon unknown to me, and you can check it out www.ilovemypetcatering.com the page does not open with the template. It opens with some links and one of them opens up the page. What did I did wrong and how can I correct that?
    I'm sorry to bother, what it may seem simple to you it's a new world for me
     
    francieti, Apr 3, 2008
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  6. ishkey

    ishkey Moderator, Logos, Sports Crests Staff Member Verified Member

    Just Like everyone who uses dreamweaver or a MS product they have problems. These programs should come with a warning on them. "DO NOT USE"
    If you look at your site you see the below:
    Index of /index.html
    Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.ilovemypetcatering.com Port 80

    see the index.html.dwt - your editor has added the stupid file extionsion of dwt (dynamic web template).
    You have loaded your files in the wrong place.
    they sould be in the public_html directory or whatever your server calls it.
    You onlny needed to load your html files like index.html, contact.html, etc and and directories like "images" into the public folder.
    The very first file is your browser loads when in any web or any directory is either index.html or default.html or it could be a different extionsion like htm, php, etc but always index or default.
    So your editor is screwing you up and the placement of your files.
    Fix that and you will be on the road to recovery
     
    ishkey, Apr 3, 2008
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  7. eVentureBiz

    eVentureBiz New Member

    Hello francieti - your problem is with how you're pointing to your css file. Look at your index.html code. Near the top you'll see the following line:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="file:///C|/Users/Francis/Documents/index.html/dogcare/style.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8" />

    What you need to do is change out the line that says:
    file:///C|/Users/Francis/Documents/index.html/dogcare/style.css and have it point to your actual style.css file on your server.

    As for shopping carts - I like oscommerce. It's free as well. If you don't have much programming experience, it might take awhile to get everything plugged in. If you like, I own a web development company and could help for a fee.

    Best of luck,
     
    eVentureBiz, Apr 7, 2008
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  8. ishkey

    ishkey Moderator, Logos, Sports Crests Staff Member Verified Member

    your site is improving but unless you do not have any graphics or maybe they are in another directory say images or something you need to point to them in the menus.
    your code -
    <a href="index.html"><IMG SRC="back.gif" width="
    maybe it should be -
    <a href="index.html"><IMG SRC="your_image_directory/back.gif" width="

    just a thought...
     
    ishkey, Apr 12, 2008
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