eCommerce Craziness??

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I bought and installed ecommerce this morning. It comes loaded with ducks! LOL Do I just delete those one by one or is there an easy way to do it?

The other thing is somehow part of eCommerce somehow attached to my "Sale and Clearance" section, and I'm not sure if I can just delete those things or if deleting them will screw something up.

Here's the link to see what I'm talking about:http://newsite.bikepartjewelry.com/index.php/sale-and-clearance-ite... - if you do the slide out menu, there's stuff like Finish, Discount, Billing...none of that should be there.

What do I do?

Thanks!
J

bikepartjewelry
 
hbartlett replied on at Permalink Reply
hbartlett
Just a guess, but for some reason the billing, discount etc pages are underneath your Sale page, and your menu is setup to display sub pages. Check your page paths and aliases, maybe the sale page has a 'checkout' alias or something? Also, you could go to those pages in your sitemap and check 'hide from nav'.

Ya, just delete the ducks. Although I don't remember them being loaded when I installed ecommerce - there may have been an option to install sample data, not sure.
bikepartjewelry replied on at Permalink Reply
bikepartjewelry
Check my page paths....how do I do that?

:D
bikepartjewelry replied on at Permalink Reply
bikepartjewelry
Also, I uninstalled and reinstalled eCommerce, and the same darn thing happened - somehow those same things were installed under my Sale page again.

Am I doing something wrong? I installed from Dashboard....

I also am getting errors; here is the link to billing:http://newsite.bikepartjewelry.com/index.php/checkout/billing/... - a couple other pages have similar errors. What do I do?
wizardontherun replied on at Permalink Reply
wizardontherun
if your using superfish menu, you have to chage the page attribut to "not show child pages", I also edit the page Attributs for each page and click to "exlcude from NAV".

-Frank
hbartlett replied on at Permalink Reply
hbartlett
To check the paths, put the page in Edit mode, click Properties, there's a tab for paths.

I didn't see any errors on that link above, but there's also no other design. You'll want to style/design your full width page, Ecommerce seems to use that for all the checkout pages.

I've only installed it once myself, so I'm no expert, but it sounds like there's a few issues you had that I didn't. I didn't install from the dashboard by the way, I downloaded it and then uploaded to /packages and did it that way. Not sure if that's where the difference is.
bikepartjewelry replied on at Permalink Reply
bikepartjewelry
@hbartlett:
thank you for the info. I figured out that the errors show up in Firefox, but not in IE.

Also, is it simple to install by uploading to /packages? I am very new to all this, but really want to get this working!

Thanks again for your help.
Jodey
hbartlett replied on at Permalink Reply
hbartlett
Ya it's simple, just download the package, unzip it, upload the folder to /packages, then go to your dashboard and it will be there to install. That's the way we used to do it just a few months ago for everything.

The reason I did it the download way is a) I'm just used to installing packages like that, b) in case there's a couple of files you want to modify, which I did, and c) even though I pay for the license for each site, it's nice to be able to get it installed first to get it worked out. I have another ecommerce C5 site to do right away so that will be handy.

I've used other ecommerce (non-C5) before and it's painful, this one is actually quite nice if you want just a simple online store. I was surprised and just how well it worked. But, don't expect advanced features.

By the way, you can see the store I just put up athttp://www.annschroederstudio.com...
bikepartjewelry replied on at Permalink Reply
bikepartjewelry
heh...well, I tried it the way you described and it's still doing the same thing with adding the discount, etc stuff to the bottom superfish menu. I truly don't get it.

Should I not have created any portions of my website prior to installing ecommerce? Could that be causing problems? That doesn't sound right.

Could it be as simple as changing a setting on my menu?

I'm lost...and frustrated. :(
hbartlett replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
hbartlett
Meh, I had the main sections on that site before I added ecomm. I don't think that's it. It could be the settings on your menu. I've never used Superfish so again I'm not sure, I tend to shy away from memu systems like that. The more I think about it, the more it sounds like your navigation. Don't know why it automatically went to that button though.

What if you just go to those pages and check off exclude from Nav? (Edit > Properties).
bikepartjewelry replied on at Permalink Reply
bikepartjewelry
Yes yes yes! It finally seeped into my head how/where to do this. And worked like a charm.

Thank you sooo much! :D
bikepartjewelry replied on at Permalink Reply
bikepartjewelry
BTW, I love the site - it's clean and easy to maneuver about. It's got a very nice balance between white and color.
hbartlett replied on at Permalink Reply
hbartlett
Thanks, alot of work went into that site. Heavy use of the new layout feature.
mario replied on at Permalink Reply
mario
yes, the site looks good. :) We've done a few coreCommerce sites as well and we're fairly happen with them too. The Superfish note is a good heads up since a few of the sites might be using that in the future.

@hbarlett: I noticed that you're using the Blog on her site. I've been experimenting with it on a few sites but haven't actually rolled it out for them. How do you like it so far? I've been doing a compare and contrast with Wordpress. I noted that you have a function to move back and forth from post to post. Is that built in or is in hard-coded/another block (like the Next and Previous block)?