Iona

Many thanks to Ian for setting up Zopim on our website, a swift and professional service as ever. Zopim looks a bit more comprehensive than Olark and I'm looking forward to the launch of the new analytics dashboard.

You need to get over here and get some practise in!!x

Thats alright - we do an easy version!!

Many thanks for your replies guys. The gz file didn't work for me - google didn't recognise it and I couldn't see any site map submitted by Cubecart. I've now gone with a solution provided by our hosting company (Havenswift Hosting) who will install a program by xml-sitemaps.com which will give us a map for the site, as well as one for images and eventually news (when we get a blog). The software is configured to run automatically by cron and will ping the major search engines each time a new sitemap file is available (once a week is the usual setting). Will also need to configure the robot.txt file to direct search engines to the correct sitemaps. Once I've submitted the first set of maps, I won't have to rebuild, or worry about it again! £20/year to maintain. List....tick! And perhaps finally, Google et al, will get to know us properly!!!

Haha - its a very British thing! But it has been known to take place in America as well!! Yes, I was really pleased with how the slider worked out! I've put favicon on my list & will see if I can highlight the quote in some way! Many thanks for looking & for your input. Appreciated. Iona x

Also, when you say "CubeCart will automatically tell Google where it is" - do you know the average time for this to happen? I've just deleted an old site map from my Google Webmaster Tools account. There's no other site map in there, despite rebuilding the sitemap several times during the building of the site, and twice now since going live. But only went live last Friday! Just not sure how long it is supposed to take. Would I even see it in Webmaster Tools? I really need Google to understand us better!!!!(LOL)!!! - for years the spiders have been looking at our quiz questions (as our quiz files were not previously placed in a secure area above publi-html.) When I look at Google Index - Content Keywords, I get "film, name, word, car, dead" and so it goes on - complete nonsense! Despite having crawled our new site, these are still all listed. Any help will be much appreciated. Iona Iona

(And thanks for takling a look!) Just getting it found now! I'm currently over whelmed by SEO info!!!

Hi Al, Yes, hopefully we are! Iona

I've read elsewhere on this forum that the sitemap created by cubecart isn't that great. It doesn't include images, video & news. So, would it be better to create one using external software? And if so, any recommendations of which one? The downside I suppose is that you'd need to create and submit a new sitemap every time you changed/added content to the site. So, going back to my cubecart sitemap, I've found it in mydomain/public_html/sitemap.xml.gz - so is this the address I need to submit? Or do I need to "extract" the file as read elsewhere? Many thanks, Iona

Hi, I'm not really showing off - just following the advice on the forum to post new sites here! Please take a look and feel free to fire over any feedback - it would be much appreciated! I've yet to create a Wordpress site to go with my cubecart site - but this has got us started. www.quizexpress.co.uk Cheers for now, Iona BTW, I can't see where to "add my store" in the link at the top of this forum section!!?? Where it says: Don't forget to add your store to our live stores section!

Okay, will do, thank you.

Thanks.

Hi bsmither I am trying to do similar. I'd like to be able to choose which product gets featured and alter this every few weeks. From the snippet above, where are you specifying which product to feature? Many thanks Iona

Thanks for getting back. OK - so since this conversation, we can now use your code? You did check - above in this conversation. Makes complete sense with the security thing - but how do you log in as your customer otherwise? Or should I just not be thinking of this now if we can use your code and do it all from the admin?

Ahh, I think I've got it now! I "can" use CC (as it is) to create orders by digital download, but only by posing as the customer in the front end, adding the digital product to the basket & proceeding to checkout, then going into back-end admin and moving the order to processing. I "can't" do it "all" from the back-end because (as I've just re-tested) CC doesn't follow through with all 3 emails - and only sends the order confirmation email. And the code you've written fixes this? A few questions then, if I can; Sticking to as is: How do I see the customer's login password to pose as them in the front end? Under customer-edit customer, I can only see blank fields to change a password. If this is seen as a bug fix: Do bug fixes just get added to the code - a bit like when there are new updates for software on your computer/phone etc - or is it something that gets done on a new version? And how do we know if and when it happens! Just to say at this point as well - Many thanks to this forum. I don't think I would have had the guts to go it alone otherwise!