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As the previous responses hint at, the problem is not in CC per se. It seems to arise from session handling in the FireFox browser. You don't tell us, but is it a good guess you are using Firefox with open tabs? There are posts elsewhere in this forum that further support that theory. In a recent post in one of those threads I mention that what worked for me was to avoid FireFox's "offer" to "restore previous session." If I chose the "new session" option, my CC Admin log in works fine. If I choose the restore option, sometimes - but not always, it's not predictable for any specific circumstances I have recognized - sometimes, logging into the CC Admin results in what I can only describe as neither logged-in nor not logged-in. The Admin CP is open but the log-in prompt persists, the first two items on the ACP menu appear to be functional (but they really are not) and the rest of the ACP is grayed-out. I have not tried to reproduce this by closing FF with an open CC/ACP session versus not having such a session at closing of FF, but I suspect that may be a factor. I don't think you'll encounter the problem if the previous session did not close a store with an open and active CC/ACP session. Once it does happen, you can cycle through log-in all you want but you'll not go past that screen. Then, re-booting the FF browser - or going over to the dark side (IE) the problem goes away. Good luck . . . Good luck

Not all of us were happy with 3.015. I host and manage a number of client stores. Some are still 3.0.15 and have been problem-free. But I did encounter a few situations with weird behavior, for which 3.0.16 was the simple cure. For example, one client's store would not allow uploading of images under 3.0.15. When I upgraded to 3.016 that issue went away. Since then, while I've not found it necessary to replace any other 3.0.15's, I build all new stores only with 3.0.16.

Beautiful - great choice - have good trip!

To deal with the important stuff first, yes, I live in Jersey City - and so close to NY that at this very moment,looking out the window just above my monitor, I am watching the buildings in lower Manhattan starting to turn gold in the setting sun. The Empire State Building, to my left at about 10 O'clock, is especially handsome right now. Glad you found the fix for opening a new window. Re right column width, I don't see any reason to change that, but when you remove boxes from the right column, you will want to adjust the middle column to take advantage of the space formerly occupied by the right hand boxes. I'll PM you a link to a Legend skin that has been tweaked to two columns. You can extract the settings from it. Good luck

To install CC on your computer or on a thumbdrive, or any device without an Internet connection, click on Search (above you here) and search for EasyPHP. There also are video tutorials. Click above on Support and you'll find a link to them.

look in the mods over at www.cubecartforums.org. Search using the word "catalog." Since there are many Brits in the CC world, also search using "catalogue". Thanks Joe, now I can go on vacation.. Where will you go?

In addition to Robsta advice (right on the mark), I offer the comments I made a few minutes ago in a different thread http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index....=28381&hl=# You are on the right track in being concerned about low res displays. There are tens of millions of CRTs out there, still in service. If you design to them, and regularly check your work in progress on higher res monitors, you'll have a store than any visitor can use. And don't forget to look at things in various browsers. Good luck

look in the mods over at www.cubecartforums.org. Search using the word "catalog." Since there are many Brits in the CC world, also search using "catalogue".

What commercial purpose does the splash page serve? Winning the SEO battle is tough enough without putting a fence around your store. Also, see my comments re screen res and display width in the reply to the Full Throttle Tee Shirt shop in this same forum. Why make buying more difficult for visitors with lower res screens? Reference the coupon code, the offer says, "Only 1 coupon per purchase." What am I missing here? How could a person use more than one coupon per purchase? I mean, you make a purchase, you use the coupon. There's only one place to put it once. I have never looked at the coupon mod but I would hope there would be some setting that would limit a coupon to a single use so I could post a note saying, "Coupon may be used only once."

I disagree with the advice, "Make the page wider. at 750 pixels, you have a lot of dead space, try 800 or 850 wide." The Legend skin is designed to be centered, with so-called "dead space" on either side. That's because there are still many potential customers whose display is set for 800 by 600. If anything, your new banner . . . (http:// . . . /Legend/styleImages/backgrounds/topHeader.jpg) . . . is already too wide at 775 because it is forcing the dreaded left to right scroll on every page. That seems to have been an arbitrary width that ignores the concept of universal visibility for all visitors. An even wider banner would serve no purpose other than adding more so-called dead space to the right side for all visitors - and increase the loss of right side visibility for lower res visitors who may not even notice there is stuff hidden to the right. Better for you would be to use header graphic width (756px) that is the default for that skin. That way, 100% of your visitors, regardless of their screen display, will see an orderly and balanced store. Do you designing with your display set to 800 by 600 - or at least check the results by switching to it once in a while. Don't be fooled into thinking the 800 by 600 text looks bad. That's because LCD monitors often don't do a good job for text at that res. But the 800 by 600 users are almost always those who still have CRT displays that show text very nicely. In addition to a few LCDs, I have a 21 inch Panasonic CRT that is now more than ten years old and still looking beautiful. There are millions of good CRTs in daily service still running well at 800 by 600. Next, your links to other web sites are set to open in the same window as your web site. The result is, as worthy as those causes may be, you are making it difficult for your visitors to return to you to buy something so you can continue supporting those causes. Set those links so they open in a new window. That way, when the user follows them, your own site remains open in its original window and the users can find you more easily. This is as good a time as any to repeat something that gets lost too often around here. When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. Because CubeCart's superb structure makes it so easy to change the look of the page, it is too easy to think that the secret of a successful store is a "look" that is really kew-ell. Too often, kew-ell gets in the way of business. Think in terms of "web site usability" and "web page legibility." Google them, complete with quotes so they work as a phrase. Why do I say this? It's the hammer and nail thing that caused you to change the color of the product description on the page for: http://fullthrottletees.com/store/index.ph...amp;productId=3 so it almost blends in with the bg color. The corollary of the hammer / nail thing is, just because you have an extra tool, there's no law that says you have to use it - or that you will better off if you do. For an example of that, see the page: http://fullthrottletees.com/store/index.ph...amp;productId=2 You highlighted the text because you could, not because it makes the text easier to read. Stay with CC. Keep learning. It's the best cart of its type there is.

As you can see, whilst you were posting the above, I was determining the same thing and editing my initial message. But thanks for the suggestion. Yes, it definitely is a FireFox issue that can be resolved by logging out of the CC/ACP and then not accepting the "help" of FF when coming back in.

I've got a CC3 site with Admin access issues. Until 12 hours ago I had no problems adding products and photos to a site under development. Now, this morning, I can log into the site's ACP but when I click on either Add Product or View Products, the login prompt comes up again and the ACP menu, except for Admin and Store, is grayed out. I'm able to use al the other menu items with no problem. Products are the only item affected. I've tried logging out and rebooting but the problem persists. Anyone see this behavior before? Got a fix? TIA UPDATE A FEW MINUTES LATER - This may be a Firefox issue. After posting the above, I logged out of the CC/ACP, closed FF and then rebooted my computer. But instead of accepting the FF prompt to restore the previous session, I declined and went first to my normal home page. As I started to type in the store URL, instead of accepting the dropdown prompt, I keyed the entire address in. When the sore came up, I then did the usual login, gave the right answers to the prompt and got a CC/ACP Admin session that is fully functioning, for Products in particular. Why this worked, I don't know. Anyone else ever see this? I only looked at the first page of bug reports and there is nothing on it there.

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In general, it's a pleasing design, albeit, the color scheme offers a certain coolness to what I think of as a warm cozy product environment. I suggest you look into a warmer color palate. Try these color scheme tools for help in finding a warmer set of tone . . . http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html http://www.steeldolphin.com/color_scheme.html and here's an ur-site that links to many dozens of helpful color management web sites. http://www.colorschemes.org/ For particulars, - and always with sincere supportive intent, although I usually speak plain to be brief and to avoid mis-understanding . . . The banner introduces three problems. 1) it is too wide (876px) meaning it pushes the entire site off the right side of the screen of a still common 800 wide display - and to no noticeable benefit. Re do it to something like 750px wide so it will breathe against a background. 2) at 138 px high, the banner is too high, again without any special benefit over one that is, let's say 90 px high. Keep in mind that not only is 138 px a serious bite out of the typical mail slot that many people's browsers are defaulted to, with tool bars and banner bars and Yahoo bars and candy bars and cocktai bars. If would be a wonderful world if everyone knew the pleasures of the F-11 key but the truth is, those keys above the row of numbers may as well be sharks teeth for popular willingness to touch them. My experience teaching basic computer skills to classrooms of adults tells me that most will go from cradle to grave without ever touching them. Therefore, we must design layouts for what people see, not what we hope they see. Here's a site I have under construction (stuck waiting for client photos and product descriptions) using a 90px high banner. Is it any less effective than one 138px high? It certainly is a lot less intrusive and wasteful of the most visible real estate on a site. See: www.itsgreektomejerseycity.com 3) your banner comes in at well over 32kb. Mine on the restaurant site is not even 1/3rd of that, meaning it downloads 3 time faster than yours. Still in the banner, and despite your high byte count, it appears, from the degradation around the letters of the words in "Hearth Glow" that you have tried to optimize the graphic. Perhaps you built the banner in larger dimensions and then shrunk its physical dimensions - and strippedd out the excess bytes - but a bit too aggressively. I'd go back, literally to a digital drawing board such as Photoshop or Elements. Start fresh with height and width dimensions no larger than your goal. Then when you optimize, you may lose that degradation. Moving on . . Your nav menus are not consistent in appearance from page to page. Some are double spaced, some are single spaced. The graphics and font and even the wording varies from one to the other. It made me disorientated. I wonder about its affect on a prospect. Offering all those shipment tracing boxes is not only excessive, but way premature, and therefore distracting from the "buy me" mentality you want to instill. Its prominent (every page???) and quintuple-entry presence introduces the idea that a shipment will go astray, even before an order has been placed. When was the last time you went into a retail store and was confronted with the lost shipment policy on the display case of every item while you were browsing? Put package tracing once, maybe on the shopping cart checkout page - or better yet - limit it to being a link in the order acknowledgement email that the buyer gets. In general on too many pages, you have centered the text. Centered text is much harder to read than text that is justified left. The eye must find the start of the next line in a new location for every single line. It quickly becomes tiring (tiresome?). To learn more about such issues, go Google (in spearate searches) such key words as "legibility" and "readability." Look in the results for studies that tell you how text layout affects the user experience. Limit line width, too, to something like 70 characters whenever possible. On that same point of readability, and referring again to the color scheme issue, the contrast between your text and backgrounds is less than optimal. Both are too close to each other on the dark end of a spectrum when contrast is what you want. The legibility and readability studies on your Google search will enlighten (take the pun if you like it) you. Refernce site content, product information, etc. . . . Your selling proposition makes prominent claim in the banner that yours are "soy candles" but that's the only time it is mentioned. If the feature deserves space in your valuable banner, why not explain the benefits of that feature in your FAQ? I know nothing about candles and therefore, if soy makes them more expensive but longer lasting while avoiding toxic fumes of traditional beeswax, I would never now that and might come away - without buying anything - based on an the impression you are overpriced. It may well be that your soy candles are the best value proposition in the world of sticky wicks, but you have not helped me learn that. Finally (assuming you are still with me here and have not "kill filed" me) the comment made elsewhere in this thread about your lack of candle images is right on the mark. Your thumbnails are evocative but then fail, on subsequent click-throughs, to deliver what they evoke. You need product shots and much larger, too. I'd want something like 350px wide by the time I've come to the "more" screen - and a much more satisfying text to put me into the "candle mood." Sell sizzle, not steak. Good luck and best wishes for having made a good start. Keep on goping and learning.

Respectfully, JSAS as a of a short while ago, has become somewhat obsolete. The complexities of JSAS can be avoided using EasyPHP. See the thread. Installing CC on a USB Thumb Drive Using EasyPHP Also, to avoid the tedium of installing those 100s of products, assuming your current shopping cart is based on MySQL, you can export the database to a spreadsheet, map the file to the CC database, and inmport it into CC. Like wise you could do a bulk upload of your product images to CC. The video tutorials in the Help Desk (Click "Support" above) will be helpful and there is an excellent Documentation project under rapid construction over on the professional support web site "www.cubecartforums.org" That same web site offers both free and paid tools for using a spreadsheet to populate your CC. Good luck

Thank you - and thanks for leaving it open for updates, comments and question that surely will follow.

OK, it's posted. http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index....showtopic=28295 May I suggest that this thread be closed at this point, leaving the above link to the new version - and then that the new version be pinned but not closed. I can forsee the value of leaving the new thread open to allow helpful comments from others, as well as the occasional puzzled question.

This is a tutorial on installing a CubeCart store on a local device. It's actually much easier to do than the length of these instructions suggest. Examples of local devices include a USB thumb drive and the hard disk of a computer that is not connected to the Internet. While the immediate use of these instructions is for a CC store, they also apply to all server-based scripts that require an Apache server and a MySQL database, MyPHPadmin and PHP, such as forums, guest books, etc. That installation will allow development and customizing and testing of every aspect of the CC store without the need for an Internet connection. Also, it will allow a CC developer to show off various stores by plugging a thumb drive into any handy PC. Disclaimer: this tutorial is provided without charge or warranty of any kind. I have no expertise or special knowledge of any of the issues that are involved. Therefore, while I have made every effort of which I am capable to be accurate and complete, and can report that I have my own installations that are based on this tutorial, your use of this tutorial is your own responsibility. DOWNLOAD EasyPHP 1.8 The current version can be downloaded from either SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14045 The program's source also offers a 2.0 beta . . . EasyPHP (1.8 or 2.0beta) http://www.easyphp.org/telechargements.php3 Note - I haven't tried 2.0 beta. INSTALLING EasyPHP Unzip the download and install EasyPHP on the drive and directory where you will be using it. For example, if you want to develop your CC store on your computer's HD without having an Internet connection, unzip to something like C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8 (That's the default.) As an alternative, plug in your USB thumb drive and complete the installation there in a directory you create for the purpose. At the moment, on the computer I'm using, that would be F:\EasyPHP. The installation script will give you the option of a link icon on your desktop and/or tray. If you install on a removable USB drive, you will not see that icon. Of course, with your USB drive plugged in, you can launch EasyPHP directly by going to the folder and clicking on easyphp.exe. The EasyPHP Control Panel Heres the beautifully simple Control Panel that pops up when you launch it. The Apache server and MySOL will start automatically. Just wait a few seconds until the popup tells you both are "started." Click on the lower PHP logo (the one next to the Apache button) to open a drop down menu of Help, Configuration, etc. Before you go further, note that there is a folder in your PHP installation named "www." You eventually will install your CubeCart store in this folder. Temporarily close EasyPHP just to get it out of the way while you install your store. INSTALLING CUBECART (or any similar script) Download the current version of CC into whichever folder you normally use and unzip it. Copy the "upload" folder into the PHP's www folder. Do that for the entire upload folder, NOT JUST THE CONTENTS of the upload folder. Rename .../www/upload to anything you wish, such as ..../www/store or ..../www/cc Now reopen EasyPHP. Click on the lower of the two EasyPHP logos. A DropDown menu of EasyPHP controls will open. RANT: This para may be ignored. Frankly, the Help is useless. Aside from the fact that it is French, an otherwise lovely language, those so-called Help instructions are written by the programmer - something that should not be allowed in *any* language. Programmers "instructions" usually include whole swaths of assumptions and omissions, based upon their own expertise, as to what everyone else knows. (Present company excepted - and please understand I am still suffering from my 1981 encounter with the Microsoft manual for DOS. I was a child of only 48 years at the time and it was a traumatic event that caused damage lasting to this very day.) We now return you to your program in progress . . . In the drop down menu, click on "Local Web F-7" Your default browser will open to a default EasyPHP page. Note that you are offered a link to: www/cc Click on "cc" (the letters of the label, not the folder). The CubeCart Installation script will start. Proceed to install your CubeCart store just as if you were doing it onto a server. At the end of that, you may open the store from here as you normally would. To re-open your store in the future, you must first re-launch the EasyPHPControl Panel, click on the lower logo to get the dropdown menu, select Local Web F-7 and click on the link in the www folder. That's it. Corrections and suggestions for clarification are welcome.

Ignore the entire thread - and the suggestions to use JSAS or MSAS - I wrote the original advice on that. But it is now totally obsolete. See my last post in that thread where I explain why "EasyPHP" is now the preferred tool. http://www.cubecart.com/site/forums/index....0592&st=15# Hope that helps.

Thanks for the effort. If they deign to respond, I'll put money on a position that it's the fault of CC and they are doing this to help everyone. When they launched that piece of crap some almost 5 years ago, they signaled the problems to come in an interview with the MS guy behind it . . . http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/feature...10-14msnqa.mspx Note where he says, "The single most important inspiration behind the design, development and delivery of MSN 8 is Microsofts commitment to providing consumers with the most useful Internet experience possible." MSN will decide for its users what is "the most useful Internet experience possible." But the most insightful clue to the mindset behind it is the use of garbage language such as "impact" as a verb because he doesn't know the difference between "effect" or "affect" and the lack of apostrophes in words such as "wont" and "hes," etc. Fortunately for the world, MS - and more specifically MSN Butterfly - hires based on arrogance and stupidity and contracts with advisers with no brains . . . per the following bungle: NYC Tells MSN Butterfly To Clean Up and Fly Away According to various press releases, they seem to have spent at least $800 million on promotion of this junk.

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The rules of this forum do not permit commercial discussions. An alternative web site has been established for that purpose. www.cubecartforums.org You'll find many highly qualified resources there.

Thank you - and with apologies to Ogden Nash I met a mod upon the stair, The little mod who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Gee, I wish he'd go away! Joe

Please see: http://itsgreektomejerseycity.com/ There's a lot of material to be added but this is the look and feel. The client has product photos but he has to do a bit of batch tweaking before I will let them onto my server. The original are more than 4k px wide and with appropriately bloated bytes. This is a lightly edited version of Legend. I changed it to a two-column site, replaced the default 116px high topHeader with one only 90px high and replaced the default boxTitles. Oh, and I figured out a way to move the Site docs into what used to be the Information box and installed a free mod found over at ccforums that puts a site credit at the bottom of the page. I have more work to do, but suggestions are welcome.