jerseyjoe

I'm working on a new store for my son's music. He's in Australia. Most sales will be in Oz. So I have the Currency default set for AU$ which are currently at roughly 1.3something $AU per $US. In the process of setting this up in Currency, I'd set the $AU rate at 1.000. But I forgot to change the $US from 1.000 to the appropriate exchange rate. As a result, visitors who leave the default alone will see and be charged $20AU for the CD, a common price there. Shoppers who change the default currency to $US will be charged $20 in US currency as well. In other words, the US Sales would deliver higher revenue. Of course, now the issue becomes, would US buyers pay $20US? Hmm, it may be a way of covering the added shipping cost to the US from AU.

Well, for a self-described "Fuddle Headed Old Man" you do all right. That was a great catch. BTW, those names are in the kewords because each of them is a world class jazz pianist. Some are John's idols and others John studied with. Thanks!

Please open this under-construction CC in MS/Internet Explorer and then in Firefox. http://www.harkinsmusic.com/store/ What's happening? How to fix? server access codes to responsonsible support. TIA

While this is under discussion, can someone refresh my memory on how to clear the FireFox cache? I recall it is a somewhat arcane pair of keys but can't remember them. Anyone? TIA

Hmm, I guess GroooveJuice is off somewhere for a while. Well, if you get my message, please quote me a price. If anyone else has the tools, ability and expereince to do this, I'd be glad to hear from you.

Apparently his new Cd is being well received down there. He did not ask for a web site until last week, after the CD started being played on air. The DJs are mentioning the URL (harkinsmusic.com) and all I have up is a temp page. Aussies are even more outspoken than Yanks, so I was not shocked to get an email this morning saying, "take yer finger out" and get the site working. I'm going to be busy enough setting up the store itself so I don't have time for leaning how to do the MP3s. Sounds like you have the right tools and experience. What would you charge to create the appropriate files from a CD? Send me a PM with a price?

I'm building a CC store to sell my son's CDs and MP3s. Some of you CCers in Australia may know him (John Harkins). He's been there 12 years and is pretty well known in jazz circles. His latest CD is getting serious airplay down there. After years of begging him to allow me to build a web site for him, he's given the OK. I know zip about making MP3s from CDs. I do not own an MP3 player. I can only guess at how to download them. I have Roxio and Windows Media Player on my computer. I rarely use them. A fast Google search on "CD to MP3" yields a lot of results, many of which are touted as free and in some unexplained way, better than all the others. Can anyone suggest which program I should use and why one might be preferable?

If you find it, I'd like to know about it as well. I need to build a web site for a jazz pianist/singer and this is how he will sell his music. BTW - you cannot search on CuibeCart.Org for "mp3". The IPB has ben configured to require a long string. So when you try to search on a 3 letter word you get an error message. Strange for a "mod" site.

Another approach - the one I use - is edit the files on my local disk using PHPdesigner (www.mpsoftwareweb.com). I've configured PHD so it will edit PHP, CSS, JS, HTML and TPL. I then upload the edited files and flip over to the browsers to see what the changes look like. Sounds awkward but really isn't if you use keyboard shortcuts such as ALT-tab to jump between the open tools.

The permissions issue, rarely explained in most programs, is not complicated. When you first upload files of a program such as CubeCart, some of the files need to have their properties changed so they can be edited while the program is being set up or in actual use. The process of changing permissions is called CHMOD. That's another one of those priestly incantations that will often get a new user ridiculed by the cognoscenti. Fortunately, I've never that here but I have in forae for other programs based on PHP/MqSQL. CHMOD stands for Change Mode, usually meaning changing from read-only to writable or the reverse. The code 777 is the usual number for making a file or folder writeable. Once you have uploaded your files and folders, and have begun the installation process, you will encounter a screen that tells you which files and folders must be CHMODed. Open your FTP program and go to the files on the server. Right click on the icon of the server copy of that file or folder. (if you right click on the file name itself you risk invoking a file name change). In the menu that opens, if you are using WS-FTP, you will see a menu item "properties" that you can left click on. In the dialog that opens you will see "Numeric Value" - another bit of priestly obscurity that refers to the permission code for the file. Change the value to the one the insturctions call for. Some instructions say put an 0 ahead of the three-digit number (as in 0777). That won't work. That instruction exists for reasons that also are hidden behind the robes and incense. Just use three numerals, ignoring the 0. And then save or whatever. Ite, missa est.

That's an interesting observation - but the facts behind it supports my opinion. The Yahoo banner is now 44 pixels high and to my recollection, going back when they started, it has never been higher. The file size of all the elements in the Yahoo banner is roughly 2kb. They have always been the Gold Standard for speed of first-time download, less than 6 seconds over almost any 56k connection. THAT was the secret of their success, not a huge banner taking up virtually 1/2 of the screen on your typical mailslot 600pxhigh display and requires a download of 17.13 KB - which is what the one under discussion does. Amazon doesn't even have a banner as we know it. Just active tabs that take the customer directly to the products (what a concept for a site that sells things!). Google built their brand by delivering rapid downloads with minimal self-promotional shouting. That reticense, more than any other single thing, was the biggest contributor to their success againt people like AltaVista whose home pages were jammed with banners and blocks of redundancies. You cannot build brand recognition by putting a billboard in the user's face on every page. That's how you annoy users and send them elsewhere. So, with sincere respect and admiration for the attractiveness of the subject banner, it sends the wrong message by delivering inapprporiate information. It's about itself, not the products and not the customer.

The site is lovely and I agree with all the acolades that remark on how different it is from a canned CC skin. However . . . There is more to a web site than looks. That 189 px banner is a huge waste of the most valuable space on the browser - and the waste is repeated on virtually every page. Show me one major home page that does this. Look at the examples of the great communicator's sites. (Yahoo, Amazon,Google, ABCTV. etc.) That same design could be done in 100 px and still look good, but without, in effect, shouting at the customer on every single page, telling him where he probably already knows he is. I know I will be flamed for what I'm going to say. I'm not trying to insult peple. But what I have to say needs to be considered by anyone who is working on any web page. Graphic designers are talented people and so are programmers but it is a mistake to assume that either - or even both together - is enough. If you are going to build web sites for ecommerce, you owe it to yourself and your clients to consider the other elements of web site building and pomotion. Study how people look at and navigate a page. There's a huge body of eye-motion and comprehension studies available. Study the issues of legibility as they are affected by colors and fonts. Putting the menu on the right runs counter to every navigational intuition and practice based on experience. I suspect it's there just to be different. That is not a good excuse for a design that makes it harder for people to use the site.

I'll let someone else respond to the issue of where to install that code - but I want to address two issues that are far more important to you in creating and promoting an online store. 1) Simple stats about store activity are available in the CubeCart Admin Control Panel. Look for that link at the foot of the menu. 2) But even that info is not adequate to do the job. Any decent hosting service (NOT Yahoo, for one) will provide you free access to and detailed analysis of the server logs that every web site is required to capture and report. Those data are so rich that studying them can be daunting - but the job is made much easier by what are often called Web Traffic Analysis Tools (WTATs). Here's links to the home pages of the more popular WTATs. Your host should have them installed for you on your web server and available on demand with a few clicks. Webalizer http://webalizer.mirror.camelnetwork.com/ AWSTATS http://awstats.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl Analog http://www.analog.cx/ There are others - such as the one that exhaustively analyzes every click of your most recent 300 site visitors. What you want for informed store management is ALL of the above, not just one or the other. The raw data are the same on every server. But each of those WTATs takes a different approach to presentation of the data. You can get a much clearer understanding of what is happening by using all of them to study your site and plan and monitor the performance of your marketing and promotion. One reason Google's pay-per-click is eating Yahoo's advertising dollars lunch is that Google bought and re-branded the superb, formerly $895 per-user WTAT, formerly known as Urchin, and they now offer it for free to their advertisers. There is a free legal version of Urchin5.0 floating around the Internet - and in fact I have it installed on my server through cPanel (*Removed*). My sites can use it without having to be Google advertisers. Point of all of this is, don't count on Yahoo's spoon-feeding of data to manage your CubeCart. Go shop for a hosting service that provides professional-grade WTATs. Hope this helps . . .

umm . . . ehhhh . . . what groovejuice said. and lcools, I was only trying to be cute, not insulting. This issue comes up so often that I now just go for its throat, without any unkind intention towards the person who invokes it. There's a basic issue that some eager new designers prefer to ignore. This is a medium of commercial communication. The goal of any shopping cart is to sell stuff as effectively and efficiently as possible. All issues are subordinatate to that. Anything that detracts from that goal, no matter how nice it may look, no matter how much fun it may be to do, is wasteful. A lot of this stuff is not obvious. Making a handsome web site that also works is a greater challenge than simply manipulating some graphics to personal taste. Designers who can satisfy both issues will be more successful than those who ignore one or the other. So please don't be off-put by my bruskness. I want to be loved and admired by everyone. :sourcerer:

That size would not be friendly to the milllions of users who have their monitors configured for 800 by 600. Of course, if you think they have no money to spend, or if you have a personal agenda that does not include them as customers, that's a different story. :dizzy:

To be candid, and with the best intentions all around, that is a "question too far." If you look around in this venue, you will find hours worth of reading, mostly in the Skinning Forum, that explain how to do what you wish to do - and for which MarksCarts has laid out the approach. As you recognize, CC is very accessible that way. Also, there even animated tutorials if you click on Suppprt above. They show you how to do most of the common taks. If you don't have the time or skills to learn how to do the work yourself, get a price quote on a custom job from one of the qualified people who hang out over at www.cubecart.org. They are the same people who answer simpler questions in this venue. But the rules here prohibit commercial activity. That's why you have to ask them over in the ORG. I've used some of those people for things had neither time nor patience nor skill to do myself and never beeen disappointed with what they did for modest fees.

I don't disagree with Sir Williams comments in any way - but to offer a complete answer and allow you do experiment with what you have in mind, go to the search feature in this forum. Search on the key phrase "thumb drive." You'll find an a detailed explanation of how to install a CC on any portable mediumj, from a thumb drive to a laptop or desktop. The purpose there is different from yours. I wrote that because I needed to show sample stores to prospective clients. I can plug my thumb drive into any PC's USB port and show off the sample stores. The thumb drive software also claims it also will run on Mac and Linux, but I have not tesetd that But, for your intention, after you are done building your store, you will be confronted with the issues Sir W raises. As he says, you'd be a lot better off paying for hosting. Good luck . . .

Thanks, but I would like to host it on my computer any ideas Unless you want to do this as a learning experience, it's not a good idea for a variety of good reasons, especially if you intend to operate an online store as a profitable business. To start with, you will need more hardware than just a simple PC. A server is not a PC and vice versa. But let's assume you cobble up a PC so it performs enough of the functions of a server that you can install all the needed software, plus a CubeCart and actually start serving your pages. The next issue is your connection. Unless you are willing to invest in enterprise grade connections to the Internet backbone at the top tier, you will not be able to handle more than a limited volume of traffic. The kind of volume you'd need to be profitable will choke your ordinary home connection. Further, as soon as your ISP finds out you are running a server for an online store - and they have sniffers to determine that - they probably will shut you off for violating their TOS. Then there is security. Let's not even go there. When you are all done, you will have "saved" yourself $20 a month that professional-grade hosting costs. At the end, what you would have reminds me of what Mark Twain once said about a report that someone had trained a dog to talk. It's not remarkable that the dog talks, but that anyone would expect it to say anything worth the trouble. Now having said all that, what you need is not in the scope of this forum about Cube Cart. I'm sure there are forae devoted to building and operating your own server. I just Googled that and got a promise of 18,500,000 pages that mention the topic. At least one of those sites must contain a forum. Here's the first few search results . . . (The SitePoint book mentioned in one is excellent - and their web site is loaded with informative articles) So You Want to Run Your Own Server If you want your own domain and basic Web hosting, a good starting point is ... The server computer's operating system ensured that each process got a fair ... philip.greenspun.com/panda/server - 52k - Cached - Similar pages MacDevCenter.com -- Build Your Own Apache Server with mod_perl How to customize the standard Apache Web server included with Mac OS X for serious ... Compiling your own applications means that you need a compiler. ... www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/05/apache_osx.html - 38k - May 23, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages Amazon.com: Configuring ISA Server 2000: Books: Thomas Shinder ... Share your own customer images · Search inside this book ... of ISA Server 2000, Microsoft's platform for building and operating ecommerce and Web solutions ... www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1928994296?v=glance - 156k - May 23, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages Changes for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, Version 3 Release 1 ... Your own data sets · Lengths of areas passed to CICS commands · LENGTH options ... publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts31.doc/dfhp3/dfhp3b0002.htm - 105k - Cached - Similar pages Fire Up your own Linux Server [server Side Essentials] The book is designed to show you how to set up, optimize and secure your own Web server. This excerpt of four chapters covers:. Building the Linux ... www.sitepoint.com/article/fire-up-linux-server - 43k - May 23, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages Good luck

There is a free editor that handles all the file types involved in CC except graphics, See PHPdesigner (www.mpsoftwareweb.com). For graphics, I use Photoshop - and I'm sure there are good alternatives that others here can suggest.

Chack out "Product Options" in your Admin menu.

Not really. The theft and abuse of copyright material was so offensive to the Big Boys (record companies, movies, etc) that they got the US Congress to pass a law that gave them a powerful weapon for shutting down a web site containing their copyrighted material. As it turned out, the way the law is written, anyone can use it for the same purpose and with the same results. All hosting companies in the USA are required to have, on their web site, a page containing their statement of compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), along with the contact information for their compliance officer. A conforming notice of violation of the DMCA (in toehr words, a properly worded letter or fax) will cause that web site's removal without delay or discussion. You can see an example of the requirements at: http://buildinghosting.com/legal.htm Many hosting companies ignore that requirement - or hide it - but they dare not avoid shutting down a web site that is the subject of a conforming notice of DMCA violation because to do so puts them at risk of a 2 year prison sentence and a $500,000,000 fine for every offense. I have used the DMCA to shut down the web site of a millionaire Flordia real estate developer that was using text and photos stolen from one of my web sites. It was gone before the next morning and has never re-appeared more than three years later. Palm (the handheld computer) was selling a CD containing my 6,500 word text and charts that described and compared all the then known Rapid Development Kits for programming their O/S. I had written the article for the magazine HandHeld Computer and the S.O.B. publisher then tried to rip me off by selling the article on a CD though the Palm web site. He had only paid for the magazine version, not for any other medium. When I asked him to either pay me for that added use or stop selling the CD, he told me to ****off. Within one hour after I sent a conforming notice of violation of the DMCA, Palm's lawyers contacted me and told me it would be removed immediately. It disappeared with 15 minutes. So if you ever find a web site using your graphics and text - and the site is hosted anywhere in the USA - you can have that site killed almost immediately. Hope that helps . . .

All someone would need to do is right click and chose 'save'. You could always add a link within the product description to "Download Photo" There's code that can prevent the right click from working but it usually only works for pages seen in Internet Explorer. If there's a similar mod for FireFox and Opera I'm not aware it. The reason you rarely see that technique, it is is easily defeated by a touch on the PrtScr (proint screen) key. Douing that puts a snapshot of the screen into the computer's memory. You then open Photoshop > File > New > OK > Ctrl-V (for paste from memory) and you then have a copy of the entire page, including the target graphic. Crop the page away from the wanted graphic and you have it. And that's just one of a number of techniques for taking a copy of a graphic from a right-click-blocked page. That same process also defeats a "watermark." In sum, resign yourself to the fact that photos can be stolen. Of course, you could put a diagonal line of text across a photo, with the text just visible enough to discourage misuse. But that would work only if the marring of the photo did not conflict with the purpose of the graphic. Now to find a stolen graphic being abused, the same Internet that makes it easy to steal also facilitates discovery of abuse. In this case go to www.images.google.com and search using the keywords that are likely to be associated with the graphic. To make things easier, before you launch the search, while on the Google images search page, select "advanced search." That will allow you to do better searches and to configure a larger count of responses. The first search should use your original file name. However, that will not expose abuse where the file name has been changed. Then do a keyword search on a word that describes a subject in more generality. For example, after you do a search on "Chevy" then do a new search on "Malibu;" then do "car;" then one on "auto;" then one on "automobile" etc. . . . Hope that helps . . .

Well, there are alternatives. You could write a mod yourself. If you do that, you not only would take care of yourself, you could sell the mod to others. Or, you could ignore the mod and install the inventory one at a time. It all comes down to a few simple issues. If you write the mod, how much is your time and skill worth when you price the results? Or, if you do the one-by-one installation, how much is your time worth? Either way, same question. Me? I have absolutely no financial interest in the mod in question - or in any mod. But I am a customer of some of the modders because what they do saves me time. I need $50 an hour to cover my own lifestyle and obligations. In the case of the mod that raises this question, I figure I'm saving myself about 10 hours of time installing a large inventor as onsies - so spending 50 to save 500 is a no-brainer. But your situation may be different. As I said, it all comes down to that one question.

Welcome to the forum I too came from OSC and have never looked back. The place for all third party modifications is cubecart.org to add to Ansuk's welcome - and to confirm, there is a mod on that site, to do exactly what you have requested,from almost any data set in any format (spreadsheet, comma or tab delimited, etc.).

I'm sure someone else can answer your questions about how to make those changes - but I'm curious as to why you want a counter on each page. Is it because you want to know what's going on on your site? If so, there are far better ways of knowing who is looking at what on your web site weithout telling your competitors. Every web site server must keep highly detailed records about who is visiting your site, how they found it, what they do on what pages, how frequently they visit, etc. - all that, and much more, is kept in the server log for every domain. There are many free tools (Web Traffic Analysis - WTA) that analyze that web traffic. Any decent web host offers a choice of the better free WTAs such as AWSTATS (http://awstats.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl), Webalizer (http://webalizer.mirror.camelnetwork.com/), and Analog (http://www.analog.cx/) And if you are advertising your web site through Google's AdWords, you have free use of their Urchin system which they have renamed to something I forget - but it is excellent. Hope this helps