ProStores Tips and Tutorials

This does not affect onetakemedia.net at all, just the old address’s e-mails. I’m sorry for any inconvenience, when we switched servers the old address of www.onetakemediaonline.com didn’t get redirected properly according to godaddy.com. I got that back up and working, but e-mail forwarding isn’t working properly even though I’ve followed their steps to configure it. So any e-mail sent to @onetakemediaonline.com will bounce until I get it working again. I…

This is a addendum to my post about coding meta tags in ProStores: This will teach you how to enter custom META Descriptions and Keywords for your products and products only. If you want your non-product pages to have custom META keywords and descriptions read my other ProStores tip post.

If you want to link to a static page you can create a User Defined Template, thats ProStores speak for a page you created in Design Studio, and use this code for the link. <ss:link source="$templateSet.templates['*****']">page name</ss:link> To create a static page go to Design Studio > Click Add a Page Template > type in the page name, which is represented by the ****** in the code above and the…

From the Prostores Knowledgebase Adding Default and Custom Meta Descriptions and Keywords to Additional Pages Currently, ProStores only displays Meta content (keywords and descriptions) on product pages. Meta content can be added to other store pages with the addition of some SSML code.

Welcome! I’m glad you’ve taken a moment to read our blog. The whole point of this blog is to provide tips, tutorials and articles relating to web design. Now we do specialize in work in the ProStores E-commerce system but I will be talking about general design principles as well as SEO (search engine optimization) tips and concepts. We will update at least twice a week with a new tip,…

(From the prostores KB) Here is a code snippet that will insert your custom page title on certain pages and then use the default ProStores functionality (the product name, category name or template name used for page title) on any pages that do not have a custom page title defined.

Just another quick tip to display the total $ amount in your ProStores shopping cart as well as the total number of items in your cart. They can be used together or seperately. (value of cart before shipping) – Value of Item(s) in Cart: <ss:value source="$cart.storeSubTotal"/> – Total number of items in Cart: <ss:value source="$cart.shippingItemCount"/>

Go to the “Checkout for Guests”, “Checkout for New Customers”, “Billing Options” templates using the Source Editor, find <ss:button type='submit' value="Add To Shopping Cart"/> and replace it with <ss:button type="submit" value="Continue Checkout" source="$templateSet.images['xxxxx.jpg']"/> For the Ship to and Ship to Gift templates the new button code needs to be: <ss:button type="submit" value="$address.buttonText" source="$templateSet.images['xxxxx.jpg']"/>