ProStores Tips and Tutorials - One Take Media

Learn 10 easy tips to create seo and customer friendly Title Tags.

http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/09/10-seo-and-marketing-friendly.htm

Read this, then check out my post about creating custom page titles in ProStores.
http://www.onetakemedia.net/blog/prostores-tip-creating-custom-page-titles/

Just wanted to share a little with all you folks that read my blog, I am now the happy recipient of the ProStores Designer Certification!

I’ve been involved with ProStores Design and Coding for 3 years now, but had not actually gone through the process to get certified. I have now and am glad I did!

So you will now see this logo on our home page and on our solutions page, you can rest assured that the work we do here at One Take Media is of the highest quality!
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Just a quickie for today! I’ve seen a few people using this already but I thought I’d share it with you all.

<ss:if test="$cart.Details">
<p>You may also be interested in the following products:</p> 

<ul>
<ss:foreach item="detail" within="$cart.Details">
  <ss:foreach item="relatedproduct" within="$detail.relatedProducts">
    <li><ss:link source="$relatedproduct"><ss:value source="$relatedproduct.name"/></ss:link></li>
  </ss:foreach>
</ss:foreach>
</ul>
</ss:if>

How do you indent text / paragraphs in html? I have compiled a short list of several way to do this.
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You can hide the size attributes on the Product/Catalog Detail page if the attribute is out of stock, you can modify it for color as well. You could take this code and modify it for other similar functions.

**note** Most likely this code will only work with Advanced Tier or higher ProStores sites.

<td>
  <font face="arial,helv" size="2"><b>Size</b>&nbsp;
    <select name="size">
      <ss:foreach item="attr" within="$product.attributes">
        <ss:if test="$attr.quantity <> 0">
          <option value="$attr.size"><ss:value source="$attr.size"/></option>
        </ss:if>
      </ss:foreach>
    </select>
  </font>
</td>

Customizing Search Results Next Links *from the ssml support referrence*

The tag provides several different options for displaying “Next” and “Previous” links on your search results pages.
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The following code modifies the Catalog List template to do one of the following:

* If the user clicks a category link and that category has subcategories, those subcategories will be displayed on the Catalog List template as links.
* If the user clicks a category or subcategory link that does not have any categories, the Catalog List will display a list of product search results.

You can modify this code to show images as subcategory links as well.

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The most recent update to Google Analytics has caused some confusion and frustration. But thankfully workable code has been devised and posted by users on the ProStores boards. This tutorial will lay out the steps to install the code. Read more »

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 rest of the info > Choose User Defined Template from the final drop down box.

You then place the link in the part of the site you want it to show up in.

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.
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