ProStores Tips and Tutorials - One Take Media

Today’s post is straight from the Google Webmaster Central Blog - Its a great article about Duplicate Content and how Google handles it.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html

Duplicate content. There’s just something about it. We keep writing about it, and people keep asking about it. In particular, I still hear a lot of webmasters worrying about whether they may have a “duplicate content penalty.”

Let’s put this to bed once and for all, folks: There’s no such thing as a “duplicate content penalty.” At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.

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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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Just a quickie tip for today:

Have you ever wished you could see the new templateset you’re working on without changing your default templateset and showing your incomplete design to the world?
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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']"/>