So, the web host will need to accept paypal BUY NOW buttons and link to my paypal account.
Cool, so Paypal should be easy enough. But I think what I'm not understanding, is I don't think Paypal has a shopping cart? Is that just an add-on from the webhost, or do I need to do some type of html coding for that?
When someone clicks on the PayPal Add to Cart button, not only will the item add to cart, but, I want a flash (.swf) file to start playing.
thanks for help everyone.
I decided to completely avoid godaddy after reading some horror stories and I went with Hostgator.
Now, I'm building my website.
I have a question for those with experience in Paypal and HTML
What I want to do is:
When someone clicks on the PayPal Add to Cart button, not only will the item add to cart, but, I want a flash (.swf) file to start playing. I want the paypal button to be on top, make the flash hidden until the button is pressed, and then the .swf plays and the button hides. After the flash plays and finishes, I want the button to come back. This all happens in a matter of seconds.
Cn someone help me out with this?
Basically, Using a 3d program I have and a flash program I have, I designed and made a flash where it shows the items going into a box, the box flaps fold, package label (generic) gets on package, then package moves to the right and fades. I think it will be kinda a neat feature to add.
So, I have access to the flash program and the file. If I need to do some programming in that, I can, but I need to be shown, taught, or given the code to do it in Lamen's terms. (i'm new to all this stuff, but trying hard to figure it out)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jason
May I offer some simple advice: abandon flash-based solutions; they're old, buggy, clunky and are being replaced with HTML5.
Google "jQuery"
Coming from the world of professional web development (What I did before electronics), keep your site clean and simple, flash is too distracting, not guaranteed to work properly across platforms, and the biggest kicker is it gives you NO SEO value, can actually make it worse if you rely on flash heavily on a design. Also keep in mind that the biggest mistake people make in designing a website is designing it to look what they like, and not what works for everyone / general public, just cause you like cute furry dogs and crazy strong contrasting colors doesn't mean it will work well on a website (Just an example, I have seen people want crazier things on professional websites...).
Coming from the world of professional web development (What I did before electronics), keep your site clean and simple, flash is too distracting, not guaranteed to work properly across platforms, and the biggest kicker is it gives you NO SEO value, can actually make it worse if you rely on flash heavily on a design. Also keep in mind that the biggest mistake people make in designing a website is designing it to look what they like, and not what works for everyone / general public, just cause you like cute furry dogs and crazy strong contrasting colors doesn't mean it will work well on a website (Just an example, I have seen people want crazier things on professional websites...).
^ Yup.
A great laugh:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
May I offer some simple advice: abandon flash-based solutions; they're old, buggy, clunky and are being replaced with HTML5.
Google "jQuery"
May I offer some simple advice: abandon flash-based solutions; they're old, buggy, clunky and are being replaced with HTML5.
Google "jQuery"
Not that it has a shopping cart or anything but I just finished my wife's site in valid html5 / css3. It's why I haven't been here in a few days. Wordpress is so fubar for her I made the switch to Flatpress but had to port everything over to be html5 from xhtml. Fun stuff. Avoid flash like the plague. You won't be able to avoid javascript but also try and keep that to a minimum as well. There's nothing I hate worse than to see a site that has javascript widgets for no other reason than just to have them. Remember the users like me that don't have it enabled by default and degrade gracefully if at all possible. If you have something I want, I'll turn it on.
Oh, and just in case you want to see, cathysreadingblog.liquibyte.com.
Pay no attention to the fact that it doesn't validate. Webhost injects javascript tracking wrongly and I'm having a problem with the top domain so I removed the .htaccess file that keeps the site from doing that. After they fix things the .htaccess is going back in and it will validate.
May I offer some simple advice: abandon flash-based solutions; they're old, buggy, clunky and are being replaced with HTML5.
Google "jQuery"
Not that it has a shopping cart or anything but I just finished my wife's site in valid html5 / css3. It's why I haven't been here in a few days. Wordpress is so fubar for her I made the switch to Flatpress but had to port everything over to be html5 from xhtml. Fun stuff. Avoid flash like the plague. You won't be able to avoid javascript but also try and keep that to a minimum as well. There's nothing I hate worse than to see a site that has javascript widgets for no other reason than just to have them. Remember the users like me that don't have it enabled by default and degrade gracefully if at all possible. If you have something I want, I'll turn it on.
Oh, and just in case you want to see, cathysreadingblog.liquibyte.com.
Pay no attention to the fact that it doesn't validate. Webhost injects javascript tracking wrongly and I'm having a problem with the top domain so I removed the .htaccess file that keeps the site from doing that. After they fix things the .htaccess is going back in and it will validate.
I don't really understand how anyone could have a descent web experience with javascript turned off... We don't live in an era anymore where a poorly written javascript would shut your browser down, in-fact there are entire gaming engines (Unity, Unreal 3, and others) that run in browser as compiled JS. For those that want to see that: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/
May I offer some simple advice: abandon flash-based solutions; they're old, buggy, clunky and are being replaced with HTML5.
Google "jQuery"
Not that it has a shopping cart or anything but I just finished my wife's site in valid html5 / css3. It's why I haven't been here in a few days. Wordpress is so fubar for her I made the switch to Flatpress but had to port everything over to be html5 from xhtml. Fun stuff. Avoid flash like the plague. You won't be able to avoid javascript but also try and keep that to a minimum as well. There's nothing I hate worse than to see a site that has javascript widgets for no other reason than just to have them. Remember the users like me that don't have it enabled by default and degrade gracefully if at all possible. If you have something I want, I'll turn it on.
Oh, and just in case you want to see, cathysreadingblog.liquibyte.com.
Pay no attention to the fact that it doesn't validate. Webhost injects javascript tracking wrongly and I'm having a problem with the top domain so I removed the .htaccess file that keeps the site from doing that. After they fix things the .htaccess is going back in and it will validate.
I don't really understand how anyone could have a descent web experience with javascript turned off... We don't live in an era anymore where a poorly written javascript would shut your browser down, in-fact there are entire gaming engines (Unity, Unreal 3, and others) that run in browser as compiled JS. For those that want to see that: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/
"Descent" is, ironically, far more true, even thought I think you meant "decent". You don't think Javascript can crash a browser? You've not been surfing hard enough