[natasha carr]

here's a linky to my website:

http://www.daisycosmetics.net

ECWID was very easy to integrate into Joomla. Now if only I could get my shipping prices straight, I'd be good!

[Qetzal]

Originally Posted by natasha carr

here's a linky to my website:

http://www.daisycosmetics.net

ECWID was very easy to integrate into Joomla. Now if only I could get my shipping prices straight, I'd be good!

Neat site : -)

What issues do you have with shipping rates?

[natasha carr]

Originally Posted by qetzal

What issues do you have with shipping rates?

I cant configure shipping based on dollar amount in cart, so I have Paypal set up with shipping. The problem is shipping doesnt show on site or on Paypal until user enters their Zip Code in Paypal. I am trying to find a way to show shipping costs before they are asked to enter zip code. Any suggestions?

[wearyourmindnet]

Originally Posted by natasha carr

I cant configure shipping based on dollar amount in cart, so I have Paypal set up with shipping.

Do you have 0 for the weight of the product or is it empty? (in the "General Tab" for each product)

If you don't have weight to a product it assumes its a non-shippable item. Put .5 or 1 to have it calculate shipping.

[Qetzal]

Originally Posted by natasha carr

I cant configure shipping based on dollar amount in cart, so I have Paypal set up with shipping. The problem is shipping doesnt show on site or on Paypal until user enters their Zip Code in Paypal. I am trying to find a way to show shipping costs before they are asked to enter zip code. Any suggestions?

This is how Express Checkout works:

How PayPal Express Checkout works

• you add some products to the bag
• click "Checkout with PayPal"
• Ecwid redirects you to the PayPal site
• you sign in with the PayPal account or create a new one
• PayPal redirects you back to Ecwid
• Ecwid creates a new profile based on information from PayPal and shows the last checkout page
• you review your order, change the shipping method if necessary and press "Submit order" button
• Ecwid sends request to PayPal in background, PayPal charges your credit card.

You may try another option: PayPal Standard, it works as a usual payment method, so your customers will see actual shipping rates before they go to PayPal.

[Mike C]

Is this site still using ecwid? It seems different?

[Qetzal]

Originally Posted by dax702

Is this site still using ecwid? It seems different?

At the moment the domain redirects to the Etsy shop.

[wearyourmindnet]

Nice integration with Joomla. Couple of things I noticed.

Your js/css isn't GZIPPED compressed which cuts loading time by 60+% and is supported by all major browsers.

You can compress your CSS/JS using CssJsCompress or RokGZipper (RokGZipper, doesn't compress as much but is better to use if you run into css conflicts IME)

You can view your file sizes quickly for each image and js/css and see the compressed states of your js/css using FireFox along with Firebug and YSlow

Your two images on the home page are huge gif and png files. 75% compressed jpg files should be used in place of them.
I've saved them as jpg if you want to use them.



All your other images are large PNG files. For photos you should always use jpg. Great looking product photos also

I'd turn on SEF URL'S, great job of creating separate pages for each category.

The left side menu's "Home" button links you to the wrong address duplicating the main URL.

Surprised you didn't get more crazy with the logo.


Your admin page is open to public. You can use jSecure to close it to potential hackers.

Some of my other favorite extensions.

If you have any questions let me know.

[natasha carr]

Originally Posted by wearyourmindnet

Nice integration with Joomla. Couple of things I noticed.

I have no idea how that happened and Ive been struggling with that for days! Any help with that would save my bacon!

Thanks for your other tips and suggestions. I will fix everything you suggested.

I also did turn on SEF and I get an error/white pages. Im relatively PHPNUKE literate, but Im just learning Joomla. The SEF prob has me stumped.

Thanks in advance.

[wearyourmindnet]

Typically the easiest thing to do when a menu link doesn't behave properly is to just create a new menu link duplicating "home" and assign it the same settings/article ID as your main menu. If that works just delete your old menu link and move the other one to the top.

As for the sef url I see you use hostgator.com (I do also) and I know they support htaccess so it should work. Did you rename your htaccess.txt file to .htaccess from your FTP?

PM me if you run into trouble, I've been using Joomla for years and should be able to help you out.