Twitter? Anyone?

[Sally Dickson]

Has anyone added a twitter feed to their Actinic shop?

How easy is it to do?

Thanks,

Sally

[Rich Brady]

It's pretty simple from what I gather. There are various apps out there that will spit out the code you need. All you then have to do is paste it in your layout.

http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets

[guccij]

There are a lot of sites with Twitter feeds inbuilt now - have a look at www.kitesrus.co.uk or even, er, www.snorestore.co.uk ...

Was easy to do although tbh I have forgotten exactly what we did. New variable inserted into sidebar from memory.

[Sally Dickson]

here goes nothing

Ok just for the hell of it I have just added this code:
<embed src="http://w.digsby.com/dw.swf?c=8qldakfzkvprfy16" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="210" height="300"></embed>

to www.toysandgifts.co.uk

Am uploading now ...

Here goes nothing, as they say

[Sally Dickson]

upload will take about 10 min...

[Sally Dickson]

ok I hate that code, will remove and try again.

New code. BTW Twitter does not really work with IE, have now moved onto Firefox to download a basic Widget.

10 mins upload...

[Sally Dickson]

Ok I have successfully added Twitter to my shop.

see www.toysandgifts.co.uk

Now lets see if we can make it interesting...any ideas?

SD

[jont]

How do you close the modal window? I want to buy the product beneath but can not move it or get to it

[leehack]

Needs a bit of a rethink that site IMO, i'd get it up for review so you can see what people think when they see it. I'd say a twitter feed is rather low on priorities right now, unless you are tweeting to say the site is undergoing some changes of course . I find it very difficult to move around and there are coding issues in various browsers, i think gauging people's opinions would be a very good idea and yield you some very useful feedback.

[Jo@apartyshop]

We've had a Twitter Feed implimented in our LHS Nav Bar
A Party Shop is on Twitter

[acompton]

Needs a bit of a rethink that site IMO, i'd get it up for review so you can see what people think when they see it. I'd say a twitter feed is rather low on priorities right now, unless you are tweeting to say the site is undergoing some changes of course . I find it very difficult to move around and there are coding issues in various browsers, i think gauging people's opinions would be a very good idea and yield you some very useful feedback.

I just looked.
Ow! My eyes! My eyes!

[jont]

Sally - you really need to remove this feed. In Firefox I am unable to click on any of the main left hand links that appear opposite the twitter box ... as if an invisible layer is sitting over the top... as I am unable to move or close the twitter box I could not click on Lego (which is a criminal offence in this household)

[Darren B]

same for me, get rid of it. I use the simple code and add this to my existing site side bar structures.

im no designer but loose the bg image