Best Sellers List

[CraftyJoy]

I would like to insert a best sellers list into my site. I am using catalog.

I have gone into design|options|rightbartext but it will only allow me to put a short line of text not a number list.

Please help, I know nothing much about html, perhaps its looking like I will need to learn more, any suggestions about basic books which could cover what I will need.

I have searched the forum to no avail.

Thanks
Joy

[magicalwonders]

Hello Joy,

I can recommend "HTML For Dummies". It's a great intro into the world of HTML and will get you up to speed quickly. You'll be tinkering under the bonnet of Actinic in no time.

Also, here is an online reference that may prove helpful.

http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/html_tutor.html

Good luck.

Myles

[NormanRouxel]

It looks like there's not enough room in the Custom Property for what you want. A simple solution would be to create say 10 new Custom Properties BEST1, BEST2, BEST3, etc into which you'll put one line of text per item. Then edit Act_Primary.html and add some code like

<ul>
 <li>CUSTOMVAR:BEST1</li>
 <li>CUSTOMVAR:BEST2</li>
 <li>CUSTOMVAR:BEST3</li>
.
.
</ul>

[CraftyJoy]

Thanks , time to look towards amazon for a book.

Do you think it would help me if I spashed out on dreamweaver as well?

My shopping pages are coming along OK but the rest of the site is pretty poor.

Thanks Joy
www.craftsudo.co.uk

[Buzby]

Joy,

Have a look at my 2 sites at www.qualitysilver.co.uk & www.quality-titanium.co.uk

Is this the sort of thing you are after?

If so let me know and I can give you some info on how to do it easily.

Kind regards

Jason

[CraftyJoy]

Just what I want, yes please. But can this be done in catalog?


The previous post would be Ok but I would need alot clearer instructions! I am biting of more than I can chew here.

Joy

[Buzby]

Just what I want, yes please. But can this be done in catalog?


The previous post would be Ok but I would need alot clearer instructions! I am biting of more than I can chew here.

Joy

Details have been e-mailed to you.

Regards

Jason

[magicalwonders]

Hello Joy,

Do you think it would help me if I spashed out on dreamweaver as well?

Probably not at the moment. If you get the Dummies book on HTML first (or any other good work on this topic) 99% of the advice you see on this forum will then make sense.

Dreamweaver is one of the most favoured packages by website designers, but it is quite complex. Once again, a book like Dreamweaver for Dummies will be of great help. Suggest you download a trial copy of Dreamweaver and have a play with it before shelling out vast sums of money

http://www.macromedia.com/

Myles

[irwebonline]

I would also be interseted in information on how to make the best sellers list like on the jewelry website above.
Any info owuld be appreciated.

[Nadeem]

Hi Simon

Do you have dreamweaver, if so then you could open the "Act_Primary.html" file in dreamweaver and find one of the sidebox which you want the best seller to appear in.
The "Act_Primary.html" file can be found in "C:\Program Files\Actinic v7\Sites\Site1". You could create your own best seller list in dreamweaver, save it as an html file (eg Best_seller.html) and then within the Act_Primary.html file, where you want the best seller to appear, simply type in "NETQUOTEVAR:INCLUDE best_seller.html".

Please remember to save the best_seller.html file within your site1 folder.

Hope this helps

Kind Regards

[irwebonline]

nice1.

Thanks,

[mash]

I am using the same theme as yourself, and I have done a top five product list too. The way I have do it, use access to pull out the orders from my site in a report which also generates the hyperlink to the product. I then export to excel to sort on quatity (this could be done in access) so I have my list and the hyperlink text. Then in Actinic, I have used one of the original boxes on Act_Primary.html, I use the customvar to point to a text file and use the content to generate the list which is write in html.

When I first did it I used bullet points for the list, ideally I wanted to number it but it would work automatically so now I have put it into a table which work excellent.

It was not rocket science but I was very pleased that I worked it out, if this is of interest and you want to know more let me know. You can see the list at Organic Plants We have reduced the Orange so you do not have to wear sun glasses!

When you want to update the list, just edit the text file and upload, works a treat.

Mash

[Taz]

Details have been e-mailed to you.

Regards

Jason

Hi Jason

You couldnt send me the same email you sent to Joy could you..... I have been struggling with my site for ages and i need to get it completed....

thanks

[Taz]

Hi

Has anyone else got a solution or can email me with how to do this as i am not getting any response from the previous gent.....

am in urgent need to get this sorted.

Thanks

[mash]

Hi what are you trying to do regarding this list? Mash