Ways to include an item on every page of a site?

[NickD]

Hi

I wonder if anyone has a good suggestion as to the various ways of including something on every single page of a site? I want to include a mailing-list joinup feature from every page.

I already have this on the homepage, and historically it has worked well, generating good numbers of signups. However, I have just invested a lot of time refining my Google Adwords campaign, and now most of the ads link to pages within my site other than the homepage, and as a result, I appear to be getting fewer signups. Hence the need to put the signup feature everywhere.

Places that we could do this include:-

* embedding something in the footer text that appears on every page (which on my site I currently use to tell people about minimum order quantity)
* at the top of the page, where the company logo goes
* left hand section bar in the shop
* left-hand brochure bar when in brochure

What ideas/suggestions/tips/techniques do people have?

Regards

Nick

[NormanRouxel]

Try this:- Create a simple product (no attributes, components, prompts, etc) at the top of your catalog. Paste the following into Act_Primary.html - make sure it's not inside any existing <FORM> ... </FORM> code. You may have to check the uploaded pages - especially the cart and checkout ones as they also introduce FORM tags.

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://inferno/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="SHOP" VALUE="">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="SID" VALUE="0">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PAGE" VALUE="PRODUCT">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="PAGEFILENAME" VALUE="index.html">
Don't forget your Returns Insurance - Only £0.90 for peace of mind. 
<input type=submit name="_prodref" value="Buy now"></form>

Note that you should replace the "prodref" above (leave the "_" in) with the product reference of your top-level product.
You may also have to change ca000001 if your script ID is other than 1.

Norman

[NickD]

Norman

I tried that to see what happened and it didn't seem to do anything other than add the simple product - please can you clarify exactly what it is supposed to do? It may be that my site doesn't use Act_Primary.html - instead some earlier tweak of it - please clarify where reference to this file is made so I can check.

Thanks


Nick

[NormanRouxel]

You should have seen that "Don't forget your Returns Insurance.." and a Buy now button on every page. Did that not happen?

Norman

[NickD]

Norman - no, all I got was the extra product at the top level. I called the product ref "simple" and used your code exactly as it is except I changed "_prodref" to "_simple". My next stage would be to check that I am actually using Act_Primary.html, but can find no reference to it in any of the forms - but as I say, I think I may have tweaked it for something else in the past and given the tweak a new name - so it may be the tweaked version that needs this change. Problem is I'm not sure where it is normally referenced from and hence what the correct file to tweak is now.

Can you remind me where I find this reference?

Regards

Nick

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic / Advanced / Template Manager (if you dont see lots of grey buttons click Change View) / Main / Primary.

Norman

[NickD]

That points to a tweaked version - not the original - so progress is being made, I will now tweak again & report back later.

Thanks

Nick