Being new to acinic I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem I have.
I have started building a site in Dreamweaver and have decided to use actinic to handle just the shopping cart pages. I have set up simple links to add products to the cart using the SID and product references from my dreamweaver pages.
<form action="http://www.meriden-marketing.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl" method="post" name="form1" target="_self">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="RANDOM" value="NETQUOTEVAR:RANDOM">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="SID" value="3">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="PAGE" value="PRODUCT">
<INPUT type="image" name="6" id="6" src="images/buy_btn.gif" border="0">
<img src="images/more_info_btn.gif" width="100" height="29" />
</form>
Firstly, is it ok creating the site like this? My main reason for doing it this way is to enable me to customise the design to exactly what I want without having to understand exactly how the templates work in Actinic. I am on quite a tight deadline for this.
Secondly, I need to add some products (PCs) that have different options i.e. I need to offer the customer the opportunity to buy a different monitor (17", 15" monitors) with their PC. Other than creating different product codes for each pc and monitor option and using a number of 'buy' buttons I don't know how to do this. I know that you can set up components in actinic but as I have created my pages in Dreamweaver I'm not sure how I can add this functionality. Ideally I would like to have a drop down menu where the user can select the monitor they want, which then amends the price/description sent to the cart. I would be grateful if anyone could advise me on this.
Many thanks.
I have started building a site in Dreamweaver and have decided to use actinic to handle just the shopping cart pages. I have set up simple links to add products to the cart using the SID and product references from my dreamweaver pages.
<form action="http://www.meriden-marketing.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl" method="post" name="form1" target="_self">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="RANDOM" value="NETQUOTEVAR:RANDOM">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="SID" value="3">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="PAGE" value="PRODUCT">
<INPUT type="image" name="6" id="6" src="images/buy_btn.gif" border="0">
<img src="images/more_info_btn.gif" width="100" height="29" />
</form>
Firstly, is it ok creating the site like this? My main reason for doing it this way is to enable me to customise the design to exactly what I want without having to understand exactly how the templates work in Actinic. I am on quite a tight deadline for this.
Secondly, I need to add some products (PCs) that have different options i.e. I need to offer the customer the opportunity to buy a different monitor (17", 15" monitors) with their PC. Other than creating different product codes for each pc and monitor option and using a number of 'buy' buttons I don't know how to do this. I know that you can set up components in actinic but as I have created my pages in Dreamweaver I'm not sure how I can add this functionality. Ideally I would like to have a drop down menu where the user can select the monitor they want, which then amends the price/description sent to the cart. I would be grateful if anyone could advise me on this.
Many thanks.
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