Going to far with V8: Copying play.com

[gabrielcrowe]

Its a great idea, in theory, but after using that site a while, i find it overly complex and just plain odd.

I think thats how they want it however, since it is a shop of odd things.

the script you are looking for is easily constructed using kermys cart as a base. reading the last cookie and displaiing that is fairly easy. but i dont see it of any use.

if online stores that are doing well have anything to tell us, its that people like to see their cart all the time.

[RuralWeb]

if online stores that are doing well have anything to tell us, its that people like to see their cart all the time

Thats the feedback Im getting on sites that I have used the multi cart

[gabrielcrowe]

Well, I had another quick crack at this:

http://www.gabrielcrowe.co.uk/gabriel-cart-baloon.zip

Instructions included.

someone give it a go, feedback plz.

oh, demo at:
http://www.wish-bone.co.uk/acatalog/...ying-disc.html

[Darren B]

i will see if i get a chance, although on your site i get a broken layout when adding to cart, am i also suppose to see something on the right hand side showing what i have added? I only once got the popup about checking out

[Darren B]

OK tried it on my kite site but im affraid its not good gabe, the box only ever appears once if i click continue, if i click checkout it stays visable until i click close

it needs some tweaking on the css but this is more to do with what i have as other stuff floats over the top of it.

[gabrielcrowe]

javascript: FAIL

[Darren B]

javascript: FAIL

yep thats exactly hat i thought

[pinbrook]

whats it supposed to do Gabe? on adding the first item to basket i got a popup asking me if i wanted to close or continue. nothing happens after adding a 2nd, 3rd item to basket.

is the content of the basket supposed to show?

[I-CC]

Nice idea... I hope I have gathered it correctly being "Add an item to the cart, site takes you back to the product pages etc, cookies enables/determines that an item is in the cart, so displays a notice that points to the checkout /navbutton and asks if you want to checkout now or basically 'close' continue.

Showing it on the 1st add to cart is ideal, thus drawing attention to where the customer can checkout via. But adding it on every add to cart would annoy me to death. What would be a happy medium...

Nice idea - sweet

[gabrielcrowe]

nay, in fact, the very messy nature of this addon makes me think perhaps i need to get more sleep.

the addon is a simple css overlay, that attempts to address the problems with customers knowing what to do 'next'.

in an ideal world, after adding a product to the cart, they need to be returned to the store, to order more items, and then informed that their item is in the cart, and presented with some options.

Its fairly difficult to do in actinic, since there is very little information about the nature of the items in the cart. only the amount, and the value. really, all i did was display the baloon, offering an option, if the items in the cart is more than 1.

really, i need the hack that causes people to be pushed straight back to the product. i'm sure its in the aug/kb someplace. i'll have a go at implimentation when i get some time.

[gabrielcrowe]

Nice idea... I hope I have gathered it correctly being "Add an item to the cart, site takes you back to the product pages etc, cookies enables/determines that an item is in the cart, so displays a notice that points to the checkout /navbutton and asks if you want to checkout now or basically 'close' continue.

Showing it on the 1st add to cart is ideal, thus drawing attention to where the customer can checkout via. But adding it on every add to cart would annoy me to death. What would be a happy medium...

Nice idea - sweet

the baloon can do this, it can set a cookie that can make sure it appears only once, for each customer, and ONLY the first time it appears. I had a problem where Actinic was sending cart adds at 0 bounce to a confirmation page. If i can get it to jump straight back to the product page, then, it'll work.

to cause the baloon to cancel itself after its appeared only once, check the code you paste into actinic, for a commented out line, that has a setCookie in it. uncommenting this line, makes sure that after its first appearence, it will not appear again for that user.

[pinbrook]

it would be nice if the balloon contained the content of the basket, otherwise all it seems to do for me is add an extra click. the fact it points towhere you can interrogate the basket went over my head, Sorry Gabe.

Having said that i tend to set the bounce to zero in order to keep people on the basket page after adding. then using continue shopping/checkout options