I am victorious!

[bladespark]

My gallery no longer completely sucks! Ha ha ha ha ha!

Now I just have to defeat the batch upload, so I can move all the non-fursuit stuff out of the fursuit gallery into a secondary gallery elsewhere.

And maybe see about getting a shopping cart going for the sales gallery.... that would be made of awesome, but I've never done shopping carts in any form before.

Update: Batch upload one, all the old art from topcities, has been completed. Next, transferring FA, DA, and sparkcostumes gallery art. Then uploading misc. art from my computer. Final step, scanning in/photographing large art.

Comments

[kainhighwind-dr.livejournal.com]

Depending on what kind of items etc. you'd need to go in your shopping cart system, I would simply suggest the PayPal cart buttons tool. Very easy to use, and fairly customizable with drop-down lists for item variables that change with price (e.g. color, size, etc). It gets the job done for straightforward product offerings. Check out the products at http://www.bamboobino.com/products.php for examples of the types of custom PayPal buttons I've done (View Source will reveal how I modified their base code).

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I am a total noob here. You say "modify base code" and I want to run for the hills. Is this something I'm going to be able to figure out without having ANY previous experience with this AT ALL?

[kainhighwind-dr.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha; I wasn't sure if you'd done a little of that before (and you're pretty sharp and clever with other tech stuff).

Well, it's possible you'd be fine with it--particularly if you don't need to add special options--but their help stuff isn't terribly helpful to be honest. It starts with an auto-create wizard for the code though, and provided you don't mind making a button for every separate item (including sizes and colors) then you should be fine with that.

Not sure what other options there are that are simpler, unfortunately. Maybe someone else here will know of some others out there... Sorry I can't be of more help. :}

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Er. Does it track when you've sold something, and remove it? Is there a quantity feature, where it knows how many of thing there are? And how easy it is it to update? My inventory changes pretty regularly.

[kainhighwind-dr.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's where it's limited. It's not like a regular shopping cart system with a database, etc. Basically you'd be changing/removing buttons as needed manually, so in that case it probably wouldn't work well for you.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

It'd be exactly as much work as what I have now, although it would eliminate the "but I don't understand, how do you order?" problem. (They e-mail me, to ask how to order, when it says "e-mail to order." *facepalm.)