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1. How about adding a Quantity selector to the Add to Cart features?

   Comment by Rick — February 23, 2007 #

2. Nice work guys. I love all of the new enhancements to the platform. Keep them coming.

   Comment by Bruce Randall — February 23, 2007 #

3. Thanks for the feedback Bruce. Glad you are liking the changes.

   Quantity selector is certainly an interesting idea but I would rank that behind other more common enhancements such as multiple product images or a best sellers column. Buyers can always increment the quantity in the cart for now though maybe adding quantity with RTML edits would make a good blog post.

   Paul

   Comment by Administrator — February 23, 2007 #

4. I cannot tell from reading through it, and I’m sure other people would like to know about the possibility of changing to a different Template / Design once you select one and update your store. Can you simply go back through it and select another one?

   Also, may I recommend Istvan Siposs at http://www.ytimes.com for any RTML updates that you want done to your website, like Quantity Selectors, Best seller columns, and the like. He does great work, and I find that whether you do it all at once, or 1 or 2 items a month, it’s very affordable for his services. Did I mention he does great work !!

   Comment by Pat — February 24, 2007 #

5. Pat

   Yes you can use the Design Wizard as many times as you wish. When you do, you will install a new set of templates, the CSS files, and any other assets of the template (such as images if you choose pre-designed).

   Istvan’s name is virtually synonymous with RTML. He literally wrote the book(s) on it and is a very capable trustworthy consultant. There are also a wide group of talented design firms dedicated to Yahoo! store redesigns and enhancements available in the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Developer Directory.

   Paul

   Comment by Administrator — February 24, 2007 #

6. Hi Paul,

   Each time you use the Design Wizard are you:
   1. Installing a new set of RTML templates?
   2. Is css-edits overwritten as well?

   Comment by bobsc — February 25, 2007 #

7. Here is another question for you,

   I currently use the x2-raw-html. template in Store Editor version 3.0 for popups, but other than that what is the purpose for x2 templates?

   Comment by bobsc — February 25, 2007 #

8. Bob,

   The answer is “it depends”. The Design Wizard currently has two template packages (side and top navigation).

   For generic templates you are choosing a template package (side or top) and variable values to match the selected color palette; the css files are considered part of the package and you get either 3 or 4 files depending on layout selection.

   For pre-designed templates again you are choosing a template package but also a full set of variable values (excluding some text field variables that do not get overwritten), all CSS files for the template, and any images referenced in the variables.

   1–A new set of RTML templates is installed if you are switching layouts such as going from a top navigation template to a side navigation template. The templates remain the same if you are not changing layouts.

   2–The css-edits file will not get overwritten IF you have a GENERIC template and you select a new color scheme WITH the SAME LAYOUT (top or side). If you change layouts (template packages) it will be overwritten. If you choose a new pre-designed template it WILL be overwritten.

   Paul

   Comment by Administrator — February 25, 2007 #

9. The x2 templates were from Editor 2.0 version. We decided to keep all of the old templates in the Editor when we moved to the 3.0 Editor because so many merchants and developers were accustomed to working with these templates. After surveying a number of merchants and developers, we learned that keeping the old templates but just adding a version prefix was preferable to removing them as developers could use these as a starting point of customization rather than having to recreate from scratch.

   Paul

   Comment by Administrator — February 25, 2007 #

10. I know this is off topic but, I’m still confused about the x2 templates.
    There is not a complete set of x2 templates.
    Some have been deleted. I guess you need a BASE(top level) template for the x2 templates to be of any use.

    Comment by bobsc — February 26, 2007 #

11. You are correct that it is not a complete set. The goal was not to provide the full set as that might imply the ability to just point to the main template and all would work as before; the operator output is different now so we wanted to avoid setting that expectation. Rather we wanted to provide most of the templates as a shortcut to custom coding not as a complete second set of templates.

    Paul

    Comment by Administrator — February 26, 2007 #

12. Hello,

    Does anyone know where you can find a reference for all the new version 3.0 templates? I have the following book: “Yahoo Store! Template Reference” by Istvan Siposs and its a great reference for understanding all the version 2.0 templates. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like there is a version 3.0 for this book. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Jose

    Comment by Jose — June 27, 2007 #

13. Jose,

    There is no reference yet for the 3.0 templates that I know of. If you have a specific question about a template, I would recommend posting to the RTML forum at yourstorewizards.com.

    Paul

    Comment by Administrator — June 28, 2007 #

14. In regard to the comment above relating to quantity selectors:

    >Buyers can always increment the quantity in
    >the cart for now though maybe adding quantity
    >with RTML edits would make a good blog post.

    Can you elaborate on that? What I want to do is have an order button where a customer clicks it and 5 of the same item are automatically put into their cart. Would this be possible through RTML edits? If so, how?

    Comment by Scott — July 9, 2007 #

15. Scott–

    Adding a quantity box is a fairly easy RTML edit. Don Cole over at Your Store Wizards offers this template for free and has instructions for adding it.

    That said, adding this will simply add a text box that will increment the order by the number entered by the buyer. While you may set 5 as the default value in the text box, this would apply across the whole site. If you want different amounts as the default, you would likely need to get a developer to customize this for you on your site or ask in the forums (also at your store wizards) for assistance with how to do this.

    Paul

    Comment by Administrator — July 9, 2007 #

16. Paul–

    Thanks for the point in the right direction!

    What that code does is add a text box field in a form. It doesn’t do exactly what I want, because I don’t want the customer to be able to change quantity…I just want them to be able to buy N of the item with a single click.

    However, I think the solution is to add a hidden field to the form. So, when the user clicks the order button it posts “wvquantity=N” and N units are added to the cart.

    Thanks, again!

    Scott

    Comment by Scott — July 10, 2007 #

17. Scott–

    You are correct–the quantity box does just that as I pointed out. The solution you proposed will work but realize that the buyer can edit the quantity in the cart once added so while you may make it easy to add, you may not be able to enforce the quantity. One way around this would to create a new SKU that represents a package of five priced that way so if a buyer orders 2, they are really ordering 10. This does require you to handle inventory somewhat differently which you may have been trying to avoid.

    Paul

    Comment by Administrator — July 11, 2007 #

18. Hello all – maybe you can help. I have tried a few forums, with no luck. I currently use a generic template, and want to 1) Get rid of the space on the sides of my pages/ make the body wider and 2)move the order button to the top of my product pages in order to help with conversions. Any suggestions? Your help is greatly appreciated.

    Comment by Bryan — August 18, 2007 #

19. Bryan

    You can make your pages wider with a few edits to the CSS files. Go to the Contents section in the Editor and find the css-base file. Copy the rules for the “container” ID and the “body content” ID. Then go to the css-edits file and paste these rule. Then you can edit the values for the width in these rules (one is 760px which is the width of the page and the other is 610 which is the width of the content area to the right of your link menu). If you make a mistake, just erase these rules and start again (that’s why you want to copy and paste these rather than editing the original rules in the css-base file). Your spacing will be less according to how wide you make the page.

    You should be able to move the add to cart button to the right of the product image (if the image and button plus any spacing are less than the width of the content area). If your product image is set to center, set this to left. Then your button and content should appear to the right.

    Paul

    Comment by Administrator — August 19, 2007 #

20. Thank you for this!! I have been searching and searching for a way to make my page wider.
    Now I have a different problem.

    Is there a way for me to change my side nav bar to the top? If that is not possible, where do I input the code for a nav bar that I have created?

    Thank you so much!!
    Happy New Year

    Comment by Shi — January 3, 2008 #

21. - I currently have custom rtml, but am unhappy. If I go back and reset up the same template as I have, will those templates and edits to CSS be removed?
    - If I use design wizard again, will edits to my variables such as Header and Copyright be carried over or do I have to redo all of that?
    - Will my product data be carried over?
    - Will I have to reset my shopping cart to have all the features I had set?

    Thank you.

    Comment by Meghan — January 23, 2008 #

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