Archive for the ‘Tricks’ Category
Developer Tip: The Case of the Disappearing Breadcrumbs
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Today’s Y! Store Blog post comes from Yahoo! Merchant Solutions developer partner Istvan Siposs, president of Y-Times Publications, LLC.
If your store has breadcrumbs, at one time or another you may have come across a page that, for whatever reason, was missing breadcrumbs. If you find yourself with this problem, before reaching for the phone and calling your developer saying your breadcrumbs are broken, read on.
Breadcrumbs typically work off the structure of your store. Any page that is a descendant of the home page one way or another will have a breadcrumbs trail. But how can you tell if a page is a descendant of the home page? [...]
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Tips for Optimizing Product Page Cross-Sell
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
We’re pleased to see so many merchants taking advantage of the product page cross-sell feature we released last fall. Cross-sell is a great way to give exposure to more products, but merchants should take note that its success depends not only on what is being cross-sold, but how it is presented. Product page cross-sell gives [...]
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Looking for Links in all the Right Places
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Today’s Y!Store blog is another guest column by long-time Yahoo! Store owner and developer Rob Snell of Snell Brothers, still located in sleepy Starkville, Mississippi. Rob blogs about Yahoo! Store, speaks at search conferences about Yahoo! Store, is the author of a not so new book on Yahoo! Store: Starting a Yahoo! Business For Dummies, [...]
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Adding a Little Bling to Your Site
Friday, January 26th, 2007
I’ve seen a few merchants ask how to add a favicon to their site. If you don’t know what a favicon is, it’s the small icon that appears for some sites in the address bar of your browser or in the bookmarks or favorites listings. Figure 1: Favicon appearing in the Address bar Figure 2: [...]
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