What I would like to create is just a product page for one online course I am about to release in a month or two.
The emphasis is really on simplicity here:
The page should contain the necessary information about the product,
An opportunity for the customer to be able to watch the first 3 lessons for free and then decide to pay for the rest if he likes it,
A method to pay for the course and unluck the whole video course for that customer only.
I know HTML, CSS, and a little JavaScrpit already.
What should I learn to be able to create a page like this? Are there any good templates out there that I can use maybe?
Thank you!
I have been working on an e-commerce site design (self-learning). The site is a clothing shop and it has many categories (like saree, stoles, dresses, etc) and many subcategories (i.e. under saree it has cotton and khadi, under cotton it has plain and stripped and so on).
Every category is supposed to have multiple products displayed as a grid (that is 'shop' page). When I click on a product, it should redirect to a single product page.
Now I cannot decide what would be the best way to start designing those pages. Should I create only a single shop page design for all the category shop pages or should I create a dedicated page for every category shop?
Same is for the single product page. Should I create one design and then fill the image, description, price from the database according to the product code, or should I have a dedicated page?
I am using HTML 5 and Bootstrap 4. I have searched google but I cannot find any relevant answer.
If this question seems silly or dumb or both, please know that I am a beginner and willing to learn more. Help will be appreciated. 😃
E-commerce websites have standard features and capabilities. In order to find out the basics of these standards, I recommend you to view and analyze the features of open-source projects such as NopCommerce which is an open-source project based on .Net framework and enhanced by client frameworks like Bootstrap.
I currently have a Shopify account that allows users to add some products to cart and checkout. It is currently in a grid format.
I am adding another type of product that are 'courses' and this would require users enter information such as Name, Contact details, etc. upon Adding to Cart / checkout. I would like these courses to be in a list view as well. How do I go about customizing this?
I believe what you're looking to do is create a sort of subset for your collections. For instance Courses>List of Courses in which case the styling and structure will depend on your theme, but generally you can look at this knowledge object which goes over how to achieve this and edit your theme files.
This article goes a bit more in depth with styling best practices and guidance, as well. Hopefully this helps, per your question it seems like you just needed some general information, but should you need more details just ask.
What methods are there for obtaining a list of another store's products so you can offer it on your own site? Do you need to have some kind of affiliation? For example "Let us order pizza for you. You choose the type of pizza and from where you want it, and check out through us, and we will get the pizza to you!" And for example list pizza places to do so from. How would I accomplish this? Thank you.
Not related to your categories. Before asking all the questions like "Do you need to have some kind of affiliation?" you need to research the legalities in your area.
I am working with an artist to make her personal website. She would like to sell her artwork from the website. The issue is, she would like to be able to add, remove and price the artwork herself. She would also like to use paypal as the payment method.
Obviously design and coding is easy for me, that's all static. I am not sure however, what the best method would be to set up a way for her to add artwork herself.
I know there are some open source e-commerce sites (magento, zencart ect.) but I have never used these and feel they might be a bit overkill for a simple art site. Is there something else really simple I should use?
Any general thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Use a ecommerce site, its the obvious choice if she wants to sell stuff.
Zencart isn't as overkill as you think - it allows you to remove all the bits you don't want from the site using its admin gui; so you keep just the categories and the cart sections.
It also has options (IIRC, but I may be thinking of a different one, like CRELoaded) that provide for pay-and-download links.
Certainly, reusing ecommerce code will be a lot easier than writing your own.
Always use an existing framework for commercial sites. It's just too easy to make a silly mistake which allows hackers to take over control of the server.
I recently found a really cool (and free) method of using php and javascript to upload, resize thumbnails, and display all uploaded content from the folder.
Taking this code from a free tutorial and pairing it with a customized javascript gallery looks really slick (used it for my own photography site as well as a few clients who loved it).
Very soon I will be combining it with a site for a historical golf course architect... a gentleman has come to me with hundreds of pictures he would like to store on the web, but he wants the capability to upload himself at any time. The trick is this: If your client artist wants to price it herself, the gallery use would require her to be able to navigate the basic html framework enough to change the descriptions which appear beneath all of the pictures as she adds/changes them.
If you want to get started on your own check out some of the tutorials here:
http://net.tutsplus.com/category/videos/screencasts/page/3/
as well as finding a gallery that you both like for displaying the photos in an attractive way... Let me know if you want anything else from me :)
Why don't you create a simple administration panel where s/he can add, remove and price the artwork? Do you know any programming languages? PHP?
Virtuemart is based Joomla CMS , very easy to set up, an Open Source eCommerce solution. You might find a lot of free extensions of Joomla for photo gallery and other things.
Gallery2 is an excellent web-gallery software, suitable for presenting images, videos, and audio.
It has a "CheckOut with PayPal" plugin.
Gallery2 will require some time to configure, it is unlikely that you will use it "as is" after install.
Gallery2 is easily embeddable - provided minimal PHP skills, and good HTML/CSS skills, one can make it fit inside any design (maybe except for the grid-like thumbnails layout, which I guess is possible but harder than average).