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Thanks BrowserBugs ... looks promising!

Hi all, Been a while since I have done PHP but I have made a simple form that allows you to edit a download but when it pre-fills the form with the data from the database it displays it with the text like "cant,t" which is how it's stored but how do you go about outputting it as "can't" Thanks for any help and sorry if this is a silly problem etc

Thanks for your advice as always BlueDreamer .. that's a good point I should check that all artists are linking us from their website and if not suggest to them it would be worth doing as its in their best interest. Just approached eBay to see if they want to link to us!

Afternoon, I have our website up and running now the way I want it so I want to look into more ways I can promote the site. The site advertises artists and also sells their artwork from our online shop. I'm trying to find ways to help promote the online shop side of things in terms of people who are looking to buy artwork as we have the artists themselves on board. I have always been doing the normal things such as posting on social media, doing the odd blog, posting on forums advertising with google adwords etc We have a steady stream of visitors and I know this is always an ongoing process but was looking other things that would be worth doing now that I have the basics in place. I was thinking it might be worth adding a product feed so that it appears in google product search? also maybe approaching larger fish that sell artwork to see if they would be interested in promoting us in some way in return for a % of the sales. Any thoughts would be good or any advice from people who have promoted an online shop before!

better late than never ... my shop allows people to checkout as guest using the standard Paypal setting, so I'm guessing its because you are using the sandbox. Hopefully you have this fixed anyway by now!

Not sure if there is any experienced users here who might be able to help me with my postage questions using WooCommerce - 1. I'm looking to set FREE postage for orders over £250 and £35 for orders under only for England not Scotland or Wales. 2. Orders to Scotland and Wales cost £35. Currently you can only set United Kingdom using the "free postage" option : - Has anyone ever found any add ons to extend this? Or am i going about it wrong? Should I try and use a Postcode plugin to first set the postage costs for Scotland and Wales and then add another using a wildcard of the rest for England with two options, 1 with for orders under £250 and another for orders over £250 which is Free? I'm a little confused at the moment so any help or the direction I should take would be great. Thanks

Great thanks Mike! ... always something simple

Hey All, I have the following code that shows the last 5 products for the shop: h1>Recently Added</h1> <ul class="row-fluid"> <?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'stock' => 1, 'posts_per_page' => 4, 'orderby' =>'date','order' => 'DESC' ); $loop = new WP_Query( $args ); while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); global $product; ?> <li class="span3"> <a id="id-<?php the_id(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"> <?php if (has_post_thumbnail( $loop->post->ID )) echo get_the_post_thumbnail($loop->post->ID, 'shop_catalog'); else echo '<img src="'.woocommerce_placeholder_img_src().'" alt="Placeholder" width="65px" height="115px" />'; ?> <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3> <span class="price"><?php echo $product->get_price_html(); ?></span> </a> <?php woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart( $loop->post, $product ); ?> </li><!-- /span3 --> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> </ul><!-- /row-fluid --> which is fine now I want to alter this slightly so that it shows the last 5 products for a vendor ( as i have a vendor plugin installed). So I was told that if I add in post_author to the args array and give it the ID of the vendor it will work. So my code is now: <?php $artid =4; $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'post_author' =>$artid, 'stock' => 1, 'posts_per_page' => 4, 'orderby' =>'date', 'order' => 'DESC' ); $loop = new WP_Query( $args ); while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); global $product; ?> <li class="span3"> <a id="id-<?php the_id(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"> <?php if (has_post_thumbnail( $loop->post->ID )) echo get_the_post_thumbnail($loop->post->ID, 'shop_catalog'); else echo '<img src="'.woocommerce_placeholder_img_src().'" alt="Placeholder" width="65px" height="115px" />'; ?> <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3> <span class="price"><?php echo $product->get_price_html(); ?></span> </a> <?php woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart( $loop->post, $product ); ?> </li><!-- /span3 --> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> <!-- /row-fluid -->` but this doesn't work as it just shows every product still. What Im trying to make it do is show only the last 5 products where the post_author = 4 in the DB table. Can anyone see where I have gone wrong? Thanks

Yea like you say I guess people are tracking us but I don't mind if they are clicking the ads as well! Never heard of the site before but if the 7 day trial is really free I might investigate.

Hi all, Been looking at my analytics lately and noticed this site "semalt" pops up a lot as a refer, has anyone here used it before? I see it says you can have a free trial and from what I'm reading on the site it shows your rankings etc Also it says iv'e earned money on my adsense from this site, so I'm guessing it must allow you to click through to sites in a frame or something? Thanks

That was the only problem with one.com you have to buy the domain with them you cannot point to the nameservers, well thats what they told me when I tried.

I use one.com for a few small basic sites and they are pretty good never had any problems with up time or support.I think they give you a free domain as well for the first year? The only issue I ever had with them is that you cant have 2 domains on 1 hosting. As for domains how about scapetheland.co.uk!

Looking at the link it takes me to facebook and uses that email address.. hm

Yea I was thinking it's a bit busy but I guess if you removed some of the things that are not needed like the web URL under the images on the Portfolio page etc It may look a bit better. Also I guess your still working on the links so that they are all set to target=_blank ? but nice work

Thanks for the reply Blue... I might look at my site and knock of a few things from the site / design as I can always offer these later if needed. Sometimes I find that if I try and do lots of everything or offer everything I end up never really getting anything completely done or cant focus on it to the extent I need to!

Morning All, Back in the day when I first started website design and designed my first website I was always told that you should make yourself seem bigger than you were. So that people would not think of you as someone who was sitting in his bedroom but a larger professional company with their own office! Now these days I do have my own house office and have extra freelancers that help me out when needed but have always kept my site so that it seems we are bigger than we are. This has been fine but recently a couple of people who are relatively clued up have mentioned to me that I should update my site so that is more personal and not so “big company” generic and to focus on 1 main thing such as website design and drive that point home. Rather than trying to advertise every service like SEO and logo design etc I would love to know your thoughts on how you present your website and if you think you should maintain a bigger business look/feel or should it be somewhere in between? Do you focus on just one service? Thanks

I'm sure you could find a theme in the above mentioned sites and just mod it to look similar in a day or 2. I do like that homepage of that site though.

Hi All, Couldn't find any posts on this, if there is please let me know or delete my post.... I keep getting these emails about the new domain extensions coming soon, I remember before Xmas that I had one and I randomly selected ones to be told about when I could pre-order them. Should I be thinking about doing this for all my domains / other domains or really is it not worth it? Is is better to just wait till they come out which could be a while? and sort it out then. Thanks

Some great points in this tread .. Citypaul is right the people who want to pay the least are always hard to deal with in general! I think it's because as you didn't charge much to start with., So they think their updates which will take 3/4 hours and will only cost them maybe £5!. The problem I found is that when starting out there is so much competition in terms of pricing but charging less never helped It's better to get a good USP and to start locally and build your way up from their as mentioned in a few posts above. A lot of my first clients were from word of mouth they didn't even go to my website to look at prices or ask me they was happy to go with what I told them as they had trust in me and my services. I hope it goes well Mr Burns.

The new system I'm looking at has most of it setup and provides a step by step instructions on how to do the last part of the setup. So I'm going to read more into it as if it can be done this way it would save a lot of work in the long run even if It's hard to start with! Thanks again for the tip!

Never heard of it before Jane but will have a look into, sounds interesting. Looking at I think you maybe right about the chained payments. Just found another extension that handles vendors and the way they do it is by automatically paying the vendor straight away and having a chained payment system so that it then also pays the % to me. That way the vendor is being paid straight from the customer, so maybe then I'm not so resobilable for the customer service as such also the system has a tab on the product page that displays all the shops contact details with address.

Thanks Blue, Some very good points. Like you say hopefully 30days would catch most of the problems and in the case any did arise they could be fixed. I think it would be wise to maybe trial with 1 or 2 people to start with and iron out any problems that happens. It's a shame really the system couldn't send the money to their paypal and we charge them a fee at the end of the month. So then all money has gone to them along with any issues about goods.

Hi all, This is a bit of a follow on from the last topic I made but didn't want it to get confused with the other as It's a new issue. I have found a way to sell peoples work on our website the way it works is as follows: 1. You setup the main site with your paypal address. 2. You setup vendors and add their paypal address and commision they earn. 3. You or they can add their products via a CP. 4. A customer buys a product you get notified and the vendor does of the order. 5. The money goes to your paypal account. 6. You can download a csv file of all commissions earned by vendors and upload it to paypal to pay everyone the require amount set in the csv file. Now the problem I see is that I will be the person in the middle when it comes to customer service, if there is any issue they will be contacting me and asking me for a refund etc So I just wondered if anyone had any advice how they would tackle this type of problem? Would you hold off payment to vendors for 30days (when you knew things were ok) ? Appreciate your replies and help as always.

I used to use joomla a lot and didn't have any problems with it in terms of coding themes, it was fairly easy. The problems came when explaining to the client how to use the admin interface back then there was so many different menu links and they easily got confused. Not sure if that side of things changed much?

Thats a hell of a lot! are we allowed to know the site genre?