| Overview -
Creating Invisible Gold powered sites is quite different than a plain HTML sites. There is a strong separation of Content, Code, and Design. This means that...
Creating Invisible Gold powered sites is quite different than a plain HTML sites. There is a strong separation of Content, Code, and Design. This means that your client can be making changes to the content of pages without affecting the design. You can...
(12/14/2005) |
| Web Designer Tip: Customize the Page Title -
This is a good tip for database backed sites for search engine optimization.
Normally Invisible Gold manages the title tag automatically. It takes the "name" of each page and combines it with the "title" value stored in the settings page.
This doesn't work well when using an external database of products. For example, if you up...
(8/18/2009) |
| Step 4 - Create Drop Down Menu Anchor Image -
The next step is to calculate the pixels at which the drop down menus should start and end (perhaps using "the info" window in Photoshop)(0,0 is in the top left corner on the screen: x is the horizontal axis and y is the vertical). The four values you ne...
(2/6/2006) |
| Step 5 - Insert GetHTML Call To Generate Menus -
The last step is to paste and customize the gethtml code. The GetHTML will generate text for each link. The name for each drop down must match the image map code.
It also needs to know where to place the menu relative to the image's position on the scr...
(2/6/2006) |
| Step 6 - Create the Custom Template -
This tutorial is based on an Invisible Gold installed file called dropdownmenu4.xsl which is in the \currentversion\templates\default directory. However, you can follow similar steps for just about any code you find on the internet. The process is simil...
(2/6/2006) |
| Creating Invisible Gold Powered Websites -
This section is for experienced web designers. Invisible Gold is designed to work with the tools that you already know how to use such as Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage.
On the other hand, it assumes at least a basic comfort with modifyin...
(11/14/2005) |
| Exporting Orders -
Exporting Orders for use in other programs is quite easy. Log in as an Administrator and click the Orders button on the left. This will show a list of orders in the system. Click on the Export link in the top right and you will have the option to save ...
(12/12/2005) |
| Paid Registrations -
The Registration system can also work with the Shopping Cart to charge users before creating new User accounts.
For more information, read the Users section.
Basically, it works just like the Registration system, however, after the user creates a new ...
(12/12/2005) |
| Security and Reliability Concerns -
A Shopping Cart opens up a whole different level of concerns for a website owner. First of all, you need to ensure your clients' privacy.
1) Be sure to delete Orders from your website as soon as they are processed. Even if a hacker compromises the serv...
(12/12/2005) |
| System Shipping Settings -
With Invisible Gold 3.1 and newer, you set shipping levels in the system settings page. The main option lets you add shipping later (ex: in an email), not charge shipping, use shipping tables, and use shipping tables but let products override the shippin...
(7/9/2010) |
| Shipping and Taxes -
Taxes are calculated for every Order being shipped to a single state. (presumably the one your business is in.) You can also set individual products to be Tax Exempt. For example, a Gift Certificate would not be taxable.
Note: The field to set a P...
(12/12/2005) |
| Shopping Cart -
Invisible Gold includes a shopping cart with the Commerce and Advanced Commerce licenses. While it doesn't have the advanced features of some dedicated carts, it has the features essential to an online store.
Note: It's a great idea to work with someone...
(11/14/2005) |
| First log into your PayPal account -
First you need to log into your PayPal account that will receive payments. Go to PayPal.com . ...
(11/9/2021) |
| Follow this link to create an "App" -
PayPal wants us to give the connection to your website a name. You can click on this link as a shortcut to the page where you create it. https://developer.paypal.com/developer/applications/create?env=live
Note: If the link doesn't work, you can go t...
(11/9/2021) |
| Give your "App" a name and click "Create App" -
The name is just for your own needs. They want it to be unique so something like your business name with website at the end. Ex: "Invisible Gold Website" Click Create App and then copy the generated "Client ID" into the PayPal Client ID field your webs...
(11/9/2021) |
