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Dplantmann

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Member since: 1/21/2010

Help with Buy Now Botton Code

I'm using Frontpage 2000. I've built a website dguzan.com to sell my fine art nature photography. I found a free shopping cart from Mal's e-commerce which has what I need. I have copies of the html code needed to put in buy now hyperlinks for each picture.

The Problem

I wanted to use a Buy Now Hoover button by each picture in my inventory. The code is embedded on the html page as a form. I want to embedd a hyperlink to the shopping cart host server. Where exactly do I embedd the code? Somewhere in the form? After the form? What goes in front of the code?Anything?

Example

<A HREF="http://ww#.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm?"

Of course it's followed by all the discriptive code, but I'm not sure where to start putting the line of code?

Does that make sense?

Thanks

Don

Report Abuse | Date: 1/21/2010 10:36:18 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

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From: USA

RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

Without looking at the site code I am assuming that each "hover button" is a form button that submits the product price, description, etc. to the cart. If that is the case, all of the code in between the <form> and </form> tags represent each individual button. Make sense?

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Report Abuse | Date: 1/22/2010 9:03:14 AM

Dplantmann

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Member since: 1/21/2010

RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

Hey Texaswebdevelopers

This is the code for the hoover button

<applet code="fphover.class" codebase="./" width="120" height="24" align="left">
<param name="hovercolor" value="#0000FF">
<param name="text" value="Buy Now">
<param name="effect" value="reverseGlow">
<param name="font" value="TimesRoman">
<param name="fontstyle" value="regular">
<param name="fontsize" value="12">
<param name="textcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
<param name="color" value="#0000FF">

As you can see I haven't put any of the data fields which will show up on the shopping cart. So, back to my original inquiry. I'm wondering how I can just do a button as a hyperlink and where do I put the code? Or can I enter a hyperlink in the form that frontpage creates when I plug in a hoover button.

I have 10 images per page, each one is located in a cell. I want to put the buy now buttons in another cell below the image. I'm just having a hard time figuring out where exactly do I place the code????

Thanks for your help.

PS I'm trying to do this as simple as possible because there is roughly 3000 images I need to tie to the shopping cart.

Report Abuse | Date: 1/26/2010 5:47:30 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

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RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

Got it.
I did not realize you were talking about FrontPage generated buttons.
As you can see, these are Java Applets (NOT javascript). Users need java installed on their computers to see the buttons and since Java does not come with new computers, and no notification is given users when java applets are present and java isn't installed, the majority of your users simply won't see anything. Java applets are individual programs that must be downloaded and run on your computer. Each button is a separate program. Java software is a 25 meg program that must be downloaded and installed on the users computer from Sun. You need to use something other than java applets for buttons.

< Message edited by TexasWebDevelopers -- 1/26/2010 9:15:24 AM >

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Report Abuse | Date: 1/26/2010 9:14:03 AM

Dplantmann

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Member since: 1/21/2010

RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

TWD

Thank you. That makes it a little more clear that I can't use Frontpage generated buttons.

What are my options for buttons? I'm kinda clueless on this, but I have to find something that is simple.

Thnaks for all your help.

One other question, this code was provided by the shopping cart people
A HREF="http://ww#.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm?"
Can I use this? Where would I insert it?

Thanks.

DOn

Report Abuse | Date: 1/28/2010 7:36:26 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

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RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

Can you add CSS to the head of the page?
If so, just use the hyperlink and style it with css:
http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/examples/frontpagetalk/mal-css-button.asp

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Report Abuse | Date: 1/28/2010 10:38:49 AM

Dplantmann

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RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

TWD

I tried to use the following conventional hyperlink <A HREF="http://ww4.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm?code=AMPF7001&product=Pond+Olympics&price=40.00&userid=64296669">

When I hit the link I get the following message FILE NOT FOUND The requested URL was not found on this server.

At the bottom of the page was this http://dguzan.com/%3cA%20HREF=%22http:/ww4.aitsafe.com/cf/add...

??????

Report Abuse | Date: 1/29/2010 12:07:58 PM

TexasWebDevelopers

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RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

So the link is on one site and the shopping cart is a third-party site, correct? Is the cart secure? (https vs http)

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Report Abuse | Date: 1/30/2010 6:44:25 PM

Dplantmann

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RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

Yes it is a third party site. The buy now information is posted to the shopping cart. The payment page is secure. I'm notified by email that a purchase took place. I go to the third party site to get the information, which I call in to my merchant account.

Just kinda wondering how to get these buy now buttons working?

Thanks.

Don

Report Abuse | Date: 1/31/2010 3:04:12 PM

TexasWebDevelopers

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RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

So your link should be https?

quote:

22http:/ww4.aitsafe.com/cf/add...

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Report Abuse | Date: 2/1/2010 7:07:40 AM

Dplantmann

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RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

TWD

Ok Let's say it is supposed to be https.....why am I getting http://dguzan.com/%3c in front of the link???????

I'm at a roadblock and just looking for a simple solution so I can get a link to work to the third party cart.

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I'm lost. If I can't solve this, I'll go find another cart, but I have to stop the churning.

Thanks again for all your help, but please give me something to try, the daily questions without backup information is just adding to the churning.

Don

Report Abuse | Date: 2/2/2010 6:52:25 AM

Dplantmann

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Member since: 1/21/2010

RE: Help with Buy Now Botton Code (in reply to Dplantmann)

TWD

I just did another link http://ww4.aitsafe.com
Hit the link and it went to the following page

E-commerce-transaction server.
ww4.aitsafe.com

So that worked fine. Still curious why I got the other message?

FILE NOT FOUND The requested URL was not found on this server.

It's confusing!!!!

DG

Report Abuse | Date: 2/2/2010 8:09:14 AM