Category Archives: Code
Yahoo! Store tips and Tricks part 1
E-comm will be starting a new mini series of little tips and tricks in with the Yahoo! store and Yahoo! merchant solutions and we hope that this will bring out some of the little know features and “stuff” in the store editor, catalog manager and other areas. Today we will start with the Variables of [...]
Yahoo Store Real Time Shipping with USPS
USPS real time rates are a feature that has been long desired, you can always pay a developer but here is a walk through. I was working on other projects and for a long time I had some issues with USPS’ API and it is because their testing server is not all that functional so [...]
Real simple PHP pagination!
After searching the interwebs for simple PHP pagination and failing to add it to the (non-Yahoo) store I’ve been building, I was fed up and just thought “why can’t I make one myself?” This is not the typical “Yahoo E-commerce” post for which E-comm Solution is known. We’re spreading our wings and branching out into [...]
Google Plus One on your Yahoo Store
Google released Google +1 a few weeks ago and it is here to provide a type of “Social search” for any of your linked friends to your gmail account can see what you have “+1″ on a search and will display your name next to the search result page, check out http://www.google.com/+1/button/ for more info. [...]
Social Share
Yahoo! recently released a new Feature to the Yahoo Store and Merchant Solutions called Social Share, This feature will add a Facebook Like button and a twitter share link for every product on your store. One issue, like every new feature, is if you have Custom templates in your store then you will have to [...]
Real Time Tax Rates
Every year, the state you live in needs more money. They tend to have funny ways of getting the funding they need. For example, many states have a tax rate that changes with the county the customer is in or the item that is for sale. I am in no way a tax consultant and [...]
Fun with jQuery in a Yahoo Store Part 2
So here we are again, last time I posted about jQuery in your Yahoo! store we added a quantity box, that seemed to work well, this time we are going to give you a “You may also like:” cross sale in a Merchant Starter store. This will not auto populate but will make it so [...]
Fun with jQuery in a Yahoo Store
Today we will be stepping away from RTML and doing some JavaScript coding with jQuery. As jQuery puts it on their home page “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you [...]
Facebook "Like" Button
** check out the new Yahoo! social network plugin at Social Share** Social networking is big. If this is news to you, come out from the rock you live under and join the fun on the ”interwebs”. I am going to show you how to add a Facebook Like button to your store with RTML [...]
minified, smushed, and compressed!
Speed, we all love it and want more of it! Fast computers, faster internet connections and faster internet browsers are all well and good, but what can we do to make a faster web page? Every day, web sites and online stores are getting flashier. CSS and JavaScript can do a lot of cool stuff, [...]