The Yahoo Store is a wonderful platform, easy to use as everything has its place: images, text, item info. With the basic setup it will please most customers and Yahoo does a great job with these things.  Some store owners want more, such as an image light box, custom navigation bar or more images, for a few examples.  This last one is what I will show you today, we will be adding more images! Right now the store has 2 images per item, the main image and an inset image. The inset image is placed in the product description area and text will wrap around the image. What I will show you today is how to add 4 images total and move them to just under the main image. With that you can also use the post on Light box to add even more flair to your store. Image on left is of Woven Art & beyond

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one thing that drives me nuts day in and day out is images that enlarge in a new window or on a new page! why when there are so many free options out there that can help you “click to enlarge”. what i will show you today is how to add a light box to your yahoo store. and i am not going to use one that does the full-page only because it has a lot more javascript then i like running (more http request the slower the page loads) i am going to use this option from a site called Dynamic Drive, you can get the code here. Continue reading “Adding a light box to your Store” »

today i will talk about RTML code. i will not waste time on telling you how it started and got its name, i will leave that to Wikipedia. what i will be writing about will be how to get started on your store. how to make a copy of the main template and how to compile some code. just note i will not be using images to show as i am lazy today. so to start we need to go into the store editor and we should all know how to go there. and once you are in the store editor make sure you are in “advanced mode”  once in advanced mode lets keep it there by going into “controls” and for the option “Default Editor Mode” choose “advanced” and sense we are in there lets change “Site Buttons” to “Every Page”. OK, so the basic store setup is done now Continue reading “Getting started with RTML” »