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 make some RTML changes.  If you don’t have custom templates you can just turn it on and enjoy. I will be walking you through setting up the new SOCIAL-SHARE RTML operator.  Even if you don’t have custom templates I will also show you some nice CSS to add to your css-edits style sheet and get your social ON!

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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 write JavaScript”

E-comm Solution loves to use jQuery libraries to build items into Yahoo Stores and WordPress Blogs.  We will be starting a small series to help you make changes in the store without the use of RTML, using JavaScript to help you out.  In this post, we will add a Quantity box to your store using copy and paste. Continue reading “Fun with jQuery in a Yahoo Store” »

It has been months since Yahoo! customer registration was announced on the Yahoo store blog and now, as of the 16th of August,  it is a live beta.  I, for one, am excited about this and the fact that it is a beta means that there is more in store for this awesome feature.  As of this write-up it supports some open ID platforms, such as Yahoo! Google and AOL. I am sure more are planned and I bet they will add a way to make your own ID.  Installation on a new store is easy as pie, so I will not cover that, but I am going to cover the HTML and RTML installations. Continue reading “Yahoo! Customer Registration” »

** 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 code.  This button will have the item page URL built into it so everyone’s friends can see what they liked. The goal of this is to bring in new customers, and I hope that it helps your Yahoo! store.

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Over time, your store will take longer and longer to publish.  Some of the things that contribute to this are the number of items in your store, the number of templates you have and the amount of work your templates need to do to make the HTML for the page.  One way to speed up publishing is to remove unnecessary elements from the editor.  If you have custom templates you can do a little RTML coding and change how the site will publish. Continue reading “Speed up your publish” »

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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Many items that fall under many sections, Brands, categories and maybe price but all show the same Path or Bread Crumbs, in the Yahoo! Merchant solutions it will only show the Parent section that holds that item. There are a few options to showing the bread crumb trail and the one that I will be sharing today will be multi-breadcrumb.
With Multi-breadcrumb it will show all paths to that item and all will link back to the section that it came from, now this is not “live breadcrumbs” as that will take JavaScript to make it work and I don’t like to share JavaScript code because that will sometimes get hard but this is the same RTML that is used in Live breadcrumbs and can work for you if you know how to code it. I will be showing you how to modify the current breadcrumbs template to make this work.

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Lets say that for years you did not know about a 301 redirect in the yahoo store and you just found out, you maybe thinking that you will lose the page ranking that you have at this time with all the WWW in the URL well we can help fix that with page level canonical. Canonical is somewhat new to the world of the web and is a field that Google and Yahoo both use so lets build one in RTML for your store! Continue reading “Page Level canonical in the yahoo store” »

As of the 30th of march Yahoo! released a new store feature called a floating cart. now a floating cart allows your customer to see what and how much they have in the shopping cart without going to the shopping cart, that is less clicks for your customer and in turn less likely to leave your store without buying something. now if you have a store that uses stock templates then all you need to do is go into the floating cart manager and select the show options then save and publish but if you have custom templates then it will be more work. let me walk you through a few of the ways you can get the floating cart (or FC for short) into your store with out hiring it out!

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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” »