Catalogue pages – sort order fix

Thanks to subscribers for reporting the sort order error.

We’ve updated the site with a fix. Please test it and report any errors you may come across. Email us on support@sitesplus.co.uk

Many thanks

Kate at SitesPlus HQ

Updated image briefing

We’ve updated our briefing that deals with images http://www.sitesplus.co.uk/briefings/3_images_and_downloads.pdf

We’ve updated it with instructions on cropping and re-sizing using the new picnik software. We think this is the best image manipulation software out there in the market, and it’s free!

You do need Flash installed on your computer to use it though. But don’t worry, most people have that pre-installed now.

This guide will help you to painlessly upload your own website images. If you do get stuck, remember we’re on hand to help. Email us support@sitesplus.co.uk

Regards
Kate at SitesPlus HQ

Merry Christmas

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all our SitesPlus subscribers (and triallers!) a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

We’ve been so grateful to you all for your encouragement and support throughout this year.

We’ll be closing our support line on 24th December and re-opening on 5th January 2009. If however, you do have an urgent request, please do email us or contact Kate on her mobile, the details of which will be left on the voicemail.

We do hope you have a peaceful Christmas and look forward to working with you on your sites in the New Year.

Kate and the SitesPlus support team.

Flat rate post and packaging option in SitesPlus Shopping catalogue

Flat-rate postage and packing

There are now 2 ways to charge postage and packing to your customers on your SitesPlus website.
 
1. Postage per item – to do this simply add postage to every item you input into the catalogue

2. Flat-rate postage per order – automatically adds a flat-rate postage charge to the total order value, regardless of the number of items purchased.

Flat-rate postage per order

This flat-rate charge will be added at the checkout page, rather than shown on every item.

If you are using this flat rate, make sure you are not charging post and packaging on individual items.

You might want to include a comment in your introductory paragraph explaining the flat rate charge for postage and packing.

Let us know how this works for you? Comments to support@sitesplus.co.uk

SitesPlus home page makeover

Do you like our new home page makeover? what do you think?

What’s your first impression when you clicked on it? Please let us know what you think! Email us on support@sitesplus.co.uk  

New Help Format

You’ll notice we’ve been implementing a new help format within the SitesPlus Site Builder pages and we’d really like your feedback.

Are they easy to use? Are they obvious enough? Did they give you enough information? Spotted a spelling error (oops!)?

Please let us know by emailing us on support@sitesplus.co.uk

Introducing our new style – Crisp Classic

Looking to refresh your site? Take a look at our new Crisp Classic design – with 22 colour choices there should be one that suits your style.

Changing design isn’t as radical as it sounds. All content is automatically transferred. You’ll need to revisit your home page images, but that’s all. And if you decide you prefer your original style you can just re-select it!

Crisp Classic provides scope for some great, individual results. There’s a choice of different coloured banners which can take up to 4 images. Or just choose a white banner and overlay with with a single, striking image. The choice is yours.

Worth taking a look? Just select Style. View the image dimensions for Crisp Classic below.

Remember we are here to help – particularly if you’re struggling with your home page images!

SitesPlus Crisp Classic – home page image sizes         

Template style	Max height	Max width
Crisp Classic	150 pixels – images overwrite the coloured banner. Choose banner colour (or select black or white) and then insert images.	Can be made up of 1 image 900 pixels wide 2 images 450 pixels wide 3 images 300 pixels wide 4 images 225 pixels wide

Home Page logo

Template styles	Max height	Max width
Crisp Classic	80	Up to 900 pixels

Shopping Cart Developments

Thanks for your feedback, as ever you have been conscientiously letting us know which improvments you’d like to see on the SitesPlus shopping cart. We’re in the middle of creating a development plan which will include many of your suggestions.

In the mean time we’ve added a new ‘view your basket’ button to all the sites that sell. This will allow your buyers to skip from the catalogue pages to their shopping cart mush easier than before.

As always – let us know what you think.
Kate

New Catalogue and shopping cart

Important news! We’ve installed the new SitesPlus Catalogue and Shopping Cart!

What you will see
If you use the products and services pages to sell online or to display listed items, you’ll notice several
changes.

Horizontal layout – in line with current best practice, all items will be displayed
horizontally in one column. This means you can display more
text against each item and has also enabled us to improve the general
layout.

Brief and full product descriptions – gives you more control over the text displayed against
listed items You will be able to enter a brief description and a separate full description for each item, viewable on selecting the More button.

Image enlargement – improved display of the larger versions of product images.
It’s advisable to upload an enlarged product image wherever
possible.

Fully featured shopping cart – allows multiple purchase of the same or different items integrated
with payment via PayPal.

Administering the new pages

Your existing products and services pages now form your catalogue. You’ll notice the products and services buttons have disappeared from the left-hand menu in your adminstration system and have been replaced by a new catalogue button. Don’t worry! They are still there!

Click on Catalogue to see a summary of the catalogue pages we used to call Products and Services and download the briefing which will guide you through the new system.

For instance, to edit items, click on View items, next to the category or page in which you placed the item, then click edit next to the item name and make your changes.

The change also allows you to add new catalogue pages on request.

We hope you’ll find the changes a significant improvement. Please let us know straightaway if you
experience any hitches and, finally, don’t forget to let us know what you think of the new system!

Services Page Image enlargement

Kate says:
Good news, the services page now displays the ‘enlarge image’ option too. So you can click on the image to see a bigger picture, as you can in the products page.

To use this feature save your services image twice, once as a small image about 90 pixels high and again as a larger image up to 500 pixels high. Upload them in the usual way. Call or email us if you have any queries.

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