Their website was made by someone else and I am the one updating and using it and I am a bit lost to be honest. I have coding experience but I am still getting used to the gui. I am trying to integrate some form of e-commerce to the website with little or no experience at installing api's or packages with umbraco.
I was going to simply use paypal but when I put the HTML for the buy now button into umbraco using the html editor it is then clipped out... is there a way that I can enable full html functionality?
I should note that I am using umbraco 4. Thanks for any help, any links to some tutorials would be awesome as well. As far as coding for the site I have done only minimal coding mostly just adding new products and organizing or updating old ones.
First off - never ever paste raw html code in the rich tect editor, using the "edit html" button. That is just not the way to do it.
You should instead consider if the button can be placed directly on the template that the page where the button is used. If that is not an option you can create a XSLT or Razor based macro, where you can place the code and then you can inser the macro into the RTE field instead.
And then I will encourage you to make a local installation for yourself to play around with to get familiar with the different concepts and have a playground where you can experiment without risk of messing up the site you're working on. To do this I recommend that you install the CWS - Creative Website Starter package, which is found in the deli here on our.
You should also consider subscribing to www.umbraco.tv to get a head start about the concepts in Umbraco.
I hope this helps a bit - please don't hesitate to ask any kind of question in here, since we're a friendly bunch who likes to help each other out.
Thanks for the info! Unfortunately I don't know much about creating XSLT or Razor files, I may have some learning to do. This is something that I have to do differently for each product by making a paypal button. Is there no way to add in the html or make it so it doesn't clip the html that I put in there out?
From the videos I have watched the way that this works reminds me a lot of java, which I was not that great at. As far as implementing any sort of e-commerce functionality to our site, is there a package or something that I can install that will help solve any my problems?
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Their website was made by someone else and I am the one updating and using it and I am a bit lost to be honest. I have coding experience but I am still getting used to the gui. I am trying to integrate some form of e-commerce to the website with little or no experience at installing api's or packages with umbraco.
I was going to simply use paypal but when I put the HTML for the buy now button into umbraco using the html editor it is then clipped out... is there a way that I can enable full html functionality?
I should note that I am using umbraco 4. Thanks for any help, any links to some tutorials would be awesome as well. As far as coding for the site I have done only minimal coding mostly just adding new products and organizing or updating old ones.
Hi Joshua and welcome to our! :)
First off - never ever paste raw html code in the rich tect editor, using the "edit html" button. That is just not the way to do it.
You should instead consider if the button can be placed directly on the template that the page where the button is used. If that is not an option you can create a XSLT or Razor based macro, where you can place the code and then you can inser the macro into the RTE field instead.
In order to get a quick idea about how Umbraco works, I think you should have a look at this wiki entry: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/a-complete-newbie%27s-guide-to-umbraco
And then I will encourage you to make a local installation for yourself to play around with to get familiar with the different concepts and have a playground where you can experiment without risk of messing up the site you're working on. To do this I recommend that you install the CWS - Creative Website Starter package, which is found in the deli here on our.
You should also consider subscribing to www.umbraco.tv to get a head start about the concepts in Umbraco.
I hope this helps a bit - please don't hesitate to ask any kind of question in here, since we're a friendly bunch who likes to help each other out.
/Jan
Thanks for the info! Unfortunately I don't know much about creating XSLT or Razor files, I may have some learning to do. This is something that I have to do differently for each product by making a paypal button. Is there no way to add in the html or make it so it doesn't clip the html that I put in there out?
From the videos I have watched the way that this works reminds me a lot of java, which I was not that great at. As far as implementing any sort of e-commerce functionality to our site, is there a package or something that I can install that will help solve any my problems?
Joshua
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