Hey Ani, I see your Corner Shop is up and running now ... fabulous! What a wonderful selection of handmade one-of-a-kind cards and calendars you've certainly pushed MY desire buttons! And at those prices I'm guessing you'll be inundated with orders ... that may be par for the course in India, but over here folks are used to paying more than that for ho-hum mass-produced cards. Great stuff!

A suggestion on your layout: if you incorporate those big main image graphics into your product description text instead of side by side using the Main Image box, it'll show up "in-line" insteads of pushing the page out so wide. May mean a little extra scrolling to read everything, but most folks would rather do a little extra vertical scrolling rather than having to scroll horizontally if the whole width of the page won't fit on their screen.

Really cool!

Love,
Greg

Uh, what is the html code for incorporating the graphic files in the text of the product description?
my html is rather rudimentary

and thanks for the encouragement

Greg is right about displaying those pictures, Ani. Also, the thumbnails don't do justice to the beauty of some of those pictures.

I have a question and a few suggestions for your booth. But, I have to go have lunch now. I'll be back.

Oh, that's easy. I had to do it for the RLC booth too and I'll tell you when I get back.

fine. then i'll "view source" of the RLC booth for the code

Great, looks like you figured it out and I'm glad you're going to put the pictures on separate pages of their own, because that is what I was going to suggest.

You can make your email addy a mail to link by using the hyperlink button in the HTML Editor Greg added. Select the "mail to" option from the combo box in the hyperlink dialog box.

You can also create hyperlinks to the galleries from the Calendar page, only there's the problem of a logged in user's session not being maintained on such pages.

Oh and here's the question:

Will the 5 cards per set have different pics or will they all be the same?

you need to choose the pictures for the cards. so, the pics can be five different ones, or same, or any combination adding up to five.

hyperlink in the dialogue box i never saw it. probably i wasnt looking properly. i'll go check

O.K. I noticed, you figured it out. But, for everyone else who doesn't know it yet, here we go:



The button with the chain link icon (bottom row, 3rd section, 2nd button) is the one you use to insert a hyperlink. When you click on it, it shows you a "Hyperlink" dialog box asking you for the hyperlink information. There is a "Type" combo box which lets you choose what kind of link you want to create. For a regular link to a web page, you stick with the default "http:" option. To create a link that will launch a mail program like Outlook Express, you choose the "mailto:" option and enter the email adress in the URL text box. The former will display the URL on the page and make it a link, the latter will display the email addy and make it a mailto link that launches a mailing program.

In case, you wish to display some other text on the page instead of the email address or the URL (especially in case of really long ones that can blow up your page horizontally. Remember those long links to threads on the forums?), you need to switch to the HTML mode by clicking on the "View HTML Code" button (bottom row, 3rd section, 5th button). Now, scroll down to where the link should be. For a link to http://consciousevolution.com for instance, you'll notice the code is something like this:

<A HREF="http://consciousevolution.com">http://consciousevolution.com</A>

Now to replace the display text to "Conscious Evolution Home Page", all you have to do is change that code to:

<A HREF="http://consciousevolution.com">Conscious Evolution Home Page</A>

In other words just put the new display text between the <A href="blah.com"> and </A> tags.

Similarly for an email addy, you will notice the code will look something like this:

<A HREF="mailto:rainbowlight@consciousevolution.com">rainbowlight@consciousevolution.com</A>

Just change that to:

<A HREF="mailto:rainbowlight@consciousevolution.com">The Rainbow Light Circle</A>

Now, the button to the right of the Hyperlink button is used to insert images into your description instead of using the "Main Image" text box on your "Edit Booth" or "Edit Product" pages. Place your cursor in the Description text area, wherever you wish to insert the image. When you click on the "Insert Image" button, the "Insert Image -- Web Page Dialog" box is displayed. You enter the URL of your image into the Image URL text box and press OK. That's it. The other options on the dialog box are also useful for formatting etc. They are as follows:

"Alternate Text": Any short caption or text you want to display instead of the image.

"Alignment": Determines how the text on the page will be placed in relation to the image. For instance, the default option Baseline, will start the text next to the bottom of the image. The "Left" option will start displaying the text to the right side of the image, in other words, it will display the image to the left of the text. Don't be scared to experiment with the other placements. If you don't like it, just click on the image you inserted and click the "Insert Image" button again. This time the dialog box will display all the choices you made for this image and let you edit it.

"Border Thickness": If you do not want to give the image a border, leave this blank or enter 0. If you want to give it a border, enter 1. If you want to make the border thicker, enter a higher number.

Under "Spacing" -

"Horizontal": Leaving this blank or entering 0 will make the text next to the image stick to the edge of the image meaning there won't be any horizontal space between the image and the text to it's right and left. To leave a space between the image and the text next to it, enter 1 or (a larger number for wider spacing).

"Vertical": This is similar to the Horizontal spacing option and is used to leave a space above and below the image.

Take a deep breath and remember that it always sounds more complicated when someone explains it to you in so many words, but it's much easier to do. Have Fun!

Ani, for your Gallery pages, why don't you enter the "Not for Sale" text in the Description text area rather than the Details text box? That way, you won't get the Details Text Area on your Gallery pages.

Eagle ,

that graphic which you posted above, the one with all sorts of tools that lets you edit, how do you get that graphic/menu bar? I didnt see any while editing/modifying my booth

That's how the Long Description text area on the Editing pages looks now. That's the HTML editor Greg added and you use it pretty much like the Rich Text Format options in Hotmail or MS Word.

it isn't visible in mine

Ahhh ... sorry I didn't mention this earlier ... there IS a catch with the HTML editor: you must be using Internet Explorer 5.5 or above to see it! Earlier versions, or Netscape, simply don't have the built-in "hooks" to allow this functionality to work. If this applies to you, you will just see a regular text-edit box instead of the HTML editor.

You CAN still use HTML code in your descriptions, but you'll have to enter it manually (or create your description in an external HTML editor and then paste the code into the description box.) If none of these options work for you, then you can just send me a message with your description and a note explaining what you want to do, and I will be happy to make the changes for you. I'm sure that lots of other folks who are comfortable with HTML would be happy to do the same thing.

Sorry for this limitation, there just wasn't any way to get around it that I could find! If I do hit on a better solution, I'll implement it right away ... but in the meantime I stand ready to help anyone with an unsupported browser version who needs HTML formatting and is uncomfortable with HTML tags.

Love,
Greg

Just check out Cristina's booth at the co-op. It is simply wow

Libra_Sun's Sunny Side

Greg, no sweat about the html WYSIWYG editor. For the time being, I can make do with my limited knowledge of html tags. And in any case, I know that if I need anything I just have to holler and a lot of folks simply jump in to help Great place, this.

Yup, best looking booth yet!

Greg and all , how's this for the category and subcategory list:

• Astrology & Spirituality
  (i) horoscopes & charts
  (ii) I ching
  (iii) Tarot
  (iv) Others
• Readings & Counselling
  (i) horocopes & charts
  (ii) Tarot
  (iii) Dreams
  (iv) Intuitive
• Healing & Prayers
• Personal items
  (i) Clothes
  (ii) Jewellery
  (ii) Toilette
  (iv) Others
• Gifts
• Crafts
• Nature Store
  (i) Incense
  (ii) Toilette
  (iii) Curios
  (iv) Others
  

The booths are looking really great!

Yes, Maria, they ARE!!

You guys have done a Fantastic Work!!
There's lots of organizing and thingking and creativity in all of the booths,
and that's a lot of time and concentration involved.
Congrats for your accomplishments!