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New Features Discussion / Re: Custom Meta Title
« on: October 21, 2014, 06:15:21 PM »
Somebody needs to. I won't live without it.

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New Features Discussion / Re: Custom Meta Title
« on: October 21, 2014, 06:00:23 PM »
I have my standard product title, Amazonite 10mm Round. This shows up on my product page, but I don't want that for SEO. And I don't want a long title on my product page.

So I bought an extension. Now I have a Custom Title Field that I can populate and choose to activate or not. You can see it as the last element in my screen shot. The custom title, which will show up in search results, is Amazonite 10mm Round Gemstone Beads Strands.

I also have custom titles for my categories.

I'm looking at switching from OpenCart to AbanteCart, but lacking this SEO option is a definite deterrent to that move.

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New Features Discussion / Re: Custom Meta Title
« on: October 21, 2014, 05:26:06 PM »
I have that option as an extension in my OpenCart store. It's very handy and essential for SEO. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like on a product page.


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New Features Discussion / Custom Style Sheet
« on: October 21, 2014, 05:21:30 PM »
(I'm moving this here from another board)

I assume that changes to colors, fonts, styles, headers, etc., made in the CSS style sheet are overwritten when upgrades are installed.

Why not create a custom stylesheet--editable in admin--that is never overwritten. The <body> tag of the main site can be modified with the "custom" class, like this: <body class="custom">. Then you can override any CSS declarations contained in style.css using the custom class, like this:

body.custom { background: #032c15; }

It just needs to be easier for nondesigners/programmers to edit the color, font and layout of their site. People who don't want to bother will still want to buy templates.

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Configuration / Re: Customization and Upgrades
« on: September 28, 2014, 04:10:09 PM »
Hey, Lee, thanks so much for responding to my question.

I'm talking about changing things like typeface, font, size, color, column widths, height of header, footer, indentation, etc.

For example, I use the Thesis theme for my blog. Thesis has a section where you can set values for many of the styles in the site. They also have a separate css template for the user that overrides the main templates. I can make any changes in that separate css file and it's never overwritten by Thesis. I believe they accomplish this by placing a second wrapper around the whole site for a specific class, and then you modify the styles in that class. (Something like that. I'm not a programmer.)

The whole idea is to design a site I like, dictating color and style, and have all those changes remain after core updates.

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Configuration / Customization and Upgrades
« on: September 28, 2014, 11:47:07 AM »
I've spent quite some time reading the documentation and I can't find this answer.

I currently have an Open Cart store and am considering moving to AbanteCart Cart. With OpenCart, I have a template that allows me to make changes to the color and layout of my store. Any other changes are dealt with through vQMod or editing core files. However, the template is poorly coded, and I do not trust it to survive a core upgrade.

So how does AbanteCart Cart handle customization without requiring it all to be redone upon upgrade? Is there a blank css file included that'll survive upgrade and where we can create our own styles?

I don't really want to have to go in and change core files every time I upgrade.

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I think everybody would like this option. And those changes should remain intact upon upgrade.

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Fresh Installation / Re: Can't Access Admin--Domain For Sale
« on: October 17, 2013, 10:13:56 AM »
Never mind. Operator error, and I'm too embarrassed to tell you what I did wrong.  ::)

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Fresh Installation / Re: Can't Access Admin--Domain For Sale
« on: October 15, 2013, 01:50:42 PM »
I changed .htaccess.txt to .htaccess

I'm clicking on the link that was sent to me by Softaculous, which includes the index.php?s=myadminname. I verified the correct name in config.php.

But when I click on the link to go to my admin page, I still get the page that my site is for sale. There's no login page.

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Fresh Installation / Can't Access Admin--Domain For Sale
« on: October 14, 2013, 11:31:16 AM »
I installed AbanteCart using Softaculous. But when I click on the link to access my admin page, all I get is a message from Sedo that my domain is for sale.

How do I access my admin page?

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