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Showing posts with label Design Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design Tips. Show all posts

Sunday, January 20, 2013

How to Add a Brands Page [DESIGN]

By default, BigCommerce brand pages simply list the name of the brand at the top and all of the products underneath that brand name. Customers sometimes want a little more information about the brand and it certainly would be nice to have a well recognized brand logo appear on a brands page, wouldn't it?

In BigCommerce, it is definitely possible to add a logo, text and even tables to a brands page - just like you can with any other product or category page. In fact, it is very easy to do! Here's how it's done:
  1. Login to your BigCommerce Control Panel, click the Marketing tab and then select View Banners
  2. Click Create a Banner
  3. Name your banner anything you want (it is for your own use and is not viewable by customers)
  4. Add pictures, text or tables to the editor window
  5. Scroll down to the "Show on Page" section and click the For a Specific Brand radio button
  6. Select the brand the page is for from the new drop-down menu that appears
  7. In the "Location" section, select Top of Page or Bottom of Page from the drop-down menu
  8. Click the Save button
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Ref: storecoach.com

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

BigCommerce design in general and Its guide

BigCommerce shopping cart is not a free e-commerce platform, you need to pay per what you use.
BigCommerce provide many free templates to allow you to use as your store and you can modify the design or hire some designers to do the job for you there.

So you have to aware about how BigCommerce design the template?
First, BigCommerce's template comes with something we call: layout, panel and snippet.

  • Layout: how each of the webpage will show. Layout contains many panel code
    • Layout file is structured in HTML style, you can include CSS, javascript as you wish.
    • Ex: default layout, product display layout, cart layout etc.
  • Panel: Each part of the layout you want to manage it such as to list product on sidebar, to display feature product part on home page or to make a panel for slideshow etc.
    • To call panel, you need to use: %%panel-name%%
    • Panel contains many SNIPPET code
  • Snippet: That's a piece of code you want to describe, something like how a category will show etc.
BigCommerce recommended for every designer to read their designing guide that you can download from here: [BigCommerce Customization Guide v1.0].

Beside, all simple guides in the pdf file above, of course, I do not find exactly any advance option on design part of BigCommerce that is easy to read. You need to invest your time to read its support forum or tutorials. Of course, if I found, I'll post here.