nopCommerce Tips: Embedding a Topic In An Existing Page

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 March 2013 09:22 Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 24 March 2013 12:00

The basic content included in the standard version of nopCommerce provides a comprehensive shopping experience for most site users. However, there are times when it’s desirable to include dynamic content in an existing page of the site. We’ll cover how to embed a topic in an existing page of your nopCommerce-driven website.

OpenCart – Moving your Existing Installation to Arvixe

Last Updated on Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:06 Written by Joe Stenhouse Thursday, 7 March 2013 12:00

Moving an entire website that you have spent a long time creating can be a scary task especially with the possibility of data loss. However, sometimes circumstances warrant a move. This article will tell you how to do it the proper way to endure a smooth transition. This process is actually not that difficult if you follow the directions and make sure all of your t’s are crossed and your i’s dotted.

Preliminary tasks:

Updating the Cart in OpenCart

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 December 2012 12:00 Written by Joe Stenhouse Saturday, 29 December 2012 12:00

In a previous article we gave you an in depth look at how to add to your cart and how that reflects on both ends, the back end and the front end. This article will tell you how the cart updates if you should want to edit any existing cart contents. A page that you can perform this edit would be the main shopping cart page located at index.php?route=checkout/cart

The Cart Array

nopCommerce Tips: Upgrading Your Existing Pre-2.x nopCommerce Site

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:19 Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 30 September 2012 12:00

I’ve been using nopCommerce for my clients for quite some time. However, I’ve had one client I hadn’t done an upgrade for since the 2.x update to nopCommerce – we’d wanted to wait until the mobile support was in place, and performance/stability issues had been addressed. Earlier this summer, we started planning a re-design to work with her expanded market. Finally, it was time for the upgrade. After having completed two other 2.6 nopCommerce sites in as many weeks, I thought this would be smooth sailing. Well, maybe not quite so much. Here’s some of the snags we hit, and the workarounds put into place.

Because there was such a gap between the old version (1.9) and the newest (2.65), pretty much everything was a wash (thus the opportunity for a re-design), so I decided to take advantage of the “Fashion” theme from nop-Templates. The clean lines and simple color scheme made it easy to strip down and incorporate the design elements for the new site. Since the client is a milliner, the extensions that come with the theme were a great addition.

nopCommerce Tips: Creating a Custom Layout, Part 4 – Adapting Skins

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2012 10:42 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:00

Read Part 3 here!
It’s safe to say that for every target demographic, there’s a unique approach that will best achieve your goal of reaching them. Whether it’s using a color scheme or graphics, or a layout that shows your product line off to its best advantage, there is no one storefront that will appeal to all demographics. It’s a given that you’ll want to customize your nopCommerce store’s appearance to appeal to your customers – let’s touch on ways to modify an existing skin for that purpose.

nopCommerce ships with two web themes: DarkOrange, and nopClassic, under Nop.Web/Themes.