newbie.. Need Help with integrating.

[lindsayanng]

ok, i am not new to web design, but i am new to the whole e-commerce thing. This is the first time i have ever had to put a shopping cart in one of my websites. I am also not really familiar with xhtml or html. I am learning. I use dreamweaver mainly in the design mode, so when i pulled up ocommerce and saw that there was nothing for me to work with in that mode, i was a little nervous.

 

So my main question is:

Is there a way to edit my shopping cart in a design mode within dreamweaver or any other program? (I have a mac that runs on OSX) and how do i get there??

 

If you think you can help me please try.. If you want to IM me, my yahoo messanger name is photocouture

[FulfillDisc]

ok, i am not new to web design, but i am new to the whole e-commerce thing. This is the first time i have ever had to put a shopping cart in one of my websites. I am also not really familiar with xhtml or html. I am learning. I use dreamweaver mainly in the design mode, so when i pulled up ocommerce and saw that there was nothing for me to work with in that mode, i was a little nervous.

 

So my main question is:

Is there a way to edit my shopping cart in a design mode within dreamweaver or any other program? (I have a mac that runs on OSX) and how do i get there??

 

If you think you can help me please try.. If you want to IM me, my yahoo messanger name is photocouture

 

I was in the same boat as you yesterday when I first downloaded the installers of osCommerce. I'm used to creating content inside GoLive and am not familar with HTML. The way I've managed to create my eStores is using Transmit (a free ftp client) as a simple text editor. I only had to open GoLive once today when I got an error message on Line 60 of a page -- had to open the file in GL just to see what was on Line 60.

 

Give it a try -- this isn't as hard as you might think.

 

Good luck

 

- Sean

[lindsayanng]

How do you view it in the transmit.. it doesnt make sense as to HOW you can edit things through an FTP client...My ftp is built into dream weaver.. My catalog has to be more than simple text thought.. will is still work the way you said??? I need more info.. like i said, i'm a newbie

[Guest]

I only use dreamweaver to edit my site both coder and design view. You need to be able to look at code and have a slight understanding of what you are looking at. In design view you will not see all the elements etc but you will see the table cells and area which if you look at and compare to the actual webpage you want to edit and you can see correlations but the bottom line is you are going to have to get stuck in, make some edits, upload and see what you have done.

 

Always backup first and buy some kind of book whether it html specific or a dreamweaver manual.

 

If you look at my site which is not finished yet and not a drastic departure from stock osc but I like it. It has been edited with dreamweaver alone.

 

http://www.coolnquiet.co.uk/index.php

 

I am doing more edits in coder view as dreamweaver's designer view will make you lazy in terms of learning what you are doing.

[zhexiang]

Yes, you may do osc work in Dreamweaver. The only thing is you can't view the PHP code in Design view, unless it has html table element, you can see how the page is layout.

[lindsayanng]

Ok, so since you cant edit it in the design part of dreamweaver, i feel like if i touch it it will ruin something because i am not comfortable enough with code to touch it yet.. I basically learned by building my website in the SPLIT view on dreamweaver and buying a couple of books..

 

So heres my next question, I was told that OScommerce has an online control panel, can i use that to edit my shopping cart in a WYSIWYG format? I have a guy now who is going to work on integrating the cart to my site, but i will be the one inputing all of the data mainly because i do not want to pay someone for something i am pretty sure i can do.. So you guys knowing that i am basically useless when it comes to code, is this something that you think i can figure out???

 

I have also been taking the HTML tutors on ABOUT.com, does anyone else have suggestions for learning tools?