To put the naviagation on the home page - just copy the links that Able
gives to each group and paste them onto links on your home page.
Paul Burgess
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 1:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Is Able Commerce truly user-unfriendly and hence useless?
>
>
> I have a site with 3 categories:
>
> 1. VANS
> 2. TRUCKS
> 3. SUVS
>
> So what I need to do is have three tabs on the home page, each
> tab going to
> a page that has the group listings of each category on the next
> page. So if
> a visitor clicks on VANS, they go to a page with a nice picture of a van
> and a listing of all VAN products. When they click on a product,
> they see a
> display, etc. This I have not been able to accomplish with Able
> Commerce's
> so called wizards.
>
> Next, I need to change the icons, that I agree is not such a big
> deal but I
> was amazed that they would have enough courage to ship their product with
> such an ugly set. A real montrosity, I share this to vent my frustration
> with the user-unfriendliness of the product. I couldn't even get one page
> to list all 3 categories in a table with 3 rows.
>
> And finally to add insult to injury, when someone clicks on SEATS as a
> group listing, on the next page, instead of seeing a listing of all seats
> one after another vertically in a column, the visitor is expected
> to click
> on an ugly NEXT button to see the next one. No thumbnails, highly arcane
> looking navigation system created by their templates/wizards with
> graphics
> hit hard by an ugly stick. Not only is the program not easy to use, the
> resulting PREVIEWS look so bad due to the layout/ugly icons, I dare not
> show them to my client.
>
> At 01:19 PM 4/16/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> >I do not understand - you can change all the icons in any version of Able
> >Commerce. I agree they do not supply an icon library but there
> are so many
> >of those anway. Can you be more specific about what you cannot easily
> >customise. I have no commercial interest in Able just want to see a fair
> >representation of the product.
> >
> >Paul Burgess
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 12:57 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Is Able Commerce truly user-unfriendly and hence useless?
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear Adrian,
> > >
> > > Try to customize the look and feel of your pages and then let me
> > > know if I
> > > am being unfair. The basic look created by Able Commerce is
> so ugly there
> > > should be a law against it. In fact I'm writing my Senator
> about it right
> > > now - i.e. abolish any net tax incentives but do enact a web site
> > > ugliness
> > > law to incentivise the folks at Able Commerce to come up with
> > > some at least
> > > half way decent looking icons instead of those hit hard with an
> > > ugly stick.
> > > We want visitors to stay on a site, not run away from it due to
> > > torture to
> > > the eyeballs. I would write to Clinton but hes no doubt
> sidetracked with
> > > some intern:)
> > >
> > > Bottom line is this is a totally frustrating piece of
> software, there has
> > > to be something out there thats more user friendly. I've tackled more
> > > complex jobs than a mere shopping cart deal in the past, but this Able
> > > Commerce is unfortunately despite a GUI admin very user
> > > unfriendly. Again,
> > > appreciate any help as far as a ref to a workable program.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Pardee.
> > >
> > > At 12:54 PM 4/16/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The basic look made by Able Commerce is so ugly that the
> > > resulting pages
> > > > > make one desire to throw up.
> > > >
> > > >I think you are being somewhat unfair to Able Commerce from my
> > > experimentation
> > > >with it :-) But as I don't use the program yet in production, perhaps
> > > >others who
> > > >do could address your concerns.
> > > >
> > > >While I am here - I need recommendations for CF based eCommerce
> > > system, which
> > > >will enable full online order tracking by shoppers - Amazon
> > > style etc.. Any
> > > >recommendations?
> > > >
> > > >I also have a client who wants an auction system (the
> customer is always
> > > >right) - what is the best CF based auction system out there?
> > > Emaze looks
> > > >good -
> > > >anyone used it?
> > > >
> > > >Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >Adrian Cooper.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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