here is the start of my list of protocols

t h e f u t u r e

- one day there will be tritronics, innotek, & dtsystems templates

- eventually, we will weed out 6 years of doing products 6 different ways

- hopefully, more info will be absorbed back into the caption of the original product.

p r o d u c t s

- page2 is the default item/section/group template

- the name field is only for text. no formatting or graphics. never put html inside a name.

- the name of a product should include the following:
manufacturer > product name > model# and maybe some other keywords
innotek contain 'n' train cnt 666 dog training collar

- options are to be text only with multiple words grouped within " ".
"name of option" "first option (+$0.00)"

- options dropdowns with the name of the dropdowns should be
no more than 35 characters including the (+$0.00)

too long:
"nameofoption" "blaze orange snap holster (+8.99)"
123456789012 345678901234567890123456789012345

right
"option" "orange snap holster (+8.99)"
123456 789012345678901234567890123

for the templates to work, we can't have

- if you can't spell always spelcheck you documants befroe uplodiing them.

- codes are for products.
if it's temporarily out of stock, make orderable=y
if it's discontinued, take off the code/price/sale-price.
now it's a content page.

- never use an object in multiple places. use a link.
if you don't know what this means, ask rob.

h t m l

- hand code your html documents or remove

- captions should only be text with limited html

- never put html inside a name. for any reason.

- never put html inside an option.

i m a g e s

- product photos / images should be no more than 30k in file size

- optimum dimensions of products are 350x350 pixels

- product photos should be jpegs with 15% compression

- gifs are to be used for logos and flat areas of color

f o n t s

- tahoma is the font of the site. do not use any other font

- colors of the site are 255 0 0 red, 128 128 128 gray and 0 0 0 black

- do not use any other colors or fonts on the site.

- please do not use all caps.

n e w p r o d u c t s

- never copy the caption from one site and paste it on to another site.
it's bad manners for google. ask me about the workaround.

sws did not want the qty blank on high ticket items that purchasing more than 1 did not make sense on ...ie no one needs 5 proo 500s. talk to him.

all the skus below 1000 have been truncated (leading "0"'s are missing) (sku's need to be formated as text not numbers when you upload) lucky dog regular dummies should be 0004 not 4

collars - all the option have been pushed to the right. looks odd. need to be lined up on the left http://store.yahoo.com/gundog/-105d-.html

ag

rob snell -- http://www.robsnell.com wrote:

thanks. now take a look.

switched all products (i.e. things with a code) to page2 templates. need to eventually do the non-products, but this will probably have to be done manually because an upload would turn them all into leafed templates.

the breadcrumbs get fried when the item is in more than one place. the long-term fix is to use links to products in multiple places rather than using obj-ids in more than one place.

any "template-killers" ??? we can lose the
tags on dropdowns because they are now hard coded into the templates.

rob