caleb
Feb '09

How far in the future (if at all) are shopping cart design tweaks?



I've already maximized the cart to it's fullest using the ID's from the post HTML (changing out the cart image, the width and height of the cart, the background color, etc).



But here is my wish list:



1.) The word "checkout:" in front of the checkout buttons. Ability to modify that to say: Done, or Complete your shopping, or just remove the word altogether if it is redundant to the checkout button.

2.) The ability to make Applied Coupon font larger and not quite so "greyed out."

3.) The ability to make the "Empty Cart" box not quite so visually empty. Maybe add product recommendations or at least center the cart image and button in the large white (empty) box so that it is more nicely formatted. Or perhaps make the empty cart box smaller.



E-junkie has a GREAT service, don't get me wrong, but visual tweaks are somewhat of an obsession of mine. If these tweaks are too programming intensive, etc, I understand. Again, just a wish list.

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Feb '09

We don't really have any plans for more extensive/easy cart customization options than what's already documented here:

2http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom-cart.htm2



You can already do quite a lot with some clever use of CSS, which the overlay cart inherits from your own page/site (since the overlay cart basically renders as a set of extra DIVs "inside" your page). To see how the cart is structured and figure out what you could do with CSS, paste the URL of an Add to Cart button into a blank window/tab and View>Source on that. You can even copy and paste that source into any HTML editor you're more familiar with, which would give you nicer syntax highlighting and code-reformatting options (fully hierarchical indenting could be handy for analysis :^).



One REALLY handy tool we've found is a Firefox extension called View Source Chart:

http://jennifermadden.com/scripts/ViewRenderedSource.html

It does cost $10 for the Firefox 3 version but IMHO worth every penny (and you'd also be supporting a fellow E-junkie Merchant! :^). Using this tool, you could View Cart in the standard overlay fashion and then View Source Chart to see our DIVs and other wrapper code which the browser adds to the end of your own page source when you invoke the cart display, then tailor your CSS as needed.