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Amazon aStore with WordPressAdding an Amazon aStore to WordPress is as simple as pasting a line of code for the embedded br (inline frame). To see an example, click the Real Tea button in the top menu. The “gotcha” is that the default full-width aStore is 796 pixels wide. Add a vertical scrollbar for long pages, and it needs 813 pixels. Does your blog have that much available space in the content area for the sprawling aStore? Most do not. Nevertheless, many folks insist on cramming ten pounds of ‘taters in a five-pound bag when they add an aStore to their WordPress site. Then they complain that it’s cut off on the right, blaming the store instead of their site or blog layout. My objective in this post is to help you mend your evil ways and understand what you must do to make your store fit your blog or vice versa.
There are several approaches to fitting an aStore into a site or blog:
Get the detailsI don’t want to repeat information from other articles I’ve posted on how to make the aStore narrower. So, for detailed instructions on how to work with the aStore layout, please visit my aStore posts at Greene Teapot. May 17th, 2011 | Tags: Amazon Associates, aStore, br | Category: Amazon | 9 comments Amazon Auto Parts WidgetUpdate: The Auto Parts widget is back! It disappeared in October 2010, because of changes in the Product Advertising API, but has recently returned to the Amazon Associates' widget list. It's really one of the nicer widgets and works great, if you have an appropriate website for it. The widget's Go button is disabled and grayed out until the visitor selects an option from each dropdown. This feature ensures that your visitor will get relevant results for year, make, and model and is less likely to order the wrong part. There is also an "Automotive" section on Amazon that Associates may link to, and it has a similar parts finder search, but it looks a bit different, as shown below:
Here is historical information from the API announcement from 2010, when the widget disappeared:
January 31st, 2011 | Tags: Amazon Associates, widget | Category: Amazon | Leave a comment Install WordPress on your home computerI like to try new things with WordPress, but it's time consuming, and occasionally risky, to upload every incremental change or tweak to a remote web host for testing. Wouldn't it be great to have a local test environment with MySql, PHP, and WordPress? After doing a little research, I discovered XAMPP, with Apache, MySQL, [...] June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Apache, WordPress, XAMPP | Category: Web Building, WordPress | Leave a comment br in a postAs a test, I edited this post in the Visual editor, switched to HTML to add the br, and published. Never go back to the Visual editor after adding an br tag to a post because the TinyMCE editor will strip it out. It’s advisable to install the tiny RawHTML plugin, if you use [...] March 23rd, 2010 | Tags: create links, br, WordPress | Category: WordPress | Leave a comment Link to product details in an aStore br
It’s easy to link to product detail pages in a standalone Amazon store, or to use the target attribute with a custom navigation menu on the same web page as an aStore br. But what if you have several product reviews on various pages of your site, and want to link to their product [...] March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Amazon Associates, aStore, create links, jQuery, PHP, product details, script, widget, WordPress | Category: Amazon, Web Building, WordPress | 13 comments BCPL tips and tutorialsAs a volunteer with Friends of the Blount County Library, I'm happy to provide a little extra technical support for fellow users of TEL (Tennessee Electronic Library) databases and a growing collection of eBooks and audio books. There is a link to BCPL Tips and Tutorials in the top menubar: If your question is not answered here, [...] February 13th, 2010 | Tags: audiobooks, Blount County Public Library, eBooks, TEL | Category: Blount County Public Library | Leave a comment Trying out jingI have coveted Camtasia ever since I downloaded it as a 30-day trial several years ago, but couldn’t justify the cost. Last week, I discovered Jing. My goal was to find screencasting software for demos on how to access databases from a portal site. First I tried using my trusty copy of SnagIt, which gave [...] February 10th, 2010 | Tags: jing, screencasts | Category: Web Building | 2 comments Precise font-size and line-heightI love the flexibility of the Atahualpa WordPress Theme Options list, but I confess to making one change to a core file outside of the Options interface. I added a line to css.php to set the font-size of the root element to 62.5% so that the body font expressed in ems could be calculated as [...] January 4th, 2010 | Tags: fonts, line-height, WordPress | Category: Web Building, WordPress | Leave a comment Amazon Video on Demand WidgetAmazon has had a Flash widget for previewing shows offered by its Video On Demand service. Amazon Associates may add the widget to web pages or blog posts. The first step in creating the widget is to select popular types of shows from a menu or choose items from keyword search results. The widget wizard [...] January 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Amazon Associates, video, widget | Category: Amazon, Web Building | Leave a comment Create an Amazon Image linkThere are several ways to create Amazon image links in WordPress. This post describes how to download a product image from Amazon (or construct a direct URL to a product image), and then use the WordPress Upload/Insert Media wizard to upload the image (or specify the image URL), and create the image link. Experienced web developers [...] October 18th, 2009 | Tags: Amazon Associates, create links, image-links, images, widget | Category: Amazon, Web Building | 5 comments Older Entries » |
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