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Imposing Limits

I was going to start off by saying that PayPal is not my preferred method of dealing with transactions. If I could, I’d be much happier dealing with cash. However, the problems inherent with Internet purchases are common to all payment gateways, not just PayPal.  So I suppose it would be unfair to single them [...]

Skin Deep

As this is being written, we are just past the one year mark since Associate-O-Matic introduced templating. This site was knocking out themes in advance of the template rollout, with four completed in the first month alone. Now the finishing touches are being applied to template #16, and it’s probably going to take a minimum [...]

Live Previews?

When this site first went live in Spring 2011, it was decided to offer live previews of all the themes so that interested users could get a feel for how the templates actually work. It’s been pretty successful up to now. However, lately there has been an influx of (primarily) Indonesian pirates who have been [...]

Progress report

Associate-O-Matic version 5.1 has been out for a few weeks as of the time of writing, and many AOM users are coming to this site after upgrading. Some are returning again and again, no doubt to see what’s new. When templating was first introduced a few months ago, there was a mad dash to get [...]

AOM v5.1 Upgrade

Associate-O-Matic version 5.1 has just been released, which has required changes to be made to all current template files on this site. The main changes are outlined briefly below. These include: China: Support has been added for Amazon.cn, including a new Chinese (Mandarin) language file. This has required making new button sets for each theme. [...]

Options

When viewing the various templates available on this site, you might find yourself wondering why the basic layout is similar – left hand category column, two items per row, etc. The answer is quite simple. This is the default configuration of an Associate-O-Matic store when it’s set up fresh and ready to customize. In order [...]

To Tab or Not To Tab

One thing you may notice about the templates on this site is that most of them do not use tabs. In fact I make a point of disabling the tab function within the template (which is spelled out in the README file for each template). So if you don’t see the tabs in the photo [...]

Centerline – A new type of template

As this is being written, Centerline is nearly complete. When the outlines of v5 for Associate-O-Matic were being established (nearly two years ago!), one goal I wanted to accomplish was to create a different look to the products in category view. This meant a vertical look, instead of the ‘image left, text right’ appearance of [...]

Bluescan theme added

The first V5 template theme has finally been added. Bluescan is a conversion of a theme I created about two years previously for Associate-O-Matic. The customer had a mockup of what he (or his client) wanted, and I built the site to match it as closely as possible. In the end they decided for whatever [...]

What Works and What Doesn’t

A few days ago I received an email from someone who was apparently surprised to learn that in the course of creating a template, various aspects of the default AOM design are by necessity, removed or shut off. Their feeling was that removing features makes the theme unusable for their purposes (as they put it). [...]

Changing out the header ads

Many templates available on this site come with space in the header for a typical banner ad, usually 468 x 60 pixels. To give you an idea as to how this would look, the templates that include this feature will come with a generic sample ad, as shown here: When you purchase a template that [...]

Home Page Extras

Many of the templates available on this site include sample home page setups. They are to be found in the /extras subfolder (as well as any associated demo images), usually as homepage1.php, homepage2.php and homepage3.php (See the README file that’s included with the templates for details). You’re free to edit these files any way you [...]

Button, Button

It has recently been announced that Amazon will be adding two more locales to their API (the data feed used by Associate-O-Matic). China (Amazon.cn) and Italy (Amazon.it) will be joining the US, UK, DE, FR, CA and JP locales. This is fantastic news and will allow AOM users to expand into these countries, hopefully with [...]

Manual Installation

The installation process is automatic, fast and easy. But as experienced computer users know, nothing is ever foolproof. This will be a brief look at how to do a manual installation of a template into an Associate-O-Matic site. Before trying a manual install, it’s strongly recommended that you run through the steps of the automatic [...]

Installation Instructions

To start the ball rolling on tutorials, let’s look at the basic install process. To start with, your new template should be in the form of a zip file, which you download into your computer. Unlike the AOM files themselves, which need to be unzipped before installing, you do not have to unzip the template [...]

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There are minor differences in versions of AOM from v5.0.0 to v5.2.1 t

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