Big Commerce Stores Made Beautiful by Redhead

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Aug 312010
 

Custom Big Commerce DesignBig Commerce online stores now offer over 96 built-in e-commerce templates to choose from.  Although many of these look great, store owners often want an entirely custom design to make their Big Commerce online store really stand out from everyone else.  That’s where Redhead Web Development comes in.  Redhead is a Certified Reseller and Big Commerce design partner who can develop a look for your web store that is hot and sexy or simple and minimalist – your choice.

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Why invest in a custom Big Commerce template design?

  • You need to keep people on your website – studies show that you have just a few seconds to capture and keep the attention of your website’s visitors.  If you don’t maintain a visitor for more than a few seconds on your website, they are gone!
  • You don’t want to lose sales – if your website looks the same as hundreds of others, or if it looks like a cheap template, chances are you’ve lost, and the customer will leave your web store.
  • You need to build instant credibility – a good online store design can do this by showing your customer that you are not a cheapskate.  Reasonable logic would conclude that if you take the cheapest route possible with the look of your new store that you might take the cheapest route possible with the quality of your products.  Why do restaurants and retail stores spend 10′s of thousands of $$ to make their store look great?

Big Commerce Online StoreIt all boils down to making more money in the long run from your e-commerce venture.  Better stores mean better sales.

Contact us with your store ideas.  We can develop the Big Commerce design from scratch, or we can take your design and create a Big Commerce template for you.  Call (417) 272-1932 or Contact Us through our website.

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Big Commerce | How to Remove “There are no products in this category” message

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Jun 122010
 

Remove Message From Big Commerce Category PagesBig Commerce category pages automatically display the following message if you have no products in a certain category, “There are no products in this category.”

This message can be a hassle if you want to create category pages in your Big Commerce web store that are used as web pages without including any products in those categories.  For instance, we often use the WYSIWYG in Big Commerce’s category pages to create regular web pages for wholesale websites.

Using categories allows us to display private pages to wholesale distributors or wholesale dealers by assigning certain categories to the wholesale customer groups within Big Commerce.  This is our workaround, as we can’t currently assign regular web pages to private categories viewable only by wholesale clients.

But with this method, after you’ve created a nice page, who wants that pesky “no products” phrase at the bottom.

How to Remove the Message “There are no products in this category.”

  1. Login to your Big Commerce store admin area
  2. Click on… Store Design > Design Mode tab > Open My Store in Design Mode
  3. After your store is open, navigate to one of the category pages that includes the message
  4. In the upper left hand corner, you will see the Design Mode window
  5. Click on “Toggle”
  6. Then put your mouse on the “There are no products in this category.” message and click
  7. This will highlight message (if it is not entirely highlighted, select it)
  8. Hit your space bar one time, then click  the “Save” button directly below
  9. Click “Save” on the Design Mode window

That’s it the message should be gone.

By the way, while you have the Toggle selected, you can click around pages and on other messages or headers in your store and change them.  Just keep in mind that when you change a header or piece of text, it will change it on all other related pages.

Redhead Web Development is a Certified Design Partner for Big Commerce.  If you need help with this or any other Big Commerce customization, contact Redhead for more information.

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Big Commerce | How to Change Add to Cart Quantity Box Maximum

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Jun 112010
 

Change Big Commerce Quantity BoxBig Commerce stores come with a standard setting that only allows a quantity of 30 items on the quantity dropdown list or 99 items on the quantity text box before clicking “Add to Cart.”  This limits the number of items that may be added to cart.

This does not work for store owners who sell products in bulk who may need to allow customers to add 100′s, 1000′s or 10000′s to their cart.  The fix for this is really quite simple.

Please note that it is much easier to fix the quantity text box than it is the dropdown quantity box. I would not recommend using the dropdown box if your customer needs to add more than 50 items to their cart.  At that point, it’s usually easier for them to just type in the quantity.

How to Fix the Quantity Dropdown Box

  1. Login to your Big Commerce store admin area
  2. Click on… Store Design > Browse Template Files
  3. Under Other Template Files scroll down to the SNIPPETS area to “CartQtySelect.html” and click it to open
  4. Now select the entire line of code on Line 32, where it says, “<option %%GLOBAL_Quantity30%% value=”30″>30</option>”
  5. Copy this line and paste it directly below and in each spot on the the line of code where it says “30″ change it to “31″
  6. Repeat steps 4 and 5, changing the numbers to 32, 33, 34…and so on…till you get the desired maximum quantity you want to allow
  7. Then click “Save” in the upper left hand corner
  8. IMPORTANT:  Do not overwrite any code or characters or you could mess this up.  If you do mess it up, you can always change the code back to default by clicking “Revert to Original” in the upper right hand corner

How to Fix the Quantity Text Box

  1. Login to your Big Commerce store admin area
  2. Click on… Store Design > Browse Template Files
  3. Under Other Template Files scroll down to the SNIPPETS area to “CartQtyText.html” and click it to open
  4. You need to change the following values – input size=”2″ and maxlength=”2″.  These values refer to the size of the text box and number of digits allowed to be typed in to the text box
  5. In place of the number “2″ enter the value you desire – a value of “3″ allows up to 999 items to be added, a value of “4″ allows up to 9,999 items added
  6. Then click “Save” in the upper left hand corner
  7. IMPORTANT:  Do not overwrite any code or characters or you could mess this up.  If you do mess it up, you can always change the code back to default by clicking “Revert to Original” in the upper right hand corner

Redhead Web Development is a Certified Design Partner for Big Commerce.  If you need help with this or any other Big Commerce customization, contact Redhead for more information.

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