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If version 5 is web based, how will I edit my template?
Gerald
posted this on January 14, 2011 12:53
You will have far more design flexibility in ezimerchant v5 including complete design control over:
- Content Pages
- Category Pages
- Product Pages
- Cart Page
- Search Results Page
- Checkout Pages
- Customer Portal Pages
- Customer Emails
When you choose to edit your template, you will be presented with 4 different ways to connect to the templates on our secure server. This initial setup is through a simple set of instructions in the web control panel.
Once the template server connect has been setup, you can use a HTML editor with built in WebDAV (such as DreamWeaver) to edit the files directly, or use a Windows network drive (or webdrive on Mac) to download them for local editing before using the drive to send the changes back. Once changed, simply refresh the relevant pages(s) to see the results.
Another way to connect to your template is via http://support.ezimerchant.com/entries/20302236-another-way-to-access-your-template-via-bitkinex
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Dear Gerald
I am editing the email template that the customer gets to notify them. I cannot seem to get my images to display - neither the product images ( which do display in the cart) or the logo images I have inserted into the order confirmation.
Any tips?
id be keen to know too, not holding breath tho
If you include a full URL to the image your referencing in the email. The image should display in the email with no problems.
Hi James
Yes that is what I thought - the issue is for us what is the url I guess. For instance is it https//secure.ezimerchant.com/xxxxx/template/images/logo.png or is it http://ezimerchant.com/site/assets/xxxxx/template/images/logo.png? with the xxxx being our account number. I can't seem to figure it out.
Ally
Alternatively should all non ezimerchant files be accessed from a non exzimerchant site i.e. should I set these files up under my own website and access them from that?
Hi Alison,
Yes the xxxxx is your merchant number in the top right of your ezimerchant next to 'Current Account'
You can reference images on your current site in the email templates. Considering there is already a logo on there that you can reference - you could use that in your image reference, e.g:
http://ink-care.com/images/Tempate-Page2_01.gif
If you want to reference an image you put into your ezimerchant template directory you can reference:
https://phwyjy.ezimerchant.com/FOLDERNAMEHERE/IMAGENAMEHERE
So I can definately see the images, in the orderreceived.ezitpl file, when reviewed live and with safari, however the emails still arrive in the customers inbox without an image. I am sure it is something simple but I don't know what it is that I am doing wrong. Any ideas appreciated and to this end I have attached the local file? Also any ideas how to get the current date to appear in the email? I'm using the insert DATE function in dreamweaver CS5 but it is inserted in a table.
<tr> <td height="129" align="center"><!-- #BeginDate format:Am1 -->March 2, 2011<!-- #EndDate --></td> <td align="center">
I don't think the 'date' function is going to work in dreamweaver. If you want to expose the date the order was placed in the email template, we should be able to do that with the {date} tag.
Thanks James finally got the images to display in email. It seemed that if I used .jpg instead of .png then the email would display them. Saying that it might have been some other combination of changes that did the trick.
Can we get ezimerchant to reset our templates?
Yes, we can push them back to the default templates again. Would you like me to do that now?