Re: Content of <HEAD> area for external catalog pages [Archive]

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JoJo

04-Oct-2007, 09:40 AM

Hi

I am a little unsure of the content I need to put in the <HEAD> area of external Actinic pages such as: www.yourdomain.co.uk/page.htm. I have created a few external pages that include the links to 'View Cart' and 'Checkout,' and wondered as I have links to these variables do I also need to include all the same code in the <HEAD> area as in the main Actinic pages.

Thanks

Johanne

leehack

04-Oct-2007, 10:10 AM

RuralWeb

04-Oct-2007, 10:25 AM

external Actinic pages Can you clarify what you are talking about - if its non product pages then these should be created within actinic if the are on another domain then they head should contain all the normal meta tags.

JoJo

05-Oct-2007, 02:37 PM

Can you clarify what you are talking about - if its non product pages then these should be created within actinic if the are on another domain then they head should contain all the normal meta tags.

Hi

Yes they are non product pages, they are on the same domain, but rather than being created in the main actinic directory, I have created them outside the directory, mainly as they are information pages only. I know I could have created these within the directory but decided to do it this way. I hadn't thought about the <HEAD> area at the time, but it just occurred to me whether I should put the variables such as:






in the <HEAD> area even though they are not acatalog pages?

Cheers

Johanne

JoJo

05-Oct-2007, 02:41 PM

You should be able to just include the full URL to those items, that should do it. I am not aware that you need to put anything in the HEAD area. If you do, then it will be detailed in the AUG as there is an article on 'adding to the cart from anywhere on the web'.

Hi

Thanks for this, I was a little unsure of what you meant as it is within the same domain that I have the external links. I will check the AUG though as that would be useful to know.

Thanks

Johanne

RuralWeb

05-Oct-2007, 05:05 PM

whether I should put the variables Ther is no point as they will not be populated by actinic - you need to add the meta details using DW etc

JoJo

08-Oct-2007, 03:41 PM

Hi

Yes I thought that might be the case, only I forgot to mention as I have the shopping cart details on these information pages as well, I wondered whether extra actinic information should go in the Head section for these pages. I have just placed the tags below in the Head section so that the '0' increments when a product is added to the cart:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="acatalog/actiniccore.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="acatalog/actinicextras.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>

Thanks

Johanne

RuralWeb

08-Oct-2007, 04:03 PM

I wondered whether extra actinic information should go in the Head section for these pagesNothing actinic will work in external pages - the only thing you can do is add to cart which is detailed in the AUG.

RuralWeb

08-Oct-2007, 04:03 PM

JoJo

08-Oct-2007, 05:40 PM

Hi

The '0' does work for the shopping cart, by incrementing the amount of products in the cart and the value etc. on these external pages, that's the only actinic feature I'm using.

Thanks

Johanne

RuralWeb

08-Oct-2007, 08:07 PM

that's the only actinic feature I'm usingThen I dont understand the question??? If it works as you want why do you need more

JoJo

09-Oct-2007, 01:06 PM

pnagames

09-Oct-2007, 01:51 PM

simply because.... as there is an Actinic feature that is working on these external pages, I thought the rest of the content might need to be added in the Head area as well, however as I wasn't sure, thought I'd ask the question as that's what this forum is for.

Netquotevars and other actinic code usually doesn't work on pages created externally.

this is because Actinic translates the variables to code when it does the upload.

Having the page outside the actinic folder (and i would imagine outside the actinic program itself) is imho pointless. you can create them within actinic as brochure pages, use a template that you want and populate them using fragments. this way you will get more of the actinic code from the amin pages to work

RuralWeb

09-Oct-2007, 02:55 PM

Netquotevars and other actinic code usually doesn't work on pages created externallyBack to my original post - obviously you are not understanding my answers so I will leave it to someone else to help you.

peblaco

09-Oct-2007, 03:33 PM

I have created them outside the directory, mainly as they are information pages only. I know I could have created these within the directory but decided to do it this way.

What kind of information pages are they? If you're a beginner to Actinic then creating brochure pages is much easier like Ruralweb said. Many Actinic sites still build their information pages outside of Actinic with a big link to the shop, people who I've asked said this is because they see Actinic as an ecommerce shop package therefore don't think it does information pages too.

Second reason: When you start having pages outside of Actinic then if you make a change to the Actinic template you have to remember to make the same change to the pages outside of Actinic. Are you using something like Dreamweaver with it's Library/Templates system? as this will make this easier for you so you can update all the links in one go. Otherwise further down the line it's a whole lot of time consuming cut and pasting to do.

JoJo

10-Oct-2007, 01:09 PM

Hi

Yes it would've been better to have used the Brochure page facility to create the extra pages, but at the time when I was fairly new to web design and designing with actinic, it didn't occur to me to do it this way, mainly as I already had an earlier site that was designed by someone else and they hadn't used the brochure page facility either, so I thought that was probably the best way.
Thanks for your help anyway.

Cheers

RuralWeb

10-Oct-2007, 01:13 PM

Yes it would've been better to have used the Brochure page When I first started with Actinic I created external pages as well (better SEO at the time) but it is much easier to do it all within Actinic. Even if you have many to do then I still think that the time spent converting them to Actinic will be well spent and save you many hours of work in the long run.