Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I wouldn't know where to start modifying the css. My page has the same code as the example for that area

</div>
<h1>Shopping Basket</h1>
<div id="basket-contents" class="editable"><mvt:item name="basket" /><br /></div>

Maybe an extra </div> or missing </div> I don't know.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Found a solution. In the Page template of BASKFB, I changed this token:
<div id="basket-contents" class="editable"><mvt:item name="basket" />
to this:
<div id="basket-contents"><mvt:item name="basket" />

and that allows my basket header to move up to just below the <h1>Shopping Basket</h1> text.

I want to thank you for posting this Facebook solution on the forum. It looks like it has great potential for us.

Many thanks!, Larry

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Oops, I spoke too soon, Solved one problem but created another.
Still looking for a fix, Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I tried that and it removed the background shading and may have narrowed the table a bit. I wonder if the table is too wide in yours and that is throwing in some kind of vertical movement.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: That was my oops. I think the solution in in my CSS, just need to understand the Basket table definition there.
Larry

[lesliekirk]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Yeah Larry, sounds like you need to figure out how to have a complete set of styles just for the pages displaying at Facebook. I'm hoping to have a tad bit of time this week to try and set one of these up. I'll let you know what I figure out.

Leslie

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Leslie: That would be great. My Facebook category & product pages look pretty good, but I need help with the Basket page. The CSS for the Basket page on our site has me stumpted, no idea how to modify it for the FB Basket page. It would really help having some ideas/help fixing that.
Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

The beauty of the BASKFB page is you can have a complete different css file to read in the settings. Just put that file in the head section instead of the site-wide file. As for modifying the css to do that, I defer to Leslie.

[Siamese-Dream.Com]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

But if you go that far, why not stream the whole store.

Well, there is the possibility you might be shooting yourself SEO efforts in the foot...

Google likes original content and frowns upon duplicate content. When google sees that your home page, and your facebook homepage have the same content, it might think that your web site is scraping Facebook's content, and that your web site is displaying duplicate content.

Google also gives a lot of trust to name brands, so unless you have a bazillion links coming in to your web site, it is very likely that your facebook page will outrank your home page.

Now you might think that is good, but because the content is so similar, it might be that if your home page and your facebook page are competing with one another in the search results, neither will rank higher than your competitors.

Just something to think about...

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Found the solution to the positioning of the basket items on the BASKFB page. Used style="position:relative;top:-60px;" in the <table> tag.
Now a question: What is the purpose of the a thru z links in the search portion of the CTGYFB page. They are failing on our FB site and I'm wondering if I should remove them or try to fix them.
Thanks, Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Google likes original content and frowns upon duplicate content. When google sees that your home page, and your facebook homepage have the same content, it might think that your web site is scraping Facebook's content, and that your web site is displaying duplicate content.

It is not likely it would see the same content since the pages are laid out differently and things like cat tree and nav bar are not in the FB version. The iframed pages are definitely different. The subpages by Google are not indexed so the bot never sees the individual product pages where it might compare descriptions. There may also be a conscious effort of Google to rank Facebook below the main site because they know businesses are putting a footprint in Facebook with links back to the main domain. I'm not sure if you get the same results but when I put "William Weiland" (including the quote marks) in Google, I see the main Emporium Plus first followed by the Facebook page. It is similar with "Emporium Plus" but the FB version slips down several notches.

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Now a question: What is the purpose of the a thru z links in the search portion of the CTGYFB page. They are failing on our FB site and I'm wondering if I should remove them or try to fix them.
Thanks, Larry

Probably try to fix them. That is the display of items by 1st letter of the item name. So if you sell books, movies, etc that is very important. Roll you mouse over the link and see what is missing. It might just need the short links part of it changed if your store is not exactly like the examples. You also need to make sure the query string is being read and used by your .htaccess file.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: I see that the problem is that this conditional:

<mvt:if expr="ISNULL l.settings:category:code">
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="sassign|altcat|CTGYFB" />

is not finding the variable and is assigning category CTGYFB to the anchors in every case. I did a KSE variable display & l.settings:category:code doesn't exist.
Maybe the Toolkit version that we have (5.1780 ) isn't current enough?
The save/restore basket feature on the Basket page doesn't work for this reason.

Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

The only time that variable exist is if you have selected a category in the drop down. The default is no category. Hence altcat would be CTGYFB which is the screen code. So your url in that scenario is what ever you have in your store that goes straight to the screen. In this case CTGYFB is your entry screen. So your url should be going to the same thing you have for CTGYFB without a catetgory code. If it has a category code show a url which could filter to the category. So you have to study your links and change accordingly. In my store I use things like www.emporiumplus.com/CTGYFG.html for the link without category. I use www.emporiumplus.com/thecatcode.html when it has a category code. Since I am using the TKSL short links function, I am checking to see if fb=1. If it does, anytime the screen is supposed to be CTGY, it changes it to CTGYFB. But if you are not using TKSL you would not be able to do that.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Thanks for the explanation.
Now I have another question: I have not been able to find in the FB documentation how I can move my app up in the menu list on our FB page. I'd like it to be positioned where "Wall" is now. Do you have a link to their documentation that will tell me how that is done?
Thanks, Larry