Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

[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.

[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

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

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

[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

[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 again Bill: On my FB Basket page, the basket heading is spaced way down below the <h1>Shopping Basket text. Yours isn't. I think we are using the Basket CSS definitions as they came from Miva.

Did you have to modify the CSS for the basket page to remove this spacing on that page?

Thanks, Larry

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Maybe it was cache screwing me over. I shut down XP to standby, then brought it back up and the horizonal scroll bar is gone.

Sure wish I knew how to permanently disable cache on IE8 & FF4.

Regards, Larry

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: I've tried 520px & 500px , plus even 300px and it doesn't seem to matter.
I'm think it may have something to do with the CSS for product-item, which I have defined as:
body.SRCH .product-item { width:50%;}
.product-item{
width:50%;
float:left;
}
.product-item .padding{
border:1px solid;
height:300px;
border-width:1px;
border-color:#aaaaaa;
border-style:solid;
margin:1px;
overflow:auto;
padding:10px;
}

I think it might be the padding:10px; but I don't know enough about CSS to be certain. I commented the padding out & tested the FB app and I saw that the horizontal scroll bar was gone at one point, however now it's back.
I don't know if the browser cache is screwing me over or what. Sometimes when I make a CSS change, it doesn't seem to take effect.

Gotta leave this for now, been working on it for the past 4 hours and am really frustrated.

Regards, Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

I'm using
#site-containerfb{
width:500px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
border-collapse:collapse;
}
in the css file. Did you use 500 or 520 there?

Your product boxes seem like they are wider than in my store. I can't remember where that might be changed.

[wajake41]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Hi Bill: Got our site working on FB, however I can't remove the horizontal scroll bar. Have tried tweaking the CSS in various ways but it still is there. Something must be > 520px wide, but I can't find it.
Tried all the tricks shown in the hyperarts site to no avail.

Did you have this problem?

If anyone has ideas about solving this, you can see our FB app at:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/applica...68414289883725

Regards, Larry

[wcw]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

Why would it not work for wholesale? You are streaming your live data so if they login, they will see price group prices. The 5% discount I am running (if you "like" the page and use the Facebook portal to start your shopping) is causing some orders (40% of them this morning) to go through Facebook. Would they have ordered without Facebook, probably. Maybe all you need is a deal of the day or best sellers. But if you go that far, why not stream the whole store. It costs you nothing. You update your regular merchant store and don't worry about the FB side. It is the same data.

Here is something else to think about. I searched Google for these 4 words: facebook miva merchant modules
The first item was this forum. The second was my business page. Granted Google does not spider all the pages in the store, but it does get someone to the starting place. Unfortunately the Facebook internal search is worthless. Maybe they will improve it over time.

[sbronstad]

Re: Easily integrate your Miva Merchant into Facebook

We're wholesale, so I don't think FaceBook would work for us at Star Time... question: How is Facebook converting into customers/sales? Seems like FB was more suited to branding than conversions (sales), but I'd love to be proved wrong...