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For my example, I will use women’s hats, as I don’t want to break any rules by mentioning my real product nor my website’s real name. Let’s say that I have a standard “Add To Cart” button that sends all the typical information to a cart form, but I want to add a “Let’s talk options” button that would send a photo of the hat to another separate “Options” page with a few checkboxes and a textarea that allows the customer to inquire about customizing the hat. I have already made the “options” page with a few checkboxes such as “Add sequins”, “Add feathers”, “Add a chinstrap”, etc. (I know this is a stretch, but my real product has many potential options that are not this silly). The top of the page has a line like, “You seem to like this hat, and perhaps want to add a few personal touches. The items with the checkboxes are the most common options, and therefore the easiest and least expensive to add. The text area is for your own ideas and comments”.
What I want to do is have the photo of the hat in question to be displayed in a space between this paragraph and the list of checkboxes (when the customer clicks on the “Let’s talk Options” button). Also, I don’t need to display all the other info that goes to the shopping cart page; all I want in this case is the photo.
The “options” page (form) gets sent to me by e-mail. It contains no price information, and is not an order form. It gives me an idea what the customer wants, and I would have to get back to them by mail or phone.
I’m guessing that there is a way to do this without a long sophisticated Javascript, but so far I haven’t been able to figure it out. Again, all I am asking for is some help on getting the photo to a space on the options page.
Can you give me some suggestions?
As usual, thank you very much,
Bo
I am just figuring out to make the free NOPcart shopping cart work on my site.
Never heard of that cart. Likely you'd be better off paying for a cart and getting some hand-holding (and a zillion other benefits) unless you enjoy building sites or think the site will do little business. Doesn't NOPcart have a user group you can ask? Vibrant user groups are invaluable.
The “options” page (form) gets sent to me by e-mail.
Thank you for your quick response, but this was not a shopping cart question. I apologize if I didn't make that clear. It's just that I cannot find a site that does what I want to do, or any information on how to do it. I am reading and re-reading everything I can find with words like, "get, post, target, display, image, anchor, etc, etc." and have had no success.
The NOPcart shopping cart has been pretty easy to set up so far, and does have user group help forums that are also very helpful, but my objective is separate from the cart details.
It seems to me that I should be able to put in a line or two of code that would send the photo to a particular place, similar to the way a "naming link" works (<a name="photo###"></a>), but as I said, "...all I am asking for is some help getting the photo to a space on the options page", and I have not figured it out yet.
I am just trying to make a rather simple site that is useful to my potential customers. It has no fancy bells and whistles, and what I have done so far works very well. This is the only "unusual" thing that I am working on, and if I saw it on another site, I might be able to learn it. My feeling is that a customer might like to discuss some design options in a casual format where they don't have to sign up for anything, give a credit card number, etc. That is why I am not making it part of a shopping cart, and just handling it via email (or phone). The options page will work without the photo, but imagine talking about options for your new car without having car to look at.
Again, thank you for your reply.
Bo
