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I slapped together a quick ubercart/paypal store for our band at http://www.revsquad.com/store. Nothing fancy or flashy. It's a bit ugly and needs a bit of polish, but it works great! It took only one quick afternoon to piece together, so that's a great testament to all the work the ubercart team and other contributers have done.

So easy, it hurts! Thanks ubercart! Now, just gota wait for that first order to come in.....

Drew

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Re: Band website featuring CD sales via ubercart

It's a little hard to find where to buy the CD from the home page. I would add a direct link to it right on the front page. The picture of the CD's front cover is on the home page under Visuals, but clicking it does not take me to where I can buy it.

I would try to make it as easy for buyers to get to the "Add to Cart" button as possible. Just my .02

Nice job though, it's cool to know you can do that in one day!

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Good use of functionality on your site!

i'm getting ready to use paypal so i'm glad to see it works well for you!

paypal questions.

1) what did you use for your shipping module and how does it calculate the shipping?

2) is the phone number a required field for paypal checkout or is that default for checkout? if not required, can you disable it in uc?

content questions:

a)looks like you use noderef from each track to assign to each album correct?

b) on the album content type, do you have to manually paste in the "full" code for itunes every time you add a new album or do you only paste in the link and let the view theme the "full" code required for the itunes?

c) each song references an audio file. is that done using nodereference or do have to manually paste the appropriate link in on the form?

d) on media pages, what function do you use to insert the photo gallery on the page?

thanks

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Hey thanks for the comments guys.... hmm let me kinda remember how i threw this together. It's a bit fuzzy, and php isn't really my cup of tea Smiling

Yep, the navigation isn't really great. We're re-theming the site this fall, hope to make it more user friendly. Put a big banner link to the CD too.

1. I'm using a flat rate per item. Just as a guess-timate for now. One day i suppose there will be a Canada Post shipping module.
2. I think phone # is required for paypal. I could be wrong on that.
a. Yep i have a bunch of CCK content. An Album with noderefs to Songs, which have noderefs to Audio nodes.
b. Right now it's pasted in html for each album description in order to add the itunes link, which i just pasted from apple anyways.
c. Each song is a nodereference. I modified the generated php using the contemplate module. I could probably do it through the theme too. So no manual html there.
d. I just used a code snippet i found on the drupal site for adding the gallery code to a page node:

print image_gallery_page($type = NULL, $tid = 0);

I wish i could add some polish the the UI (or more specifically, hire someone to do it). Oh well, one step at a time.

Cheers,

Drew

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hey there loving ur shop but what i am trying to do is same as you but i cant get a preview thumb on my list of products how did u do that and also once opened product a big image is present

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hey drew.. thanks for the answers to the questions. i thought you were using noderefs Smiling.

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Re: Band website featuring CD sales via ubercart

Hey, cool site and nice sound (listened through your music video). Hope things continue to go well for you on the music scene and with Ubercart. Eye-wink