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thistravel
Feb 17, 2006
I am just going through a redesign of my hosted webstore and I need to be able to add new products with good descriptions myself easily and quickly.

I really like the descriptions on this website http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/novatecheliten1760.html .

Frankly I have little knowledge of HTML or coding so would prefer to use an HTML type of layout.

I know of things from the days of front page express and the like but times have moved on alot since then. Are there any editors that will let me create HTML descriptions like in the above website in a WYSIWYG editor?

Thanks.

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My Rhythmic Crotch
Jan 13, 2011

Google for "online wysiwyg editor". Here's the first one that pops up: https://html-online.com/editor/

v1nce
Sep 19, 2004

Plant your brassicas in may and cover them in mulch.
Your terminology is a bit muddled, so let me try and interpret what you're saying.

You have a website which sells products.
Each product has a description.
You need a nice way to edit the product descriptions for each product.
You really like the look of the descriptions on http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/novatecheliten1760.html and you'd like to replicate that look and feel.

Firstly, what is your store software? Is it squarespace? BigCommerce? Magento? Wordpress? The answer to this changes your options drastically.

Secondly, when you say "descriptions" on that page you linked, do you mean the little images and pop-up text reveals?

thistravel
Feb 17, 2006

v1nce posted:

Your terminology is a bit muddled, so let me try and interpret what you're saying.

You have a website which sells products.
Each product has a description.
You need a nice way to edit the product descriptions for each product.
You really like the look of the descriptions on http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/novatecheliten1760.html and you'd like to replicate that look and feel.

Firstly, what is your store software? Is it squarespace? BigCommerce? Magento? Wordpress? The answer to this changes your options drastically.

Secondly, when you say "descriptions" on that page you linked, do you mean the little images and pop-up text reveals?

Yes you understood correctly, sorry if it's a bit muddled.
Yes, it's Bigcommerce and I need content to put into the description field.

I do mean the pop up reveals where it talks about the screen, sound and hdd on the novatech website.
There are also animations as you scroll down the page.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

You are probably out of luck if you're not savvy and want to duplicate that extremely polished page's look.

I can't tell what cart they're using, it might even be custom jobby with all that bootstrap going on. That multi-step checkout page isn't ringing any bells for me, and that's generally how I recognize an ecommerce package.

Gallery function is handled by PhotoSwipe js library. The fadeup on scroll is probably using some variant of jquery and this kind of thing:
http://devinvinson.com/delayed-fade-in-effects-with-css/

Generally the way a person who doesn't know much does a visual overhaul of their site is to install a theme that supports the features they want. This is the bigcommerce theme store:
https://www.bigcommerce.com/theme-store/

I didn't look in detail, but I can't imagine you're going to find much in a theme store with less than 100 themes total. Wordpress alone probably has thousands of billions of the things. Shopify is similarly limited as BigCommerce.

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