Comments on: Volusion 5 - Custom Javascript DOM Tip

By: Randy Harris

Randy Harris — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:39:38 +0000

The FTP is just there so they can say they offer FTP access.

Volusion’s only strong suit is the backend order processing. For nearly everything else, you’ll find their listed “features” to be more sizzle than steak.

By: YSM

YSM — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:59:37 +0000

Thank you for the tips above.

This is my first ecommerce site I’m building for a friend of mine and I thought volusion was pretty decent for its price. I initially thought some sections (like editing the page templates) were closed out for the demo users… only to make purchase and realise the ugliest page of all – productdetails.asp – cannot be edited. Big sigh.

I’m really pissed off, what’s the point of allowing us to access the files via FTP when so many files cannot be accessed to?

By: techman

techman — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:09:13 +0000

Well, your tip about resizing offline helps. Thanks.

By: Randy Harris

Randy Harris — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:29:06 +0000

The Volusion generated code does not even include the height=”" and width=”" parameters on the tags… in-fact the archaic table based layouts are forced to size by the (product) images in the nested table cells.

The easiest way to resize all your product photos is to prepare all the images offline, (naming them according to the Volusion product photo naming conventions), and bulk-upload them into the /photos/ directory using an FTP client.

There is info about the file naming here: http://lexipixel.com/wordpress/ecommerce/volusion/volusion-product-photos

Sorry I couldn’t be more help.

By: techman

techman — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:17:35 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I have been trying to alter my image sizes in the category view. Volusion tells me I need to delete every single image and them upload them again, one by one, then select “advanced options” when uploading each image. Then select the thumbnail size, medium size and large size. What a mess. I cannot delete 5,000 images and redo each one. And, if I change the column width, or any other part of the website ever, I can delete every image again, to resize them manually.

Is there a way to trick out the content area to show my own css for the images displayed there? For the category display I want to set the image height and width. Then for the product view, I want a separate set of css image sizes.

Thanks