Our site is built in Drupal using Ubercart.
Our regular contractor is busy with some big PR opportunity, but these are his notes, so it’ll give you a first look at what needs to be completed and where he left off. By the way…previous guy wasn’t a Drupal guy, but was doing me a favor getting the work done. Anyway…I just wanted to note that since his notes makes it sound like a mess, I think it reflects some work, but more inexperience, no bash intended. He’s still awesome;)
We also have needs to update text and tags on a regular basis.
The following is a copy of the working notes:
Blog:
From what I’ve seen, the default blog module allows for all users to create blog content, which of course is undesirable (all users, meaning your customers too.) There very well might be a way to make it so only admin users can use this… but I couldn’t see it.
so I found this:
http://drupal.org/node/41373
which is basically instruction on how to do a drupal blog, BUT with limited “bloggers”. The downside is that to accomplish this it limits the people who can actually register… effectively eliminating the ability for customers to register at all. I’m having a very hard time getting this installed and working. So this is NOT a good solution.
I believe the trick is going to be using the default blog module, but figure out a way to limit the users who can post.
Here are links to find more info:
http://drupal.org/node/41373
http://sudosys.be/?q=drupal_blog_modules
Ads:
The banner ad rotating deal seems like it will go REALLY well and is precisely what we’re looking for. I got it installed just fine, started setting things up, etc.. but then got to a point where I’m instructed to look under the help menu to find instructions on how to embed the ads on specific pages
(Administer -> “By module” tab -> then click on any “Get help” link)
All of those help links are broken. I searched all over for help with this, but can’t find any. I’m SOOO close on this, but for whatever reason I can’t access that documentation, and can’t find the content online.
If we can figure out why these links aren’t working, you’d be able to finish this one off.
Here is some documentation on that module:
documentation:
http://drupal.org/node/394126
Here’s the status on the original SEO document:
Everything was done with the following exceptions:
- Meta Descriptions for store/product pages (Again, I simply cannot find a fix for this. I don’t know if it’s the way the store was built, or what, but for whatever reason the descriptions are not being rendered into the HTML.) I posted to the support forums, but I am not getting any response.
I thought I was on the right track in finding this:
http://drupal.org/node/465744
Which suggested I deselect the option to generate a description meta tag from the node teaser.
I found that option here:
Administer -> Content Management -> Meta tags
but I deselected it and it doesn’t appear to have fixed the issue. 
- “Visible call to action on every relevant page”. That was our banners. I can simply go through and put them in manually, but that banner ad module would make it much easier and give us the ability to track, give us statistics, etc. But if it comes down to it, you can simply place them in manually as you see fit. I have uploaded those to the system already. You can use the following code snippets to paste into the description field for the pages you’d like those banners to appear on:
<A HREF=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/store/wheat-berries”><IMG SRC=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/images/banners/wheat-berries.jpg” BORDER=”0″ ALIGN=”right” STYLE=”margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px;”></A>
<A HREF=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/store/sweetener”><IMG SRC=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/images/banners/natural-sweetner.jpg” BORDER=”0″ ALIGN=”right” STYLE=”margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px;”></A>
<A HREF=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/store/sweetener”><IMG SRC=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/images/banners/natural-sweetner-2.jpg” BORDER=”0″ ALIGN=”right” STYLE=”margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px;”></A>
<A HREF=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/store/whole-wheat-mixes/muffin-mixes”><IMG SRC=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/images/banners/whole-wheat-muffins.jpg” BORDER=”0″ ALIGN=”right” STYLE=”margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px;”></A>
<A HREF=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/store/whole-wheat-mixes/muffin-mixes”><IMG SRC=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/images/banners/whole-wheat-muffins-2.jpg” BORDER=”0″ ALIGN=”right” STYLE=”margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px;”></A>
<A HREF=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/store/whole-wheat-mixes/pancake-mixes”><IMG SRC=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/images/banners/whole-wheat-pancakes.jpg” BORDER=”0″ ALIGN=”right” STYLE=”margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px;”></A>
<A HREF=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/store/whole-wheat-mixes/pancake-mixes”><IMG SRC=”http://www.doctorgrandmas.com/images/banners/whole-wheat-pancakes-2.jpg” BORDER=”0″ ALIGN=”right” STYLE=”margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px;”></A>
- And of course adding the content from that second document I couldn’t open. However, as soon as you can access that it should be easy.
- Promo code: I haven’t started on this yet as I’ve been working on the above issues. This is basically the ability to allow shoppers to input coupon codes to get discounts, etc, correct?
- Here’s an important note that you will find helpful and will probably save time:
Editing the footer:
cannot do this through admin. This is found directly in a template file:
themes/wholefoods/page.tpl.php
- I still haven’t had the chance to look into google base – definitely something that could help. We see a lot of traffic for Karen’s Cookies through google base.
- It was also suggested that we add an FAQ. I had not received content for this. Would be a good idea though, include information on shipping policies, shipping times, etc..
