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Good evening Backlighters,
Is anyone in the UK using Metro's services by sticking there iframe code into a page on your site?
I have looked at other iframe topics on the forum and can see that Matthew does not like them and I have found that to be a common response having Googled the topic. Notwithstanding the reasons for not using one, I am looking at trying to insert a new page on my site to sell prints but via Metro so all orders and payments are taken by them and all I'm doing is opening a hole for data to fall through.
http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/?page=printsales is what the test page looks like. It does not look responsive for all devices but if accessed from a mobile phone it redirects to their phone version. Desktop and tablet look OK when resizing on a desktop.
There are two design pages, basic and advanced. Obviously it is their styling coming through based on minor edits that one can do to the various colour options. This may sound like a dumb question but on their advanced design tab, there is a custom css bit. Should I be copying something from my site and pasting it here to pick up my fonts choices. I use Raleway and declare that in Backlight. If I stick Raleway in the font option a substitiute serif font is used.
Having the lab process the orders, print and take money is obviously an easy business option for me.
Anyone can set up an account https://metroonline.co.uk/admin/index.php
I've not uploaded print files to them yet so no orders would be placed if you tried to buy anything (I think) as yet.
Grateful for any pointers.
Regards,
TomO
Just a simple photographer
Live site at http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/
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Hey Tom,
Matt has added a feature to Theater to accommodate iframes and make them responsive:
http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … tation_pym
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Thanks Rod,
I'll take a look.
Regards,
TomO
Just a simple photographer
Live site at http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/
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Hi Tom,
The Pym iframe stuff isn't going to help you here. For that to work, a portion of the Pym code needs to be in the embedded page; Pym runs partially in the parent and partially in the child, allowing the two documents to handshake. As you don't have control over the embedded page, no dice.
As general advice, if there's nothing in the lefthand column on that page, I'd put together a one-column template, giving the iframe as much room as possible.
Whatever styling you put together in Backlight, none of that will impact the embedded page, which is running off of it's own stylesheets. Think of it as a window. Inside of your house, you can rearrange the furniture and change the lighting much as you like. Looking through the window to the outside street, though, the street doesn't care whether your desk lamp is on or off; it's got streetlights all its own.
Another option might be to launch the iframe in a Fancybox. Here's a button.
<button data-fancybox data-src="https://metroonline.co.uk/embed.php?user=1233" data-options='{ "type" : "iframe", "smallBtn" : true, "buttons" : false }'>Shop</button>You can, of course, style that button to make it larger or whatever. You could even use PHPlugins and jQuery to trigger the button on page load, to open the shop automatically.
Or skip having a page altogether, and use PHPlugins to add a link to your navigation that opens the Fancybox shop. I'm not sure how this will play with them redirecting mobile phones, etc., but worth tinkering with if it's a presentation you like.
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Thanks Matthew,
I'll get to play around with it a bit more today, and experiment with your suggestions.
Regards,
TomO
Just a simple photographer
Live site at http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/
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Thanks for the very useful advice Matthew.
I have implemented your idea of launching the iframe into a Fancyox via a button. It all looks OK on a desktop and iPad and if accessed via the button from the page on an iPhone it drops into their mobile site.
The Fancybox on desktop and iPad makes it look as if it belongs to my site even though the font is not the same. I'm not sure most people would quibble if they were interested in buying a print.
I can live with that for the moment.
Thanks again for your help and for letting me take part in Beta testing earlier in the year. I hope you and Ben have as relaxing a Christmas as you want and thanks also to Rod and everyone else who has chipped in to help out.
Regards,
TomO
Just a simple photographer
Live site at http://tomowens.openpoint.co.uk/
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Cool! I'm glad the idea was a help. Thanks for the well wishes, and also for participating in the beta. We really appreciate it. Happy holidays!
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