Program A Batch of Items On Your Website
Webmaster Column - Office News - No 8
Hello,
The event calendar to configure, virtual store items and serial articles and emails for the year to produce, there is a lot to publish on an active business website. There are ways to help yourself and contravene the indefinite corrections following publication.
This web edition column will serve as a reference for us to organize ourselves well in serial programming. And this, before the simmered sauce is ready to serve, the pot of secret spices from the recipe forgotten in the cupboard…
Here is the webmaster column of the month: Program series of items on a website.
The webmaster column on the daily management of websites, Office News, presents: 2024-08, Program Series of Items on a Website.
How to Prepare for Seasonal Programming
Hello programmer. Let’s prepare a coffee or a beverage and probably a snack. It’s time to be in a quiet place conducive to concentration so as not to be disturbed.
Also, programming in batch can be repetitive and I tend to drop my concentration level after 45 minutes. That’s when I pick up to come back five minutes later and avoid possible errors.
Finally, when you’re about to get your third coffee in two hours, consider grabbing an apple to snack on something Body! Green isn’t a good skin tone;).
Prepare Images and Files for Import
I think ordering the titles of images and files in advance is an asset. Especially when we’re programming over a long period of time and to put the program task aside for later. I prefer to name everything on my computer then import in the web system.
Thus, the images to be introduced into our management system (CMS) include a referred image title!
In the settings (parameters) of the sites, there’s the option of importing files with the source identification elements. This is what I use on this site. This avoids inserting referencing lines on each item when programming, and adding repetitive tasks and the possibility of errors.
Note on Images and File Names
During publishing, we no longer recommend naming files with underlines between words, for example this_is_the_cover_image.jpeg. Now, let’s write our image title as a sentence, without accent letters and other signs: the cover image of the fall marketing magazine.
The link to the image file, once imported into the CMS, can then become: …the-cover-image-of-the-fall-marketing-magazine.jpg….
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Writing the General Info of Inventory
When we program items in batch, the goal is to put as much basic information into an item that becomes our test, template or model. This element will always serve as the starting model. Of course, a webmaster copies the template and works on the copied file, which will be published as a product, service, article, etc. This is often the folder named Don’t Touch, Don’t Delete in a web database.
At the level of writing information in a product, a service, or an e-store item, the globalization will be the key and will save a lot of time. It’s the general text we program in the item, while the details are displayed in the option of the item. We therefore program a basic text for a t-shirt, with details on the fabric, the composition of the material, the size chart (showing all the sizes) and the links to the purchasing, refund and delivery policies — leaving the colour, size or model of long or short sleeves in the item options, which the customer will choose during the purchasing process.
Always Search to Reduce Your Programming Time
This way of doing things will save you from revisiting each newly programmed item to adjust the colours, sizes and other information in the text of the item as well! There will only be images to adjust in your new item, reducing your programming period by several minutes per item. It’s huge, the time saved this way, especially for multilingual stores. And who says short configuration means more money for new projects! Yay!
Of course, the template text must include all the purchasing instructions and basic details of the inventory, or at least a large part of it, even if it means having two templates with unique texts or policies. (For example, a 100% cotton item model and a cotton/polyester, knowing in advance that all the texts will always be the same and that the items are renewed.)
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Conclusion
I enjoy doing batch preparation and programming. It’s certain that programming a virtual product requires much less preparation than a full season of new clothes to iron, photograph, edit and transfers as a lightweight JPEG file.
When it comes to programming, I always try to organize myself to do as little as possible. Or as few mouse clicks as possible, as much globalization of information as possible and in as little time as possible. We often adjust along the way, so that by the time we’re setting up our 26th season, we’re pretty used to it.
See you on the Blog!
Jeff
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