Integrate Amazon Store with Site

I'm wondering if anyone here has successfully integrated an Amazon store with their site. I'm currently building a site and looking to wrap my site around an Amazon store and would like to know if this is possible. Below I have included an image showing what I mean. can this be accomplished with a wordpress site?

P.S if you can share links of sites wrapped around an amazon store tha would be great.

 

I haven't created my astore yet, but I saw the option on there to embed in your site.
I believe you just paste the provided code into your desired (content) area.
It's on the last page of the setup process on the astore setup...or click "Get link"

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I just used a "template" I had laying around and I used this Get link and stuck my astore (test astore..not real) into this template..just to show you that it is possible..I will PM the link as I cannot post links yet.

After you view it you will seethat it obviously would require modifying to make it all fit..etc. Hope this helps.

 

If you know some programming you can Use Amazon Associates Web Service (AWS) for that. http://aws.amazon.com/associates/

Better yet, just hire a freelancer to do it. It shouldn't cost too much.

 

I've had luck with embedding, and am currently trying to master the amazon web services

 

Are you saying you want to integrate an astore, or custom AWS E-commerce site?


thanks,
PuReWebDev

 

Cool, good luck.

The only way you will be able to COMPLETELY modify the look of your Store including changing features such as Remote shopping card etc..you will have to know programming and do that through AWS..otherwise you might wanna look at some of the builder programs out there..such as E4E (http://ecommerceforeveryone.com)..

Good luck!

 

Salam n Hola

How about turning your astore into a subdomain? You can do this with storebrander.com
You can also have google ads in your astore with the storebrander.

If you already own a domain and hosting, I would certainly recommend that you go with solutions like Associates-O-Matic (AOM) or eCommerveForEveryOne. You get better control of your amazon store that way.

Regards
Hadee Roslan

 

I'm talking about integrating or blending an aStore into a site - I feel this will help keep everything looking like they belong together

 

Go here - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1187318 and read post of hmansfield, where he has shown samples also.

 

For Drupal users there are some Amazon modules that can insert Amazon products into one's site.

 

I have gotten a couple of PM's about that. Here is how I did it:

To get your astore to embed the same way, you need to install a page template that takes out the side bars, yet leaves the header and footer.
You need to create .php file and insert it into your theme files.

Use notepad or your text editor, and name a file something like "shop".php or whatever you wish and in the file put this code:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Put the name here
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?><div id="content"><div id="menu"><div id="wrap"><?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1><br /><br /> <?php the_content(__('Read more'));?> <!-- <?php trackback_rdf(); ?> --> <?php endwhile; else: ?> <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p><?php endif; ?> </div></div><?php get_footer(); ?>

Then go back and remake the page and put in your astore embed code. Where it calls for the Page Template, your new file should show up in the drop down menu.
Select it, and then save.

When creating your astore, just open the CSS files of the theme that you are using to match the colors (or use a color tool)

It may take some tweaking of the astore dimensions, but it should work. (Sometimes it takes a minute or two to show up properly. I don't know why, it just does)

Note: I haven't updated that code in a while. I still works on all of my themes, and in word press 2.7

Hope this helps,
Harold

 

Sweet! Thanks onedee and Mansfiled

 

Let us know how they work out.

 

Just thought that I would add, that you can also insert your astore code directly into the template file as well. It actually blends in a little better that way, especially if you aren't going to be changing astores for a while:

So you would do this:
__________________________________________
<?php
/*
Template Name: Put the name here
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?><div id="content">

(Insert your astore code here)

<div id="menu"><div id="wrap"><?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1><br /><br /> <?php the_content(__('Read more'));?> <!-- <?php trackback_rdf(); ?> --> <?php endwhile; else: ?> <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p><?php endif; ?> </div></div><?php get_footer(); ?>

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You can still post content that will appear below the store like ad banners or text (you will not get the contents of this page indexed by search engines) for SEO, and of course use All In One SEO plug in to Optimize the page with keywords and description.

If you want to have content before the astore, insert the code after this string:
<?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

This should allow you to seamlessly integrate your astore into your Word Press blog Page.

Hope this helps.

 

Awesome. Thanks hmansfield

 

Salam n Hola

Thank you HMansfield. Will surely test it out soon and report back with the result. I've been playing with AOM so far. This looks like another good way to utilize the basic astore.

Regards
Hadee Roslan

 

use aStore CSS

 

nice! thanks.