I need to create some website descriptions in HTML

jamoor · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:34

Essentially I am making a new webstore and I add a few products every month.

I don't particularly want to hire somebody to do this for me as it's too time consuming, I need to be able to create the descriptions myself.

I'd like to make this kind of thing

http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2016/USA/SG-CM-Black.aspx

or like AMD have on their website

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/r9

Is there any way I can quickly create the description part myself in a WYSIWYG editor?

radderfire · 7 Jun 2016 at 14:50

Do you just need to display products for viewing, or are you going to have a checkout too?

Why don't you just use an online solution, such as an Ebay Store or Amazon Shop? I don't use either but I expect they both give you an online interface to add products, plus a checkout.

jamoor · 7 Jun 2016 at 18:15

Sorry, I think I missed out the point that I have a bigcommerce setup, so everything is provided, I just need to make the HTML to stick into the description box of the products to showcase my products properly

radderfire · 7 Jun 2016 at 18:28

Surely Bigcommerce give instructions on how to add product descriptions to a shop???

jamoor · 7 Jun 2016 at 21:45

radderfire said:
Surely Bigcommerce give instructions on how to add product descriptions to a shop???

Not rich HTML ones no.

radderfire · 7 Jun 2016 at 22:16

jamoor said:
Not rich HTML ones no.

To use rich HTML, their system will need to accept this, or they would need to provide a web entry form that lets you use it. Have you asked them what your options are?

jamoor · 8 Jun 2016 at 08:33

radderfire said:
To use rich HTML, their system will need to accept this, or they would need to provide a web entry form that lets you use it. Have you asked them what your options are?

Christ almighty.
Anyone else able to offer advice?

radderfire · 8 Jun 2016 at 10:34

There's no need to be like that.

What I mean is that if you are going to use HTML tags (or CSS styles) around text to make it look good, then if you are using an online input form, it's going to have to allow HTML tags to be input, as many don't. At the end of the day, if you want to make something look a certain way, you just have to apply HTML tags and CSS styles. However, you may be restricted from doing this by their interface, which is why I said ask them if it's possible.

jamoor · 8 Jun 2016 at 21:21

radderfire said:
There's no need to be like that.

What I mean is that if you are going to use HTML tags (or CSS styles) around text to make it look good, then if you are using an online input form, it's going to have to allow HTML tags to be input, as many don't. At the end of the day, if you want to make something look a certain way, you just have to apply HTML tags and CSS styles. However, you may be restricted from doing this by their interface, which is why I said ask them if it's possible.

Hmm, yes to be fair, I've no idea about that.

I quite like what they've done here too, have they just used basic tables in the descriptions?
http://www.chemicalguys.com/V36_Cutting_Polish_V38_Final_Polish_16_oz_p/gap_vkit_101.htm

radderfire · 9 Jun 2016 at 11:33

jamoor said:
Hmm, yes to be fair, I've no idea about that.

I quite like what they've done here too, have they just used basic tables in the descriptions?
http://www.chemicalguys.com/V36_Cutting_Polish_V38_Final_Polish_16_oz_p/gap_vkit_101.htm

Open page in Chrome browser, right click on element, and go to Inspect. This will show you the HTML and CSS for the element.