please help with new website designer Options

[sosagotthat]

I'm creating this new website for my father, I am sort-of a novice but he just really needs a website for his small business. The problem is he's only selling one product with alot of different colors, He just wants to make it so if he can click on a color and it will show the product in that color. is this possible to do without creating a a different html for each one?

[Christian J]

Do you have images of each product version? Then you might use a javascript image gallery. There are lots of readymade ones to choose from.

[sosagotthat]

Yes I have photos of each one but is a javascript image gallery exactly what I need?

[Christian J]

I was thinking you might use an image viewing script where the color options are show as thumbnails, and the products are shown as the full size picture.

Sites like dynamicdrive.com might have something suitable.

[sosagotthat]

Thats exactly what i want but how do i link all of this to a store like how will i know whatcolor my customers chose?

[pandy]

You mean you want a select list rather than thumbnails? That shouldn't be too hard to change once you have the script and the form.

[sosagotthat]

yeah how do i create a form?

[pandy]

That's a big topic for a forum post. Start here:
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/
and here:
http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/#formstoc

I suggest that you create a few forms that isn't necessarily related to the shop one to start with, just to familiarize yourself with the different controls and forms in general. Ask if you get stuck.

[sosagotthat]

ok well i made a spreadsheet with google this is my code so far, but I want to make it so when i choose the color the picture will change, instead of setting up 10 different products for each color.

<script src="https://www-sgw-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/ifr?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstoregadgetwizard.appspot.com%2Fservlets%2FgadgetServlet%3Fkey%3D0AoxQgGxny36i dFRkTkFId3VGalBUWnVGbXhXbVVuUWc%26mid%3D965592689654796%26currency%3DUSD%26sandbox%3Dfalse%26gadget% 3DTINY&amp;container=storegadgetwizard&amp;w=215&amp;h=250&amp;title=&amp;brand=none&amp;output=js"> </script>

[pandy]

Huh?

[sosagotthat]

Like i'm trying to make it so they can just click a thumbnail for each color of the product, instead of making an item for each color. On my spreadsheet they allow me to choose from different colors but it doesen't make it so when they click the color, the picture changes that color

[pandy]

If you think you linked to the spreadsheet you didn't.

[sosagotthat]

how do I do this?

[pandy]

How would I know? What's with the spreadsheet anyway? Didn't you want to create a form for a webpage?

[Frederiek]

I did a little search for "change image color js" and the following stackoverflow discussion came up http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5254122...lor-of-an-image which seems to come close to what you're looking for.

Hope you can do something with it.