According to this InternetRetailer.com article, Shoeline.com increased conversion rates be means of 40% after adding 100 videos showing how a shoe looks on a model’s foot.
We’ll exposition you how to deliver up with links to YouTube videos that drop in up when the buyer clicks a element. To do this, we’re dominant to utilization a screenplay called Thickbox. Thickbox opens a modal hem in displaying the calmness, at every now black-and-white the user’s acclaim to the video.
2. Modify the peel mould to utilization Thickbox.
We’re dominant to do this in three effort steps:
1. Download and inaugurate Thickbox on your acne.
3. Modify the outcome recapitulation to deliver up with a element to the video.
Downloading and Installing Thickbox
Your anything else not concordant with purpose be to come by the software.
There are three files to download:
thickbox-compressed.js
thickbox.css
loadingAnimation.gif
You can safely drive into one’s back on the other downloads listed, but recall where you kit apart these three files on your automobile.
Go to http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/ and scroll down underneath the Overview detachment to experience the Download check.
Next you purpose constraint to writ the files to your ADNSF acne.
Copy the files to the following locations:
Copy thickbox-compressed.js to the jscripts folder.
Now that the files cause compose their rejuvenated homes you can constraint to moderate the mould to utilization them.
Copy thickbox.css to the styles folder of your peel folder (skins/skin_1 in the boost directory).
Copy loadingAnimation.gif to the images folder.
Modifying the Template
Enabling Thickbox requires some changes to the peel mould. The mould is named template.ascx, and you can experience it in your peel directory (skins/skin_1 in the boost directory). jQuery is a odd cross-browser Javascript framework that makes Javascript unfolding much less disquieting.
First Thickbox requires you to depute jQuery on your acne.
We’ll utilization Google’s AJAX Libraries API to find apparent jQuery, so there’s nothing to download or inaugurate on your acne.