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Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that the new search function has been installed on the site: here. As you’ll see, you can now sort search results by price, stocking time, ending time, or alphabetically by store name. In addition, searches can now be filtered by stocktype. Finally, there is now a store-level search that allows shoppers to see which stores carry the item they are searching for, and allow them to expand a store’s listings dynamically. Give it a try and see what you think A few notes on the listings that show up in the search table:

1. only stores with paid dates within the past two months are searchable
2. only listings with end times within the past two months are searchable (also HC Multi items with undefined end times)
3. for HCS stores, only items with preview set to 1 or stocktimes in the past are searchable (in other words, items you’ve set for future stocking, but don’t want previewed won’t show up)
4. for HCM stores, only items with “Show” checked will be searchable.

If you have any items that should be showing up in search but aren’t, please drop us a line at support@hyenacart.com and we’ll take a look at it.

In other news, Prudence at Cuddlebug Cloth brought the Pay it Forward movement to my attention. She outlines the idea on her listing here. I think it’s a wonderful idea and would love to see more PIF listings on HC. And remember, we have three-letter search now, so shoppers will be searching on “PIF” Let’s spread that good karma around!

Finally, I’d like to update the HC categories (i.e., the ones listed on the main page). Please comment here with suggestions. If we have enough stores to fill out a category, we’ll add it in. Also, if you have suggestions for more tag words to include on the search page, please post those as well.

Thanks everyone!

Hi everyone!

I’m excited to announce that the new storetop menus are now live across all HC stores If you get any questions from your customers about how to use the menu, or what features it includes, please point them to this page.

In other news, there are three gorgeous new store templates to be found on your Store Settings >> Profile page. They were designed by the very talented Kandace of Kandace Wright Designs. Check them out — they are something else!

I hope to have another exciting announcement regarding the search function in the next day or two. Stay tuned!

Thanks for shopping/selling HC

Phew! I’ve done a lot of debugging on the storetop menus and they are just about ready to be rolled out. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, please check out this post.

Please please check your store designs with the new menu. If you have design issues, and would like me to fix them, please post a link to your store in the comments to this post, a description of the issue, and give me permission to tweak your design to fix the issue.

If you’re a do-it-your-selfer, you can try the following fixes for the most common problems:

1. Mysterious white bar at the top of your store (below the storetop menu). This is caused by setting a margin at the top of the page. The margin needs to be zero’ed out. For example:

   body { margin: 37px 0px 10px 0px; }

   needs to be changed to this:

   body { margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; }

2. The storetop menu is too far to the right. Some of the links don’t show on the page. This is caused by a

   body{text-align:center}

   style definition. If this is removed, the issue will go away

3. You use white text for your links, so the storetop menu, being white on white, is not very useful. You can add this style definition to your style sheet:

   .navhc a, .navhc a:hover {color:#000000;}

   where you can change the color to whatever you desire, and the link text will then show up correctly.

4. Your store table is wider than your design: check your Store Settings >> Profile page, and ensure that the “width of storetable” value is not too large.

Remember, if you would prefer not to make these changes, please comment to this blog post with permission for me to make the changes for you. The menus will roll out in a week, so again, please check your store designs!

One last note: many of you have commented that the menus seem too small and inconspicuous. My hope is that, since they stay at the top of the browser window no matter how far down the user scrolls, that they will be noticeable because of that.

Thanks everyone!