Using Business Catalyst

My boss has heard about Business Catalyst and has asked me to research and try to implement a viable dynamic solution other than Joomla, Wordpress ect.
I have also checked out Cushy CMS by there is much more funtionallity in BC.
I just wnat to know any thoughts on using BC and wheather it is worth introducing into my workflow
thanks

Hi ottz0,
If you're still looking, you will find a lot more information over on the Business Catalyst forums:
http://businesscatalyst.com/support/forums
Regards,
Nathan

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Do I need to use Business Catalyst to use the built-in forms?

I use FTP voyager to host my website. I have a contact form on my website, when I fill out the form this dialog box appears: "This standard HTML form is configured to work with Adobe Business Catalyst". Once I click OK I then get the message the from has been sent and recieved, I check my email and I have not recieved an email.
Can somebody please tell me if there is something I need to do to overcome this issue, or do forms not work unless you are using Buinsess Catalyst?

I'm sorry. At this time, contact forms only work using Business Catalyst. Please see this forum thread for more info:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4608066#4608066#4608066#4608066
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Julia

Using Business Catalyst for Newsletters - Several Questions

Hello everyone - I hope the format of this forum question is okay. I have designed our company website with Muse and we host it with Business Catalyst (webBasics+). We like it a lot and are looking to possibly upgrade it to the next package (webMarketing) simply because of the potential for newsletters (as well as all of the other benefits like blogging and the helpful modules).
My company currently uses Constant Contact for our quarterly newsletters and holiday emails and we send to about 2800 people. It seems obvious to me that we should ditch Constant Contact as we pay more than $50.00/month and I think it is very limiting as far as being creative goes. It just makes sense that I should use Bc because I already use it...and the 5,000 newsletters is only $6.00 more.
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Are there a lot of templates to choose from? 100's? 1,000's?
Is it easy to create my own template? Do I need Dreamweaver (Only have Creative Suite and Muse)?
Is it easy to transfer an email list I have? We have software called ACT and I am a little unsure how this works but I assume there is a certain file type we can export and just upload into Bc.
Are there options to have links to social media (facebook, twitter, etc.) in the newsletters?
Are the newsletters limited in size? I think Constant Contact limited the width of an email to 600 pixels - occasionally we had text in a graphic we made in Photoshop - so things go a little fuzzy.
Add-on question from #5 Are there ways to layer graphics on top of one another in the newsletters aside from flattening it in Photoshop? This was the most limiting factor in Constant Contact.
I appreciate any help with answering these questions. Again, I think it is pretty obvious and maybe you have some things to tell me that I am completely clueless about. I basically have to make the pitch to the powers that be and I want to make sure I have a lot of the ends covered.
Thanks!

Hope this helps.
1) When using Adobe BC I can use dreamweaver cs6 as well, correct? Yes. BC works in DW CS6
2) If i download Adobe BC on my computer to build the website can I also use it on another computer to keep the products updated? I read that it's online so i'm assuming this can be done for no extra cost but i want to make sure. Yes you can have SFTP access from any computer.
3) Can you host your website using godaddy or other hosts while using business catalyst? NO, BC is a hosted solution. You can although host email services third-party (i.e. Gmail).
4) Lastly, if you were to make an ecommerce website for a CLIENT how would you do it? WOuld you use business catalyst or other software such as, authorize.net and a shopping cart? BC includes a full-featured shopping cart (http://www.businesscatalyst.com/features/online-store), so you would manage products in the backend. A payment gateway like Authorize.net or Paypal will be needed (http://www.businesscatalyst.com/features/payment-gateways).

Is there a known issue for using IE11 when using business catalyst cms

Is there a known issue for using IE11 when using business catalyst cms? I have a client trying to update pages on her site using IE11 and the it says it updates successfully, but the new content is not saved.

I concur with Barry; I see no significant difference in using the Home button vs. the gestures. But the "fade" effect is part of iOS 7.1 and there's no way to disable it that I know of.
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Using Business Catalyst to publish my Muse Web design

I have a creative cloud membership to create a website in Muse. Is there an additional charge for BC to publish my site?

Hi
With creative cloud subscription , you get 5 free sites to publish in BC. The free sites would be web hosting sites.
For using those free counts you don't have to pay anything extra. Create the site in Muse and publish to BC.
More details :
http://helpx.adobe.com/business-catalyst/using/business-catalyst-muse-users.html
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Sanjit

Creating database for MUSE website using Business Catalyst.

We are building a membership site using Adobe MUSE. We are also using Business Catalyst to build the CRM customer database. We are using this as an alternative to MySQL since there is no direct connection between MySQL and MUSE. The only work around we know is to export the MUSE website to HTML. Import that HTML into Adobe DREAMWEAVER and the build the connections that way. This is time consuming and prone to errors as this does not create a flow in both system and data manipulation design.
We would like so home in creating, maintaining and performing searching on the database we create in Business Catalyst.

Hi there,
As I mentioned, when a form is filled (Email is always required) then this the contact is added to the CRM.
You can not render the CRM on the front end as I think you will want. You would have to look to form web apps and display things that way.
Please note that Muse is a designer tool and has limited scope in terms of its functionality compared to building a full rich website, So you will reach certain walls with what your doing.

Dreamweaver error when using Business Catalyst module tags in template

Hi all,
this is a recent and very distruptive error I have come accross in Dreamweaver CC.
When editing a document attached to a Business Catalyst template in Dreamweaver,
I was getting an error message (attached) saying:
"You have made changes to the code that is not marked as editable. If you retain those changes, they will be lost the next time you apply a template update to this file. Do you want to retain the changes until then?"
This happened every time I added a new html tag to the page, p div etc... which made DW unusable for editing files.
Having not got any useful help from BC support, they told me to contact Dreamweaver support!
In the end, I found through troubleshooting that it was the content holder module tags from Business Catalyst that were causing the problem,
I had recently converted my Header, Footer, Scripts etc to Content Holders in the site admin,
and when I removed these tags from my template and replaced them with the original html the problem disappeared.
The problem was happening on both my macs so the problem looked real to me,
but from searching online I couldn’t find people with similar issues, which made me think I must be doing something wrong.
As an aside,
I find the workflow between Dreamweaver CC and Business Catalyst, particularly in relation to DW templates very confusing.
I couldn’t find any up-to-date best practice guides for using DW in the Business Catalyst workflow that discusses the real issues I get every day:
- Best practice DW template editable region for {tag_pagecontent}
- BC pages updated from DW lose their page titles {tag_pagetitle} in BC admin (always causes problems for me)
If anyone is having these issues and found a way to get around them I’d be very interested,
I hope that this post will help some people who run into the same problem.
thanks, Kieran Mahon.

I found what may be at least a temporary solution to this problem. The error seems to something to do with the template file not having been updated, so whenever DW reads the file it looks like the template code has been changed (which of course it hasn't). It may be to do with the way BC treats the template code on the server side, as it seemed to start happening after I had downloaded some files from the server.
I opened the affected page and clicked Modify->Templates->Update Current Page and so far no error messages. Just one gotcha though. If you have any BC tags or Liquid code in your templates, DW converts it all to some kind of gobbledegook, so before you update the Template, copy all of your editable code and then paste it back in once the update has been done.

How may I use business catalyst with a reel name of domain ? ..

I don't want to have mydomain.businesscatalyst.com but mydomain.com but I want to use the business catalyst solution because my clients will have to admin their site
I think it's not possible if I put that site on another server
thank you for your answer
JC

The instructions to do that are here:
Business Catalyst Help | Change the domain name of your site

Using Business Catalyst in Dreamweaver CS6

When I click the login button in the Business Catalyst panel in Dreamweaver CS6, I get no response. So I cannot login to access my BC sites via Dreamweaver. Also, when I tried to import a Business Catalyst site via the Manage Sites... Tab in Dreamweaver CS6 nothing happens. How can I correct this?

Hi,
Please check which version of Dreamweaver CS6 you are using. In case this is Version 12 Build 5842, this should work fine. If this is some other version then please go to following link and download the patch:
http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2013/01/resolution-12-0-3-users-running-into-browserlab -business-catalyst-issues.html
The update should help, in case it does not work then you need to contact Dreamweaver support.
Regards,
Gaurav

I have stopped using business catalyst for hosting

I paid upfront for 2 years, how do I go about getting my money refunded, I have already switched over and I can no longer sign into my business catalyst account, thank you

I tried to have a look at a page already loaded, Safari tried to refresh it and then gave an error message. So the page that was already loaded was gone. So stupid.
As has already been mentioned, this is caused by the limited amount of RAM the iPad has (256mb)
If you have lots of tabs open in Safari (and perhaps some other Apps frozen in memory), they all use up some RAM.
If you open yet another tab in Safari it needs some RAM to load that page into, so if there isn't enough free RAM, it will clear the contents of the least recently viewed tab, meaning when you next switch back to it, it will need to be reloaded into memory.
iOS 4.2 has improved memory management and the amount of system memory available to apps is increased and the amount they use is decreased. So you should see some improvements in iOS 4.2.
You can also help things yourself by not having lots of Apps open and lots of tabs open in Safari.

Can't find a place on Adobe site that explains how to begin using Business Catalyst

I have several sites I have created with Dreamweaver, and I have 5 free sites on BC, according to the "deal"....but I am not seeing how to find BC and register each site, FTP to them, etc...Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Dan

Creating & Editing BC sites in DW (video)
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-business-catalyst/creating-and-editing-your-business-catal yst-website-using-dreamweaver-cs6/
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Web hosting using business catalyst

its prob a stupid question ..but if make a website with business catalyst and for some reason I don't renew my cc subsciption where does that leave me with editing and updating the site..
thanks

BC site subscription depends on your CC subscription, If CC subscription is not renewed then web hosting site will not be renewed thus will convert to a trial site.
Same with Muse subscription , you can still edit and update your site with trial version, but please note that trial version has a limited time of 30 days.
Thanks,
Sanjit

Examples of Mobile Websites using Business Catalyst

I am looking to build a mobile version of my business catalyst website and I was wondering if anyone has some examples of BC sites that they created for mobile so that I will have some ideas when I actually make one for my website. Thanks.

Hi Alex,
Here is a list of TribeVita's templates that all have mobile versions
http://www.tribevita.com/adobe-business-catalyst-templates/mobile
Brad

Need to create a searchable employee directory in Muse. How can I do this using Business Catalyst?

I have been tasked with updating our firm website, and have no prior web design experience. Muse seems like a great option, but I understand that Muse has no database capabilities. I was advised that I could find a way to incorporate a searchable employee directory (database) via Business Catalyst. Are there any links that show how to do this?

Thanks, Adam. I think this looks like a good option for us. Here is our current, existing website, which I am tasked with updating:
www.bstz.com
Would you mind taking a look at the attorney directory, and confirming that the BC Meet the Team will allow me to create essentially the same sort of directory, with search fields, photos and cv? I'm sure it will, but I just need confirmation before I go too much further down the design path.
Right now I am just on trial Adobe Creative Cloud membership, so I was able to download and experiment with Muse. I believe the cost to continue this would be about $15/month. If I join Business Catalyst with eCommerce membership, would that be in addition to the Adobe Creative Cloud membership? I'm going to need to give a proposal to my partners, and I want to make sure I am accurately stating the monthly costs. We currently have our own in-house server, and I want to be able to rationalize moving away from that.
Thank you for your continuing expertise.
Ingrid
BSTZ
310.500.4750

301 Redirects From a WIX website using Business Catalyst

I am having trouble redirecting pages from my old Wix.com website because it used AJAX and the webpages had urls with characters that businesscatalyst won't allow.
Example: augplastic.com/#!breast-augmentation/cmot
I have tried changing this to augplastic.com/?_escaped_fragment_=breast-augmentation/cmot but it will not accept this page name.
I need to do this with some other redirect code/ program....like Apache or web config folder. Can I do this or any other suggestions?
Thx

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The basic features would be:
Members have an account from which they can supply and update their contact details and listing details
Search function for categories. Postcode search. Price search etc
Members can create new listings with images, description, price, location. (needs approval from site owner before it's Live).
Members can have a watchlist
Users can email seller through their listing
Users can write review.
Based on search key words, a 'Related Items' results bar down the bottom of the listing would display related items.
This is the core basic stuff. From this it can be built upon.

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