Where can I find this website function

I have a running website with separate entity shopping cart. I am looking to make the site more user friendly by having a point over item and the product changes to the color of your choice so the customer can see what the finished product will look like. An example is Sportsman's Guide uses this technology where if you search for a specific T-shirt, jacket, etc.,you have multiple color choices to choose from and simply mouse your pointer over the item color choice and the item changes to that color. I'm new this and not sure if this is website design or is it the shopping cart end that does this? So, looking for a small business low budget way of accomplishing this. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

I'm new this and not sure if this is website design or is it the shopping cart end that does this?

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Probably, however it is scripting with CSS/HTML5 or maybe Flash that makes it happen.

This could be achieved by having the colours stored on a per item basis, so when the page loads the colours, and associated images are all loaded too.

From there on, a simple client-side script can be used to switch images depending on the choice of colour, displaying the first by default. Each colour could be given a unique ID, so as to pass this as an extra to the cart.

Not sure if you already knew this and was looking for a ready-made script/ someone willing to do this for you, or if you wanted some kind of idea as to the logic required.

To be more specific, I am looking to dump my web host and keep my cart/merchant and add the cart to the new web host. The existing host will do this for me but at an astronomical price so no way. I'd like to learn how to do this myself.
Is there any known web design software where I can perhaps pull all data/photos from my existing website and drag and drop these to a new host, (yes, ready made script). I googled it but come up with more questions than answers. My website is not user/mobile friendly and that is what I am trying to change and accomplish.

It can be done, but how easy that is will depend on how the cart is built. Is it a custom-built thing, or a store CMS like Zencart?

vetubet109 said:

To be more specific, I am looking to dump my web host and keep my cart/merchant and add the cart to the new web host. The existing host will do this for me but at an astronomical price so no way. I'd like to learn how to do this myself.
Is there any known web design software where I can perhaps pull all data/photos from my existing website and drag and drop these to a new host, (yes, ready made script). I googled it but come up with more questions than answers. My website is not user/mobile friendly and that is what I am trying to change and accomplish.

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Sounds like FTP might be able to help - assuming your host allows it. It won't grab your database(s), though, so you'll have to export SQL manually. I doubt you'll have more than one active database, so all should be good.

If the above does not make any sense, it is because I may have misunderstood your question. Am I therefore right to assume that the cart will be installed via cPanel on the new host? If so, this does make a little more sense. Again, this issue may still be addressed with the use of FTP.

HTTrack can get all your existing files.

chrishirst said:

HTTrack can get all your existing files.

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That won't grab the database, will it (assuming there is one)?

ronaldroe said:

That won't grab the database, will it (assuming there is one)?

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Nope - HTTrack is for client-side files only, which is essentially irrelevant to the original question(s).