Short Description mod - bigger textbox for Product Add page?

[DrByte]

I don't understand why shouldn't you use html in your product listing? Not saying your wrong just trying to get an understanding.

The "short description" should be "short". If you're using it to add HTML markup and all kinds of extra information, it kinda defeats the purpose of a "short" description, doesn't it?
Or are you thinking of a product "listing" as more than just a "listing"? If so, why?

[dscott1966]

The "short description" should be "short". If you're using it to add HTML markup and all kinds of extra information, it kinda defeats the purpose of a "short" description, doesn't it?
Or are you thinking of a product "listing" as more than just a "listing"? If so, why?

Your right the, short description should be short no arguement there from me on that DrByte. I used it for a different purpose though. If you look here where it says features: http://www.usopenshop.org/product_p/usp8t28.htm

This is what i used it for instead of putting it in the descriptions itself. I had this white space in the box to right of the image which to me looked kind of just blah and did not look right to me so when i seen that it just came to mind to do that.

Here is my page you will see what i'm talking about: http://dealz-r-us.com/index.php?main...products_id=38

Plus the question from the first post came up so i wanted to help also. I'm new to this php stuff and learning how to do different things so i took on the challenge to figure it out. And found that it was not hard to do. So i thank you for your in put DrByte and once again you are correct in your saying it suppose to be short i just took it a step further.

[christopherw]

The "short description" should be "short". If you're using it to add HTML markup and all kinds of extra information, it kinda defeats the purpose of a "short" description, doesn't it?
Or are you thinking of a product "listing" as more than just a "listing"? If so, why?

Indeed, I concur with Don here - I'm using the short descriptions for short summaries of each trip (zen cart is functioning in 'catalogue' mode without the ability to purchase anything in my case) - simple formatting such as italics or bold for key information, and line breaks, are what the wysiwyg editor come in useful for.

Plus, having wysiwyg is so much simpler when the people who are going to be editing the catalogue in the future (i.e., not me!) don't have any HTML understanding. Presenting a word processor-like interface is far more of an adequate compromise :) And that's why I went for HTML in the short descriptions area.

[FunkyPapa]

I downloaded and installed this mod and it's working fine after some research here on the forums. The FCKeditor was easy to get added in.

However the mod only allows you about 250 characters for input in the short part of the description. On my site that equals about 2 1/4 lines. I'd like to know how I could increase that. I'd like to have it be about one good small paragraph with the rest of our text at the bottom. Can anyone tell me where I'd make that change at?