Problems with Product Listing design/layout. Need help fast!

[adi2009]

Zen car v 1.3.8
Template: zenflavor/template1

Hello,

Here is the problem: recently I stared my first zen cart website (car parts) for my client based on zenflavor/temp.1 In text bellow is link on which you can see how site looks:

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6494/28265514.jpg

and for start this is OK, but my client suggested another product Listing design/layout, which should look like this:

kejparts.katalogazja.pl

and problem is that I am not sure how can I acomplish that? Do I need three column template, or two columns are enough? Also I cant find any tutorilan on Internet regarding this

Any help is appreciated and MANY thanks in advance for PROMT replys!

Cheers!

[gjh42]

That is not a product listing but principally a menu with dependent selections. (Actually there might be a product list at the right of the menu - I can't read it so don't know.) It uses javascript to do its switching.
The menu could be custom-built by someone expert in javascript.

That site is structured completely differently from standard Zen Cart (not just the layout). It also for unknown reasons uses frames (iframes?) which would cause problems with Zen Cart's checkout function. Building a site like that one would require a ton of advanced custom coding.

[adi2009]

thnx for promt repyl Glenn, really appreciate it.

problem is that I had already invested time and effort in this site and now I need somehow to adjust to needs of my client.. I assumed that this would be hard to make, but since I have to find some kind of solution, my question is:

- is there any chance I could make something similar to link/site I have mentioned in my last post, it doesnt mean that it has to be identical,

- if it is possible to download free/commercial template which works the way my client wants, then I would gladly change my temp. but I dont know are there any temp. like that,

- and last solution my client also mentioned this site as an good example milneroffroad.com/categories.asp?cID=1
As you can notice, when you click for example on link "Mitsubishi Import" on left-side menu, right side shows vertical list of subcategories in black boxes with white text in it. I guess this could be done?

[gjh42]

I can't get your last link to work, only the base site which is an ancient HTML site.

The menu part of that site could be generally replicated with a CSS-controlled menu; actually, Categories Dressing might be able to do it, perhaps with some customizing. (See Categories Dressing, post 510, for a demo screenshot.) The product listing part might be relatively simple, depending on how you really want the listing to work.

[adi2009]

last link I have posted, suddenly it doesnt work on my computer too, but when I type milneroffroad.com in address bar and then click on link "Mitsubishi Import" (which is on left menu), works OK.

regarding design/appearance of the left menu, it doesnt play to important role for my clients site, but list of subcategories which is on right side, does. Also, I made mistake in my first question/thread title: what is most important for my site is Subcategories listing, not Product listing (my client is sadisfied with pr.listing), sorry for this mistake.

So as I have mentioned, this is how my site looks like now:
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6494/28265514.jpg

and this is how it should look:

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5663/41595109.jpg

(basically very similar to listing of subcategories that is used on site milneroffroad.com - subcategories are shown in boxes that are verticaly listed: subcategore1 in separated box1, subcategore2 in separated box2 etc)

Can this be achieved using addon/product "Categories Dressing", css, or maby some other solution?

[gjh42]

The domain without www is the old site, and the domain preceded by www is the new site you are talking about.
That nav should not be too hard to get, though there are other menus in the right sidebar that may take more work.

I think this may be a case where the Uncollapsed Categories Tree packaged with Categories Dressing will be useful. That uses a sidebox with id #chcategories while the standard #categories sidebox can also be active. So one of them could stay in the sidebar while the other gets positioned in the center and does the subcat thing.

[adi2009]

So your suggestion would be try with Categories Dressing?
If that case I will start to work on that tomorrow early morning already

As soon as I finish that I will keep you informed (I will post it on this thread).

Cheers!

[gjh42]

For help with Cat Dressing, please post in its support thread so the info stays in one place.
This kind of customization will require a good grasp of CSS, so the more you know about that the easier it will be to help you.