Quote Originally Posted by DK_Scully View Post
I've spent most of the day working on our new site (www.book-oasis.com) and have made a lot of progress, but I'm stumped by a couple of things. I just finished searching this forum for answers, but didn't found any. Maybe it's because my eyes are bleeding. LOL

We want to use the header bar to list book categories rather than Quick Links, Shop, etc. Instead, we want headers like Fiction, Non-Fiction, History, Fine Arts, etc. Each of these categories will have subcategories...for Fiction, for example, there will be general fiction, science fiction, light romance, young adult, etc.

I've studied your readme.html file. It says: "If you want to customize the header menu you can change any of the existing text and links in includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/sheffield_blue/headermenu.php" But when I look at headermenu.php, it says "These are used in conjunction with the various <li> tags in templates/YOURTEMPLATE/common/tpl_mega_menu.php" Obviously these two files work hand-in-hand...but how? If I risk making changes to the <?php echo labels, I presume I make changes to the headermenu.php files at the same time? Are there other files that will also need modifying? How will these headers tie together with the book categories we'll be setting up in Catalog - Categories/Products? Or will they; will this idea even work?

The other little niggly thing I'd like to fix is, the Search sidebar has a message inside it that says HEADER_SEARCH_DEFAULT. Where do I go to make that message disappear, so that the box is empty?

I really, really appreciate your help on this!!
If you want to show top categories in the header menu you will need to edit the includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php file. I would recommend taking a look at an older menu module called CSS Horizontal Dropdown Menu With jquery which has an option to show only the top level categories as a guide.

Thanks,

Anne