Change look of Featured products on home page

[ezywebsuser]

Hi,

I have tried everything to change the look of how the featured products on the front page are displayed and cannot get it right. Please can someone show me how to do this. What files do i edit? I want to display my front page featured products like this.



Find Image here: http://www.kabshuttle.co.za/featuredprodcuts.jpg

Thank you

[brandtim]

The file you need to edit is includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_modules_featured_products.php.

You'll want to replace this line:

require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_columnar_display.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common'). '/tpl_columnar_display.php');

with the contents of includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_columnar_display.php.

That way you can modify just the display of the featured products and not the display of all of the products.

BrandTim

[birdoasis]

Ewwww, nice tip.

However I would like to caution you against having all of your featured products on our home page. It will increase the load time of your homepage and you'll end up with search engine spiders leaving your site before it's finished loading.

Think about having a clean homepage with just a few banners of featured products, and the text that you need to draw the spiders in further as well as presenting the customer with a fast loading shopping cart.

[ezywebsuser]

Thanks for the help. I managed to customize this perfectly. here is what i did www.paintitall.co.za, take a look at the featured products.

This article was also extremely helpful.
http://www.kirkhamsystems.com/zencart_layout_changes

[all4coffee]

I currently display the Featured Product centerbox on my index page.
It is set to display 3 featured products.

http://www.time-co.com/zencart/

I would like it to JUST display the products without the "box" containing them and to get rid of the "Featured Products" title. I would like the changes to apply only to the Featured Products centerbox and not to other centerboxes (such as New Items, etc) Any help where to and how to implement it? Please!