Is This Possible... Help Please

22 Apr 2008, 12:46

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Is This Possible... Help Please

What i'm wanting is the homepage to always show up until the actual product list pages come up so all the navigation options are only shown in the side box. Is this possible?

www.dpmautostyling.co.uk

Thanks in advance

Damian

22 Apr 2008, 15:44

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kobra

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

Isn't that how it is now?

Might explain a bit more and maybe provide direct links to pages you do not want to see and what it is you want to see instead

22 Apr 2008, 15:55

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

At the moment when your on my homepage this is what you see...

http://www.dpmautostyling.co.uk/catalogue/

When you click on one of the product options you then see this screen...

http://www.dpmautostyling.co.uk/catalogue/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=379

and then...

http://www.dpmautostyling.co.uk/catalogue/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=379_388

and again until you get to the actual products...

http://www.dpmautostyling.co.uk/catalogue/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=379_388_520_1650_1464

What i want is to always show the homepage and only the navigation options shown in the sidebox until you get to a page with actual products on where the home page when then turn to...

http://www.dpmautostyling.co.uk/catalogue/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=379_388_520_1650_1464

and then you can click on the options.

It means i would get rid of the plain white screen with the options list like these pages http://www.dpmautostyling.co.uk/catalogue/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=379_388_520 which aren't really needed as you can do all the navigation from the side box.

Is that clear or have i confused the matter?

22 Apr 2008, 16:04

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

Not sure on the method to suppress these intermediate pages but you will need some method to enhance your sidebox navigation..

One would be to get and install the css-flyout menu module

22 Apr 2008, 17:28

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dpm

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

You can already navigate through just the side box though...

22 Apr 2008, 18:35

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

The flyout menu will let you navigate to sub-sub-subcategories in one click, by hovering on the successive categories you want to expand.

22 Apr 2008, 21:37

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

I see.

Is there a way of doing what i'm wanting to do above though?

22 Apr 2008, 21:46

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

How about this: you list all the products that belong to sub categories under the current category. Then the customers can narrow down by choosing the specific subcat they want. If you like it that way I may be able to help

22 Apr 2008, 21:56

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

You've lost me :lamo:

24 Apr 2008, 08:50

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

Can anyone tell me if what i'm wanting to do is possible?

Thanks in advance

24 Apr 2008, 09:00

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

Can anyone tell me if what i'm wanting to do is possible?

I can tell you that it is possible but what you most likely want is to be told how to do it. This will be more complicated than an admin setting and too involved to get accomplished in a few posts on a forum like this. This is why there is a commercial help wanted section in this forum. You might find that it is not as important as you thought after you receive a couple of quotes for getting it done.

24 Apr 2008, 09:03

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

I'm guessing it would be alot then. Thanks for your reply, just trying to figure out this flyout now.

24 Apr 2008, 17:08

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

The way you worded your original request would take custom coding to achieve.

The flyout menu will achieve the exact same end results with only one click, so is most likely better for you than what you actually asked for.

24 Apr 2008, 17:19

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Re: Is This Possible... Help Please

It's just trying to get that sorted is proving difficult aswell!