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[fairestcape]

At some point, you may consider installing Image Handler 2. This does wonders for pic quality, and adds a nifty HOVER ZOOM feature, which may help you with your planner images...

... see IH2 in action at www.edutrade.co.uk . Call up a product category to see how the hover zoom feature works.

[stevesh]

Yep...looking way better. A quick question...Why not get rid of the catagory box to the left, put the top one bag in and resize tabs or something? Would that too give me a larger playing field?

I'm looking into having the planners copied professionally too, that may give me a sharper / clearer image.

Thanks again for all of your help.

The only problem I have with just using the header category tabs is that people are used to looking on the left for navigation, and the stock header links don't really look like links. If you could style them to look like buttons, that might work.


Thinking outside the box here (literally) but could you make your product listing 2 wide and use the image of the calendar (greyed a little) as a background? It'd take some template work.

[baddco]

Cool. I'm liking the way Zen works.

Going to try spacing them out now... Thanks again.

Also, I incorporated it where you have to login to see prices. The wife hates that, So I need to switch it back, but can't find where I originally changed it.

If I'm this forgetful at 55 what will 65 be like?

[baddco]

I've done things close to that on my Night Sky web page ( UFO's & The like ) they worked ok, but I had to redo them because search engines didn't recognize them and wouldn't spider any further. Went back to the text/ascii menus and my ratings zoomed on Google & Live.com

[fairestcape]

To re-set "login for price", try ADMIN>>>CONFIGURATION>>>CUSTOMER DETAILS...

I see also that your product images are GIF files...

You should use JPEGS (xxxx.jpg) - and you will have to have jpg if you want to use Image Handler...

[stevesh]

you have to login to see prices. The wife hates that,

You married a very smart woman.

[fairestcape]

Remember... if you want a few more sideboxes on the LEFT column (now that the right is switched off...) you can simply change their settings from RIGHT to LEFT in the Layout Boxes Controller.

The screen is divided into TWO... Left boxes at the top, and Right boxes underneath. Click on one in the RIGHT boxes section and re-set its Radio Botton to LEFT...

[fairestcape]

You may also want to DISABLE category counts (the number that appears in your category menu, showing the number of products in that category)...

ADMIN>>>CONFIGURATION>>>MY STORE>>>Show Category Counts (set to FALSE)

The main reason for setting it to false is that when it's ON, it slows down the page query time. Also (unless you have a specific reason for wanting your customers to know how many different products you have in a category), I believe there's no real need to give them this info.

[baddco]

You are right on the counts, very good point.

And I did marry a smart woman, Thank You. I don't always handle her criticism as well as I should, but more times than not...She's right.

She really hates how I've duplicated some listings, but I can't figure any other way to deal with multiple purchases.

For example...one will cost say $17.95, each additional would cost $14.95. It's not a percentage discount, or buy 2 get one free, How could I go about handling this?

I do have both GIF and JPEG images, tomorrow I'll switch them to JPEG's I'd do it today, but getting time to make the sauce. ( I work in a Pasta Sauce factory ) And it's getting to be about that time. I'm really hoping that makes them look somewhat better. I realize most the problem is a result of the lines & rules, but some is just the result of a crap image from the get go.

Thanks Again everyone.

[fairestcape]

In the product listing page, you may also want to add a little bit of space around the lines that say: - Displaying X to Y (of Z products).

Your sections of CSS that control this currently says

/*navigation*/

.navSplitPagesResult {}
.navSplitPagesLinks {}

If you do this, it will add a bit of space to the top and the bottom, thereby taking it away from the product listings, and making the look a bit cleaner.

/*navigation*/

.navSplitPagesResult {margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 0;}
.navSplitPagesLinks {margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 0;}