Anyone know if there is a mod like this

I am looking for something, anything, that will allow me to show the user a few important things from my site when they land on the home page. My thought is that this will best be done using some sort of scrolling set of images with text in them. Most likely these will NOT be products. This is why I ask this question now, because everything I have found is for products, and it grabs the product images and scrolls them etc. An example of a great one that the creator of the site told me was javascript is found at http://iphonepartsfactory.com/ .

He is listing products as I said I did not want to, however there are neatly place tabs/buttons on the bottom the user can click, and i can make the content of each tab what I want to get across to the user/customer.

If anyone knows a solution to this I am dying to hear it, as I feel like that is what my site is missing.

Thanks

First, the file to do what want is found here: admin > tools > define pages editor - define_main_page.php

Then you need to insert Javascript or jQuery code for the display you want. The site you referenced for example, is using: Simple Image Trail script- By JavaScriptKit.com .

Then make sure you have what is needed to make the JS work and installed in the correct location.

OK i will work on this. Thank you

Does anyone have the code for this? I have tried to use the code provided, and could not get it to work.

Can anyone help?

thanks!

Find a good jscript slider package. You have to read the Zen Cart doc on how to use jscript: it's in the "docs" folder of the Zen Cart installation package. read_me_jscript.html.

I'm using the Avonlee template and it comes with jscript_easySlider built in. If you are able to test new templates, install Avonlee and edit the main_page defined page to get an idea of how it works.

If you get your own slider to use it you'll probably have to put the jscript in YOUR_TEMPLATE jscript folder, images in YOUR_TEMPLATE images folder, then you can call it wherever you want. read_me_jscript.html will explain where to put your files.

You can simply do what rob said.

Find the tool you want to use. Do the testing and styling of the tool using one html page (preferably server side). Most tools are jquery based which is pretty easy to work with.

Once you get the look and function you want, you can rename the scripts/css, upload them to your template folder and just add the actual html code and the javescript to your index template if you wish to use it on home page.