Trying to figure out organization and creation of template

Hi Guys,

I'm having trouble figuring out how to handle the variations of a product.

So....essentially, we have a single cut/type of shirt that can have multiple very specific color/design combinations.

Here's the individual product page I'm trying to make:

(the graphics are kinda filler right now. They're close, but some are duplicated just to fill it out)

I would appreciate any insight someone could give me for this one.

Thanks.

This is really not template related but more product, product image, and product attribute question...

The additional images can be added automatically, by naming;
i.e.the main image name shirt.jpg; each other image named as shirt_xx.jpg where the xx is a number like: shirt_1.jpg and shirt_22.jpg.

These additional images are loaded into the /images folder and their medium and large counterparts into /images/medium and /images/large folders and named
shirt_MED.jpg and shirt_LRG respectively.

You might look at the tabbed_lite mod in the downloads section under the template area. This might be something that you could use for your products.

You can setup a attribute name as "team" and add and associate attribute values for the actual team names. Then I would suspect that you will also require one as "size" with values of s,m,l,xl

Hope that this gets you started on the right track

Thanks Kobra, this did get me going in the right direction. I didn't realize that I was in the wrong section of the forum but now that I have a question that has arisen because of this, I completely realize it.

My question: How would one track which variation is currently being displayed so that if the customer were to order it, the company can fulfill it?

Here's what the complete store will look like (with size and "add to cart" buttons missing)

See my original post....You need to enter the attributes for either radio or dropdown and when selected it will add correctly to the cart. These are not natively selectable via the images

Hrm....okay. I think i'll try to code this by hand then. I'm going to automate it so that it affects a hidden input element called whatever I put in as an attribute using javascript. Then I'll just troll the images folder looking for images that have _1, _2, _3 following them and start with the same name as the product.

A tad time-consuming but doable.

Oh well.

I have been working on this type of function also and I started with the mod for changing the image displayed on hover or I changed to on click....this mod does not alter the item selected to be added to the cart. You might look at the downloads section for the mod as a starting base.

Do you happen to remember which mod was doing this?

I can't find one that was created solely for this purpose, so the feature you speak of must be bundled in a larger-purpose mod or template.