The goals:
1. Design a new category page that uses images instead of links to represent sub-categories.
2. It has to display multiple sub-categories uniform across the page.
3. It has to pull each sub-category image from the thumbnail field in the category setup page.
4. It must also display the contents of the parent category Description field at the top of the page. This will represent a summary of the category and introduce the sub-categories the customer is about to shop.
5. I should only have to make one change to each top-level category display page to tell it to use the new categorygrid.aspx page.
The result:
It rocks.
Check it out-go to my website http://www.solunar.com and click Fishing Gear, Hunting Gear or Electronics under Solunar Store in the menu on the left.
Each image you see is actually another category, not a specific product. And the code knows what sub-categories to render for the top-level category you selected. So I can just assign the page to each top-level I want and the page does the rest for me.
Sorry if I seem over-excited -it was a big step for me to do it. Can you tell I'm proud?
