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Category display page

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:47 pm
by westcoastoffshore
Hi I was wondering if someone could please offer some help with a few things.

I am trying to change the spacing and font colour on the category display page. If you go to http://www.westcoastoffshore.ca/Engine-Parts-C1.aspx , I am trying to arrange the sub-categories at the top of the page so they resmble a bulleted list (with two or three columns) instead of appearing more like bread crumbs with commas.

I also wish to change the font colour on this page of the bread crumbs and sub-categories.

I would also like to create a products page within my site that resembles this link http://www.eddiemarine.com/products/ I would also like to put a link to this page in the top nav bar that contains home, product finder, advanced search, curerncies and contact us.

I would also like to change the background colour, width and text colour of the main navigation bar on the left hand side of my home page http://www.westcoastoffshore.ca/Default.aspx

Also on the home page is an area to the right of the main body text. I was wondering what the display options are for this area and where to access them?

I also have a few catalogue questions.

Is it possible to have multiple suppliers for the same part? IE: If bob sells a water pump called "Big Block Chev Mark V" can I also have Ted as a supplier of the same part? One supplier may sell the same product but at a cheaper price or also one may be a US supplier while the other is a Canadian supplier?

I know that through the categories option on the product setup page that you can assign a product to numerous categories. Is it possible to assign an entire sub category to a top level category? IE: If I have "Water Inlets" as a sub category under "Engine Parts" can I also put the entire sub category under "Plumbing" without having to create the sub category under plumbing and then assign each product individually throught the product setup page in the categories tab?

Thanks for your help :-)

Regards,
Don

Re: Category display page

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:25 am
by jmestep
Some of your questions would take a long time to answer and the Able help docs will answer some of them.

On the category name listing, if you are using something like CategoryGrid3, in CategoryGrid3.ascx, you can change the line
<asp:Repeater ID="SubCategoryRepeater" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
<SeparatorTemplate>
,
</SeparatorTemplate>
to
<asp:Repeater ID="SubCategoryRepeater" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
<SeparatorTemplate>
<br /><br />
</SeparatorTemplate>
and it will list them similar to an bulleted list, but using <li> tags would be longer to implement.

On some of your coloring questions, that is done in the style sheet. If you use the firebug add-on in Firefox, you can find where that code is listed in style.css.
On this http://www.eddiemarine.com/products/ , you can use one of the category display pages in Able to set that up and customize it if necessary. The horizontal nav bar can be adjusted in the scriplet for the store header.
You can put any of numerous controls in your right nav- help docs would tell you about that.
You can have more than one supplier for a part, but if you want to set them up as vendors, the only way you could do that is to have two products with each product set up for a different vendor.
You can have the categories in two different places by creating one category, then in you second display, adding a link to that category thru the link feature in the admin.