Bunch of Questions about layout and templates!

[Loly19]

Hello hoping for some help here on things I haven't been able to figure out on my own

1. Drop down menus for subcategories
Is this possible?
http://216.139.232.83/Default.aspx
Basically would like to mouseover the category links and display CSS drop downs.

2. Display Subcategories through-out product pages etc.
I'll try and explain this the best I can.
If you go here http://216.139.232.83/Womens-C7.aspx you will see the sub-categories displayed on the left. I would like the Women's sub-categories to be displayed no matter where the user is in the Women's Section. For example if they select a product or a sub-category they still see the same sub-categories displayed on the side. I select Bullet Bag, I still see Sub-Cat 1 and 2 on the side. I select Sub-Cat 1 and I still see Sub-Cat 1 and 2 displayed. Hope this makes sense. I have been unable to do without manually putting in the category ID number.

3. Email to Friend form on its own page.
If you go to http://216.139.232.83/Bullet-Bag-P51.aspx you'll see Email to a Friend as a dead link. I would like the user to be able to click this link and be taken to the Email to a Friend form. I figured I could do this by creating another product page with just the form. I just couldn't figure out what the link should be to reference the product. If there is another easier way that would be great as well.

4. Use State Abbreviations instead of full name on check out.

5. Check out Progress on with 1 page check out. This doesn't really work here unless multiple destinations are selected. Is there a solution to this to have it update?

I think that's it. Any help is greatly appreciated
Lori

[jmestep]

1 and 2 can be accomplished using the componentart menu (either horizontal or vertical) and for the left nav, just put that conlib in the Standard Sidebar, for example.
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=7986

[Loly19]

Alright well I have the conlib placed in the side bar for the product page

http://216.139.232.83/Bullet-Bag-P51.aspx

My question is how do I have the sub-categories for the current Category in the side instead of the main categories again.

For Example if I browse to that product from Women's, I want the women's sub-categories to be displayed

Thank you

[mazhar]

In the SimpleCategoryList control edit the following line

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if (_CategoryId < 0) _CategoryId = PageHelper.GetCategoryId();

and make it look like

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_CategoryId = PageHelper.GetCategoryId();

and it will list the Child categories on the product page. But this change will cause problems for other locations. So better make a copy of the SimpleCategoryList control and then change this new control and use it over the product page.