How can How do I show selected products

[Mel]

Hi,

How do I show a specific product on the index page

for example JML sell: magnicard ,magic carpet, blu step

Bit like hot pics but my chosen specific hot pics

Mel:confused:

[Bud]

I'm not sure if this is the best way (or suitable for you), but it worked for me.

Make your index page a html page.

Copy the source html of your normal index page - in IE7, click on 'View' then 'Source'.

Insert the html into your index.html.

Now find the items you want to list.

Copy the source html of each item you wish to show.

Insert them into your index.html page instead of the items that are there.

You should now have an index page with all the items you want displayed.

Hope that's of some help - don't forget to change the back links to index.php to index.html

Bud

Addition: Alternatively I presume you could do much the same, but keep the index.php intact and put the content in the index.tpl instead.

[Mel]

I'm not sure if this is the best way (or suitable for you), but it worked for me.

Make your index page a html page.

Copy the source html of your normal index page - in IE7, click on 'View' then 'Source'.

Insert the html into your index.html.

Now find the items you want to list.

Copy the source html of each item you wish to show.

Insert them into your index.html page instead of the items that are there.

You should now have an index page with all the items you want displayed.

Hope that's of some help - don't forget to change the back links to index.php to index.html

Bud

Addition: Alternatively I presume you could do much the same, but keep the index.php intact and put the content in the index.tpl instead.

Hi Bud,

Thanks for the advice looks to be the way to go

Like the templates that you are using crisp and uncluttered looking - on the category pages did you have to rework anything i.e. product.php or any of the template elements?

Also assuming that you started off with the standard template rather than one of the blue or red templates from the Shop window Toolset and you are using client software and not API

Have spent the best part of the weekend looking at API and data feed not sure I want to learn yet about SOAP WSDL can just about get by with PHP at the moment, so datafeed with mysql+php might be an option for the future

Mel:)

[Bud]

Sorry for the late reply Mel.

In short - I'm using the Client s'ware and simply(!) gave each page a header, left, middle & right column and a footer. All done as part of the tpl's.

Php is pretty much intact with just the tpl's being tweaked for each page.

At present I wouldn't know where to start with API's etc so did it all with the client!

Does that help?

[Mel]

Sorry for the late reply Mel.

In short - I'm using the Client s'ware and simply(!) gave each page a header, left, middle & right column and a footer. All done as part of the tpl's.

Php is pretty much intact with just the tpl's being tweaked for each page.

At present I wouldn't know where to start with API's etc so did it all with the client!

Does that help?

Thanks for the reply

API's you and me both I am having enough problems on getting the sw_frame to center - see my posting in this section

Was happilly designing away until I looked at the site in IE it was all to the left hand side Firefox and Opera were fine - page nicely centered

Still have not worked out what it is - if you get a moment take a look at the posting ' sw_frame ' not centering

Thanks for the advice

Mel :)