Meta Tags only on sub sections ?

[nigelt]

Morning All!
Am i right in thinking that you can only add meta tags to a sub section and not at product level ?
If so, presumably the way forward is to have 1 product per sub section...
is that the norm for actinic users or have I got it wrong.... again :-)

Thanks
Nige

[gabrielcrowe]

a product (thats the little blue boxen) is not the same as a page.

a section (thats the white box with squiggly bits in it) is actually a html page.

so, its possible to have multiple products per page, or as a much better solution, a single product per page (thats one product per section)

codepath do a plugin for this, so its all automated to save you some work.

so, one prod per section lets you add meta tags 'to the product'.

sound ok?

[nigelt]

Yep, thats super thanks... now this brings me onto another !!!
I've now got a section, with 6 "sub" sections, each with a product attached.

When I click on a section, I get a horizontal list of the products separated by a horizontal dotted line.

Is it possible for it to display the products, just as in the best sellers list, which is little boxes with a product in each box.
You then click on the product in the box to go to that particular product.

Not sure if that made sense.....

I've had a look at various settings but nothing jumped out at me.

Thanks
Nige

[leehack]

Use the product image as the section image.

[pinbrook]

put the section layout into columns

[nigelt]

Leehack and Pinbrook, thanks both. That has worked a treat..... but... there is always a but !

the product images i use are quite large, so presumably i have to create a thumbnail image for the section page do I ?.

Or.... Is there any way for it to automatically resize the image, like it does on the new products page. ?.
Thanks
Nige

[leehack]

You can specify a width only Nigel and let it resize, but you can get erratic results. I would always recommend creating your own images, for starters you want them all sized identically (width + height) otherwise it will look junk. Create a sub folder called, section images, put the images into there and point the sections to the correct images.

[nigelt]

I was afraid you were going to say that.

I initially thought... right.. get all the stuff in the shop, on the net.
How difficult can it be... a few taps here and there and bosh...
ah well... the real world eh !
It'll look good in the end though.

I wish i had shares in tesco's value coffee !

Cheers for that Sir.

Nige

[leehack]

LOL Nigel if it was that easy everyone would be doing it and there would be no profit for anyone.