Products/links down left hand side of page

[Sharon]

In Actinic Catalog is it possible to easily add products (e.g. featured products) or links to sections e.g. particular brands underneath the product menu and brouchure page links on the left hand side of the home page/product pages?

[RuralWeb]

What like you already have done on your site All this basic stuff is in the manual or am I just missing the point of the post completely

[jont]

There are many ways to achieve this depending on how complex you need it to be and how good your coding skills are.

The easiest way is to hard code the link direct to the section ... if you want to link to the product you can check out a layout such as the best sellers list and copy the code from there and hardcode the product reference.

You can also modify the best sellers list to only display say products 15 - 20 in your list that have been fixed.... I did a thread on this and is now in the AUG.

You can also set up user defined variables with a layout list incorporating a link such as that found in the best sellers list .. a condition can wrap the layout to test the presence of the user variable... the variable would be set in the product tabs to "YES" if you want it to appear in your new list. Only products with "YES" against the variable will show in the list. This takes little time to set up initially (and more complex) but ultimately means changing the products in the list is as simple as changing the prompt from NO to YES.

[Sharon]

Hi Mal,

I am happy with adding products & section links in the main body of the page. However I was enquiring regarding putting links/logos/pictures on the left of the page (not just the text links) - sort of the left hand column if you know what I mean (sorry don't know the correct terminology). I wondered if there was an easy way of doing it (one of the design options/menu options?) or whether it needed to be coded.

Sharon

[RuralWeb]

I wondered if there was an easy way of doing it (one of the design options/menu options?) or whether it needed to be coded

With you now - they will need to be hard coded

[jont]

Switch to the design tab and in the code pane navigate up to the outer layout. Click where you want to insert the image and use code such as the following :

<a href="http://www.domain.com/acatalog/page.html"><img src="image.jpg" alt="Image Description" /></a>

You need to ensure your image (image.jpg) is stored in the root of the site folder to ensure it is uploaded to the website correctly.

You will need to replace domain.com with your website and page.html with the section name you are linking through to.