Text Links on Main Page

[Bun]

I'm after creating a number of text links from the main page into the product pages. Possibly a list of suppliers that appear at the bottom on the main page that take you to individual products. Just wondering what the best options are to achieve this?

[Toby B]

Hi Bun,

How's your HTML knowledge?

If you're pretty confident with editing the templates I would hardcode the links. If you are using Actinic's brochure pages the default template that controls the home page is Act_BrochurePrimary.html. You can check this by going to Design | Options | Brochure. I find a good way of generating product links is simply searching for them and copying the URL generated by the search in the address bar. We also have a KB article with instructions on link straight to products here.

If you are not too confident in editing the templates I would suggest using fragments. Right click on the house icon in the content tree and select "New Fragment" Under the links tab you will see you can choose a product you wish to link to.

The layout might look better if you set them out in columns.

Dies this help?

[jont]

Taking Toby's advice a step further you could set up a CUSTOMVAR (Advanced | Custom Properties) eg PRODUCTLINK .... then adding that to the templates as above eg CUSTOMVAR:PRODUCTLINK

You can then specify the CUSTOMVAR (the url to the product) at a global level (Design | Options | Site Defaults) and then override at the section level to create a more focussed product link for similar items, specials etc (Section | Properties [tab])