Extended Information Useage

[DavidAM]

Hello,

Our online shop (www.enjoymuzic.com) is very new and we are in the never ending process of improving navigation, information and functionality.

We are slowly learning the restrictions and limitations of presenting information on individual pages within Actinic sites.

Our starting point was to have a separate section for each product which allowed customers to view the summary detail and full product info on it's own page.

We found that we had too many products and that this in conjunction with our preferred menu style simply overloaded Actinic and wouldn't work.

Our next option was to simply have a small product template and have all of the product information contained within the extended information pages.

This works fine until you hit the search engine problem! I have seen the other threads in relation to code which can be used to allow these pages to be searchable however I am concerned about how this will work if someone searches and follows a link to an extended information page.

I appreciate the "close" link could refer people back to the site homepage but wonder if this could work better.

2 Questions...

- Does anyone know a way to build into the extend info template the facility for the close link to return to the product/category it relates to?

- Could the extended info page be set to follow the main site template so that it appears with the usual menu structure and adverts (in otherworks simply appears where the list of products within a category would normally sit).

Thanks for any help you can provide.


David
www.enjoymuzic.com
The Online Music Shop
Play - Listen - Learn... Enjoy

[peblaco]

You can have the extended info page as a main page of the site using the main template see the Advanced User Guide at:
http://www.actinic.co.uk/support/downloads.htm

[DavidAM]

You can have the extended info page as a main page of the site using the main template see the Advanced User Guide at:
http://www.actinic.co.uk/support/downloads.htm

Hi Louise,

Thanks for your reply.

I really should think about looking in the advanced user guide before posting questions!

Can you think of any drawbacks to including the extended info page as part of the main site?

Thanks


David

[DavidAM]

You can have the extended info page as a main page of the site using the main template see the Advanced User Guide at:
http://www.actinic.co.uk/support/downloads.htm

Have implemented this change offline and it looks great.

Could anyone let me know if there is a way to add the breadcrumb bar to the top of the extended info pages as is show on the rest of the site.

I also need a way to add a back button within this page.

Thanks


David

[TraceyHand]

Can you think of any drawbacks to including the extended info page as part of the main site?

loading in the main window?

depending on the size of your catalogue, be prepared for a HUGE slowdown in upload time (well, the checking Actinic does before uploading)
If you don't upload often, it probably won't matter but it's definitely something you need to be aware of

I initially did this on budget bumps but it was crippling my upload so now I use an extended info pop up that passes (just about) as a main page if it is landed on from GoogleBase etc

If 8.5.2 does what it says it will (ie make extended info pages indexable) then I'll be a double happy bunny!

[pinbrook]

Could anyone let me know if there is a way to add the breadcrumb bar to the top of the extended info pages as is show on the rest of the site.

I also need a way to add a back button within this page.

go to the layout for your ext info page, add the variable for the breadcrumb and then add your code for back button. There's nothing tricky in what you want to do and its all in the help files

[DavidAM]

go to the layout for your ext info page, add the variable for the breadcrumb and then add your code for back button. There's nothing tricky in what you want to do and its all in the help files

Hi Again,

I've copied the code across for the breadcrumb section and this seems to work fine.

I did not create this site and for the life of me cannot find the code that controls the back button option to return the extended info page to the original product within the previous section. Any suggestions?

Also does anyone know how I can amend the breadcrumb code to refer back to the original product anchorpoint within the previous section rather than just returning to the top of the section?

Thanks again.


David

[Bruce]

Hi,

The bit about the back button from the extended information pages was covered on the fllowing thread http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=31916

Kind regards,