Removing topsection navigation

[YsoL8]

Hi

This has proberly been done to death yet strangely I can't find it.
I want to find a way to remove the 1st level of navigation from the innerlayout.

So if someone could point me to the right thread that'd be nice.

[leehack]

Are we guessing what you have now or you sending details telepathically?

[grantglendinnin]

Section Navigation.

[YsoL8]

Are we guessing what you have now or you sending details telepathically?

Just the plain vanila Section Page With Section Name At The Top
using product list with horizontal dividers.

Decided to revert after breaking the site a couple of times.

By using the standard sub section list and deleting sectionlink I can do it but since this also deletes the sub-sections that could be seen as a little impratical.

Is that what you wanted?

[leehack]

You need to understand Oliver, that you have it in front of you and you also know what you want to do. We have neither, so very much in the dark. If i asked you what colour should my walls be to compliment my curtains and sofa, you'd have the same difficulty answering.

If you put in some effort to explain your situation better, you will get more help. Never expect anyone to put in more effort than yourself.

What you are trying to do sounds flawed and a very bad idea, but it's hard to say for sure. Anyway top level sections are classed as level 1 sections in actinic, so you need to limit the list from showing the section link, where section level is 1 (condition wrapped around the section link layout). There is already a condition setup for this in the design library, have a look in there. This area is the key to almost anything you need to do in actinic. Just backup before you start playing.

[YsoL8]

I'm sorry.
I'm not entirely sure which information is relevent - so much to learn.

What do I need to provide - the code for my innerlayout? Or the whole template where it's located? I don't want to flood the page with useless code.

For your information I building a custom top level navigation for the store so I need to eject the current one. Is that a bad idea?

Will try your suggestion

I have a list of car manufacturers as my top navigation. This is to enable customers to filter to their exact car speifications, like this:

make -> model -> year -> engine size -> products

This produces a very long list using the standard navigation system so I'm trying to replace the top level navigation with a system that filters the make by region of origin (Japan, America, Europe ect), which will do much to improve the athestic of the page. I already have the filter system working with a custom variable, I just need actinic to stop supplying its own top level of navigation.

[leehack]

Building your own menu is fine, that's what I do a lot of the time also. Are we talking about the department list you tend to have in left sidebars on a site or the central area of a site where you tend to get images also? You seem to be referring to both areas and i'm not clear what you want to do. When starting off, it's always good to get the site live and give us something to look at, can you do that? you can direct things with us looking at the live site then.

[YsoL8]

I have a list of car manufacturers as my top navigation. This is to enable customers to filter to their exact car speifications, like this:

make -> model -> year -> engine size -> products

This produces a very long list using the standard navigation system so I'm trying to replace the top level navigation with a system that filters the make by region of origin (Japan, America, Europe ect), which will do much to improve the athestic of the page. I already have the filter system working with a custom variable, I just need actinic to stop supplying its own top level of navigation.

Not sure if you saw that so I quoted it.

This will be a center list style.
I sounded vague because I'm still figuring things out as I go.

And if that sounds bad it is but my employer has a strange dislike of planning.

The site is http://www.grahamgoode.com/acatalog/

Its a bit of mess at the minute since I'm migrating 2 navigation systems into a third and all three are live.

[leehack]

So you are assessing where they are from and then offering up the relevant makes for their region? Why would you not set up the regions as the top level sections and then go into your current structure?

[YsoL8]

Where the customer is from isn't relevant. Alot of our customers are British Ford modifiers for example. The makers are split into regions simply to make the navigation less of a huge list.

[leehack]

I can't grasp why you can't go:

region -> make -> model -> year -> engine size -> products

[YsoL8]

I see what you mean.

That would help.

I'll see if I can make a quick trial.

[Rich Brady]

I can't grasp why you can't go:

region -> make -> model -> year -> engine size -> products

That's the way I would do it too. Splitting the Models up is making you navigation way too long:

Ford:

Fiesta (JAS)

Fiesta (JBS)

Fiesta (JH/JD)

Fiesta (JA8)

Try:

Ford:

Fiesta

Fiesta (JAS)

Fiesta (JBS)

Fiesta (JH/JD)

Fiesta (JA8)

Also you only have one end product under Fiesta JAS, but two further tiers of section before you get ther:

1.25

If it's the only one stick it here:

Fiesta JAS

1.25

That's reduced the amount of clicks a visitor makes by 2...

Try:

Ford:

Fiesta

JAS
KH/JD
JA8

Putting the list into 2 or 3 columns would make the page much shorter too:

http://www.u-need-ink.co.uk/acatalog...artridges.html

[YsoL8]

Putting the list into 2 or 3 columns would make the page much shorter too

I'm struggling currently to make modifications to the inner layout - how would I do this? (Can't believe I still ask these sorts of questions).

I'm not sure about simplifing the navigation. What we have up now is only a partial list of one brand of products.

[leehack]

Section column count in site options, perhaps take 10 minutes to have a mooch in that area and get to grips with what you can do is a good idea.