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1stChoice
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MarkCoyle
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Okay - you can now add a link in your menu structure to 'view by brand' or similar that points to viewbrands.asp (in v3).
This will show a page to enable you to select the various brands and see the products associated with it. It uses an image and text description. If you don't want an image, create a tiny blank image in your background colour and it will appear as though there isn't any image. cheers Mark |
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In v3 which I use, there is an option to view the brand in the store front (and on the product detail page). Then you get a 'brands' link in your category navigation which you can click and see all the brands established. Then click on a brand to see their products. cheers Mark |
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Ok; I've setup brands and assigned products to them. I'm now browsing by categories and subcategories but don't see any option available to show only products of a certain brand. Is there a setting I need to enable for this? I see the shop by brand link on the side; this is working fine. Thanks! |
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So in Ed's example one would browse into Birthday Cards and see all of the Birthday card thumbs..... they would then have the option to filter the birthday cards by "brand/theme" .... Is the brand/theme filter in a drop down box? Or presented as theme thumbnails above the products?
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Thanks again, Mark, for the quick reply. ed |
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MarkCoyle
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Yes it will work.
Categories and sub-categories can be viewed as lists or as dropdowns. To make it 'feel' like it's not just about brands, just modify the terminology in landuages.asp (it's a very simple file and could be done easily in a text editor and uploaded). cheers Mark |
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Hi there
I'm also interested in this "brand" feature. We'll be selling many cards in many different categories. Let me run an idea by you to see if you think it will work. A category structure, without using the brand feature would look something like this: Greeting Cards Everyday Cards Birthdays Cats Dogs Etc. Anniversary Cats Dogs Etc. Etc. As mentioned in the post above, having multiple subcategories that are the same is not the most elegant solution. So here's what I'm thinking as an alternative: Greeting Cards Everyday Cards Birthdays Anniversary Thanks Etc. Then create "brands" (renamed to "themes" or something like that) for: Cats Dogs Animals Etc. Will that work? Will customers be able to search by category and brand/theme? Can they search at the same time. Again, there's a great example of this functionality over at http://www.leanintree.com/ They have two drop down boxes in their search form, one for category and another for theme. Thanks for you feedback. ed |
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Thanks; I'll give this brand option stuff some thought... Wes |
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I had a further think on this. In addition to categories in v3 you also can set up brands as well. This might be a useful thing to do (of course in reality, it doesn't have to be just a brand, it could be anything). By modifying the language in languages.asp (in the includes folder) you can redefine the terminology used in your store - so brands could become something else. This might prove useful to a multi-category / product-type store such as yours, cheers mark |
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