cstovin

Thanks Phil, I'll pass that along; I am not skilled enough at this point to tackle the project; I don't mind that she goes to a "shopify" person, but for what she is spending, I think she could get someone here to do it for a lot less, and get what she needs pronto; She already did her graphics for the people because they kept agreeing to disagree with her; she is simple, but very western.....so she did some things in photoshop and they may need to be changed a little dimension wise to fit screen/grid - but she has done most of the work - so I hate to see her continue to go down that path when her site is pretty straight forward and I think she could get someone here to just re-work what she has with about 1/2 of what she was quoted to do the other.....

she just mentioned these things to me, and I guess she said the person that does her OSC couldn't find add ons to do them?  Granted, when I search for answers I must not search on the appropriate term, because a lot of times I am sure my question is out there, but I don't come up  with much, but it seems to be that most of what she wants is already out there...

I do need to find an add on that would allow the menu to be horizontal under the header - I am sure it exists, but she said her developer couldn't find one?  There has to be something for that, I just haven't looked.

Anyway - she is pulling her hair out with going this new direction, I was just thinking that time wise, she has time constraints, maybe it would be better for her to get some bids off of here....I know the work can be done, I just can't do it, but I want to learn what the answers are.

Thanks Phil
Charlene

that is perfect....that is exactly what I was thinking....will have to play with that when I get home....if she won't switch web developers from the osc developer she has now and wants to continue down the shopify path, then at least I can maybe point out that this stuff can be done;

But, that is exactly what I was looking for - she just wants the one category to display as a grid, no "buy now" buttons - but George was right - maybe a "Order Like" button or something - will have to mention that to her and see what she thinks....

her site www.silversquirreldesigns.com

Hate to see her spend a lot more money when her site isn't that complicated....she just wants a few things different.....which I don't know what all they are, this was just one of the main ones....and different graphics (that part is easy)....and not requiring the person to be a member (I have seen add ons for that, so know that can be accomplished - don't know if there are security risks about that)....

thank you both - I am trying to get her to look at hiring an OSC developer; not me....I want to learn, so I am asking questions....I can see the value in what she is wanting to do, and thought there has to be a solution to it;

I am still struggling with learning this - I am a "BIG PICTURE" person, so for me to learn, I need something that is a road-map that lays out how everything is related, how all the files interact, etc.  That isn't provided here in depth, so I struggle....I have the user manual printed out, and read the board as much as I can;

There may be advantages to Shopify; being frustrated with OSC I looked at it also, but it also has lack of documentation (more than this), and although it must be intuitive, I didn't find it that easy....so I can back to this.  If I can learn this, I can learn anything.

My issue I get caught up on the little things. She has a page called "categories"....so I get caught up for example in thinking how this would be done, how you create another category page but use a different format that does not impact the other category pages. (grid layout vs. rows)

lots to think about - I hate to see her move to another format just because there are a few things her developer says he can't find answers to; I am not skilled enough to take it on, and her site isn't that complicated......just necklaces; she does want to divide them up into categories (themes) right now they are just "Necklaces"....but other than that, she doens't want anything super fancy.  Change the graphics......

Since I am trying to learn - how would one do that -
- make a new category page "Gone but not forgotten" - (I can do that) - but where does the code get changed for that one page so that it would not reflect a change in the other "Category" pages?

Sorry I am asking without being able to login to my admin panel to look at it first hand on my site; at work......
C.

was thinking this is the add on that might help her...
http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6051

that was a question I could actually answer; was going to anyway before George beat me to it!