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Works for me both in IE7 and Firefox 2. Clearly we are not attempting to drill down to product level or you would need the extra queries. The number of products in the category is not required to build a category menu. My query count came down from 200 to less than 50 with these changes.

How many looks does it take till you get to the centre of the.....? Thanks zombie master. That made a massive difference to the speed of my site. It eliminated a whole page full of database queries. Now the next item on the optimization is to get rid of the tax queries.

Many thanks Nate my feed is now working :-) I changed one more thing in order to get the whole feed to show- using utf8_encode to sanitize some of the special characters that didn't get picked up by htmlentities. Maybe it was just my system that needed it but I mention it here in case anyone else gets a partial feed showing up.

I tried the latest version but when I run it through the rss validator at feedvalidator.org it complains that the headers are incorrect. Have I missed something in the installation?

Tried the most recent popup zoom contribution but although it kind of worked, it just zoomed in and back out of the pop-up image without really adding much benefit. There was no option to zoom in to a particular part of the image detail. The other problem was that it distorts the image so I found that some of my images were shorter and fatter than they should have been.

That's interesting! I just stumbled across this thread. I was looking to do something similar to this (as Amazon have done on their new shoe website). Do you know if this has been integrated into osC? I see a couple of contributions for image zooming but have yet to try them out. The seem to be too approaches - the javascript and the flash image. Of course the flash is a bit smoother and I'm not sure which would accomodate more people and degrade better. Both approaches seem to be free to use on your website. Ideally I am looking to just replace the medium-sized image on the product page with this.

Thanks for the suggestion. I couldn't find the code but I think they may have fixed it as on person who had complained managed to get his order through yesterday.

Yes we've been getting that too. The only problem is that there are thousnads of lines of code in the Paypal module. Any idea where to put this temporary fix? (I'm using Paypal Shopping Cart IPN)

Take a look at the contributions under payment modules and you will find them.

Wouldn't that take 50% off the cart total rather than off the shipping? You should test it out on your local machine rather than simply uploading it. Sorry I don't know the correct answer for this.

I know the Protx form one works but do notice there are a couple of fixes to perform when you install it. All can be found in the download section for protx form.

OK progess is being made. I got around the problem of adding extra items to the suckerfish menu by just creating a second suckerfish menu right above the first one. Just had to inform the javascript that there were two menus and it was all plain sailing (touch wood and whistle). So far though the submenus are still hidden behind the product images in IE7 (and quite possibly in other versions of explorer). Not a problem in Firefox though. I notice that this only happens with the product images not the category images so it may have something to do with the way my product images are floated. I would have said it was just me but jcssmenu seems fine with it all in both browsers. Apart from this it looks great! Great News!! It is all fixed

Is there a fix for the z-index problem in I.E. 7? In Firefox everything looks good but I cannot seem to get the submenus to appear in the foreground in Explorer. Thanks

Not sure really. I use a value of .01:0 in my zones table and it seems to work alright. Mind you that is with real items requiring shipping but with no charge.

Yes thanks for the suggestion. I've been trying variations of that idea for a couple of days now. One of two things happen. Either I can't get the new item's submenu to show in Internet Explorer or the categories menu disappears completely.

Trying to link this in with the other elements on my website.... I'd like to add another entry to the main categories menu (along with an appropriate submenu). Applications would be various functions like 'request a catalog', 'search the site', 'view video clips' etc. Can you tell me how this can be done? Also a couple of helpful suggestions - use z-index so the submenus appear in front of the product images rather than behind them. Put the javascript in a separate file.

You can already do that with Batch Print Center

Multi Vendor Shipping could be the answer to your problem.

Sounds great! any idea if it will work alongside Easy Discount? Thanks David

Of course the other way use this module with slight modifications is to force the checkout process to be in your shop's accounting currency (eg. Dollars or Sterling) but show the customer additionally the equivalent total in another currency (eg. Euros).

There's a simple html_output.php mod I found on the forums that enables you to list the countries you will deal with. With it installed all of the drop-downs will contain just those countries (so it applies to shipping and billing addresses). It doesn't affect existing address already registered with you. There is also something in the contributions area to exclude countires - search for 'banned'

I thought the items stayed in their shopping cart if they chose not to proceed with the order. Am I wrong there? I use the Paypal Shopping Cart IPN contribution.

Surely FEC does all of this. Obviously the customer can't log in to see it so you must send this information by email. I guess repeat business could have been recognised by email address but that seems to violate the whole no account idea.

Well you could try the using the forum search feature. For example, searching the contribution announcements forum for 'mail' brings up a couple of interesting ones including one which handles Large Letters too.

Some of the pdf stuff is a bit counter-intuitive. For example is you are working on a A4 page then the top right hand corner of the page is roughly co-ordinate (410, 590) and the bottom left hand corner is (0, 0). Some of the functions work with absolute positioning and others just move to the next line each time. See Batch Print Center for more examples.