The categories are internal within the software. The categories page just shows them to the viewer of your site. Shop Home does the same thing, only with a different layout. What I did was take off all the products from the shop home page and change the name to home, thus giving me a real home page. Then I took categories and renamed it products, a more conducive name to what I have: a website of products, not categories.

Steven, that makes sense. I've already made a home page in VSD and am trying to match the look in SCCPro. VSD has a lot more flexibility for design options. Wish we could combine the 2 programs.

Marilyn

What would you be willing to pay for such a program Marylin? Money always motivates the developers.

Marilyn if you have shopping cart designer pro, if not i recommend you get it

Make a copy of your home page ,in VSD, put a solid background behind it in a suitable colour and remove the elements from the body section where your scc products might go, now preview it, and you should be able to save the whole thing as a jpg image

Cut your VSD designed page into three separate sections ,,top header,,,body,,footer

Now these sections can go into sc designer pro as background images ,, header,,body,,footer

you will need to reduce the quality possibly, if you know how to do that in photoshop or similar

Viv

I'm a little confused.

We've always been able to change the page name. I changed mine when I first purchased SCC. It takes little effort, and has always been an option.

I can see how some don't want the extra Categories page, or Products (whatever you decide to call it), but if you rename it to "About", "Contact", then the site structure will be confusing.

You would have as an example:

About > Mazda > Parts

instead of

Products/Categories > Mazda > Parts

I still can't see where you pick up a page effectively by deleting the main category page.

I know I have changed the word Categories when I used this product. I.m not sure if the page name, title name changed or just the link text.

Not sure if that post in the Tips & Tricks for the Pro version would be part of this or not, but check that out as it does talk about how to change the pages completely rather than just the name.

That was my post and yes, it also tells you that you need to turn off the part that lists your products on that page so that in essence it is a blank page.

I am not too sure I understand what Bren means when you say that the "structure" changes. I looked at my breadcrumbs after I made these changes and it is OK, the structure is right. If that is the structure you are talking about.

The only problem I see with the name change of a OEM page is that no matter what you do to the re-ordering of those pages, at the bottom of your webpage they will stay in the original order CC put them.

I've worked out where this will work, and won't work now.

If you have top nav drop down menu's, it won't work - or it can but it does change the structure as your customers are now met with 3 items in the nav bar (if default) :

Shop Home, Categories, View Cart.

If you change the Categories page name to About, then your customers are met with 3 top nav items:

Shop Home, About, View Cart.

They would have no idea where to find your Categories/Products unless they happen to scroll over "About" and see your product categories menu from there.

I have only ever used top nav drop down menu's, so this is where the confusion lies as it won't really work effectively. It will work very well on expanded menu's listed down the side of the page.

Correct. I thought I put in the Tip and Trick that it was used with left and right vertical menues?