Design feature request for shopping...

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I've had some free time and got back to a dangerous pastime of mine, thinking of different ways to do things.

So at the risk of beating on a drum that is already ragged and out of tune.

What I would really like to to be able to do is whatever I want with the top of the screen and a bit at the bottom, the area that the header and footer currently live, and have them static on the screen with the cart contents scrolling up to or down to and under the header/footer.

Then if the program had 2 fields added for each category created for header and footer then every end user has the ability to place a different header and/or footer on each individual category, or the option of checking a box on the first category for 'Use for all categories'

This lets me have the website I already have designed and allows every user the ability to be as unique as they want, as dangerous as that admittedly is.

The middle 2/3 of the screen belong to the cart, I'd like to be able to choose a background image or color but if not so be it.

If I could get that I would be a very happy camper indeed, so far as appearances go.

Other things are other things.

Just a thought from someone with too much time for free association.
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Bill,

I posted some instructions in the tips and tricks post and i have a number of other ones to post when more time permits, the header is easily sorted. The footer although limited can have the colour changed and the coffee cup link amended, the background to the site can be changed also by overwriting the images files in the main image folder.

agree that you cant do it for each category but at least you could customise the site to suite your look and feel a bit more.

The one thing i would like is to be able to add some text into the pages in each category, maybe these sort of things will come in time.

Dan
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I've toyed around with that and been able to modify the header, but I want to be able to use a different color on each page and have the category displayed up at the top also.

you can always put a row of buttons on your header with the category names on them, then when pressed it opens a window to display the information you want them to have.

Not a perfect solution I agree, but it gets you closer than you are now.
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Hi Bill,

I am not sure there are any shopping cart software packages that will allow you to have different headers on each page. I think this is because the page is a master template and all the products are enders either from a db or XML file.

I am not sure this request would be feasable.

Dan
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There aren't (that I know of) which is part of the reason I would like to see it implemented here. The idea here is to create a new program that does things others don't, if not your just creating another wheel and round was discovered way, Way, WAY back when.

From what I'm reading in the forums here I am far from alone in this desire. I suspect that as more people buy it there will be continuing requests for something along these lines. The reason being that they were also unsuccessful in finding a shopping cart that fit them.

It really shouldn't be any harder than keeping the categories separated. Right now when a category is selected all the items shown are changed and that is the end of it. n One change and it could be made so that every time a new category is selected it just has one new tack, to repost the header. So long as we're dealing with known dimensions say width 100% and height of 150 pixels then everybody could get a unique look that they want. It would allow making the Shopping cart look exactly like any website it is put in.

A Shopping cart is a shopping cart is a shopping cart when you get down to it, they all have the same basic function. But a website is as individual as the person who creates it. The more this program (or any other for that matter) will flex to meet my wants/needs the more appealing its going to be to me, to you and everybody looking for this type of program.

Bottom line I just want every person hitting my site to think the shopping cart was designed to fit my needs instead of the other way around.

Thinking about it I can't really see what I'd do with the footer if it was available for configuring, when I typed that up I was thinking about a place to put links but then it occurred to me that the one thing I DON'T want to do is get people to navigate away from shopping.

A well behaved program does what it's told. It doesn't tell you what to do or how to do it. I know there are a lot of them out there that do, that's when buyers take their business elsewhere. I'd rather see them stay here.

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