This template can be divided in following six segments.
- Category Links
- Breadcrumb
- No Product Found message
- Category/Products navigation
- View Basket (optional)
- Search Form (optional)
1 - Category Links:
This part of product display page displays Category Links of the products which help visitors to navigate your store. Here is the code you need for this portion:
Categories are listed in alphabetical order. Each category only appears in left menu if it contains at least one product.
Alternatively in cases where the number of categories are not likely to change often, static pages can be created with category links added individually to form their own sub-sections for bigger sites.
2- Breadcrumb:
This is used to display current visitor's position within the site. You need to put following code at the required position :
3- No Product Found message:
This portion displays No Product Found message when there is no product found in a category or search results. Following code is used for this portion:
4 - Category / Products navigation:
Here categories or products within a category get displayed. It displays categories first from where visitor can reach products in any specific category. So, it will display either Categories or Products at once. If there is no further subcategory in a category, products in that category will get displayed or "product not found" message. If you don't want to display any of the product's information(price,description etc
), simply html comment that template variable. Deleting that template variable will cause failure of the page to display altogether . Code for this portion is here below;
5 - View Basket (optional) :
It allows visitors to view their shopping cart contents. You need to paste following code in your site pages to allow this functionality:
6 - Search Form (optional) :
It allows visitors to search for products by product code, product name and product description. Following code is required to add this functionality:
You can freely design your own product display page and put the relevant code for any template portion where ever you want in the page.
You can comment categories links like <!-- html code goes here you don't want to display --> but don't delete the code if you don't want to display categories links. You can also create static category links for your shop pages by copying/pasting or right click on the categoy link and select "Copy Shortcut" from context menu.
Number of products per page & products display order can be controlled from Control Panel (Business Options > Products Display).
View Basket link for your shop would be: http://www.bazaarbuilder.com/cgi-bin/bb/basket4.0/viewcart.pl?action=show&customerId=your_user_name_here
Note: All the template variables should be present in the page to work properly, otherwise blank page will be displayed if any template variable is missing.
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