X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

• The ultimate X-Cart mega dropdown category menu!
• Cleanly coded, pure CSS, no JavaScript, SEO friendly, Valid XHTML
• Fully dynamic category display, not hard coded
• Displays root cats/sub cats/sub sub cats (up to three category levels)
• Adjustable column width (up to 5 columns for the second / third level categories)
• Adjustable horizontal alignment of each category dropdown
• Category rows adapt to your chosen column width
• Variety of menu displays possible depending on your category configuration
• Option to enable/disable root categories from the mega dropdown
• Displays categories alphabetically unless you change their order positions
• Displays category icons and descriptions (optional, v4.4.x only)
• Display a manufacturers dropdown on the right hand side (optional)
• Display a speedbar link dropdown on the right hand side (optional)
• Fully customisable via the stylesheets, basic CSS knowledge recommended
• CSS3 effects in Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari
• Easy installation, minimal edits
• Cross-Browser compatible - IE6-9/Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari
• Compatible with all URL rewriting mods
• Available for X-Cart v4.4.x

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Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Was wondering when someone was going to get around to building one of these, nicely done!

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

+1 looks great!

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Now includes a manufacturer dropdown - demo

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

PhilJ
I assume that The mega menus will work with Smart Templates
Am I correct?
My second question is about whether it is possible to add a link to the right panel of Smart template
The link would be used to link to a wordpress blog.
Would your Home Page Manager handle this?

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Hi Jim, yes the menu should work fine with the Smart Template.

Adding a link to your blog is very simple, just use HTML like this...

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

The menu is now available for X-Cart v4.1.x - v4.4.x :)

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Phil,
Mega Dropdown Menu is SEO friendly ?

If I remove all my category listing & use Mega Dropdown Menu instead then SEO will affected ?

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Yes, it generates cleanly coded, nested unordered lists (no tables). It also generates valid XHTML code.


Even if you need to alter your category structure for the menu, assuming you have a XML sitemaps setup, it won't take long for the likes of Google etc. to re-index your store.

You can use .htaccess 301 redirects for your most important / highest ranked category URLs.

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

A demo intregrated into your Smart Template would be usefull.

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Here's a demo of the mega dropdown menu added to the Smart Template...

(Use the 'site width' button in the preferences box on the right to make the layout full width)

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Now includes the option to enable/disable root categories from the mega dropdown.

Useful if you only want to display your popular categories in the mega dropdown menu, or your design width prohibits the number of root category menu items.

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Hi Phil, if i purchase this will i get instructions to put this into the smart template? Thanks.

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Any chance this could be configured for static pages? It would be great to have a method of organizing them.

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Yes, it could be quite easily modified to include a static pages menu.

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Can anyone confirm that this add-on plays well with CDSEO?

In particular, I am trying to get it to work with a significantly modified X-Cart 4.1.12. I just installed it on a test version of my site (see below).

I am using CDSEO2 from about march of 2007
I am NOT using the MK2 version of the Mega-Dropdowns, since that is only for 4.4.x.

I asked Phil Jones about it a few days ago via a service request, but he hasn't gotten back to me yet so I am asking here.

I am not yet worried about cosmetics because adding the dropdowns is the start of a major makeover (the site has changed a lot since we first built it, and it looks kind of lousy right now). Anyway, I am currently only worried about making the new add-on functional. I have added the code and put the new dropdowns into the header.

The dropdowns appear, but when clicked on they produce a URL with an "&mega=y" stuck on the end, which looks like a name-value pair for a post request

I thought I would ask (here and to Phil J) before beginning to try to figure out what it is trying to do, and fix it myself.

You can see an example of the problem at the test site

www.lapsaky.com/shox

The production site (running Xcart 4.1.8 )8) is at www.lapsaky.com/shop

Thanks for any advice.

Phil Rasch

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Hi Phil

Do you know if this module will work on xcart 4.6.0

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

Hi Pinakin, this module is v4.6.0 compatible.

Re: X-Cart Mega Dropdown Category Menu
 

I wanted to purchase one of these menu mods but I received no response yet. Also didn't receive a response for other inquiries :/
Is it possible to use this horziontal and the default menu in each category?