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3 Categories 3 different Designs

Hi I have a store where I have 3 top categories for example...

Electronics | Clothing | Books

I have added subcategories for each category.

Is there a mod where I can have a separate template with different banner, logo and color for each category?

or

Can anyone please guide me how to achieve this?

Thanks in advance!
Cheers

Re: 3 Categories 3 different Designs

WebsiteCM has a mod that does this...

or you can clone your template files and use if/elses.

I bought the mod. it's VERY flexible.

Jon also has a mod for PRODUCT pages, and also sells both mods as a bundle. I think it's a good investment, since this makes it easier to have specific p[ages for certain products (and you can only do so much within the product description).

Re: 3 Categories 3 different Designs

thanks for your reply...
is it possible to see an example..?

Re: 3 Categories 3 different Designs

in file /skin1/customer/main/products.tpl
FIND:

Code:

{if $usertype eq "C" and $config.Appearance.products_per_row ne "" and $config.Appearance.products_per_row gt 0 and $config.Appearance.products_per_row lt 4 and ($featured eq "Y" or $config.Appearance.featured_only_multicolumn eq "N")}

REPLACE WITH:

Code:

{if $usertype eq "C" and $cat eq "1" or $cat eq "2" or $cat eq "3" }

{include file="customer/main/products_t2.tpl" products=$products}

{elseif $usertype eq "C" and $config.Appearance.products_per_row ne "" and $config.Appearance.products_per_row gt 0 and $config.Appearance.products_per_row lt 4 and ($featured eq "Y" or $config.Appearance.featured_only_multicolumn eq "N")}

edit the $cat eq "1", etc.. to your cat numbers
CLONE your products_t.tpl and make it look how you want it -- I called mine, products_t2.tpl

This code basically looks for category 1, 2 or 3, and instead of using the normal products_t.tpl, it uses products_t2.tpl

OR -- just buy Jon's mod and it will be MUCH simpler - AND you can then have an assortment of templates to use at any time, for any category. You only change the source once ( for the mod) and that's that.