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Home Page Feature Products

I'd like my home page to show some product images rather than just text. Can someone point me in the right direction?

I did search the forums and I did check the manual and the FAQ. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong sections. I'm just finding X-Cart to be one of the most non-intuitive programs I've ever worked with. :?

Thanks for any help.

Re: Home Page Feature Products

EDIT: OOPS -- saw you were in 4.2 -- some of this advice will not be applicable, but the ideas are the same
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Alison,

The template, /skin1/customer/main/welcome.tpl contains a language variable, {$lng.txt_welcome} -- You have a few choices:

1. put your html into the $lng.txt_welcome language var

2. REPLACE {$lng.txt_welcome} with your html code

3. Make a new template file and call it homepage.tpl - then call it from welcome.tpl instead of {$lng.txt_welcome} -- like this:

Code:

{* {$lng.txt_welcome} *}

{include file="customer/main/homepage.tpl"}

4. Forget about welcome/tpl altogether, and just make a new homepage.tpl, and call it from /skin1/customer/home_main.tpl -- instead of welcome.tpl

Code:

{elseif $main eq "catalog" and $current_category.category eq ""}

{include file="customer/main/homepage.tpl"}

{* {include file="customer/main/welcome.tpl" f_products=$f_products} *}

(however doing this my way will kill off the featured products. but you can make your own version of featured products.)

Good luck!

Jeremy

Re: Home Page Feature Products

carpeperdiem, great instructions, and thank you for mentioning that they're for were for an old version of X-Cart.

In X-Cart 4.2, we can add products to featured products lists, located in the "Categories" section of the admin.

I spent a lot of time researching shopping cart software, and I couldn't be more pleased with X-Cart!

I have also learned a ton of valuable stuff, searching the forums.