Category Images instead of Featured on home.php in 4.4.5
 

I've been 'unsuccessfully' trying to get the Category images centered on the home.php (I have turned off featured items, which I do not want).

I've looked at

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=63153

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=52601

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=52554

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=32237

Adding the customer_welcome.tpl, and making the welcome.tpl mod, I get the 'Categories' label from the last line in the customer_welcome.tpl below

{include file="dialog.tpl" title=$lng.lbl_categories content=$smarty.capture.dialog extra='width="100%"'}

but no category Icons

Any suggestions of what needs to be changed in the customer_welcome.tpl for 4.4.5 are appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Peggy

Re: Category Images instead of Featured on home.php in 4.4.5
 

If this is useful to anyone else, this is what I did to get this to work like I wanted.

With 4.4.x, the skin1.css is replaced by main.css (and others maybe).

The previous fix in categories_welcome.tpl, which worked in my 4.1.11 version, used the "class="VertMenuItems" which doesn't exist in main.css.

I have mediocre css knowledge, and couldn't figure out what class to use, so since I only have 10 categories, that don't change, I used 'brute force' and just hard coded the HTML Table with hyperlinks to images and the first category page in the categories_welcome.tpl. This didn't take me long to do, once I decided to go this approach.

Peggy

Re: Category Images instead of Featured on home.php in 4.4.5
 

I'm about to do the same and will probably use your method of brute force.

Re: Category Images instead of Featured on home.php in 4.4.5
 

Hi Paul,

I haven't had any problems with this approach -- the 'one caveat' that I'm aware of, is that I can't generate the sitemap.php file within X-cart. I believe it is related to the category approach I took.

I use CDSEO Pro's generated sitemap.xml file for the search engines -- I could brute force the same for my shopping cart, though I haven't done so yet.

Good luck.

Peggy

Re: Category Images instead of Featured on home.php in 4.4.5
 

I think I'll have a go at creating the layout using divs as I have pretty much figured out how to style and position them. Then try and call the headings and images using Xcart system somehow this usually involves cut n paste of code from other templates.There has to be some way of using li or ul to do this automatically but not sure on the 3 column thing