Sorry, I'm new to this. I'm not sure how else to explain it.
There are categories. I made some of them products (naturally) and some of them brands. I am assiging each product both a product category and a brand category.
The brands I am attempting to suppress so they don't show up in the category menu and then I am putting graphic buttons there instead with those brand logos and I want those buttons to be links to the categories.
I just don't know how to write hyperlinks in X-cart so it will retain whatever customer info. I'm a traditional web designer and only marginally experienced with PHP, only enough to know I could very well write code here that will lost the customer ID, etc.
This is probably such a simple bonehead question that it seems complicated.
I'm on my first store and I've tried to find a simple primer on this in the forums and can't. I appreciate your help.
J