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Originally Posted by JWait
Ok, you've made me curious, what other form of navigation are you using?
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We made some particular modifications into how navigation of categories, sub-categories and products go with X-Cart's logic. First off we keep our sidebar menu for categories pretty much the standard one, except that it doesn't keep root categories it follows the user as they go deeper into our tree. Second I made code modifications to products.php and product.php to ensure that the category menu still displays no matter what (in this case it displays the last level they were in when they visited the products).
The other is we modified how a user browses our site, instead of constantly using the sidebar menu I made modifications to subcategories.tpl (and cloned it for the welcome.tpl file) that displays a list of categories and then their subcategories or products in a column'd list. This makes for much easier navigation in our site. A screenshot of what it looks like with both categories that have subcategories and categories that only have products occupying the same tree.
We also limit the list of products in this layout to about no more than 6 to prevent severe flooding.