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Old 07-19-2005, 01:13 PM
 
mffowler mffowler is offline
 

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A lot of folks make this out as just a "Login" mod, but it's much more. Think about the potential of having special content for your users or advertising, marketing of something they like. This is also a great place to introduce a support ticket system or better service a customer.

Getting customers to use the "My Account" section of our sites has dropped the heavy service e-mails and requests that were bogging us down. Once they know how and where to track orders and search info., they will go there. Yes, you can have this in the menu method that the default XC uses, but for a while there- every new X-Cart function was being added as a new "Menu" area cluttering the sides of the store. Just too many menus and so I think it is useful to move login, get the minicart out of the gutter, rework manufacturers, as well as perhaps placing the gift certificates outside of "special".

My opinions, but XC's menus are decent for admin, but lack on the end-user side.

- Mike
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