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[Scott Godin]

there are a number of links in the default footer for the Clothing template #42, that:

A: all point to '#'
B: are not affected by adding or removing pages from the Content section

editing the actual template file would be problematic in the case of upgrades

is the best course of action to use the custom_skin module to override this file with one that contains the links we actually want ?

--aside-- :
it also bothers me somewhat that the Content-management portion of X-Cart is so weak in the sense of link/menu hierarchy management. With this template we get a Primary Menu and a Footer menu, but the footer menu items do NOT affect those links in the footer to which I am referring. Nor does there seem to be, through the admin interface, a way to add additional ad-hoc menus as needed.

Maybe I'm too used to other content management systems.

[totaltec]

Scott,
It's been a while since I worked with this template, but I believe that these links are all language variables that would not be affected by an upgrade. Check and see if I am right.

[razortw]

Originally Posted by Scott Godin

there are a number of links in the default footer for the Clothing template #42, that:

A: all point to '#'
B: are not affected by adding or removing pages from the Content section

editing the actual template file would be problematic in the case of upgrades

is the best course of action to use the custom_skin module to override this file with one that contains the links we actually want ?

--aside-- :
it also bothers me somewhat that the Content-management portion of X-Cart is so weak in the sense of link/menu hierarchy management. With this template we get a Primary Menu and a Footer menu, but the footer menu items do NOT affect those links in the footer to which I am referring. Nor does there seem to be, through the admin interface, a way to add additional ad-hoc menus as needed.

Maybe I'm too used to other content management systems.

Hi.
I assume that you are referring to what I highlighted on the attached screenshot.
These menus are created with HTML in the following language labels:
- Information
- Why buy from us
- My account menu
You may create your own module to overwrite these menus with what you like, or adapt the 'Custom Skin' mod.
Creating a module is always the best way to make some changes to X-Cart 5 if you want to keep them intact during upgrades.

I agree that the content management part is weak in X-Cart 5, but it is not a regular CMS in the first place.
X-Cart is an online store engine, and the main focus of the development team has always been at developing the cart towards improving the online sales part.
Besides, there are several modules that will help you to extend the 'CMS part' in your cart, such as 'Multilevel Primary menu', 'Simple CMS', 'Extended Simple CMS', 'Flyout Categories Menu', 'Horizontal Flyout Categories Menu' etc.

[Scott Godin]

Originally Posted by totaltec

Scott,
It's been a while since I worked with this template, but I believe that these links are all language variables that would not be affected by an upgrade. Check and see if I am right.

Totaltec, I want to thank you (belatedly) for this reply, as while I did not understand what you were referring to at the time of your response, I have now come to understand that what you had referred to was in fact under Store Setup>Translations> (English) and then the title of the particular block one is seeking from

skins/Clothing/customer/en/bottom_menu.tpl