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| We are working on developing what we believe to be a fairly straightforward store using the Consumer Direct starter store. Our client would like to have a customized home page, however, as opposed to the one that is there by default in the starter store.
This homepage would have top navigation links, and categories along the left side. There would be some kind of graphic or flash presentation on the right side of the page. Clicking on a category would then enter Websphere Commerce for category browsin
g and product purchases. Is this as simple as creating an index.html and then putting the correct links in the categories, or what else is involved?
We are using Websphere Commerce Express 5.6.1.
Thanks for any tips.
Regards,
Mark Loach
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| Robert Brown 2005-12-28, 6:13 pm |
| How dynamic will the home page be? If categories change often an HTML
page will require constant maintenance. Otherwise, hardcoding links
within an HTML home page will work as you suggest. Keep in mind that
your WC cookie is not established on this static HTML page so links like
Logon/Logoff become a little troublesome.
I would recommend you keep the index.html redirect for the home page
pointing at the StoreCatalogDisplay or TopCategoriesDisplay view and
modify the JSP page to include your HTML content. This JSP would
include your header.jsp, sidebar.jsp, and footer.jsp just as the other
JSPs do. This leaves you open to including marketing eSpots and other
content dynamically over the static HTML method.
R
> We are working on developing what we believe to be a fairly straightforward store using the Consumer Direct starter store. Our client would like to have a customized home page, however, as opposed to the one that is there by default in the starter stor
e. This homepage would have top navigation links, and categories along the left side. There would be some kind of graphic or flash presentation on the right side of the page. Clicking on a category would then enter Websphere Commerce for category brows
ing and product purchases. Is this as simple as creating an index.html and then putting the correct links in the categories, or what else is involved?
>
> We are using Websphere Commerce Express 5.6.1.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Loach
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