External Links

[Guest trina]

I need to add external links to the side menu and/or top menu. I want to be able to link back to the site's TRUE home page (http://domainname.com/index.html), as well as some other pages within the site.

Thanks.

And by the way, I do know a LITTLE about coding, but I'm no expert...so I need any help broken down in simple terms - I'm an artist, not a programmer :)

[Guest]

Start looking in /skins/[your_skin_name]/styleTemplates/global/index.tpl.

Oh, and a helpful word of advise, never link to "index.html" or index.[anything] for that matter. It is unnecessary. Simply link to the domain name or the directory WITH the slash on the end (saves one step for the server). It looks much better to your visitors. Plus, if you change that page from plain html to PHP or (gasp!) ASP later on, you won't have to worry about it.

So instead of http://www.domain.com/index.html, it's just http://www.domain.com/

And instead of www.domain.com/products/index.html, just use www.domain.com/products/

Hope this helps. :)

[Guest trina]

Thanks, Sir.

I found that file....what do I do with it :)

[Guest]

That file specifys where everything will go on the page. From there you need to look into the individual boxes/*.tpl files to figure out which one specifically you need to add code to. Or tell us the site URL and then exactly where you want the link(s) and we'll get you right where you need to be.

[Guest trina]

site url is http://ock9.com

I'm looking it over now, and I think it would probably work best either at the top or bottom. I'd really like to have it on the left, but it doesn't really fit under any of those headings (Category, Featured, etc).

Sorry, I gave you the main site url....the cart is http://ock9.com/cart

[Guest]

Looks like you should change "Homepage" to "Cart Home" and then make "Homepage" link to the root domain. That sound right?

[Guest trina]

Yes, that would work!