separate home page

[Guest pauly_43]

hello all,

i was wondering if it is possible to make the home page with a different layout than the rest of the site. can this be accomplished by configuring cubecart out of the box or does it imply adding more markup?

all suggestions/comments welcome. thanks

paul

[Guest pauly_43]

thanks andi,

question, would i still be able to link in the shop compents (ie. new products, etc) to the home page, and if so, would i need to the change the paths (ie. .../store/...)? if i am correct in thinking this, what files would i need to change?

thanks again,

paul

[markscarts]

As to a static homepage, or a splash page - it is not necessary to put the cart in a subdirectory for this.

(Although I know this is not what you asked about, ansuk brought it up, and I'd like to clarify this.)

All you need do to have a splash page is create an html page and name it index.html, and put it in the root with your store folders. requests for widgets.com will load an index.html - it will take preference over an index.php

In other words, load your CC store to widgets.com, and load your index.html to widgets.com - index.html loads as default in visitors browser, and you link to store with <a href="index.php"> simple as that.

As to having a different layout for frontpage of store, it depends on how different it needs to be. There is presently a mod available that allows you to have different stylesheets controlling the index page and the major category pages of your site. Not sure if that would help or not?

[Guest EverythingWeb]

Just a quick 'techy point';

some servers will be setup differently and may allow index.php to take precedence over index.htm(l). If this happens, and your on the Apache web server, you can create a .htaccess file in the web-root, containing;

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

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