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Hi Ryan,

Great to hear from you. Thanks for the feedback!

After struggling thru the learning curve for the last week or so, my business partner and I have made a lot of strides, but we're still struggling with some of the technical details. I really appreciate your help thus far--the installation instructions are remarkably clear and concise!--and I hope it's not asking too much to run a few more things by you:

1. Take another look at hicksgibbon.com/cards (pref. with FF, as we haven't got it stable on other browsers yet Smiling ) We've managed to get most of the content there in some form, and it's styled relatively appropriately. What we're struggling to figure out is where the actual CONTENT definitions happen; ie, where is the actual HTML code for the shopping cart block coming from, and what's the best way to customize it? Similarly, where's the actual HTML code for the node listing coming from, and how do we customize what's in it?

2. Along the same lines, notice that in the mockup we have a main focus image at the top, and then a list of thumbnails under it. How can we display one product differently from the others on the page? I could have done this in WordPress by just hard-coding the php into the template files, but drupal seems to prefer cleaner methods. Any suggestions? Keep in mind that we have a number of ways we need to display the same information: in a thumbnail view, in a thickbox, on a focus page, etc. How does one manage these ways of displaying a node?

3. A thickbox related question: do you know if it's possible to make thickbox display a slideshow for images within a given node, but not for the other images in the list of nodes? In this case I want to have multiple images for each card, but I want the thickbox slideshow to only show only images for the node I clicked, not the others. Thoughts? I know thickbox isn't your product!

4. Pricing per product class. Can it be done? I want to charge the same for all our cards, but I want to be able to easily change them all, just by nature of them all belonging to the "cards" class. Is this possible?

Thanks again for your help, Ryan... and for a great product!

Regards,
Adam

noob stuff By: adamohern (6 replies) Sat, 01/26/2008 - 18:03