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Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By : Monika Mathe
Book Image

Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By: Monika Mathe

Overview of this book

osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living entity with which we can all interact. With the rising success and popularity of this remarkable piece of software, things can only get better.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction

Chapter 3. Spice Up Your Infoboxes

Infoboxes can give your store a really distinct look and should be considered as design elements. This collection of recipes will show you a host of methods to embellish your infoboxes.

In this chapter we will discuss how to:

  • Move your infobox header closer to content

  • Make your infobox header taller

  • Add a pop-up page from an infobox link

  • Add images to infoboxes

  • Add extra images to your columns without framing boxes

  • Hide or show boxes driven by language choice

  • Add boxes dedicated to specified countries

  • Define box image size independent of product thumbs

  • Show manufacturers' logos in the Manufacturers infobox

  • Add double borders to boxes with background matting

7. Move Your Infobox Header closer to Content

This recipe is very useful when you only have a few lines in each box looking lost or wasting too much space, or when you have a number of boxes and need to make your columns shorter. You would then like to move the infobox content closer to its header. As you are amending...