Instead of showing "new products" on the main page, I want to make a welcome page - please help!

[halltristan]

Ok, I'm trying to make a "welcome page" instead of showing new products when people go to the store front. I've tried, to no avail, to point the index.php away from the New products module to a new page an it just doesn't to work. I believe this is the string to change in the index:

 

<?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?>

 

Could someone please help me? I've made many extra pages before with no trouble, but making the index.php file show one seems to be different than everywhere else.

[Guest]

That looks like the right thing to remove to me.

 

Also make sure you are you editing your includes/languages/english/index.php file. That would be where to make any and all changes as far as the welcome message goes.

[halltristan]

That looks like the right thing to remove to me.

 

Also make sure you are you editing your includes/languages/english/index.php file. That would be where to make any and all changes as far as the welcome message goes.

 

The includes/languages/english/index.php file really doesn't have alot to do with this, not from what I can tell. I guess the real question I have is what do I replace <?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?> with?

[Guest]

Don't need to replace it with anything. You need to remove both instances of <?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?> and the module will no longer show up. The index calls on the language file to display the welcome message, you will go there to edit it. It does have a lot to do with it.

 

http://www.frag-addicts.com/store/ go there and view the store index page, the text there above the products module is called from the includes/languages/english/index.php file.

 

My code for that text is:

 

define('TEXT_MAIN', 'This is the store for Frag Addicts. We hope you are enjoying our community - playing in our servers and talking with eachother on our forums.<br><br>Our store is currently limited to <b>T-Shirts, donating to our community, buying special priveleges and accepting raffle entries</b>.<br><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="2"><tr><td class="main" valign="top"></td></tr> </table><br> ');

 

Keep coding your TEXT_MAIN definition in the language file in that fashion and you can make a nice welcome page without the products module.

[halltristan]

Well that would work, but I have another problem:

 

The template I'm using puts a nice border around all blocks and all of the extra pages I've made so far. If I used the technique you gave above, the index.php page would no longer look like the rest of the template. And I really don't feel like trying to work with tables to make it look the same. Any other suggestions?

[Guest]

It's a bit hard to visualize what you're design issue is without seeing it, mind linking me to your site? I might be able to take a quick look and think of another way do to do it.