Help me out with addons to create my page!
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Hopefully all you super smart concrete users out there can help me out. I am very new to this CMS and most CMS in general. I am looking at building a site similar in layout tohttp://www.thatswhyimbroke.com (different products and market though). There are three important parts to what I want to do.
1. I want to have products listed in the same way that site has them, almost in a table like layout and be able to sort them by tags (categories)
2. I want to have pages at the bottom (unlike their button to view more products) where it has a clickable 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... and so forth. I want to be able to add new products to the top of the list and have it automatically shift stuff to the next page if necessary.
3. I want to have a slideshow at the top to showcase the most popular items.
I know there has to be some way to accomplish most of this with the correct concrete addons, I just need to be pointed in the right direction. I ma a quick learner and am willing to spend some cash for addons if I have to.
For what its worth, I know the site listed above is based off wordpress, but I found wordpress to be very klunky and hard to navigate for a newbie to this sort of stuff, so I switched back to Concrete.
1. I want to have products listed in the same way that site has them, almost in a table like layout and be able to sort them by tags (categories)
2. I want to have pages at the bottom (unlike their button to view more products) where it has a clickable 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... and so forth. I want to be able to add new products to the top of the list and have it automatically shift stuff to the next page if necessary.
3. I want to have a slideshow at the top to showcase the most popular items.
I know there has to be some way to accomplish most of this with the correct concrete addons, I just need to be pointed in the right direction. I ma a quick learner and am willing to spend some cash for addons if I have to.
For what its worth, I know the site listed above is based off wordpress, but I found wordpress to be very klunky and hard to navigate for a newbie to this sort of stuff, so I switched back to Concrete.
Ok so let me expand a little bit. I saw the ecommerce addon and it does look like it will do what I need it to. I will likely end up buying it just to try it out, but it seems a bit overkill. I am going to be posting affiliate links that link right to the retailers website. Therefore, I do not need the shopping cart and inventory control stuff included with ecommerce (hence the overkill). I did see an addon called pagination that will do the page thing for me but still not sure about the tagging and whatnot. Anyone have any other ideas?
It depends on how much your time is worth. It's true that ecommerce might be overkill, but at $125 it's a steal. Otherwise, your best approach is to make a page type for each product, and make custom templates for the Page List block to display those items in the fashion you want.
you can do this with concrete5 ecommerce.http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/ecommerce/...
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you can do that with ecommerce too
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http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/ecommerce/documentation...
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http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/ecommerce-product-slide...