Hi David,
Sorry for lots of questions today. I am wondering what the best way is to convert the homepage to look similar to Google's? I am more looking to run a proper search engine, as there won't be much focus on categories/category mapping. I will probably end up with over a million products in the niches I am looking at.
The black navigation bar with the categories, merchant links etc. is fine on the top, but I wish to convert the middle of the page.
I want to move the search form in the middle and make it bigger, with the logo on the top. I am not necessarily looking to retain the featured products section on the homepage.
Could you please tell me which files is best to change and where? I would assume it is the index.php in the root folder, but I can see some php coding in there.
Thanks.
Norbert
Hello Norbert,
In index.php look for the following code beginning at line 8:
require("html/searchform.php");require("html/banner.php");
...and REPLACE with:
?><div class='row'>
<div class='small-12 columns' style='text-align:center;margin-top:100px;'>
<img src='/images/logo.jpg' />
</div>
<div class='small-12 medium-3 columns show-for-medium-up'> </div>
<div class='small-12 medium-6 columns'>
<form name='search' action='<?php print $config_baseHREF ?>search.php'>
<div class='row collapse'>
<div class='small-10 columns'>
<input required='required' type='text' name='q'>
</div>
<div class='small-2 columns'>
<button class='button tiny postfix'><?php print translate("Search"); ?></button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
<div class='small-12 medium-3 columns show-for-medium-up'> </div>
</div>
<?php
...and that will be very close to a "Google" style home page.
(don't forget to change the path to the logo image to what you're actually using in the existing html/searchform.php)
Cheers,
David.
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