Cart Menu Navigation vs Website Navigation

[alexandermorris]

I know how to add navigation to the main template for the cart. However I don't want 2 side bar navigation menus (one on the template and another for the cart menu). Is there a way to turn off the cart menu completely and just have the navigation on the cart template? I want to have buttons for web pages (like about us, retailer information, etc) that are not in the cart and can't or either don't know how to do that within the cart menu.

[pgmarshall]

I have to say I am very confused about what you are asking!

Are you talking about the left and right hand columns? Or something else?

Please expand so someone can help you out.

Regards,

[alexandermorris]

First let me just say that I don't know what I'm doing. I try to figure things out by looking at examples. Normally for navigation I would use a background image and then just create hot spots for the links. You can see an example of this at One Cute Bebe - Fun. Clever. One-of-a-Kind Wearables for babies and toddlers! . I would just add the image and hot spot links to the main template page for the cart but the cart still has it's own navigation based on the categories for the products. I don't know how to turn off the menu to just display the navigation from the template page.

Upon reading some posts on this forum I saw where someone mentioned swapping the cool menu feature for their own css menu. Not knowing anything about CSS menus I researched and found an example of how to create one today. So I have created a CSS menu for my site which can be seen at One Cute Bebe - Fun. Clever. One-of-a-Kind Wearables for babies and toddlers! . It just consists of the css stylesheet which I have named cssmenu.css and the html code below.

<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="onecutebebe.com :" class="shopnow">Home<span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="Boys : onecutebebe.com" class="boys">About<span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="Girls : onecutebebe.com" class="girls">RSS<span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="Neutral : onecutebebe.com" class="neutral">Home<span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="One Cute Bebe - Fun. Clever. One-of-a-Kind Wearables for babies and toddlers!" class="wholesale">About<span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="One Cute Bebe - Fun. Clever. One-of-a-Kind Wearables for babies and toddlers!" class="wheretobuy">RSS<span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="Login : onecutebebe.com" class="login">About<span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="One Cute Bebe - Fun. Clever. One-of-a-Kind Wearables for babies and toddlers!" class="aboutus">RSS<span></span></a></li>
</ul>

How can I get this menu as the navigation in the cart? Or how can I remove the cart navigation so that I can just use this on the main template page?

Any help would be appreciated. Ignore what the main template for the cart looks like right now as it will soon be changed.

Thanks!

Cherie

[blackhawk]

This is a quick shot in the dark for providing a solution...

The default oscmax categories menu can be disabled from the admin -> infobox section in back of the store. just look for the "categories" box and disable it. You could then create a new infobox box page right there too. You can call it mycategories. when you create that new box, you also have to create the php file for it too. So when you create the mycategories.php page which will be stored under... catalog/includes/boxes, stick your custom menu code there and see if that works...

this is all theory

[alexandermorris]

I'm using a template that was created for another website of mine. It has stripped most of the stuff in the oscmax cart that clutters up the page. I'm sure other people use all the features but for my products I don't.

Is the code that controls the cart menu in the main template?

[blackhawk]

read my comment above

[alexandermorris]

Thank you so much! That did the trick. I put the menu in the template and turned off the categories in the info boxes.