A Few questions.

can anybody help me?

Greetings gbuxton,

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1. How do you remove the search from the top menu?

To remove the search from the top menu, you can go to file: \app\design\frontend\default\jm_sportsgeartemplat e\page\html\header.phtml, find and remove this block of code:

Code:

<!-- BEGIN: SITE SEARCH -->
<div id="jm-search" class="has-toggle">
	<div class="btn-toggle search-toggle">
		<i class="icon-search">&nbsp;</i><strong><?php echo $this->__('Search') ?></strong>
	</div>
	<div class="inner-toggle">
		<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('topSearch') ?>
	</div>
</div>
<!-- END: SITE SEARCH -->

2. After somebody has entered their email address to sign up is there anyway to have a confirmation page load so they know it has worked?

By default, in magento, after you signup or login, it will direct to Customer Account Dashboard with a successful message: http://prntscr.com/47ez2z

3. Does anybody have any tips to make this site SEO/Google friendly.

For SEO tips, please have a look at our blog post here: http://www.joomlart.com/blog/magento…-magento-store

sorry i meant after they sign up to the newsletter -- i wanted it to confirm that it has been successful.

at the moment it just reloads the home page without letting them know. it is possible for a popup window to appear to stay their email as been added.

strange…

for some reason after i removed the search code my slideshow is no longer showing?

As default feature of magento, after you add email to subscribe, a successful message will appear like: Thank you for your subscription.

If you wan to display a popup like that, I’m afraid that you need to use a 3rd party extension for this.

With the search in menu, you can PM me URL, admin and ftp credentials of your site, I will check it further for you.

hi Saguaros

i have sent you the details via PM, can you please let me know how I can fix the slider.

Thanks

Hi

I just added this CSS rule to hide the search from top menu:

Code:

#jm-search {
	display: none;
}

into file: /skin/frontend/default/jm_sportsgear/css/style.css

Please have a look and let me know if it helps.