Menu and Sub-Menus

Hello,

It is becoming almost a week now, that we have asked for help, on our magento template, and got no reply?
Is there anyway we can have above requests resolved or some sort of hints to it?

Thanks,
Ali.

Hi cybele

I agree it can be difficult to get an answer from the people in these forums.
In my experience you tend not to get a reply if your question can not be answered correctly.
You could try asking your question differently but looking at what you have written, I would suggest that your questions are mainly geared towrds magento itself and not joomla. I suggest you try the magento forums to get the answer you are looking for. http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/

Regarding menus, you need to make sure you have set them to active in the backend and whether or not they have products in them. You need to tell magento how you want your categories to behave.

Departments you don’t have. Simply use the CMS system of magento to create static pages and add in your content. magento v1.4 has the text editor built in where you can add dynamic content.

I don’t understand your issue 4. Best create static blocks for image gallaries and display then on your cms pages.

Magento is not a content mangement system. You need joomla for that. Some development guru types have built a cms bridge for magento that links your ecommerce and cms together.
Don’t get hung up on the whole cms thing. Throw up a wordpress blog and be done with it. Concentrate of selling products by writing good quality descriptions within magentos product setup.

Here at Joomlart you will probably find the best magento templates around. They are fine if they are installed on a vanilla install of magento.
Upgrades are a nightmare and when it does go wrong don’t expect anyone around here to come running to your aid because they won’t. Or maybe they can’t.
There are too many anomolies with magento that it makes it far to difficult to track down any one good reason why your template may not work for you.

My advise is to stick with the magento default theme and build the shop the way you want it.
Establish your categories, create attributes and attribute sets for each product type.
Correctly optimise the site for google indexing and once all that is done you can put the flowers around it.
That is a joomlart template.

Good luck in your project as I am sure it will all work out for you.

kind regards Tony.

Dear cybele,

Thank you for contacting Joomlart,

Main Issue 1: The menus on top, are just solid simple menus, how can I have my sub-menus sliding with mouse-over, how can I link them to some content materials or to products?
=> When you create a category in back end, magento will create a item menu in top menu. When you create a sub category in back end, magento will create a sub item menu too.

Main Issue 2: In Joomla, there are departments for "contact" component, meaning, you can define different forms for different departments. Is this possible for Magento?
=> Magento has a contact form like http://sandbox.sykanemos.com/default/contacts/ , it is not component.

Main Issue 3: Where can I assigned a place to show the latest added products? How?
=> Please download Jm Product List and install to your site.

Main Issue 4: How can I have image gallery/calendar/links (web link equivalent)/sitemap? Are there extensions the same way there is for Joomla?
=> Some extentions , you can install from magento connect

@kuatony : thank your for your answer