[UPHPU] Menus Question

[Velda Christensen]

Justin Giboney wrote:
> www.forodeherbales.com/new_site  is the page I am currently working on 
> (the current page being www.westernbotanicals.com)
>
> 1. The logo that I have in the upper left hand corner of - 
> www.forodeherbales.com/new_site - is one of the logos of the company, 
> the other is just the text inside of the box. Which version should I use?
>
If you're going to use the image logo (and I would, considering the site 
doesn't really have a focal point) don't squeeze it into that tiny 
little space.   Also I'd leave the imagery in there somehow for brand 
recognition -- if you think there's any recognition of your label at 
all, you'll probably want to hold on to that and work with it.  You'll 
probably get some pressure to go to the 'web 2.0 look'. I wouldn't do 
that. Your brand image just doesn't fit with that look, and the trend 
will be over sooner than later anyway.

If you've got a higher res version of your graphic, you might consider 
taking bits and pieces of the image out and using them in the site like 
this guy did here: http://www.newark1.com/portfolio/000068.html

That site happens to be a great site to get some design tips from, I 
might add.  That guy's layouts aren't suited as well to carts (he's a 
bit more print-design / web portfolio oriented), but they are beautiful, 
and I tend to think the concepts would probably work well with your 
audience. :-)


> 2. In trying to be able to switch from spanish to english easily, I 
> put a spanish/english like in the header. Currently this is the code 
> for the link - echo '<a 
> href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?lan=es">Espa&ntilde;ol</a>'; - but this 
> doesn't carry the queries over. Is there a way to carry the queries over?

Have you considered using a pre-made cart that has language capabilities 
built into it?  I'd think it'd be a bit of a headache to reinvent the 
wheel - and especially to keep it up to date and safeguarded against 
vulnerabilities. That other botanicals site I mentioned to you once uses 
x-cart as a base, and I know it supports multiple languages.