Thanks, I have noticed this behaviour. For this moment I haven't done anything about it yet. Creating multiple URL's with the same content means that Google will see this as different pages. By returning a 404 status for the pages without the trailing slash, all traffic will be going to the right URL (with trailing slash). I'm thinking about some kind of redirection to make sure that someone who visits the '/merken/abc' URL is automaticly redirected to the '/merken/abc/' page.

Sure! What would you like to know?
I'll give a brief description below, if you have any more questions, let me know!

The overall idea of the plugin is that it consists of multiple Models (for instance Product, Category, Brand, Photo) wich are all related in a certain way. Multiple Products share the same Brand, multiple Photos share the same Product, etc. The Categories are also related to eachother, as they have a parent-child relationship as seen in Wolf's Page model.

So every Product has a Category assigned to it. But I didn't just want the Product to show up in it's Category, I also wanted it to show up in all of the parents of this Category.
So for instance, a Smock Jacket (wich is a type of jacket with a huge amount of pockets) also has to appear in the parent categories of 'Smock Jackets' (wich are 'Jackets', 'Clothing' and the main category simply called 'Categories').
In this way, when you start with the main category (with theoratically all the products inside it, however this will be a random selection), you can simply refine your search as detailed as you wish.
This behaviour is currently accomplished by a query with multiple joins.

Several models need an image, for instance a logo for the Brand model, an color sample for the Color model, or just a product photo for the Photo model. This is done using two helpers: first, the Upload class for uploading the full res image to the website. After this, the ImageResizer class takes the full res image and converts it into a smaller image and a thumbnail image. This is all done when the image is uploaded so three different versions of the same image are saved as static files on the server, preventing long load times.

If you've got more questions, let me know.

Thanks

Last edited by NicNLD (2011-11-04 15:49)

Looks great. Your Catalog plugin works very smooth and fast and you did (still doing) a nice job with the design.

My only remark would be on the fluid layout as I really don't prefer it. But that's not an issues of any sort.

I'm a bit late on this one, but...

I simply don't like it because fluid layouts look different on every screen (good example would be a smashing magazine) where I have to literally search for links and buttons when I view it with small resolution screen. It's just a personal dislike, though you can find very nice sites with fluid layouts where they made UX same no matter what screen you're using.

It's not much of a reason I know

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Site looks much better now but it doesn't load any images on landing page! I assume it's still  a work in progress.