eBay Dynamic Categories App Feedback Thread

Seems to work well, I would seriously consider buying the standalone version if we can control the number of menu sub item are display.

i.e. have the behaviour that only top/parent menu items are showing at first, then if you click on a top menu the sub menus open up below it.

It would be perfect then :)

Hey Matt,

Accordion menu, that’s the one! – It’s essential for stores with a large amount of categories IMHO.

The store you link to in your example ‘my first wish’ do quite a good job of the accordion menu in their main store template, but if you click through into a listing there’s a lot of broken links.

BTW here’s my modification on your css ~ has rounded corners and the buttons for categories are floated apart slightly, anyone please feel free to use/hack;

#eBayCategories {
font: normal 12px/150% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width: 200px;
border: 0px solid #CCC;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
height: auto;
float: left;
}
#eBayCategories a {
color:#000000;
text-decoration:none;
}
#eBayCategories a:hover {
text-decoration:underline;
}
#eBayCategories .MenuItem {
margin: 5px 0 0px 0;
padding: 5px 0 5px 5px;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #EBEBEB;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}
#eBayCategories .MenuSub1Item {
margin: 2px 0 0px 0;
padding: 5px 0 5px 15px;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}

#eBayCategories .MenuSub1Item:hover {
background-color: #EBEBEB;
}

#eBayCategories .MenuSub2Item {
margin: 2px 0 0px 0;
padding: 5px 0 5px 30px;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}
#eBayCategories .MenuSub2Item:hover {
background-color: #EBEBEB;
}

Hi Matt,
I was very pleased to find this widget and be able to customise my shop easily,
but I discovered that if you use a shop name other than your ebay user id – shop links will not work
can you possibly add 1 more field to your widget for shop name – and use shop name to build links?

thank you in advance
Elen

Hi Matt!
thanks for quick reply!
for free version on this page – http://lastdropofink.co.uk/mar…..-listings/

do you recon this can be done easily?

thanks!

oh! thank you very much!

here is what i have:
this works:
Shop name: snappermusicplc

Shop URL: http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/…..ermusicplc

categories links as:
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/snapp…..6638160018

now i change to Snapper Music Shop:

Shop name: Snapper Music Shop

Shop URL: http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/…..Music-Shop
categories links still as:
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/snapp…..6638160018 – doesn’t work
while it should be
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Snapp…..6638160018

oh you think?
yes I’m aware about caching issues issues with ebay but didn’t think it would affect this.
I thought that because you are using user id to retrieve and then build links and use id is different from shop name – that was causing the problem

but thank you for looking into this!
I’ll give it a day and see what happens =))

thanks for your help and great widget!

Hey Matt,
just to say 24 hours later it’s actually works fine =)
thank you!