Random product display

Jugggler · Post by **Jugggler** » Fri May 01, 2009 7:56 pm

My home page is too static. Is there a way to display one of my products for a few seconds, and then display another (randomly chosen) product every few seconds?

Post by **Jim** » Fri May 01, 2009 8:01 pm

ShopSite generated pages are static and don't change once a publish is done. So unless you could prepopulate some javascript to do it there isn't a way.

Jugggler · Post by **Jugggler** » Fri May 01, 2009 8:08 pm

Thanks Jim. Any ideas on how other site do this? For example, take a look at:

http://www.target.com

They have a rotating set of products that keep the home page from getting too boring. Are they using some fancy java scripts?

Post by **Jim** » Mon May 04, 2009 1:15 pm

Viewing the source of their home page there are a lot of scripts being used. I don't know if their pages are static or generated on the fly so it's hard to say how they are doing it.

If you just want to display random product images you use javascript to do that. Google for "random image javascript" and you will find several ways to do it.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue May 05, 2009 11:08 am

Home page product slide shows are all the rage lately, loading time be damned.

JeremeD · Post by **JeremeD** » Wed May 06, 2009 11:50 am

Juggler,

Check out JQuery Cycle: http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/

JQuery Cycle has a lot of different rotation effects and is easy to maintain once you get it set up.

Jereme

FlaGatorMan · Post by **FlaGatorMan** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:11 pm

Target.com is hosted and written by 5000 programmers at Amazon.com. There's your answer on how this is done.