Featured Products 2.2.6

Most online stores have a section named ‘featured products’. Your challenge is to make this section truly stand out and get the desired impact. Towards that end, Featured Products is a must-have extension for your store. You can statically or animatedly showcase products of your choice to lure them to explore the features and benefits of your product. As with all of our extensions, you will have considerable flexibility to customize it to any store using our typically clean and intuitive user interface.

Features for website visitors

• New Slider type display: Give customers a stylish preview of the products to entice them to click through
• Featured products can be in shown 5 different types: the new and highly attractive advanced slideshow, compact slideshow with or w/o bottom text, simple row with or w/o bottom text

Help prospects make informed decisions with Tooltip
Lead customers in with the right hook- be it a catchy one liner or the most important product attribute

Features for store admin

• More slideshow and slider behavior control
• You choose what, where and how to display with customizable positioning and layout
  • Set the featured products to be displayed in a particular category
  • Automate display of featured products:
    • option to show certain number of products either by recency of upload or randomly
    • ability to restrict such automation to specific category

• Tooltip option
• Alternative product text

• Define/ re-define product image sizes from the configuration panel
• Employ Different styles of the product buttons: numerical or product thumbnail
• Control the look and feel easily:
  • Fully customizable look - just edit a simple CSS to change any color, objects placement and size, round corners etc.
  • CSS in a separate .css file - customize it the way you need
  • Ready to use CSS presets in the package
• No side libraries, all code is custom and very compact
• Ensure that featured products do get seen by website visitors
  • 100% pure JavaScript and CSS, no flash or other embedded content, so your featured products won't be blocked
  • Smooth JavaScript animation
  • Consumes less processing (CPU) resource

• Ability to add a product to several categories
• Option to display a product featuring in the slideshow only on the main page if desired
• Display of a warning message if no product is found for showcasing as a featured product
• Choice of using a custom (different) image in the featured product slideshow if you do not want to use the product image

How it works
The Featured Products extension adds:

• 3 product attributes - 'aw_fp_enabled', 'aw_fp_category' and 'aw_fp_description'
• A control panel under "system configuration" that lets you configure the view of your extension
• A tab under product configuration options that lets you define the featured products and enter alternate text for the slideshow
• A template, which should be inserted into the store’s CMS on one or more pages where you wish to see your featured products

The template would start rolling after it has been added to a live page and at least one product has been marked as “featured”.