The following question was posted in a PM to me... and I figure everyone can benefit:

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My products are sold to children as well as adults. It would be very useful if you added a searchable field for age range recommendation associated with each product. Many of my customers will be looking for products for specific age ranges. Having a search function for age range (with the age ranges definable by me) much the way you do for the manufacturers would be very helpful. Having the option of having the products sorted when they display by age range (much like the option to display the products by manufacturer) would be useful. Also being able to display this age range field when the products are listed with thumbnails would be desirable. This would make it so that customers won’t have to open and view the detailed description to see the age recommendations. Age is a specific additional field that would be useful to me. My guess is that there are other user defined field associated with products might also be useful to other people. Maybe having a few fields that can be user defined would help others with specific product needs.

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This can be done to your store easily. First what you do is designate a number for each age group.... such as 1-10 year olds label "1000". Then enter this number (in the keywords field) in your product editor. Then go to the search box in the front of your store... and type "1000" in the search box. The store will automatically display all of the products that have the "1000" in the keywords field (the search box returns results from the keywords field).

Then all you have to do is copy the URL of the page that was generated to post all of the products with the number (1000) in the keywords field.

Then go to the right or left hand link editor and type the word Ages 1-10 in the link name field and paste the URL which you copied from your search. Since your store is dynamic... the results when you click on that link will always show Ages 1-10.

Repeat as neccessary for all other ages or categories... such as Men, Women, Children... and anything else you can think of... it is a powerful system.

View this store from an example... Example Site...

You can see when you click on "Men"... the store is not calling by category... it is calling a pre-defined search. You can see from the URL string that ends in "utuu". I associated "utuu" in the keyword field for all men's clothing... you can do this for whatever custom fields you want!

Does this make sense?

sweet

Great suggestion! I can see alot of uses for this. Thanks.

It virtually gives you unlimited category flexibility... cool huh? Anyone else using this feature? Show us how you are using it!

My site uses this feature, very very well, in the drop down for search by size, category, and price range in the shop section.

krazykickz,

You may want to change the Title of your homepage... The first keyword you have is "krazykickz"... you may want to move that to the end.

The first words of your title have the most weight. "krazykickz" is not competetive... so by including it in the title (even in the end) and it being in your domain... you will certainly get #1 placement for it. Put your most sought after keyword in front.

Thank Captain, I will do that now.

I was waiting because that shows up in the order email alert. so if I take krazykickz out it says email from Air Force 1's, etc, etc.... Any idea when this will be fixed?

OH! You are right. Keep as is until we deploy that new feature. I have submitted it to Jack, Ado and Josh. It's on their to-do list.

Sorry about that...

My fault.