Business Directory with MODx & Ditto

Hi,

Please check my site
http://www.kenweb.net/
I have tried to make a "directory" "yellow pages" type of site with just MODx and Ditto.
Any advise?

Jan

PS: Some css3 magic for Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

Hi Jan,

Nice! seems like the keyword filtering isn’t working though

maybe you could have some "Main Categories" as well + the keyword filtering which seems to make sense for that kind of directory -> http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=37081.0

jan

Thanks Jan,

It was just a simple mistake. I have two TVs and I was pointing to the wrong one.

However, the page you directed me to seems interesting. I will study it further.

Thanks again.

i just realize you already got it working with some kind of Main Categories (e.g. All /Manufacturers etc) + keywords (chairs, shelves etc.)
how did you do that (separate the tags for the tag cloud & main categories)? one folder for each category with a custom Ditto-call?
also, maybe it would make sense to show the customer on the listings-page which category the company is in + the keywords/tags that are connected with it separately....right now the categories & tags/keywords are mixed together (Products:...)
e.g.:

Trix Boutique
category: Manufactures
keywords: dresses, shorts, tailor made jackets, etc
visit website >>

but that’s just my personal taste of sorting items
jan

The categories are under one folder [which has a separate ditto call], whereas the tags/keywords are on a separate landing page [with its own ditto call].

Your idea about also including the keywords is very good. However, my problem is space, I don’t want the listing rectangles bigger than they are. I am thinking how to implement that.

The "Products" are only the categories. Maybe the products should only be tags/keywords. I think this might be better?

Jan, you are right. The "Products" on the categories pages display categories. When the keywords are clicked the "Products" show the keywords.

How do I show the keywords on the category pages?

Jan, you are right. The "Products" on the categories pages display categories. When the keywords are clicked the "Products" show the keywords.
How do I show the keywords on the category pages?

hmmm..i can’t really tell, since i don’t understand your setup 100%
following the setup from the link i posted above, i would tick-off one or two checkboxes for the main categories of each document/company i create, then insert a comma separated list of keywords/tags -> you got two ditto-landing pages: one which lists the main categories (you can create a ditto template for the main category listings which includes the tags/keywords)
and one landing page for the tags/keywords (also custom or same ditto template as for category landing)...so you could jump between main-categories and tags..

as dev_cw pointed out in the other thread you could use a wrapper snippet in case you want to go with one ditto-call on the landing page:

On the targer page you could either choose a target for ’tags’ and another one for ’categories’ or you could use a wrapper snippet to feed the tagData parameter with either the $_GET[’tags’] or $_GET[’cat’] value. This was what I opted for since it kept everything on a single document.

haven’t tried it that way though...ihere’s his blog-post about wrapper snippets: http://modxdeveloper.com/blog/the-wrapper-snippet-run-a-snippet-from-within-another-snippet

The great thing about MODx is there are many ways to do a certain thing.
In fact I killed two birds with one stone. [As I was not very happy with the automatic insertion of the category tags.]
I just put the products manually in the introtext. At least I have the freedom now to only put the products that I want to without stretching the box too much.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Take a look of what I’m doing right now! http://www.williamgrivera.com/design_directory/ The only category that have content right now is Web Design. So first click on Web Design, then on Portfolios and you will see a list where you can click the title or the image and it will send you to the more info page. Let me know what you think about this. I have been two days working on this... I still have a lot of work to do.

hi willit0,

can you teach me how to make the portpolio page?

i’m a modx noobs, kinda in the dark right now

thanks