[ic] How do I change the text layout of the product display page

[Ryan Hertz]

At 10:53 PM 4/15/02 +0000, Jeanette Yip wrote:

>I am using IC 4.8.3 and building a catalog off of the tools demo.
>I am running into a problem where my customer does not like the text 
>layout of product description. How do I change that? I know it varies 
>based on the image size but how can I utilize more of the spaces available?
>
>For example, currently if the width of the image takes up 1/2 of the 
>column space, the text will only have 1/2 of the column space to display, 
>widthwise. There's lots of white space wasted, (i.e. the row space that 
>comes after the picture) that can be also used to display product 
>description if it's long.
>
>I'm going to give a pictoral view if possible. This may look familiar 
>since my partner already submitted this question and got no answer.
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Change the flypage.html.  You should probably read the docs on this 
subject.  In terms of the HTML, you are probably looking for something like 
this:   (note IC tags are absent, as an exercise for the reader)

<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 align=left><tr><td 
width=250><img src="image.jpg"><br>This could be a caption, or product 
pricing, SKU, etc.<br></td><td rowspan=2 background="/divider.gif" 
width=13><spacer type=block width=13></spacer></td></tr></table>This text 
would be a very long description that would wrap around the table 
containing the image....This text would be a very long description that 
would wrap around the table containing the image....This text would be a 
very long description that would wrap around the table containing the image....

I've been meaning to do this on my site for awhile, as my product 
descriptions seem to grow as I "add to the FAQ"... things tend to get 
especially ugly with long descriptions and horizontally oriented 
images.  This must be a sign.

You should keep in mind that Foundation is a DEMO store and you'd be doing 
yourself a huge favor to learn what makes it tick and perhaps in the future 
design your pages first, and integrate IC into them, rather than trying to 
make foundation fit your needs, IMHO.

-Ryan