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Cheers Ben,

I'm not so worried about the mechanics of rewriting the old URLs and keeping them unique as I can have all that covered. fairly easily

I'm more interested in how beneficial the end results may be and whether it's worth a disruption.

cheers,

James

In our Magento store, products are arranged into categories, subcategories and so on. We typically have 3 or 4 layers of category depth.

This makes it nice and easy for customers to find stuff, but it means that the end categories have massive long urls.

I'd like to keep our category tree structure in place from a navigation point of view, but I feel the url structure is pushing some important stuff to the back of the shop as it were. We have something like 200 categories in total.

So, assuming every individual category has an a unique name, I'd like to rewrite the urls so that:

ourshop.com/car-parts/
stays as  
ourshop.com/car-parts/

ourshop.com/car-parts/suspension/
becomes  
ourshop.com/suspension/

ourshop.com/car-parts/suspension/springs
becomes  
ourshop.com/springs/

ourshop.com/car-parts/suspension/springs/thismake-lowering-springs
becomes  
ourshop.com/thismake-lowering-springs/

and so on....
I'll need some custom magento URL rewrite  work done, but that's another story. The real question is whether you guys feel this is worthwhile?

Are there any other stores with a deep categorised navigation structure, but a flat url structure?

thanks,

James

If you're just after something easy and free to edit the audio, then a program like Audacity will do the job. - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

If you want to turn it into a simple video cheaply, then Microsoft Movie Maker is free and can do most simple video jobs you might want. Do a google search to find the install if you don't already have it installed

Hope this helps,

James