Truck Fabrication

Design help General
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I’m working on putting together a Truck Fabrication site. Right now they mainly want to sell truck beds. There’s 6ft beds and 8ft beds. Side panels, parts, etc.

They’re sourcing their parts here: https://www.keypartsonline.com/

which I need to put into their site. Here’s a short list of what is required and where I have roadblocks/questions.

Bed sizes (6 and 8 ft)
Side panels
Accessories/parts for the truck bed
Make
Model
Year
Etc…

I know about the CMS and Ecom CMS. I’m just looking for recommendations on how to combine these that makes sense to a visitor/potential customer.

Also, haven’t found an easy way of inputting Make, Models, and Years. Obviously these have to be filtered, where a potential customer can easily find what they’re looking for, to purchase.

(just getting started on the site, read only link below)

https://preview.webflow.com/preview/square-body?utm_medium=preview_link&utm_source=designer&utm_content=square-body&preview=d330db597bd4eb0f814c434caba41afa&workflow=preview

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

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Start with your end goals-

  • How you want the data to be presented
  • How you want users to be able to filter the items they’re looking for

Plan that out carefully and in detail and then work backwards from that to design-

  • Your CMS structures to support those UX’s
  • The setup of a tool like Finsweet CMS Filter and CMS Load to do the filtering you want

If you’re doing something more complex like cascading filters ( select a Make, see Models for that Make, select a Model… ), it’s more complex and you’ll need some Javascript work to make that happen.

I do this kind of work so direct message me if you are looking for a developer to help you build this.

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Thank you for your response.

Understood.

I want to make it easier for them to manage. Once it’s built, they will manage the site.

Is there no native way to build a category drop-down that contains Year > Make > Model > Parts?

That’s what Im thinking as far as structure. Start with the year and then proceed into Make and Model. Note: they’re only wanting Trucks. Which makes the list smaller.

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If you mean 4 separate dropdowns that filter consecutively, then no, you’ll need some programming to achieve that.