Hi,

This is what I am trying to develop

Objective:

(1) A Complete company website show casing all the products . Individual Product pages will contain images and information. This will be static data however product pricing and available quantity has to be dynamic. 

A: Do I create small price and quantity module for this ? Our designers will be creating the pages , do I just give him this module to place it on the page ? Should I create 5 different modules for 5 different products ?

B: Is there a way I can add code into the page itself to pull dynamic data instead of using module ?

Hello,
if you want dynamic content you'll have to execute code somewhere - typically this is via modules, but you could also use widgets (http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/W...) or skin objects (http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/W...). Alternatively you could create a services layer and call that e.g. have a REST'ful ASMX and call it from jquery.

However all of that would seem to be overkill - in you case I would just be creating a simple module that allowed admins to add a product. The add product page (e.g. edit.ascx) would allow them to specify the name and price in a textbox and would have a html editor so that they can type in and format any text and add any relevant images(s). This would allow you to drop 1 module instance on 1 page and see all the products e.g. the view.ascx might list all of them in a dropdown list. If you wanted to force 1 per page (e.g. if you wanted to add lots of other content in other panes relevant to the product), you could add a module setting to specify the productID and use multiple copies of the module.

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