Different Home Pages for Main Different Sections of Website

Hi Guys,

Can someone tell how I can achieve the following in classifieds theme? I want to have a home page with a top menu that has different website sections on it (that is easy enough). For argument sakes lets say my site is selling boats. I want in the top menu ‘Sailing Boats’ ‘Motor Boats’ and say ‘Inflatable boats’.

The home page is set to sailing boats by default and so all of the search categories and taxonomies are sailing specific. When a user clicks the ‘Motor boats’ tab they are taken to an almost identical version of the home page (but with content updated for motor boats ie headlines, carousel etc) and the search now shows only the Motor Boat specific categories. The sailing categories shown on the last page are now gone unless a user clicks on the ‘Sailing boats’ tab in the top menu.

This is common on sites like autotrader with cars, vans, etc. On each section the search categorises and makes and models in the search are specific to the section of the website – but the user is still logged onto one site and can add listings to favorites etc. Otherwise there would be one great big taxonomy of makes and models spanning bikes, cars, vans, trucks etc.

So when a user clicks ‘Motor Boats’ the web address is http://www.mysite.com/motorboats and its a homepage within a homepage. I have built a nice search box and want it on every main section every page.

I keep wondering if there is way of making each tab (sailing boats, motorboats, inflatable boats etc) its own site within a site.

I NEED THIS FUNCTIONALITY so all comments are welcome.

Mark, You can normally save the day…

Cheers

mark