UPDATE - Manufacturers becoming Brands

http://www.onlinesales.co.uk/onlinesales/manufacturers.php will become http://www.onlinesales.co.uk/onlinesales/brands.php

This was essentially to make it easier for me as I was getting sick of mistyping "manufacturers" in the database!

However, I've also taken the oppurtunity to add rows, columns, status (turn off a brand listing) and images.

Currently you can't chose the image for the brand, it will just use the thumbnail latest product added (that has an image). Naturally, the edit facility will follow. It will also (eventually) be possible to make it look like a normal shop gallery with rows and columns rather than just a list.

Long term I intend to have a separate brands_products page where one can look at the details for each product (like the current product page) but where the previous/next products are from the same brand rather than the gallery system we currently have.

This is all part of a long term goal where it will be possible for a shop to either display items in genre (like a normal retail shop) and/or in the brands (which is more appropriate to wholesale and certain ranges). There are other difficulties, for instance, with a large range we will need a way to subdivide it, but we can cross that bridge when we come to it.