- Updated `side-bar.html` to use clickable links instead of a dropdown for color selection
- Enhanced catalog view to generate URLs for color filters and "any color" option
- Simplified the user experience for color filtering and improved accessibility
- Implemented pagination for catalog items with Django's Paginator
- Updated `item-list.html` to include pagination controls
- Added color filtering logic to catalog view with support for `Color` model
- Enhanced `side-bar.html` with a dynamic color dropdown filter
- Adjusted filtering URL logic to accommodate color filters and pagination parameters
- Prefetched `colors` in item queries to optimize performance
- Introduced `Color` model with admin and added a color field to items
- Added `discount_price` and `is_new` fields to the `Item` model with necessary migrations
- Updated pricing logic to display original and discount prices in templates
- Enhanced product detail and item card templates with color swatches and metadata
- Added sidebar sections for sales and new items with paginated mini-cards
- Updated styles to support discount pricing, swatches, and sidebar mini-cards
- Extended catalog views to filter by sales or new items and updated filtering logic
- Implemented JavaScript-based price slider for catalog filtering
- Updated catalog views to handle min/max price inputs and compute slider bounds
- Enhanced templates (`index.html`, `side-bar.html`) with filtering form and updated URLs
- Added CSS for price slider styling and form layout
- Introduced utility functions for URL building and price parsing
- Expanded tests for price filtering, sliders, and sidebar active states
- Updated context processor and header for dynamic navigation with price filters
- Implemented `Favorite` model with unique user-item constraint and timestamped records
- Added `favorites:index` and `favorites:toggle` views with AJAX support for toggling favorites
- Built templates and front-end assets for the favorites page and integration with item grids
- Extended header with favorites link and dynamic counter
- Added tests covering models, views, and templates for the favorites functionality
- Updated admin to enable management of favorites via Django admin interface
- Introduced `Subcategory` model with migration and unique slug constraint per category
- Enabled subcategory assignment for items with validation to ensure category matching
- Updated catalog views to handle subcategories, filtering items accordingly
- Enhanced templates (`index.html`, `side-bar.html`, `item-list.html`, `detail.html`) to display subcategories
- Added dynamic subcategory dropdown in Django admin with category filtering
- Created JavaScript for admin subcategory handling and AJAX population
- Wrote comprehensive tests for subcategory functionality in views and admin
- Added `ItemImage` model with migration for image handling and metadata
- Implemented product gallery in `detail.html` with thumbnails for additional images
- Updated `Item` model to include `primary_image` property for gallery logic
- Enhanced `catalog/index.html` to support item thumbnails
- Updated `catalog.css` for responsive gallery and item list styling
- Extended catalog views to prefetch images for efficient queries
- Added comprehensive tests for catalog and detail views
- Configured Django to serve media files in development
- Updated admin with inline support for managing `ItemImage` entities
- Created `side-bar.html` and `item-list.html` fragments for catalog page layout
- Updated `catalog/index.html` to include sidebar and item list templates
- Added styles for catalog layout in `catalog.css`
- Enabled `DEBUG=True` in settings for local development
- Adjusted CSS in shipping and services for consistent spacing
