Biki-kini Template Support Thread

[brandonturpin]

With due respect to your comment on "code and create from scratch", I hope you you meant that you installed Zen cart application and installed the plug-ins you chose on the top of it...just to be sure we meant same thing about creating code from scratch.

I am not sure what you meant by your email but that is exactly the approach I used for my template. That is, I took Zen cart classic and hand installed each and every files in the plugins I used in my template. Not only that, I examined each and every files to make sure the diffs they suggested is something I really want to enhance my template with. In fact, as I mentioned in my earlier email, I enhanced the "Currency language link in the header" plugin by using my custom php code in the template files. Also I gave due credits to each and every plug-ins I installed. None of the files I used, has been modified in any way to eliminate the original contributor. As you said, mega menu is a menu that has been done by someone else (actually it is a CSS menu bar any one can install and customize). But, I have mentioned that in my template defintion as well.
Hope this clears up the confusion a bit, my template Biki-kini is causing. :)

What I meant is the layout of the header, product page, main page table or any page I edit I create myself. Obviously I dont code from scratch zen cart every template just the changes from the classic look. I was not saying you were not doing that. Like I said I dont know what you did for your template I have not looked past the demo, and I love new templates coming out. All I was doing was clarifying when you said

Finally, I should add Ann @ Picaflor-Azul has done a great job compiling different existing plugins into one template. So has been done by templates by brandonturpin. The work of both of the templates authors are very similar in the sense that there are commonalities in the plugins used but difference is the use of animations.

I was clarifying that I do use other modules but the template is created from scratch every time. (using the classic template as the starting point) I'm glad you are looking to better the Zen Cart template selection. Thanks for your time for this new template. Like I said not talking bad to you, just how I do things and that I do give credit to what I have used.

Keep up the good work!

[anamika59]

Hello :-) I just wanted to respond to this for clarity:

1. The reason for adding the javascript file for the slider in the modules/index directory is that it is a page specific javascript to be used only on the main page. Adding the jscript or jquery files to the templates/jscript directory will cause the script to be called on every page of the site which may cause conflicts with other scripts or a slightly slower page loading time. See this:

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...s_-_Javascript

This is indeed a good point. However, I would expect that all the jquery files (if the template has animation only in the main page) to be kept in the module/page folder, rather than keeping some jquery file in the module and some in the template area. In that case jquery file kept in the template area is still called every time any page loads even if the animation is used only in the main page. Also, if the jquery file does not use any php variable in it, I would expect it not to have any php extension.

I have addressed this issue in the new version (1.01) of my template.

2. The langages and currencies in the header in all of our templates can be easily disabled by turning off the currencies header sidebox and languages header sidebox in the admin--tools--layout boxes controller.

I respect your decision. However, I personally did not like the strong coupling between the language/currency header and side box language/currency. It is less likely that one would like to have both side box and header currency/language. One may want to disable sidebox but could keep the header currency/language or vice versa,

Also, just a note, I noticed that you left a path to the Abbington Mega template in your readme file. This should probably be changed to your template override name.

Thanks,

Anne

Good catch! Thanks Anne.

[anamika59]

Submitted version 1.01 for the minor clean up of the template.

[anamika59]

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Anyway, looking at and often testing templates is pretty much what I do, and I'm looking forward to your future projects.

Good luck!

Thanks Again. Will look forward to your comments on my future projects.

[picaflor-azul]

I respect your decision. However, I personally did not like the strong coupling between the language/currency header and side box language/currency. It is less likely that one would like to have both side box and header currency/language. One may want to disable sidebox but could keep the header currency/language or vice versa,

The languages and currencies header boxes can be turned on and off independently of the languages and currencies sidebox in all Picaflor Azul templates. I think that you are confused about this.



Thanks,

Anne

[saphelps]

I'd like to say I really do like the template and thanks for putting it out there! It matches exactly the template look I am going for.

I do have a question regarding the footer area that I'm trying to adjust to my site. Where exactly do I edit to remove the social media part. I do have facebook and google that I will be keeping, but I really would like to get rid of the twitter, wordpress, youtube.

I've tried to comment out the tpl_footer.php, footer_menu_defines.php, stylesheet_footer_menu.css, however the results have met with broken image placeholders. Everything else so far has been pretty straightforward and easy to work with.

Thanks for the time put into this!

[anamika59]

Thanks for liking my work.
Here is what you need to do to remove the links you do not like from the footer.

The in the file includes/templates/biki_kini/common/tpl_footer.php around line 45 remove
<a href="<?php echo TWITTER; ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo $template->get_template_dir('',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images').'/'.TWITTER_ICON ?>" alt="twitter link" class="smi twitter" /></a>
<a href="<?php echo YOUTUBE; ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo $template->get_template_dir('',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images').'/'.YOUTUBE_ICON ?>" alt="youtube link" class="smi youtube" /></a>
<a href="<?php echo BLOG; ?>" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo $template->get_template_dir('',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images').'/'.BLOG_ICON ?>" alt="blog link" class="smi blog" /></a>


If you want you can also remove (or comment out) the defines for the icons in the includes/languages/english/extra_defintions/biki_kini/footer_menu_defines.php, but you really do not need it .
Define('TWITTER_ICON', 'twitter.png');
Define('YOUTUBE_ICON', 'youtube.png');
Define('BLOG_ICON', 'blog.png');
lines 53 - 57
Define('TWITTER_TEXT', 'Follow Us');
Define('YOUTUBE_TEXT', 'Subscribe');
Define('BLOG_TEXT', 'Our Blog');
and lines 63 - 67
Define('TWITTER', 'http://www.twitter.com/CreativSite');
Define('YOUTUBE', 'http://www.youtube.com/');
Define('BLOG', 'http://www.creativsite.com/newsroom');

I see that you have tried to comment out tpl_footer.php, but I would be very careful commenting out these links as they are a mix of html and php codes. Comments for php and html has different syntax.

[saphelps]

My thanks, once again. It does appear it was comments keeping me from achieving my goal. Your slap to my head with word "remove" did exactly what I was trying to do with much less work. Once step closer now to being able to go live!

I'm guessing it's in the same file where I can add site links under the "Useful Links" column so that will be next adventure into code.

[anamika59]

You are very welcome. I am glad that it helped.
I would be quite excited to see your online store with my template, as yours is probably the first real store, to my knowledge, with this template . I would be very happy if you could add your store in my facebook and google+ page.

[fonzie]

hello,

thanks for a great template, just what I was looking for,

I do have a problem though, some of my categorynames are rather long, and in the drop-down menu, they take up two lines, I changed the width of the columns of the drop-down menu, but the categorynames are still on two lines, unless I use underscores instead of spaces in the names,

how do I resolve this ?

kind regards,
Fons