Better Categories Contrib & ezpages

**ibond2u** · 10 Sep 2006, 06:09 AM

Thanks SpottedHaggis

I couldn't find it in css, but I looked into the php coding and for both sets of graphics (assigned to category and information sideboxes) the code was already written to address the "factory install" without spaces between the .gif and the first letter of text.

So here is what the considerate and "future-thinking" creator of this contribution wrote into the code (before line 20 in all five of the below listed docs):

$pointer = zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . 'bc_info.gif');
// uncomment next line to add 1 space between image & text
// $pointer .= ' ';

So I did that in the following:

includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/information.php
includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/more_information.php

and

includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_document_categories.php
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_ezpages.php

All is well now and I'm a bit more educated

**gilby** · 10 Sep 2006, 10:47 AM

Glad you found the answer...

Sometimes it helps to rtfm.

From the "Notes:" section in the the readme.txt.

- Your image is too close to the text link!
Each sidebox file, (except the bestseller sidebox), has a line at the top of the file which allows you to add 1 (or more) spaces between them. Uncomment this line to insert a space, duplicate it to add more than one.

**crazycucumber** · 14 Sep 2006, 03:57 PM

Has anyone managed , or is it even possible to have alt style tags on the categories.

managed to tweak the code to put it in manually ( the same for each line ) but thought maybe first 30 chars of the description could go in here , just to give people more of a clue whats in the category !

Also can someone kick me in the right direction , I want to add an image for the subcategory like the green arrow one. instead of using the lines from zen admin.

Thanks all

Crazy.....

**gilby** · 14 Sep 2006, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by crazycucumber

Also can someone kick me in the right direction , I want to add an image for the subcategory like the green arrow one. instead of using the lines from zen admin.

Thanks all

Crazy.....

The images for this contrib are in
includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE\images
copy the image you want to use over the existing image used in this place

**meadwench** · 15 Sep 2006, 09:41 PM

Thanks for all the great input, I figured out some of the things I needed to do on my menus....

My site (for a customer) is here: http://216.14.216.28/

You can see the margin around the top sidebox is too wide. For the life of me (forest and trees syndrome, I'm sure), I can't find the bit of code that controls this. Any ideas?

Also, I couldn't quite figure it out from what I've seen so far, but if I want to display my sub-ezpages (I have multiple articles under 'Articles') like a sub-category, can that be done? Any links to how or whatever would be appreciated. I've been searching for ages and haven't turned it up yet.

I'm *loving* the Better Categories mod, its saved me a lot of time getting my EZpages menu to look more like the categories menu. Now if I can just get the layout finished, and the sub-cat EZpages to work, life would be a dream.....

Vicky Rowe

**gilby** · 21 Sep 2006, 03:59 AM

BetterCategoriesEzInfo updated to zen v1.3.5 available here

**crazycucumber** · 24 Sep 2006, 05:45 PM

Hi , My site is in the final 5 days before going live , and just a few niggles to sort out , can anyone tell me how to get the selected category background colour to be the same as the hover background colour when selected , cant seem to get ti to work by tweaking the CSS .

The demo site is at www.tapes-direct-zen.madaboutthe.co.uk

Probably easy , but my head is spinning from all the little changes I have to do !

Cheers

**spottedhaggis** · 24 Sep 2006, 05:52 PM

have to say I think it looks ok with that hover colour.

I have noticed that your We Accept area seems to overlap the main content area.

**crazycucumber** · 24 Sep 2006, 08:51 PM

Me too , but the client wants to have the background colour to highlight the active cat.

Think the overlap is sorted now , if its not , can you let me know what browser you see it with .

**spottedhaggis** · 24 Sep 2006, 09:20 PM

From what I can see this is where the orange colour is coming from in the beter categories css file

.betterCategories a:hover... stylesheet_better... (line 28)

Hope that helps, im still learing css

oh and in Firefox everything looks god, but in IE 7 your information box top is cut in half, the right part is missing, not sure about ie6 though