Easy embed template

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Originally Posted by ogie56

call me stupid I haven't brain fart for that long ince i started this stuff :laugh:,It clicked and I got it working now . sorry for all the head aches and thank's for all your help as you get older the brain takes to long to kick in sometimes

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hey mate look like your getting there.
but I would suggest that you use the version of the same embed form the downloads section.

the beta is expeimental and make cause you more hell then its worth.

JOsh

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Originally Posted by ogie56

yes, I understand that but what I'm saying is when I put this , <div id="content"><!-- START EMBED -->
<!-- END EMBED --> In the shop.html body it does not link to the zencart which is in my root so in the embed_cfg it should be: $zc_temp = 'shop.html';and that is inside common folder so what this is does is when i go to to my website in my nav. i create a link to shop.html and it should show zen cart in the body , which i take your basic stylesheet and redesign that to match my other html pages and everthing is good. but some how I'm not getting how to link it right . because if i create a link to zencart there would be no reason to make the shop.html or what ever you want to call it ,and you would just have an external link ,which is what i was doing . . thank's for your help and sorry i called it a mod.

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One more observation.. The WSIWYG tool you are using to create your site is not properly creating the HTML file you need to get this template to work.. If you are NOT familiar with writing your own HTML this is going to be a bit of an issue, and not an issue that I think you are going to easily get around on your own.. So I hope you don't mind a suggestion.. I was looking at your site, and I am curious as to why you don't just have a go at creating the WHOLE thing in ZenCart.. I didn't see anything in your site that couldn't be EASILY created in ZenCart..

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

One more observation.. The WSIWYG tool you are using to create your site is not properly creating the HTML file you need to get this template to work.

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the irony of this was this program was originally created to work w/ wysiwygs. so that a code less graphic designer could update the site easily w/o having to know html (after some one set up the samg_embed for them). it just happened to turn out that it was good for code monkeys as well.

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Originally Posted by ##########################

the irony of this was this program was originally created to work w/ wysiwygs. so that a code less graphic designer could update the site easily w/o having to know html (after some one set up the samg_embed for them). it just happened to turn out that it was good for code monkeys as well.

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I know.. I think the issue is his WYSIWYG editor is not allowing him to access the source code to properly include the code needed to get this template to work.. I was looking at his Cart, and it is repeating the header and footer.. Looks like the template code is embedded in two locations.. Hmmmmm...

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Originally Posted by ogie56

call me stupid I haven't brain fart for that long ince i started this stuff :laugh:,It clicked and I got it working now . sorry for all the head aches and thank's for all your help as you get older the brain takes to long to kick in sometimes

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Well it looks like you are now working with the stylesheet and other Zen Settings, and it's getting closer.. I still think you would be WAYYYYY better off doing this whole site in ZenCart.. Just a thought.. But good luck to you either way..

yes,made new html page and now working on stylesheet, but I can't seem to locate where to change the header wrapper to bring it down from the top ,my end up going back to joomla because i already have that designed but I didn't use It because of virumart sucks

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Originally Posted by ogie56

yes,made new html page and now working on stylesheet, but I can't seem to locate where to change the header wrapper to bring it down from the top ,my end up going back to joomla because i already have that designed but I didn't use It because of virumart sucks

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Looking closer at you code you may this will prob be hard. but you might want to try replacing your shop.html w/ http://pastebin.com/d1b58d566 its worth a try

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Originally Posted by ogie56

yes,made new html page and now working on stylesheet, but I can't seem to locate where to change the header wrapper to bring it down from the top ,my end up going back to joomla because i already have that designed but I didn't use It because of virumart sucks

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Two things..

1. I don't think you need Joomla for your particular site.. You really can do EVERYTHING you are trying to do in ZenCart. You can use the defined pages and EZ pages to create all of the "non shopping" content.
2. Go back and look at the link I posted (it's on page 14). IF you decide to go with Joomla (a step I don't think you need to do), you don't HAVE to use VirtueMart. The link I posted is a Joomla main site with a ZenCart for shopping.. I used THIS template contrib to tie both together esthetically.

Now that said, (and please do not take this the wrong way) I gather that you are not very experienced with HTML and such (hence the need for the WYSIWYG tool) this is not a slam.. just an observation.. If you are at the level skill wise that I think you are at, combining Joomla with ZenCart is a LOT of work, and you are gonna have to have some GOOD understanding/experience with CSS to make it LOOK & feel seemless.. That said I had a few tricky areas on my site where I that I had to turn to greater CSS experts for help..

IMO you should REALLY give a looksee at doing your entire site in ZenCart.. I've seen NOTHING in your current site that gives me the sense that this is not a viable solution..

DivaVocals, and ogie56,
I think the dialog is greate here about the WYSIWIG, and I will be adding an istall requirement to the Read only about haveing a mark up file with a flexable height. in the embed cell.
But the discussion of weather or not ogie56 needs to use an addtioanl CMS for his site, is not really on topic w/ this thread, and I dont want to have to make people who read the whole thread have to read rabit trails.
So if you would kinly move to another thread for this conversation it would be cool.
look I alread started it here http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=539625

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DivaVocals, and ogie56,
I think the dialog is greate here about the WYSIWIG, and I will be adding an istall requirement to the Read only about haveing a mark up file with a flexable height. in the embed cell.
But the discussion of weather or not ogie56 needs to use an addtioanl CMS for his site, is not really on topic w/ this thread, and I dont want to have to make people who read the whole thread have to read rabit trails.
So if you would kinly move to another thread for this conversation it would be cool.
look I alread started it here http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=539625

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I actually wasn't suggesting that he use another CMS for his site at all. If you re-read my posts, you'll see that what I WAS suggesting is that he use ZenCart for his ENTIRE site.. I also suggested that IF he used Joomla for his main site, that this template contrib was a great way to tie the two programs together esthetically.. (It's what I did with the site link I posted earlier in this thread -- if you recall, ogie --and you-- both asked for examples of this contrib in action.. I posted a site which happens to be a Joomla site using this template to tie the two together..) While my suggestion for ogie to use ZenCart to do his entire site is probably off topic for this thread, with all due respect, I do think that the rest of my suggestions are still on topic. Even if my comments do mention Joomla, I was simply offering ideas on how THIS template could be used if he went that route.. It was after all the SAME dilemma I was trying to resolve when I decided to use this contrib to solve the SAME problem.. (I was building a Joomla site and needed a way to use ZenCart with it instead of Virtuemart)