News & Article Management [Support]

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Originally Posted by Bikeforce

How do you alter the width? Or apply padding or margins - this seems to be quite a complicated process due to the nature or the javascript setup.... Every change I make doesnt affect anything - The scroller text and the box are miss aligned.

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To customize the scroller to your needs, you basically have to control it with CSS which requires further knowlege in HTML/CSS. Link me up to your site and I'll see what I can do to help you out.

Yes I am aware of that....What I was saying was that trying to customize the stylesheet that came with the News Ticker mod didnt work so i have now just created a new div in the ticker sidebox template.

$content .= '<div style ="width: 165px; overflow:hidden;">' . "\n" .

which was just after

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="includes/newsTicker.js"></script>' . "\n" .

At the end of the files I closed the div. This aligns the box and the text by cropping the uneccessary text below, a kind of masking effect.

I have done this because I believe it wasnt the CSS that was creating the width but the Javascript dynamically - therefore I had trouble finding the div width even though I could see the element style in firebug. So rather then change the width i have just masked the text, which was good enough for me in this instance. Thanks for the offer though....

Can you put up a link to your cart?...

www.bike-force.co.uk (its working how i want it now)

Oh my favorite...I'm into bikes too ;)

I'm a Zen Cart Noob. This is the first add on I've tried. Found the readme - it says:
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zenca...t/install.html

... and the site is offline!!

Should I bother with this module? Is it supported? If so, how do I install it?

Thanks!

There should be installation docs within the files you downloaded.

Bikeforce, I really like your site layout. Did you build the template yourself, or did you hire someone?

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Originally Posted by awesome

Bikeforce, I really like your site layout. Did you build the template yourself, or did you hire someone?

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I second that! It's lovely. What's the template?

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Originally Posted by awesome

Bikeforce, I really like your site layout. Did you build the template yourself, or did you hire someone?

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Sorry Just seen this thank you! I really should subscribe to this thread! Basically I bought the Spare Parts template from Template monster and customized it - I did this to save time as I have built the site for a company I work for...(and they paid!)

I did customize some of the css though and have added the tabbed products module. I also used the Lightbox module to display images.

I think its okay, but I would like to actually build some templates in future...

A word of warning though - I found this template can be slow if your host is slow - all the rounded corners are actually gif files - but i have it running on a reasonable speed on Bluehost - they are Zen cart approved.