Urgent help please!

[pegog]

I have just made my site live however had a few ftp issues last night and it seems something has happened to some of my images and links.

www.youchoosegifts.com.au

There are a few things that need sorting out but the urgent issue is the fact that images are not showing even though the files are definitely there. I've tried uploading the images again but this doesn't seem to work.

I have this problem with my subcategory images. You will see if you click Books that the images for this are fine. If you then click gift hampers you will see the links but no images. (I have not yet uploaded files for sub category sweet and wine).

I am having a similar problem with certain images. If you type tiger wrap in the search bar you will see what I mean.

The images aren't showing when you go to the product page either.

So frustrated as it was all working fine last night until my file transfer stopped half way. I ended up deleting the whole thing and transferred the files across this morning only to find out the hosting company had forgotten to increase my server space which is why I had all the problems transferring the files across.

Any ideas pleas?


Other non urgent issues are;

• Paypal sign is too far too the right in the side box
• Favourites (bookmark) side box is too far to the right in firefox but ok in IE
• If you search for a product e.g fruit - the price is shown however it is so far up it looks like it belongs to the product above. Is there a way of increasing the space between the products listed?
• If you search Summer Gift Box and click on to read more info you will see that the attributes are all over the place. I can't figure out how to move them. Its set to show 4 across.

Now that the site is live I really need to get this sorted out asap.

Thanks in advance

[dbltoe]

Just a couple of things for starters.
You have the sideboxes (columnOne and columnTwo set at 150, a center image on the main page that is 650 wide, and the mainWrapper set at 70%. That means the site will not present correctly until the browser is showing 1360 pixels in width I'd lose the 70% to something like 900px and resize the image to somewhere around 400px.

The product images you are talking about show that the cart is looking for them in a thumbnails directory. Did you create that directory or are you using something that does?

[dbltoe]

The Paypal image is 150 in width and will not fit in a 150 wide column, inside a box, with a border.

For the favorites, add the following to the stylesheet.

#boomarksidebox {
Margin-left: -0.5em;
}

Adjust accordingly

[pegog]

Thanks for your advice. I'll get on to this straight away.

[pegog]

I've checked the images and there is a thumbnails folder in the main image folder. Funny thing is that the images are in there and are still not showing up.

I did try moving all the images to the main directory they are all named _sm however this hasn't worked either.

Any other idea?

Thanks

[pegog]

I've figured out what the problem was with all the images. It was due to the installation of EZ Thumbnails. I can't say exactly what it was that was causing the problem but as soon as the mod was removed all the images miraculously appeared.



Just have to sort out the other issues now.

I added the code to the css re: bookmark and kept changing the margins however it hasn't made any difference and I didn't see any changes at all. Is it likely the code would need altering elsewhere?

I've also tried to change the main wrapper to 900px as suggested and this worked fine however the side boxes didn't move with it. Exactly which areas do I need to change. I also changed the image size prior to doing this.

I'm learning a hell of alot as I go along (having no coding knowledge at all) and alot of it is by trial and error. I don't know how I would have got on without this forum though.

Appreciate your help and valuable feedback.

Thanks

[dbltoe]

No worries Mate. Glad you got some of it working.

As with the thumbnails, you will need to do two things together to get the side boxes to move. First, the 900 px setting and then resize the image to around 500 in width. I also note that the "You Choose Gifts" image is 998 in width.

On the stylesheet entry, make sure it is at the end of your stylesheet in the ycg/css directory.

You also need to take a look at your site's validation. You have some violations that are going to give you grief until they're fixed.

Another reason that some of your images may not be showing too well is that Linux doesn't play well with JPGs starting with a capitol letter.

[pegog]

I have now changed the images to the sizes you suggested however are still unsure exactly what I need to change in the css.

I know I need to change the width of the main wrapper but is this all I need to change?

With regards to the paypal image. Is there anyway of changing the size or do I have to leave it that way? I've taken the code from the paypal website. Or should I just make the side boxs a little wider say 160px?

I've also changed all of the &'s to read as & so hopefully this will correct the majority of the errors. I'm not too sure about the other errors because they seem to be code that was already there.

What does inserting implicit <marquee> mean?

It's a pity you can't just change the page source. I'm not too bad at understanding the page source but aren't too sure where I need to go when it comes to changing the errors.

If you could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated and thanks for all your help so far.

[dbltoe]

Your giftsblue.gif is still 650x275. 450x190 would work better.

I wouldn't Chang the main wrapper size as everything will fit nicely once the giftsblue.gif is resized.

Around line 196 of your stylesheet, change the line "background-repeat: repeat-x;" to read "background-repeat: no-repeat;".

I wouldn't keep the favorites box but, if you do want to keep it, add the following to the end of your stylesheet:
#boomarksidebox {
Margin-left: -0.5em;
}


The marquee errors are connected to the mod you're using in the "Featured [more]" sidebox. You really need to test things like that in all browsers to make sure it doesn't go bonkers.

The first significant error that the Validator talks about is connected with the greeting class. Use the Developers tool kit in the admin to search for class="greeting" to find the right file to get rid of the lonesome </a> that shows up on line 166 of the source.

Then, in the define_main_page, where you entered the giftsblue.gif image, there's a lone <br <a/ <p><code></code></p> that should either come out or be changed to <br />. You may need to click on the <> in the editor to see the code.

Those should keep you busy for a while. Meanwhile, I think I need to have a meat pie.

[pegog]

I've now resized the gifts image to 450 x 190 and have changed the main wrapper from 70% to 900px? It looks so much better.

Glad you answered the background query. That was the reason I made the image so big in the first place. I couldn't figure out how to stop the image repeating.

The bookmark side box still shows the same regardless of whether or not the additional code is in the css. Maybe I will look at removing it.

With the marquee errors, does this mean that it currently has a problem or it could potentially have a problem in other browsers?

I've searched the two documents concerned re: glass="greeting" and the only two files it concerns is the tpl_index_categories.php and tpl_index_default.php Believe it or not there isn't a </a> anywhere to be seen in either documents.

I've also sorted out the define main pages.

Thank you sooooo much!

I don't suppose I could be cheeky and ask you to have a quick look at one other area.

The attributes look awful for Summer Gifts Box. I need to have all the images aligned some how.

Hope you enjoyed your pie and thanks for your help.

Thanks