Problem with Breadcrumb link and borders

[BigSash]

Hey guys, I've been reading A LOT and loving all the great support the community provides. I did a complete overhaul on a website for a family friend and it was my first encounter with Zen Cart. It's been like doing a puzzle to learn all the nuances of customizing the store front. There are 2 minor issues with the site I am trying to resolve and I hope someone can help me out.

You can view my Zen Cart set up at http://www.shainsware.com/site/

So in my BreadCrumb Nav area I am trying to use a background that is the same color as the general links and then use the general background color as the text color to provide some nice contrast. This works great for the last BreadCrumb link in the list, the page you are actively viewing. That seems to be the only text affected by my CSS on #navbreadcrumb. Pasting now:

#navBreadCrumb {
font-variant: small-caps;
font-size: 14px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
background: #3F4B00;
}

The other links in the breadcrumb chain revert to the general sites A:Link CSS so they aren't showing up. Anyone know how I would control just those links?


The other minor issue I am having is with the border-bottom in the NavHeader table cell and the border-top in the footer table cell, for some reason they aren't stretching all the way across the table.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[BigSash]

Well i was able to get it but only by adding a class "testing" in the following code within tpl_main_page.php: <div id="navBreadCrumb" class="testing"><?php echo $breadcrumb->trail(BREAD_CRUMBS_SEPARATOR); ?></div>
<?php } ?>

Then obviously, I made the .testing class have white links.

Is there a better way to do this?

Still need help with the borders. Thanks

[stevesh]

Whatever works is good. Some of your product item names in the product listing (see Necklaces) are showing white, too, though, but I don't think it could be the breadcrumb thing you did or they would all look that way.

Try turning off the right column in Admin - Configuration - Layout Settings - Column Right Status - Global

Also check your category headers in the index page when a product info page is showing - a lot of them say 'All Products'. There are threads here about that.

Very nice job on the site.

[stevesh]

I also meant to add that you need to get some override folders and a custom template set up. Otherwise, when you upgrade to the upcoming version 1.4, your 'classic' folders will be overwritten and you'll lose all your changes.

[BigSash]

Thanks a lot for the response and taking the time to look at the site. I got the link problem fixed after a lot of trial and error. I would fix them and then some other links would disappear! Eventually I got it all sorted out - whew.

Ok thanks for the advice about setting up a custom template. I had seen some info on that and tried to do it once but ran into a few issues.

Can I simply just copy the classic folder, open the info.php and change the template title? I assume I would need to change the URL addresses for the images and such in the template. Am I good to go after that? Or is there more to it?

Appreciate your assistance!

[stevesh]

Nope, just add a folder wherever you see a 'classic' folder and copy the files in that 'classic' folder to your custom folder and edit the template_info file - Zencart will do the rest. You'll need to copy any images you've added to the 'classic' template to your new CUSTOM/images folder.

Remember to select the new template in admin, and then reset the Layout Boxes.

[BigSash]

Hey Steve, thanks again. I got it all squared away. Moved the template to its own folder.

Never mind the PM.