Remove Side Panels - NOT Sideboxes

[bigbadboy]

Maybe I'm not getting what you mean but the sideboxes sit inside the side panels.
Remove the panels and you remove the boxes.

[stevesh]

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, either, but try changing the width part of #mainWrapper in your stylesheet to 100%.

[butchx5]

Thank you everyone for your prompt replies

I am sure the answer I am looking for is amongst your ideas - only problem I cannot check as I seem to have 'killed' my site (again)

When I visit my site it now appears as a blank page!?? It was working fine then I adjusted one word in the english.php (I wanted to change the headings into uppercase) I am sure all I did was change Categories to CATEGORIES - the site went blank so I went back to english.php and changed it back to Categories but the site is still blank!!

WHAT HAVE I DONE

I keep making these faux pas but I hope I am learning about Zen Cart as I blunder about.

[charmedbytina2]

check your english.php and make sure you have the ' before and after CATEGORIES that you changed.

otherwise upload the orig english.php and this should fix it for you.

Tina

[fairestcape]

The software is configured to display the sideboxes INSIDE the left or right columns. Without the side-columns, no sideboxes.

You will have to customise the template code to re-structure the layout system for sideboxes and while it's probably possible, it could be a major project.

If you are looking for a "seamless" design, where the side columns are not "obvious" (ie: defined by a border or colour scheme) then you can make edits to the css to hide or re-configure these elements so that there is no clear distiction between the centre column and its two associated side panels.

You can - through clever use of categories tabs (cats in the header) and the ez-pages header and footer menues - globally disable left and right columns and yet retain important links in the site.

[butchx5]

Hi again

Thanks all - as suggested I reloaded the english.php file - and my site is back - couldn't see what was wrong with the corrected word.

Tried several ideas you suggested and I removed the side panels by setting the #mainwrapper to 100% - THANKS

Now I just need to adjust eh size of the middle section! These tweaks are never ending.

[stevesh]

You can't change the size of the center column directly - only by changing the width of the right and left columns in Admin - Configuration - Layout Settings