Need Some Help!

[afo]

Hi Peter,

First, welcome to Zen Cart.

If you don't already have these tools, I suggest you get them.

1) a good text editor like Notepad++ or Crimson Editor
2) an FTP client like Filezilla

All are free downloads from the net.

Here's what I would do in your situation.

I would connect to the site with the FTP client and download all the Zen Cart files and folders to my local computer. Why? It gives me a backup of the site and allows me to edit files easily which I can then upload to the site to make the changes permanent. If anything happens to the host, I still have a current copy of the store. (backing up the database is another matter, but that can come later)

Once you do that, you'll be able to see the folder/file structure Zen Cart uses and people's suggestions about where to find and edit things will be clearer.

You can use a different background image by adding it to the appropriate places in the stylesheet. I've done that on the Fan Odyssey site in my sig.

[rhg74]

Hi Afo,

Check out my site now, its coming together.

I took all your advise, got Firefox and the Web Developer tool, they really helped. This forum is a great database of knowledge. Thanks so much. I've done a lot of reading here and set up my store the way I want it in the last week. I live in Canada and with the help in this forum I was able to set all our taxes. This is actually fun. I still need to do some tweeks to the site, but i'm happy with it now.

There are a couple of things I need help with.

On the main page, the Who's Online box the wording is to big can I make it smaller to fit in the box?

Also at the bottom of the page the 2 lines Copyright and Powered By the links at the end are black and hard to read, when I went to change the font color, it changed, but also changed the font color throughout the site so I changed it back. Can I just change the 5 words?

Thanks again for your help and time

Peter