Changing top-level category images on home page only

[niccol]

Well first of all you turn categories of on the home page.

admin - configuration - layout settings

Categories - Always Show on Main Page
Main Page - Opens with Category

Both to 0.

What I think you will have on your main page then is just the header and anything that you put in via the define pages editor.

So, you can put the various boxes in by the define pages editor. Whatever code you have to produce the three images on the other page put into the define pages editor. You are only adding the three images so I don't think the stylesheet is really an issue.

By the way it was pointed out to me in another post that the way to style the main page is to apply all the required styles to the <div> #indexHomeBody. So , it is do-able.

[ktomas]

OK I'll try this out. And yes, you pointed the #indexHomeBody trick out to me in another post, and I've been using it quite successfully since! The problem with this particular instance is that part of the styling is in the <td> tag in the markup and not on the stylesheet. But it sounds like your define pages suggestion is definitely the easiest.

[niccol]

Well, I am not sure I completely understand about the styling in the <td> but one of the things I do almost as a default is add a class to the central <td> for all pages. Then I can style it a bit more effectively.

It's in tpl_main_page.php

It reads:

    <td valign="top">

and I just change it to something like:

    <td class="central_td" valign="top">

so that the rule in the stylesheet will read

.central_td{background-color:red;}

or whatever.....

or more specifically for the home page

#indexHomeBody .central_td{background-color:red;}

[gjh42]

If there is styling embedded in the code, you can override it with !important added to the property value in the stylesheet. But I concur that just putting that layout content and the links in define_main_page.php would be the easiest/best way to go.

That central <td> really ought to have an id by default, but since it doesn't, adding one as niccol suggests is an excellent idea.