Remove text from border/header

[maxy007]

Hi there,
I've got text under my Featured products heading. I asked for help in another part of the forum but I think I got confused and am starting again.

I want to remove the text as search engines will think I'm spamming.

Using latest version of Zen-cart with a heavily modified version of the surf shop template.

Website is www.lovetovape.com.au

I had installed the Ultimate SEO mod and I lost my whole site. I'm just getting it back again!!!

Cheers,

Maxy

[kuroi]

Google loves text. Unless it finds the exact same text somewhere else and concludes that you're trying to up your rating by plagerising, this is what gets good rankings.

But if you want to remove it, just reverse the process that you followed to put it in. Most likely you edited the define_main_page.php file eitehr directly or through your admin's define page editor (on the tools menu), but only you can know this.

[maxy007]

Hi kuroi,
It was like that when I installed the template. I am a total Zen noob so didn't think much about it until I noticed the featured products box looked like it had mice bites out of the bottom of it. I highlighted it and found that the text was there.

So I am no closer to knowing how to get rid of it. It's not showing up on the main page define.

Cheers,

Maxy

[kuroi]

Ah. OK. I'd misunderstood what text you meant. My bad.

Unfortunately I can't get a link ton your site at the moment to look more closely. Is it down?

[maxy007]

Mate!!
If the friggin thing isn't down it's broken
I'm moving to a new hosting service next week. That can't come soon enough let me tell you!!!

I just tried and yep it's down!!! Grrr

I'll post again when it's up.

[maxy007]

ok it's up now

[kuroi]

Yep. Looks like a slow (or overloaded) server.

The original problem is caused by using a text replacement technique (i.e. the text is intended to be replaced by an image), where the image has been added, but the original text hasn't been taken away.

A quick way to deal with this would be to add the following to your styling for #featuredProducts .centerBoxHeading (line 198 of your stylesheet)

text-indent: -9999px

This simply shoots the text that you don't want to be visible to the left by 9999px, which is way outside any browser window that you site is likely to encounter.

[maxy007]

Hi kuroi,
Thanks for replying.
Are you talking about the stylesheet.css file in my templates folder?

I don't have anything like that in there??

it's in the stylesheet headings.css file :)

[maxy007]

Hmmm that didn't work.
This is what I ended up with (see screenshot)

This is how it looks in my stylesheet_headings.css file at line 198

#featuredProducts .centerBoxHeading {
background:#fff;
color:fffff;
background-image: url(../images/featuredcenterhead.gif);
text-indent: -9999px
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
padding-top: 49px;
}

[kuroi]

It needs to a semi-colon, ";", at the end of the line to finish it and avoid invalidating the lines that follow.