Changing Color of Item Name in View Cart

[bacbladerunner]

Using 1.3.7
The site is not live yet.

My site has white text on black background. Therefore, when viewing the cart, the Item Name is white text displayed on a white background and cannot be seen until moused over (if two items are in the cart, the next bar is light blue and can barely be read).

How can I make the Item Name be in black text so it can be seen?

Thanks, -Doug

[gjh42]

Using 1.3.7
The site is not live yet.

If you are building a new site, why are you using such an old version of Zen Cart? You are guaranteed to get hacked the moment a hacker finds your site. You should be working with v1.3.9h, the latest and most secure.

[bacbladerunner]

I was having a site built by HIT web design which you may have heard just went belly up. They installed this version about 6 months ago. I know nothing about Zen. I guess I will take your advice and look into upgrading, although I really have no time to learn any of this while I run a business. I probably should just find a web person that knows Zen very well. I have lots of small issues that I cannot find answers to.

In any case, do you know how to resolve my issue above?

[gjh42]

V1.3.7 is about 3 years old, and no professional developer should ever have installed it when a much newer and better version was available (v1.3.9f/g/h at that time).
Depending on how many mods you have installed, it may not be a big job to upgrade. Doing it yourself will take much longer (probably a day all told for your first time) than it would for a pro, but it is valuable to have some knowledge of your site's architecture even if you won't be spending a lot of time coding changes to it. There are tutorials on upgrading, and every new version's file package has documents detailing the process.

.cartProductDisplay {} or .cartProductDisplay a {} control the product name in the shopping cart page.

[bacbladerunner]

Thanks, 42, for your help. I am ordering the 390 page Zen manual today. I have seen lots of posts about modifying files like the ones you directed me towards. Question - Where do I find these files? All I am familiar with is opening up the Admin panel. These other files must be on my hosting company's server. Is that correct? How do I access them?

Thanks again for helping a newbie.

As a side note, I have done computer programming years ago, but now I run a machine shop full time that I own and I just don't have time to figure all this stuff out. But as you correctly state, I should learn a little.

Thanks again.

[gjh42]

If you have any programming experience, picking up the basics of PHP and HTML shouldn't be hard. I first learned programming (Fortran 4) 35 years ago, and didn't use it for 30 years aside from writing macros for a CAD program. You can get good quick info at www.w3schools.com .

All of the files including admin are on your host's server. You access them by FTP to download, edit and reupload.

[bacbladerunner]

I learned Fortran in college in 1977. Also learned Basic, and then bought and used PowerBasic (a compiled version) for years to do little helpful things. I will look into the site you suggested, and learn about FTP. I know it is an account of some kind to up/down load files, but that's all I know. I will contact my hosting company to set it up.

Thanks for all the help.

[gjh42]

An FTP client is a utility program you use to transfer files from your computer to/from a remote computer. Filezilla is a good free one you can get from Sourceforge. There are lots of different ones, some good and some not so good.

You need an FTP account on your server - your host can set it up or tell you how to do it.

[bacbladerunner]

Thanks for all the help, 42!