Product Listing Layout Help

[nolsowski]

On my product listing page I have this huge gap between the top of the page to where it says Displaying 1 of 8 products. I noticed that when I add more sideboxes the products move farther down.

Is there a way to fix this? If not is there a way I can have the sideboxes turned off only on this page?

My test site is http://frompropertorocker.com/fptr_t...ex&cPath=1_2_3

Thanks!

[schoolboy]

Your "easybiz" template seems to have hacked away at how the columns are structured. You will need to get in touch with the person who built this template and ask them how/why they altered the way the columns are ordered.

[nolsowski]

Your "easybiz" template seems to have hacked away at how the columns are structured. You will need to get in touch with the person who built this template and ask them how/why they altered the way the columns are ordered.

Thanks! I am starting to think maybe I should find a different template lol. This one is so hard to get it the way I want it.

[nolsowski]

I just found the guy who made the template and he hasn't been on since Nov 2010. I think I will give up on this template and find a new one.

Thanks for the help!

[schoolboy]

Most "commercially available" templates are designed to LOOK BEAUTIFUL on the site that is selling them - so that innocent and gullible people fall in love with them and instantly buy them.

It's only AFTER they have been bought, and installed, that people realise they have acquired a bucket-load of problems that are extremely difficult to "edit" and which alter core behaviour so much that they are a nightmare to work with.

An incredible amount can be done with just a "clone" of the classic template, and the sensible installation of many free add-ons that are built to be easily accommodated in the core behaviour and general functional schema of zencart.

[nolsowski]

Most "commercially available" templates are designed to LOOK BEAUTIFUL on the site that is selling them - so that innocent and gullible people fall in love with them and instantly buy them.

It's only AFTER they have been bought, and installed, that people realise they have acquired a bucket-load of problems that are extremely difficult to "edit" and which alter core behaviour so much that they are a nightmare to work with.

An incredible amount can be done with just a "clone" of the classic template, and the sensible installation of many free add-ons that are built to be easily accommodated in the core behaviour and general functional schema of zencart.

Thankfully I didn't buy this template. It looked like it was a premium but then they made it free.

Well it looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me lol.

[schoolboy]

WHile a "good looking" site tells your visitors (potential customers) a lot about your professionalism and attention to detail, remember that it is EFFICIENCY and FUNCTIONALITY that will impress them. If your product are WELL-DESCRIBED, with GOOD IMAGES that show necessary detail, and it's easy to CHECKOUT and PAY, then people will shop with you anyway.

Over time, you can "polish" your site as your skills-set improves, and surprise and delight your customers with a design that ADDS to their experience at your webshop.

But I always say to people... START SELLING !!!

Get a reasonable design up there, and get on with running your business. Get the cash coming in...

I have a client who (back in late 2005) wanted a site very urgently, so we just cloned the CLASSIC template, shoved in a couple of different background images, and took the site live.

Now, it's 2011, and her site looks exactly the way it did back in 2005 - and she does a LOT of business! She focuses on good SEO principles, good prices, traditional marketing methods, and sells products people want.

[nolsowski]

WHile a "good looking" site tells your visitors (potential customers) a lot about your professionalism and attention to detail, remember that it is EFFICIENCY and FUNCTIONALITY that will impress them. If your product are WELL-DESCRIBED, with GOOD IMAGES that show necessary detail, and it's easy to CHECKOUT and PAY, then people will shop with you anyway.

Over time, you can "polish" your site as your skills-set improves, and surprise and delight your customers with a design that ADDS to their experience at your webshop.

But I always say to people... START SELLING !!!

Get a reasonable design up there, and get on with running your business. Get the cash coming in...

I have a client who (back in late 2005) wanted a site very urgently, so we just cloned the CLASSIC template, shoved in a couple of different background images, and took the site live.

Now, it's 2011, and her site looks exactly the way it did back in 2005 - and she does a LOT of business! She focuses on good SEO principles, good prices, traditional marketing methods, and sells products people want.

That's so true! I do have an actual site up but I don't like the layout so I thought I would try to make the test site the way I wanted it and then upload it to the live one.

The only reason I chose this template was because of the slideshow on the front and then next to it the 3 boxes where I can put my own images in. If I can figure out how to duplicate what they did and how it's laid out then I will be super happy and won't use this darn template lol.

[schoolboy]

If I can figure out how to duplicate what they did and how it's laid out then I will be super happy
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That's usually not too difficult.

Load the page where the slideshow plays, then look at the PAGE SOURCE (the html).

It will probably show a call to some jscript, some CSS, and if you look at the DIV in which the images are contained, they will have a style ID.

Then, look for the place where that jscript has been stored - probably in that template's jscript folder. There may also be a reference in includes/modules/pages/index/header.php (or there may be a jscript file in that location).

Anyway... just DUPLICATE everything that loads the slideshow, into YOUR NEW TEMPLATE, and it will work.

[nolsowski]

That's usually not too difficult.

Load the page where the slideshow plays, then look at the PAGE SOURCE (the html).

It will probably show a call to some jscript, some CSS, and if you look at the DIV in which the images are contained, they will have a style ID.

Then, look for the place where that jscript has been stored - probably in that template's jscript folder. There may also be a reference in includes/modules/pages/index/header.php (or there may be a jscript file in that location).

Anyway... just DUPLICATE everything that loads the slideshow, into YOUR NEW TEMPLATE, and it will work.

Great thanks!