how do I change which css is called on a page?

[gjh42]

Any file that you have edited needs to be saved in a /your_template/ folder (with a few exceptions where template overrides are not possible).

Zen Cart does all the stylesheet management using various criteria. Simply naming a file index_home.css and saving it in your template's /css/ folder will cause it to be called in the head for your home page, after the base stylesheet.css.

[ScottDB]

Thanks for clearing that up for me. That is the way I thought I had read about the adding of the css but wanted to make sure. Very different from what I was am to.

When I first started editing this script for someone else I thought this script has been made harder and more limited to what you can do than I have ever seen. The more I work with it I see that it is actually built to be very easy. Just got to get used to it. Learning a lot about css using this script.

One more question about putting the edited files into the custom template folder though. So say for the header.php file. When I place it into the custom folder I should probably make a folder called English and place it in it so that I am keeping the same folder structure?

[ScottDB]

man that 7 min for editing needs to be extended to 12 or 15 for us newbies
Just read the tutorial again and read the related articles in the bottom. I see now. I add the changes to the languages/english/header.php by adding my custom folder to the languages folder and placing the edited header.php there. I just need to place the changed files in there correct? Or do I need to copy the entire folder over to the custom folder and make the changes to the custom folder files?

[DrByte]

Just the files you change.

[ScottDB]

Thanks, And wow, this site is getting easier to use and understand the more I try and make my own template.

One last question about making my own template. I know I got off the original subject but was wondering if I should go through everywhere I see a clasic folder if I should be putting a custom folder with it so that in the future any edits will be saved.

[gjh42]

You don't have to have /custom/ folders everywhere there is a /classic/ folder, but it can't hurt and may make future work easier. Do not copy any files unless you are changing them, though, or you will make upgrading more complicated with unnecessary files to check.

[ScottDB]

Ok. I understand now but since I am creating this site for someone else and have no idea what they will do with it in the future I was thinking I might want to do that.

I noticed that like in the includes/languages/english/html_includes folder that if I don't put a custom folder in there and place the define_contact_us.php in it the info is shown on the page but does not get backed up. Do all the other places where there is a classic folder operate this way? Kind of thinking it does but just want to make sure. If so I think it would be a good idea since I have no way of telling what the person will do with the site once it is finished.