Abbington Mega Template [Support Thread]

[picaflor-azul]

Hello Anne - no doubt you have seen the dialogue regarding my request to solve an issue of using Editable Home Page Centerboxes with Tabbed Home Page Modules which you have incorporated in this terrific template.

Just to give you an update - I will wait till you make the modification as per this comment to GAM in Tabbed Home Page Modules support thread on 10th August

I look forward to that update when it is done so that I can have my sites get the maximum benefit of your impressive template.

kind regards,
Mike

I don't understand why you would wait. The edit was posted on that thread, and you would still have to merge the files in the 2 modules together to use both in the template.

Thanks,

Anne

[dgantonacci]

Folks... I have searched through the thread and, while it may be in here, I don't find a way to modify where the "Email Us" link in the Footer points to. No notes in the Installation file except for the Phone Number.

Any help appreciated.

[picaflor-azul]

Folks... I have searched through the thread and, while it may be in here, I don't find a way to modify where the "Email Us" link in the Footer points to. No notes in the Installation file except for the Phone Number.

Any help appreciated.

You can edit the includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/abbington_mega/footer_menu_defines.php file.

Thanks,

Anne

[dgantonacci]

Also, another silly question...

How do you change the font style in the Header to get rid of the all lower case font under the Logo?

[picaflor-azul]

Also, another silly question...

How do you change the font style in the Header to get rid of the all lower case font under the Logo?

Remove the text-transform:lowercase; from the #tagline in the stylesheet.css file.

Thanks,

Anne

[dgantonacci]

Anne... thanks so much.

David

[dgantonacci]

You can edit the includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/abbington_mega/footer_menu_defines.php file.

Thanks,

Anne

Anne...
That file only seems to address Columns 2-4. The Email us link is in Column 1 under the Phone Number. It does not seem to be in that file.

If you look at my site: www.obesupply.com, you will see that if you click on the Email Us link in the left side of the footer, it takes you to:
http://localhost/red/index.php?main_page=contact_us, not to: http://www.obesupply.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us, which would be more desirable.

[picaflor-azul]

Anne...
That file only seems to address Columns 2-4. The Email us link is in Column 1 under the Phone Number. It does not seem to be in that file.

If you look at my site: www.obesupply.com, you will see that if you click on the Email Us link in the left side of the footer, it takes you to:
http://localhost/red/index.php?main_page=contact_us, not to: http://www.obesupply.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us, which would be more desirable.

I am sorry about that! This bug was addresses a while back in the thread and I do have it on a list for a future update. You can edit the includes/templates/abbington_mega/common/tpl_footer_menu.php file.

Thanks,

Anne

[dgantonacci]

Thank you.

[shags38]

Hello Anne,

subsequent to your response I have merged the files and ended up with a blank front page so have reverted to my default position, ( no tabs and editable home page centerbox). I find myself in a position whereby I am getting advice from 2 quarters and frankly it is confusing, and the advice lacks the 'bouncing ball' type that you put so well in your template instructions (great job as I have commented on before). I have been advised to 'merge files' and/or 'merge folders' and referenced two modules.

Here is what I have done on my latest attempt; merged includes/templates/abbington_mega/templates/tpl_index_default.php from Abbington Mega template with file of same name from Editable Home Page Centerboxes plugin and, merged includes/templates/abbington_mega/templates/tpl_index_categories.php from Editable Home Page Centerboxes plugin with the file of same name written by GAM as posted in the Tabbed Home Page Modules thread. This resulted in the blank page.

I am obviously missing something but the problem is I am not getting a tutorial, I am getting broad suggestions. I know Diva thinks the whole thing is beyond me however I have done similar things before with 'bouncing ball' advice - I am not unintelligent but what I am not is a coder. What I was hopeful of was something like;
1. merge (file name) from (template or some module) with file of same name from Editable Home Page centerboxes (version)
2. merge (file name) from (template or some module) with file of same name from Editable Home Page centerboxes (version)
etc etc, which is what is in the installation instructions for the EHPCB (except it lacks the where from, just merge these files), which I have done.
Somewhere between A and Z I have missed something but I cannot find the right signposts.

I was not at first but I am now confident I have merged the files correctly - do it as often as I have over the past few days and you get to become competent at it.

That is why I will wait Anne - maybe someone reading this thread (aside from Diva), or the other threads, will merge the appropriate files and post the files somewhere.

The frustrating thing Anne is that this is not rocket science, but for people like you and Diva and others it is fairly simple or at least not overly difficult as you do this sort of thing regularly so are very competent. People like me do this, or attempt to do something like this very rarely and only generally when it is a problem so I find it very challenging - after nearly 3 years of using ZC and 10 sites I have achieved much, learned a lot, but this is my biggest challenge yet, and frankly it should not be.

Personally I think the whole thing got sidetracked when Diva responded first to my original query and you effectively became a bystander.

cheers,
Mike