ZX Slideshow support thread

[jagall]

thanks for replying, so really I should have any page specific js files in different folder. The hit counter is on the dashboard, just a quick indicator of website traffic each day, but since installing the slideshow, the hit counter has gone through the roof sorta speak.

Yes you so right about the css folder (tut tut i know) I probably should merge the ones I use into the main stylesheet? been a bit nervous of messing things up.
BTW on a slightly different note, I really like the layout of your loveboxboutique dot com website, have been trying to get something similar working around the slideshow using banners but the banners not behaving correctly or I am not really getting it, if you have any tips that would be great thanks

[balihr]

thanks for replying, so really I should have any page specific js files in different folder.

Well, something like that... You should get familiar with Zen Cart's override system and js/css files load system. For example, if you want a js file to load only on your shopping cart page, you'll add that js file in includes/modules/pages/shopping_cart/ folder. If you want to load a specific stylesheet only on shopping cart page, you'll add a stylesheet in your includes/templates/your_template/css/ folder and name it shopping_cart.css etc etc etc. It's a long story, quite well explained in the Tutorials and Wiki.

The hit counter is on the dashboard, just a quick indicator of website traffic each day, but since installing the slideshow, the hit counter has gone through the roof sorta speak.

Honestly, I haven't noticed any major changes with that hit counter (nor it should have any effect). Perhaps you're getting actual traffic

Yes you so right about the css folder (tut tut i know) I probably should merge the ones I use into the main stylesheet? been a bit nervous of messing things up.
BTW on a slightly different note, I really like the layout of your loveboxboutique dot com website, have been trying to get something similar working around the slideshow using banners but the banners not behaving correctly or I am not really getting it, if you have any tips that would be great thanks

Merge and remove those that are not in use, definitely.
LBB layout - it's all about placing your divs and using other banner positions. For example, LBB has two banner positions next to the slideshow and two banner positions under the entire upper section. Something like this:

<div banners>
    <div upper>
    	<div slideshow>
        <div side top>
        <div side bottom>
    <div lower>
    	<div left>
        <div right>

Play with the positions and you'll get it right.

[jagall]

hi balihr

Big Big Big thank you for the tips, I have been messing around and followed the divs you sent and has worked great, so have been able to totally reform my homepage, maybe have a look here to see what you think. Sometimes the slideshow is slow to load. Noticed on the another site in this thread they have the navigation buttons, in the mod it says shows navigation numbering but when I select true, nothing shows up below slider.
Still need to clean up files, etc to try and speed it up so as good practice even if a css file is only one specific page, I should merge it into the main stylesheet? Thanks again for all your help.

[balihr]

Navigation buttons: please try playing with the css. Buttons are set to absolute position at bottom: -40px and if you change it to 0 it will show as a part of the slider... I'm not sure if it was something I missed or it's got to do with your customization and don't have the time to go hunting for errors right now... Sorry.

The layout on sweetco - it's probably work in progress. I suggest using images in a way that you have them lined up, to form some kind of a grid. Something like this.

BTW, Firebug is giving me a lot of undefined errors, you might wanna look into that...

[jagall]

worked a treat once set to 0, thanks. Yes I was still trying to align the elements, know what you mean though - cheers for looking at it for me. in relation to the errors, when I run validator they don't seem to appear. but what I have notices since installing the slideshow is that when I for e.g. check who's online in the admin panel and I see my own ip it shows that I am on an undefined page as opposed to the index.php page, so I just wondering there must be some relation between these errors and the installation of the slideshow, see image here:

[balihr]

I'm sorry, but I don't know what happened. I don't think it's related to ZX Slideshow since I don't see why or how it could be caused by it. Maybe you've missed something when merging the files, I really can't tell. You might try to restore the old tpl_index_default.php and/or tpl_index_categories.php (before installing ZXS) and see if the problem continues.

[jagall]

thanks balihr, I tested the tpl.index.php file and removed
<!-- begin edit for ZX Slideshow -->
<?php if(ZX_SLIDESHOW_STATUS == true) { ?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('zx_slideshow.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/zx_slideshow.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>
<!-- end edit for ZX Slideshow -->
and it was fine again once I put it back in, it brings up undefined? what do you think?