Need help customizing template

[Swingin' Sparrow]

Hi fellow zeners.
I m kinda new at this, so sorry for my lack of knowledge.
I'm trying to build a webstore for my shop. I decided to use the Avignon template cos I like the wood theme on it.
Now here's one problem I have, I replaced the header wood picture by my own, and it contains my logo and the name of my shop already, so, my question is, is there a way to not have the store name, your tag line here and store address display on top of that picture? I've already searched the tutorials and wiki, and on the forum the only thing I found about that was a suggestion to just blank the name of the shop and its address in the Configuration/ my store section of the admin page of Zen Cart. Now when that would probably fix the problem temporarily, I don't want to have blanks for these info when they'd be needed on other pages or documents, like invoices etc. Is there something somewhere that can be edited to tell the template to not display these in the header?
Any help would be much appreciated, like I said I'm new to this and I make really small steps in my progress.
Thanks

[stevesh]

Any time you ask questions about template options or layout, it's pretty much necessary that you provide a link to the site.

[Swingin' Sparrow]

Hi,
thanks for your reply,
My site is not online yet, as I'm still trying to set everything up, but my question concerns the Avignon template, which is the base I'm using to make my custom template. I thought my question was clear enough and didn't require someone to see the actual site, I'm quite confused now, sorry for that.
What can I do to get help then? Let me know
Thanks

[stevesh]

Problem is, in order to see what you're seeing, we would have to download and install that template, as most of us don't use it.

This is the main reason why I don't recommend installing Zencart locally. Some here disagree.

Looking at that template at (sorry, site offline), it looks like the author has coded the store name and address into the header, and the script text is in the class 'headerTitle'.

If you want to remove those things, the easiest way would be to edit tpl_header.php and remove everything between <!--bof-branding display--> and <!--bof-header ezpage links-->

[Swingin' Sparrow]

Hi Stevesh,
Yeah I apologize for the trouble, I understand it's quite tricky for people who can't see the template. I can try to delete these things, then see how it works. I have located the part of the code to edit. I will post back if this works the way I want.
What do you mean by "don't recommend installing Zencart locally". I have installed my zencart on a server hosted, and I'm doing it all by myself cos I can't afford to pay someone to do it, so of course sometimes I'm bound to get stuck, so I rely on people to help me, so I thank you for your time and help, I hope I'm not being annoying too much with my lack of knowledge. :)
Thanks a lot

[Swingin' Sparrow]

Ok,
I removed the part of the code as suggested. uploaded the whole template, but when I launch the online catalog, I only have the background, nothing else is showing. Damn, it seems everytime I try to fix something I go backwards, no progress at all
I'm gonna see if I can put the site online so that I can show what it is I'm doing...

[Swingin' Sparrow]

Ok,
I think you can see my webstore right here. I wasn't sure it was online but I guess it is, right?
http://shop.fastnloud.com/zencart/

[gjh42]

Your HTML source has

<!--bof-branding display-->
<div id="logoWrapper">
<address style="float:right; text-align:right; margin: 105px 40px 1px 1px; font-weight:bold;">Fast'n'Loud<br />
Swingin' and Rockin' Shop Deluxe<br />
Kalevankatu 40<br />
00180 Helsinki<br />
Finland<br />
+358440350668<br />
[email protected]</address>
<div class="headerTitle"><h1 class="shadow">Fast'n'Loud</h1><h1>Fast'n'Loud</h1></div>
    
    <div id="taglineWrapper">
      <div id="tagline">TagLine Here</div>


</div>
<br class="clearBoth" />
<!--bof-header ezpage links-->

You need to remove everything in your tpl_header.php file between <!--bof-branding display--> and <!--bof-header ezpage links--> (this will include a bunch of PHP code that doesn't show here), leaving this section of the file looking like

<!--bof-branding display-->

<!--bof-header ezpage links-->

[Swingin' Sparrow]

Hi gjh42,
Thanks for helping.
Well that's what I did earlier but then once uploaded all I had was the background, that's why I reverted to the previous untouched settings and everything came back...
I don't understand, this is driving me crazy :)

[gjh42]

all I had was the background

Which background? The header bg image, the page background, ???
Do you mean that nothing except this background is showing at all? If you do it again and look at "view source", what does the HTML source look like compared to a normal page display? If shorter than normal, what is the last thing in the HTML source?