Changing colours

[kittykiss]

Hello all,

I have had the zencart shopping software installed over the weekend via a hosting site, you pay for the hosting and they install zencart... I am such a pathetic old soul and could not do this myself.

I have managed to follow instructions to upload my hosting account to my ftp client by following this route...
Public_HTML / shop / includes / templates / classic / css

When I go into the css bit to edit the background colour for instance, it's a big page of allsorts just crammed together, is this normal, it's so very hard to read - have I done something wrong? I'm finding it difficult to loate the back ground colour code.

I would so appreciate any help offered but please speak slowly.

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kittykiss

[kuroi]

Hello all,

I have had the zencart shopping software installed over the weekend via a hosting site, you pay for the hosting and they install zencart... I am such a pathetic old soul and could not do this myself.

I have managed to follow instructions to upload my hosting account to my ftp client by following this route...
Public_HTML / shop / includes / templates / classic / css

When I go into the css bit to edit the background colour for instance, it's a big page of allsorts just crammed together, is this normal, it's so very hard to read - have I done something wrong? I'm finding it difficult to loate the back ground colour code.

I would so appreciate any help offered but please speak slowly.

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kittykiss

If you post a link to your site, we will be able to see if the stylesheet has been garbled or whether it's just the big scary list of styles that look horrible to all of us when we first see one.

Depending upon how your Zen Cart was installed, you will probably be defaulting to the Classic template in which case the very first block of styles in stylesheet_original.css are these

BODY {
background-color: #e5edf5;
color: #000000;
margin: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding: 0px;
font: 11px Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}

with background color the first.

If you're using a template_default-based template then the first block set of styling is

body {
margin: 0;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 62.5%;
color: #000000;
background-color: #e5edf5;
}

and this time it's at the end of the block.

If you are using the Classic template then I recommend that you stop and change immediately. It's intended primarily for backward compatibility with earlier versions of Zen Cart. I recommend replacing it with the Future Zen template which engages template_default which is the way forward and much easier for new users. You can download it from the downloads section of this site, or by clicking on the link in my signature below.

[kittykiss]

Hi

Well I managed to change some colouring myself and my host uploaded my logo for me although that needs changing since it does have too much height I think but so far so good.

Here's my new shop to be... http://www.kittykiss-korner.co.uk

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kittykiss