couple of minor things before going LIVE!

[greatbaits1]

HI all

First of all, without the help of others on this forum I wouldnt have gotten anywhere, so THANKS to everyone who contributed.

I have a couple of minor changes I would like to make before going live:

1) A comment from a 'test' user said that the TEXT SIZE under each product catagory is a bit small and needs enlarging slightly i.e when you click on a catagory from the sidebox you will get a number if images with text underneath, its this text that needs to be a bit bigger

(i have looked through the Stylesheet for this setting but cannot find anything that relates to it)

2) When a customer is actually buying a product (i think it starts at the checkout process) some of the text headings are BLUE. I would like to make them green but again cannot find anything relating to this in the stylesheet

Your help is appreciated as always!

Thanks

www.greatbaits.co.uk

[kuroi]

1) I'm not entirely sure whether this is the text you mean, but the words under the category images look a bit small, but can be adjusted via

#categoryIcon {font-size:150%}

2) Went to your site, created a test account went into checkout, but couldn't see the problem .

[greatbaits1]

1) I'm not entirely sure whether this is the text you mean, but the words under the category images look a bit small, but can be adjusted via
2) Went to your site, created a test account went into checkout, but couldn't see the problem .

thanks kuroi

so when you went to enter your details (name, add, etc etc) the text at the top of the input box WASNT blue?

[kuroi]

Ahh. The headings are green in Firefox, which is what I used, but blue in Internet Explorer. Interesting. I'll take a closer look.

[kuroi]

Oh bugger. It's quite boring really.

The text that's causing you grief is enclosed within <legend> tags. There's two bits of CSS styling in you stylesheet relating to these, but neither sets their colour. As a result browsers default to whatever they want. In IE's case that appears to be blue (no I don't know why either) whereas Firefox more sensibly applies inheritance rules and so uses the default color that you have set higher up the hierarchy.

To solve this simply find

LEGEND {

font-weight: bold;
padding: 0.3em;

}

and add

color: #006633;

[greatbaits1]

kuroi, you are a star!!

thanks so much

p.s. I did try to change the size of the text using the #catagoryIcon code you supplied but no good - it didnt work


(if you goto www.greatbaits.co.uk and click on CARP FISHING, it will then display some catagories starting with ACCESSORIES (its actually the TEXT UNDERNEATH the image saying Accessories)

I only want to change it a little bigger!

Thanks in advance!

[kuroi]

I did try to change the size of the text using the #catagoryIcon code you supplied but no good - it didnt work

Leave it in anyway, it fixes a different small text problem that you have, and for the one you have just described ...

.categoryListBoxContents {font-size:150%}

It's probably worth sharing how I do this. I simply open do File > View Source and then do CTRL-F to search for the piece of text that is the wrong size. Once I've found it, I move back a little to find the ID or class of the div tag that contains it. Happy hunting.

[greatbaits1]

thanks again kuroi!!

Done that, it works fine. The only thing is that it now makes the rest of the site slightly inconsistent.

What I mean to say is the text is bigger on that page and looks great, but when you click into the checkout, it then reduces back to that small size again. I need to acutally increase ALL the small text through out the whole site.

If this is going to cause me a nightmare, then I will just advertise some specs on my site to help people read it ha ha ha

thanks for all your help

[greatbaits1]

especially the area on the home page, at the top of the page, where it says HOME and LOG IN

can I also make these a little bigger?

[kuroi]

especially the area on the home page, at the top of the page, where it says HOME and LOG IN

can I also make these a little bigger?

Of course you can. But this would seem to be an appropriate moment to remind you of the well kinown and rather homely "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime". My last post taught you how to fish, and they don't come much easier than this one, since the text you are asking about is the first to appear on the page. So I'll leave that one to you as an exercise.

Instead, let's look at text sizes overall. The text that looks small on your site is scattered all over the place. You therefore have two choices, either imcrease text iszes overall on the site and then track down and reduce those that look too large. Or keep identifying those that look too small and increase them individually. I'm afraid that there is no easy way to just hit the ones you want.