Need help with a template

[wout000]

Please, can a template designer put me in the right direction as to edit this template to get it to work with the latest version of zencart.

As to what I've heard, it' isn't much work but I just don't know what to change, i need some expert help.

[Merlinpa1969]

Please dont ask people in here to help you fix and use a DEMO template,
this template is not for use on a live site,
it is ONLY for testing purposes

[wout000]

Who says it isn't a demoshop ...

I'm trying to view the template in it's whole to get inspiration of the design and to start coding a template myself.

I want to use it as an example, as the basic template just won't do.

[kuroi]

Sadly the folks at Template Monster have been too lazy to put together a demo that works with the current version of Zen Cart. This demo template is well known to us. Somebody comes and asks if anyone can get it working every week or two. Sadly, there's not a quick way. However, if you're only looking for inspiration, you can see it running here. However, bear in mind that it has an out-of-date template structure, an out-of-date tables-based architecture, is broken if you run it in Firefox and has a mammoth 358 validation errors.

[wout000]

Thank you for your informative reply.

Could you guys point me to a tutorial on how to create a template? As the wiki really sucks in giving info.

I wanted to use this template as a basis to edit the php files, etc...

[kobra]

Could you guys point me to a tutorial on how to create a template? As the wiki really sucks in giving info.
I wanted to use this template as a basis to edit the php files, etc...

Normally, for a template creation, the php files do not require editing. This is most all in the stylesheet.css file.

You can use the tools in the admin> tools > developers tool kit to find most any text string that you want to change like the "Congratulations" message...

Place this text (or any other that you want to change) in the last box on the left, select all catalog files and search...It will find the string, let you know file name, the path to the file and the line that contains the string. You can then open a COPY of the file make your edits and place it in your template override folder.

In the downloads section there are several templates that you can obtain that are 1.3.x compatible for your purposes.