Customizing classic green bits

[gjh42]

Damiana - in many cases there is a class or id given in the php file which is not defined in the stylesheet. In this case, just write a definition following the style of appropriate others, and it will be applied.

Techwizard - Filezilla from Sourceforge is a well-recommended free FTP client.
For your second question, it would be much easier to answer if you post a URL so we can actually see what is happening.

[damiana]

Hello
Thanks, but I don't understand what you mean, I'm a beginner at this and virtually everything is going my head.
I've been altering the css sheet via the file manager on my server control panel.
I used filezilla to upload the zen cart in the first place but I can't work out how you do anything else on it.
Can you advise me what to do in really simple language :) ?

[damiana]

Sorry I wrote the last post late at night.
Could you advise me what to add or change to alter the colour of the green parts on the classic template? Or where I can get this information. I've read all the instructions in the faqs etc and browsed this forum but as a complete beginner I'm afraid I don't understand them.
Thanks

[wolf99]

The first few posts in this thread should help you with this. but be carefull and make sure you don't miss anything out or something like that, it worked fine for me in the end but only after a few false starts were I accidently deleted " marks etc.

I recommend that if your not then you should use override system if your not already, I resisted bothering myself when I started and looking back things would've been that little bit simpler if I had off.
simply copy all the current files of a directory into a new one at the same level called /your_template/ or whatever you like, then make the alterations to those files instead of the original ones.
Some changes don't seem to happen without using overrides and some just ave unexpected results.
It also means you've a set of the original to fall back on if need be and makes updating easier.

[TShooters]

Good advice, wolf99.

damiana,

If customizing your_template from the 1.3.6 ver Classic,
look for instances of tile_back.gif in your stylesheet.
There are four instances of it in the stylesheet.
You would either alter the color of the .gif, replace it with your own 11x30px .gif
(named the same) or remove the reference to background-image from the stylesheet and just use a background-color.

Example:

.leftBoxHeading, .centerBoxHeading, .rightBoxHeading {
margin: 0em;
background-color: #abbbd3;
background-image: url(../images/tile_back.gif);
padding: 0.5em 0.2em;
}

.leftBoxContainer, .rightBoxContainer {
margin: 0em;
border: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
border-bottom: 5px solid #336633; (this is the green footer on the sideboxes)
margin-top: 1.5em;
}

[damiana]

Hello
Thanks so much for your help! I removed the lines about the background image and now I can change the colour :)