Link back to HTML Site

[orenda]

How do I link back to my HTML site please?

www.orendaflutes.com
www.orendaflutes.com/zencart
Bradd

[kobra]

My recommendation...make Zencart look like the html site and then scrap the html site...You then only have the one site to maintain and content is simpler to alter.

[orenda]

I totally understand what you are saying but I aready have a full HTML site up and working...except for the shopping cart portion...so I just wanted to add a link back or to be able to use my dropdown menu to navigate. I would love to scrap my HTML site but no time right now. Plus I love zencart soooo much that I am going to do 2 more sub-sites with it.
So...is there a way to link back?
Bradd

[kobra]

Depending on where you want it to appear, you can use ezpages to create a link and there are several locations to display it. Or you could recode the href for the logo to link back but this is fairly well hidden and a customer would not know that this was designed to take them back. You could also add or change one of the links in a side box (see the about us module in the downloads section)

[NurseryGuy]

Kobra:

Could you please explain where I would change the href for the logo. I am also trying to link back to my original html site.

Thanks,

NurseryGuy

[orenda]

Hey nurseryguy,
I am not into reprogramming PHP unless I absolutely have to, so this is what I did;

Make a 1x1px pic with the same background as your site background and name it logo.gif - it will become and remove your 'Zencart' logo.

Then make a new pic with a transprent background that is a minimum 750px wide(same as the main box) and exactly as high as yourlogo. Put yourlogo in the center of this new pic. The fill the outer background of this new pic to match your background. Save yourlogo as a header_bg.jpg in compressed JPG format for faster loading.

Upload both new pics to templates/mytemplates/images and it should work. The overides system will automatically pick the new images up. If you are using a different template than the original zencart, then you images foldser will be in there.

If there is more than one image or pieces of the image around yourlogo it means that you have the header_bg.jpg width or hieght too high.

In addition, in your style sheet change find #logowrapper and add
'margin: auto;'
without the quotes to the list.

As for the link back to the main site in the side box, all I did was to go to 'tools/easypages' in Admin and added the link there. Sidebox 'yes' , Footer' 'yes' Sort Order (in the box) '1'. You can move the location of the link around using these boxes. Then point 'External Link' to the page you want the link to return too.

All this looks complicated but it is really very simple!
Hope this helps,
Bradd