Need Help With Page Title Problem

[LaurelsJewelryArt]

Hi, I'm a newbie and would first like to say that, once I FOUND it, I have used the information in this forum and found this much easier than I first thought it would be. For others out there, to point you in the right direction from my experience, first go to the FAQs and read/learn how the template system works, and then go to the "things every new zenner needs to know". Most everything I needed I found in those two places, and except for this one thing I believe I am done customizing and am ready to start loading up my inventory and going live.

Now for my problem - I wanted to change the wording in my browser title bar. I followed the directions how to do this, but I have the strangest thing showing in the title bar now, it says:

TITLETERTIARY_SECTIONSITE_TAGLINE - Windows Internet Explorer

instead of what it's supposed to - my code reads like this right now:

// page title
define('TITLE', 'WIRE SCULPTURE JEWELRY ART');
// Site Tagline
define('SITE_TAGLINE', 'Designer Jewelry Handmade By Laurel!');

and finally, once the above is fixed, the next line after these,

// Custom Keywords
define('CUSTOM_KEYWORDS', 'ecommerce, open source, shop, online shopping');

is the ONLY place where I need to put my custom keywords for SEO?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Laurel

(www.LaurelsJewelryArt.com/zencart is location of shopping cart)

[kobra]

Your posted code looks good but what you state is being displayed looks to be another mis-edit elsewhere.

[LaurelsJewelryArt]

Wow, I wasted a whole day waiting on this too! I could have sworn I tried this already, but after deleting the file, reloading the original and making the change it worked this time. Don't know what happened but it's fixed now, thanks.

Well, again it's so fantastic to be able to get such prompt, knowledgeable help. Thank you so much for your time and help. I've really fallen in love with ZenCart!

Laurel

[LaurelsJewelryArt]

By the way, I noticed quite a few "reads" to this, so I wanted to make sure anyone looking for help knows the file we were dealing with - it's in includes/languages/english and it's meta_tags.php. This (I'm pretty sure but will verify) is also where you enter all your meta tags keywords, just make sure you don't delete the quotes when you delete the default terms.

And as always, NEVER rewrite a program file but follow the template system by making a new template folder (Zenners use CUSTOM as the name of your default template) in the languages/english (or whatever language) path and place the altered file there, that way any changes you make to ZenCart does not get overwritten when you upgrade the program in the future.

I think I'm about done with all the customization and/or replacing the default wording with my own, and this is the only other place I've put altered files other than my main includes/templates/CUSTOM folder. The files I've altered in this includes/languages/english/CUSTOM folder are "english.php", "index.php" and "meta_tags.php". I think all other files that were altered are all in my custom template directory. By the way I used one of the free templates available in the downloads section (I chose "Lavender" because of the "Better Categories" module), and everything went very well, and I'm not a techie at all.

I just wanted to give a little of my own "newbie" experience since this forum has been such a huge help to me, and I love ZenCart!!

Good Luck!

Laurel

[JansenD]

Thanks just what I was looking for

[ikeswholesale]

Had the same problem just recently. I would first recommend to download and use TEXTPAD. It's free. Upload your meta_tags.php file to your computer and open with TEXTPAD. I would assume you'll see everything on one line. If so, you can install zen cart into another source on your website, example: www.yoursite.com/shop and upload the meta_tags.php file from there and edit it with the said software above. Then download to your main zen cart page and it should fix the problem.

The other way would be to delete and reinstall zen cart in your main location and use the software to edit it. Worked perfectly for me and I hope it does the same for you.

[afo]

Notepad++ and Crimson Editor are both excellent for editing php files and won't insert unwanted characters or spaces like some other editors (like Word). Both are free downloads from the net.