Layout question

[Ryk]

Do you mean as a background, or as just an image in place of the sideboxes? If the former, you can use the css in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/css/stylesheet.css; if the latter, you'll probably need to turn off all the sideboxes and then edit includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_main_page.php

[Barcelona]

Either way would work! I guess as a background image it would be better

[Barcelona]

So how can I get my template to look like this: http://barcelona.la/Project/bach/



here is the curretn code
<?php
$template_name = 'Classic Template';
$template_version = 'Version 1.0';
$template_author = 'Zen Cart Team (c) 2003';
$template_description = 'This template set is designed to be easily modified using only the style sheet to change colors, fonts, and the store logo. Three images are required; logo.jpg, header_bg.jpg, and tile_back.jpg.';
$template_screenshot = 'scr_template_default.jpg';
?>

[Ryk]

What you're asking goes way beyond the scope of a forum response, but first of all, you need to set up your own template/override directory sturcture (see tutorials/faq)

For the CSS, your BODY tag needs a background image of http://barcelona.la/Project/bach/bg.jpg (which incidentally, you can crop to half the width and it will still repeat correctly)

Your #navMainWrapper could have http://barcelona.la/Project/bach/header_top.jpg set as a background with no repeat, or you could replace "logo.gif" with that.

Your #navColumnOne needs a background image of http://barcelona.la/Project/bach/daisy.png set to not repeat

You'll then need to set various other backgrounds to transparent, and work on from there.

But before you do anything, you must learn about image optimisation! That page you just showed is almost 450kb which takes 91 seconds to download on 56k dial-up! Your page background alone is 133kb, which when cropped as suggested and properly optimised should be about 7.4KB; your "rope" logo is a massive 127kb - that would be around 10kb.

[Barcelona]

thanks for that fantastic feedback!

[Barcelona]

here is what I've got so far : http://catherinebach.com/shop/