Problems customizing Red Passion template

[Dionysian]

Hi. Thanks in advance for anyone who can offer some insight for me here.

I'm running v1.3.7, with the new Red Passion template. The URL is http://www.360blades.com. I'm stuck on my attempts to do two things:

1) I want to remove the categories and background link that appear in gray above the Red Passion logo. I'd actually like to remove everything altogether and make the logo begin at the very top of the page.

2) My custom logo will not be as high. I have tried to change the overall height of the logo wrapper with very ugly results. How can I do this?


Thanks again!

Nathan

[Dionysian]

trying to bump this up...

[bbrian017]

they know your here bro, imagine how extremly busy these people are.... Do you just want the categories gone from the top of the page?? the ones in the gray text

[afo]

Those links are controlled in your stylesheet:

#navCatTabsWrapper {
    margin-left: 20px;
	margin-right: 20px;
	width: 802px;
	background-image: none;
	height: 20px;
	position: absolute;
	top: 12px;
}

The logo size is controlled in includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/header.php

[Dionysian]

Thanks! I didn't mean to come off as impatient. I just know how threads can get buried sometimes. :) I appreciate the information.

[afo]

Yeah, things can fall through the cracks. Sometimes if a post doesn't get an answer, the best thing to do is explain the problem/situation further if you can. Sometimes a request is a little too vague. Not saying your's was, just saying it's a better approach than posting "bump" or something like that.

[Dionysian]

Well, I managed to screw it up. :)

I tried changing the height of the navCattabs wrapper to 0, that didn't work, so I changed everything except the width and r/l margins to 0, that made a difference but didn't remove the links. So then I removed the wrapper definition altogether, and it just showed up below the logo instead of over it.

I then removed all references to the navCattabs wrapper, and it went away but the categories showed up in list format in the left column below the logo.

Also, I changed the logo height in header.php (I just copied the default and created /includes/languages/english/red_passion/head.php because the template doesn't come with one), but the size of the main wrapper is still the same. I was then able to shorten the mainwrapper by changing the stylesheet, but when I did so, it misaligned everything.

I'm totally lost when it comes to CSS and php. *sigh* I think I'm gonna have to pay for a designer.

[nick04263]

just take your time and work your way through the learning curve. This site is an excellent reference. Or possibly get the Zencart manual.

Anyway, to turn off those links:

Ajeh says,

If you are looking at the Category Links at the top of the page ... then you need to disable the Category Tabs ...

Configuration ... Layout Settings ...

Categories-Tabs Menu ON/OFF
Categories-Tabs
This enables the display of your store's categories as a menu across the top of your header. There are many potential creative uses for this.
0= Hide Categories Tabs
1= Show Categories Tabs

Just so you know, in the red passion template, the top banner (header_bg.jpg) includes the grey area behind those tabs. You would need to edit the picture itself in a graphic editor to remove the grey area and then reupload the picture to www/images/

[Dionysian]

Thanks for pointing me to that setting. I re-uploaded the original header.php and stylesheet.css after butchering things last night, but I do have the category tabs off now thanks to your advice.

I am still having a bit of trouble changing the height of the logo wrapper. I changed the value from 282 to 235 in red_passion/css/stylesheet.css. (This is the height of header_bg.jpg after I cropped the top portion.)

The logo wrapper shortened as I wanted, but the text ("Home Login") in the navbar under the logo became misaligned. I then changed the height to 222 just to see what would happen, and the entire page became misaligned.

I checked header.php, there is only one reference to the logo and the height is set to 64px, so I don't think that's interfering with it.

Any ideas? Thanks again for the help.

[Dionysian]

Just a note, I went ahead and bought a Monster Template (I know, it won't work correctly, I'm having someone recode it for 1.3.7 using all div)...so my question is a moot point now. But thanks again for the tip on turning the nav category tabs off...that was driving me crazy.