Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

[jettrue]

Hello,

I am very new to zen cart and the apple zen template has simply been awesome. It made it easier to attempt setting up my website.

I would like all the attributes to appear on a single line. At the moment the best I could do was get a maximum of 4 attributes per row. Here is an example of the product page.

My second question - is there any way that I can get the second (_01) and third images (_02) to appear at the right of the main image rather than at the bottom of the page?

Thanks for any help you can provide

First of all, you've got to fix your logo, in Firefox it is GINORMOUS. Change the logo section to this:

#logo {
	width:48em; /* To prevent the logo from resizing, simply delete or comment out this section */
	}
	
#logo img {
	width:100%;
	}

to get more attribute images per row, go to "Catalog", "option name manager", choose "edit" for the option, then put the attribute images per row there. I don't know that more than 5 would fit though.

To move the additional images up, open up includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php and move the additional images chunk of code up to below the main image chunk of code. There will probably be some css changes needed, but first of all you have to move the chunk.

[CandyCherub]

Thanks so much for your response. I did not realise that the logo was being resized as the image I uploaded was 11kb. I have commented the logo resing out and that has solved the large size and teh logo look smuch better.

Thanks for your help.

I have tried setting the option array to 5 but that doesn't seem to work. I will move the sectons on the product display page as suggested.

[chachab]

I love this temp.. but how do i change the BlUE background? I have an actual image (wallpaper) i want to use....
can you tell me where to go?

[timstoel]

Hi paigesjewelry,

You would probably really benefit from getting the Zen Cart book. It will explain to you in easy to understand terms.

I used the Cherry Zen template and made it into this:
www.newoldsounds.com

I have been working with the template for about 6 months now and spent a lot of time getting it to look this way. If you want to retain full control over the way stuff looks and behaves, Zen Cart is far superior to GoDaddy, not to mention a lot cheaper. With GoDaddy, a lot of stuff is "locked in" so to speak, whereas Zen Cart has addons that can completely change or add functionality specific to your needs. Plus, the community is very supportive.

A lot of the formatting happens here:
includes\templates\cherry_zen\common\tpl_header.php

and in:
includes\templates\cherry_zen\css\stylesheet.css

The learning curve gets compounded when working with a 3rd party template. It is somewhat more challenging to work with a template because there is a little less documentation, but as you see from my site, it is very configurable. If you're the kind of person that wants to really control the look and feel of everything, Zen Cart is great software. I admit it was frustrating to get it looking good. You may consider hiring a Zen Cart expert, there are many companies who specialize in it.

Hope this helps,
Tim

[cshart]

http://www.livandrosiescookies.com/store/

Why is the table to the left in IE6 and to the right in Firefox. I want it centered.

Please advise what I am doing wrong.

C

[bekinky]

I am trying to get the footer navigation to look the same as the one in the header. I have identified the footer navigation is NavSupp and NavSuppWrapper and I cloned the header css styles then renamed them to match. I then added the <span> into the footer link within footer.php

This all seems to work fine except for two things.

1) The footer background image is 100% width across the page and does not have the margin like in the header navigation, so it looks odd. How can I get the footer navigation bar to look the same as the header so it has the margin around it and fits within the main layout?

2) The top of the footer navigation bar has a gap between the end of the white space and the navigation bar. How do I remove this so the footer naviation bar fits tight against the white bottom of the main page.

I hope that is not too cryptic and you understand what I mean.

Thanks

Paul

[PastGenToys]

Question about the header... I would like to layer my header so that my logo is placed on the right while having a backriound image that fills the entire header are including the area behind the logo. One that would not be affected by the resize of the site based on screen dimensions.

In other words I want an image (logo) on top of an image (background) that makes up the header. Thanks! Josh

[PastGenToys]

Another question... in the header can I place a table that holds different images that when clicked the customer would go to different pages in the site. The images would also have roll over effects.

[bekinky]

Another question... in the header can I place a table that holds different images that when clicked the customer would go to different pages in the site. The images would also have roll over effects.

Why not use the built in banners function for this - I think it is header position2 located in includes/templates/common/tpl_header.php

Unfortunately it will not give you rollover effects unless you find some way to style it using css, but it will give you the clickable link to different parts of your site and a way to track how well it is doing

[jettrue]

Another question... in the header can I place a table that holds different images that when clicked the customer would go to different pages in the site. The images would also have roll over effects.

You could do this, open up includes/templates/cherry_zen/common/tpl_header.php, and insert the code wherever you'd like it, with new css. Of course, this would require some knowledge of HTML, and unfortunately I don't have ready made instructions for doing this, you'd have to dig in yourself with help from the general forum, or hire someone to help you out with it. Good luck!