Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

[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

[timstoel]

chachab,

The blue background is in:
\includes\templates\cherry_zen\css\stylesheet.css

Look for this line, close to the top:
background:#84A4C1; /* main site background color, blue default */

I changed the number to 555555, which is grey.

And some info on HTML colors, not sure if you need this:
http://www.w3schools.com/Html/html_colors.asp

Hope this helps,
Tim

[paigesjewelry]

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

Your site looks great. Thank you for the advice and additional motivation! I will stick with it!