Quote Originally Posted by Nick_Sonick View Post
Thanks again.

Is there some kind of guide that tells you which of these tpl files changes what? And which file to you think I should change first? (ie, which file changes the appearance of the main page layout wise?)

Does the stylesheet only change colours and fonts?

I basically want to replicate the look and functionality of:

http://demo.avactis.com/1.6.0/flowers/

(minus the flowers :) ) But with Zen Cart. would this be hard to do? I just like how clear and well organised everything is.

One more thing, can you have the functionality of a zen sidebox, not in a sidebox? For example, on the link above, the shopping cart is in a table below the header. Could I draw a table and put the code from the sidebox shopping cart file into the table?

Thanks so much!
There's nothing that explains that, but I don't think there really needs to be. The filenames themselves are pretty self-explanatory. The one's that you would start with are in the common folder and called tpl_header.php and tpl_footer.php. The tpl_main_page.php file (which deals with everything in between, wouldn't need changing for that design.

Apart from possibly amending the order in which some elements are drawn in the header, the main change that I can see would be add the shopping cart in header mod and most everything else would be done through Admin switches, language files for text and the stylesheet (quite a lot of stylesheet work) and no, it does way more than just control colors and fonts.

Have to say I was shocked that avactis would use a modern approach to templating, but then ruin it by having it produce oodles of nested tables. Theirs is certainly not a ring into which I (or most other self-respecting web designers nowadays) would throw my hat.