Serious design help needed

[Kim]

the stylesheet.

[Nick_Sonick]

That's what I was asking.

I know that I would edit it in the style sheet, but I can't find the correct code in the style sheet to edit.

Which part is it?

[Kim]

Right click on your page, choose view source, find the html for the area you want to change, find the ID or class to change in the stylesheet or get the FireFox Developers Tool bar that will show you all the IDs and Classes on a page.

[Nick_Sonick]

Hi!

A couple of things if anyone can help me.

- I want to edit my 'Search' sidebox so that it doesn't have a header, and doesn't have the link to 'Advanced Search' under the text bar. I also want the text bar to have text written in it as default, but for the text to disappear when a customer clicks on it to enter their search, how can I do this?

- Actualy that's it for now!

Thanks!

[gjh42]

In your stylesheet, add:

#searchHeading { display: none;}

In the appropriate language file, edit the definition of HEADER_SEARCH_DEFAULT_TEXT (I think that's the way it is written) - use the Developers Toolkit in admin > Tools to find the location.
For the other bits I can't help you right now.

[Nick_Sonick]

Thanks for that, it helped great :)

I need to completely remove my Zen Cart and install the latest version, with my new template (the template monster one has broken everything!), but I need to keep my registered customers, products, and order history, can I do this? And how?

Thanks!

[gjh42]

The regular ZC upgrade process will do that. You need to back up your database, and you can import that into the new install and select "upgrade database". Plenty of info in FAQ & elsewhere on that.

[Nick_Sonick]

Thanks again!

I want to add bullet points and larger spaces between the categories listed in the categories sidebox, how can I do that?

Thanks!

[gjh42]

You can control every aspect of that display in your stylesheet.
Add

a.category-top {
display: list-item;
}

to get bullets. This will then force an extra space between categories, which will probably not look just right to you. Something like
margin-bottom: -13px;
will close that up as much as you want, but IE doesn't understand that more advanced CSS usage and will cause an annoying intermittent glitch.
The positive solution is to remove the <br /> built into tpl_categories.php to function with the standard inline item output. The Categories Dressing mod handles this and a bunch of related issues.

[Nick_Sonick]

Thanks! Your help has been so great!

I think I only need one more thing...

I've got the products listed on my homepage in the way of the default template (ie a grid of 9, 3x3) but how do I increase the vertical and horizontal spacing between each product? They're too cramped together. Also, I need to do the same (increase the vertical space between products) on the search results page, how can I do this?

Thanks!