Can this be my ZenCart home page?

[Vood]

Sorry to be such a pest y'all. I am really struggling with what I'm trying to do because I'm super new to php. I'm pretty ok with HTML and below average with CSS. Anywho, I want my ZenCart 'Home' page to be just like this

http://www.thelotetree.com.

This is the website that I started to design and then realized that I was in way over my head with doing my own shopping cart. I can't afford to have someone do it for me....so. I'm sure you've heard the sob story before.

It's ok if the ZenCart footer stays there, but I want the menu bar at the top, no boxes on the side except for maybe a fly-out product category list or something for just category/product navigation.

I want all the rest of my ZenCart pages to look like this too, with the exception of turning on some of the boxes on the left side for links and shopping cart info and such. The body of all of the other pages is great.

I think I can use the EZ pages for adding the "About Us" and other special pages. So the Home page is my main problem.

To sum...

1.) I would like to have the image map on the home page body.
2.) I would like some type of drop-down menu at the top of all pages.
3.) I would like to replace the sideboxes, only on the home page, with a flyout menu or something for product category selection.

I hope that this is not too much stuff for one post. Go ahead and chew me out if you want. I can take it! I really need to get this shop online before my wife kills me!!

Thanks mucho!
Voos

[kobra]

Have a look at the includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php file

There are several conditions outlined in the initial comments that you can mix match or alter to change the home page look and have other things on subsequent pages. You can view and possibly use some of the things for css per page that are outlined in css_read_me.txt file.

[Vood]

In that file, it says to create a directory as follows...

template/my_template/privacy/ and to put the tpl_main_page.php file there

My CUSTOM directories are named "wallet".

I'm confused. When I set up my overides, I created a directory templates/wallet/templates/ and have been storing my edited templates there.

Should I store the file in templates/wallet/templates/index/

or store it in templates/my_templates/index 'where my_templates is a new directory that I should create directly under 'templates'? Thanks.

Vood

[gjh42]

"my_template" or "your_template" or any similar name is intended as a placeholder for whatever you have named your custom template directory.

So you would put this as

/includes/templates/wallet/privacy/tpl_main_page.php.

[Vood]

Ok awsome! I think I'm really messed up on something else.

When I uncomment the following in tpl_main_page.php....

* $flag_disable_left = true;<br />

Everything but my background goes away. What have I done now!!!

Vood

[gjh42]

That one is in the middle of a comment block. You need to end the comments before that line and restart them ( comment */ live code /* comment ), or else copy the code into the live PHP area below the comments:

$flag_disable_left = true;