Image Titles Support Thread

[barleywine]

[QUOTE=gjh42;552620
The new products mess up only on the home page, and work fine on others, so I doubt it is directly caused by the mod. If you don't need to use image titles for the new products centerbox, you can delete /includes/modules/aubizenred/new_products.php without affecting anything else. (You might try changing it temporarily to /includes/modules/aubizenred/new_products.bak to see if the problem still exists with the default copy of the file.)[/QUOTE]

Thanks Glenn!
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/images/smilies/clap.gif
I did rename the file and immediately got back my navigation and sideboxes on the home page. I'm still a bit (ok, a lot) confused about what I might've done to other files to mess this up, but I'll keep looking at it.

Now I have another question:
Does this mod allow me to use an image for the top level in the horizontal menu bar? How should I name the images for that?

Thanks again!

[gjh42]

The categories-tabs menu is not covered by this mod. If anything, an extension of the Categories Dressing code would be the thing to handle that.

If you are comfortable poking at PHP, you should be able to transfer the category image substitution code from tpl_categories.php. I'm afraid I don't have the time right now to work on it.

[busyMom]

Hi Glenn,
I just spent a little while changing all of my sidebox titles over to using this mod. Even though I had about 5 or 6 of them successfully coded the manual way, I decided to adopt this more generic approach to give me more flexibility and to make upgrading easier in the future. I hope that someone can convince the ZC folks to make this code part of the base code someday since it just allows for the images but doesn't require them!

Anyway, on to my question. I do have at least one sidebox title that I would like to be a link, but I'd prefer to have a hover image option so that it changes slightly to indicate that it's a link. Can you think of a clever way of accomodating this? I know the mouse cursor changes and I might have to settle for that, but I thought I'd throw out the question. I am using sliding door images in quite a few places elsewhere in my website, but they are all background images. This technique is a foreground image, so I don't think I can use that technique. Any suggestions or thoughts?

I suppose I could make it a background image with blank text for just this one sidebox image. I could probably come up with a way to do it in the css, but your solution is so much prettier!
Thanks, Karen (a fellow upstater for most of my life!)

[00Goat]

Hello forum.. new user here.

So I've muddled my way through customizing my template (front page at least) and I'm down to two items. I've got Image Titles installed, and it works great, but I can't for the life of me figure out a filename for the "New Products" centerbox. I've tried "boxhead-whatsnew" and several variations. Does this mod not effect that box?

If it does not, that leads into my other question. I'd like to do the same thing to the NavCatTabs. I saw the comment somewhere that the closest bet was some extension of the "Categories Dressing" mod. I looked into it, but I'd like just a normal categories list, and special styling just for navcattabs. Any input on this?

This forum has been quite informative, many thanks in advance for any answers you might have.

[busyMom]

Hello forum.. new user here.

So I've muddled my way through customizing my template (front page at least) and I'm down to two items. I've got Image Titles installed, and it works great, but I can't for the life of me figure out a filename for the "New Products" centerbox. I've tried "boxhead-whatsnew" and several variations. Does this mod not effect that box?

If it does not, that leads into my other question. I'd like to do the same thing to the NavCatTabs. I saw the comment somewhere that the closest bet was some extension of the "Categories Dressing" mod. I looked into it, but I'd like just a normal categories list, and special styling just for navcattabs. Any input on this?

This forum has been quite informative, many thanks in advance for any answers you might have.

While I was hunting around for my own solutions today, I came across a tip from Glenn that will benefit you too. In your browser, use the View Source option (in FireFox it's called View Page Source) in the View dropdown. Look through the generated html until you find the box you're looking for and find the id='xxx' term where 'xxx' gives you the filename addon you're looking for.

HTH Karen

[00Goat]

That's exactly what I did to get "whatsnew" as a filename to try, but it didn't work. I tried a couple variations of it, and a couple other names suggested by the surrounding code, but nothing would load an image.

[gjh42]

Some things such as filenames and CSS tags are case sensitive. If you don't capitalize exactly as the original, it won't be identified as a match.

Try "boxhead-whatsNew" and see what happens.