Somebody Please Help Me!!!!

[mzdee]

Please, I need help in where to go to find the file to change the heading, rename my pages and change my template. I have been through all the tutorials and I think I am over reading. My shop is up and running and my hits are coming in fast. But without the necessary changes, people are not placing orders. Please, Help Me!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you in advance
Mzdee

[afo]

First, go into the admin and take your site down for maintenance. If you have a dedicated IP, you can leave the site open for yourself to see (everyone else will see a notice that the site is down for maintenance).

To get a free predesigned template, visit http://(sorry, site offline)/. You can see what all of them will look like just by selecting them from the menu. Once you download one (they're available from the downloads section of this site), you can install it on your site and modify it to your liking.

This list is a bit outdated, but to create a very basic custom template (you can build from there), you need:

• includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php
• includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/index.php
• includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/meta_tags.php
• includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/header.php (to change the logo)
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/template_info.php
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_header.php
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_footer.php
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/images/logo.gif
• includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/css/stylesheet.css

Anywhere you see a /classic/ folder, you can create a folder for your custom template. You can copy the necessary files from either the /classic/ folder, the /template_default/ folder or the parent folder.

Edit includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/template_info.php to give your template identifying information so you'll recognize it in the admin under tools->template selection.

[mzdee]

Thank you for your assistance. I took my site down for maintenance. I am going to attempt to change the template. I will let you know if I had success.
Doris

[afo]

Glad to help. Did you check out the free templates? They'll give you an idea of what's involved.