This is the establishment of a support page for add-on/modification Responsive Color Changes for 155.

The add-on/modification is the result of tweaking six of the existing stylesheets and changing the stylesheet_colors.css to make changing colors far easier.

Background:
  • Consolidation of colors for version 1.5.5 may have gone a little too far as it did the final consolidation by color rather than area or wrapper. While the consolidation is NOT incorrect, it does cause some difficulties when changing colors. For example, a color change for the header will also affect a sidebox heading and a particular hover. A lot of stylesheet changing is needed to separate out the backgrounds from the fonts and the hovers. This add-on/modification provides a solution for that and more.
  • We added rgba color styling to add opacity to the colors. This softens contrast and provides for some nice effects in modern browsers while still providing basic colors for the older browsers.
  • When the stylesheets were revamped, we found several instances of call repetition and overuse. Some resulted in a few pages not working well on some mobile devices. Those adjustments are included in these files.


Support:
  • This thread is meant to provide support as it pertains to specific methods used to adapt colors to Zen Cart.
  • It is NOT intended to be used to teach CSS and stylesheets. Google "CSS3 for beginners" for some great tutorials. W3C is good.
  • It is NOT intended to be a discussion base for "this looks better than yours" discussions. The beauty of open source is that you can change what you want to when you want to without having to ask permission.
  • We hope it IS used to help your site become a better representation of your business.


Kudos:
  • Thanks to rbarbour for bringing support for responsive templates to Zen Cart.
  • Thanks to picaflor-azul for all her work leading up to the responsive_classic template used in Zen Cart 1.5.5.
  • Thanks to haredo for sitting in the office with me for four weeks while we worked this out. We both learned a lot!


Additional Info:
  • Until it is published in the Plugins Section, this add-on/modification will be showcased and available for download at our test site.
  • The test site is a standard installation of Zen Cart with the Responsive Color Changes for 155 and also includes the demo items as well.


NOTE: It does not help the forum if an answer is given in a PM. Keep the discussions here in this thread and we will answer in this thread.