Header Problem

[evillure]

My store url is this http://www.sinistercreations.us/catalog/admin/zen-cart/
How do I get the whole backround to be black and for the header image to continue in the whole frame as in not showing the old zen cart logo thing you see on the side?

[gjh42]

The first comment I have for you is that you are starting your style modifications directly in the Classic template. This is a bad idea for two reasons:

All your work will be wiped out the first time you upgrade to a newer version of the software, because Classic is part of the standard package and will be overwritten.

The Classic template was provided for backward compatibility, to make it easier for users to upgrade old carts, and eventually will not work with future versions of Zen Cart. It is harder to modify than the template_default, which is recommended for all users as a base for modifications. (It's also harder for most of us to give advice on.)

You need to make your own template (directions are given in the FAQs and many threads here) and turn it on in Admin, no matter what you use as a base, to save yourself future grief.

For your questions:

Your logo is only 651 pixels wide and will not fill the header by itself.

 <tr><!-- All HEADER_ definitions in the columns below are defined in includes/languages/english.php //-->
            <td valign="middle" height="70px" width="200px">
<a href="http://www.sinistercreations.us/catalog/admin/zen-cart/index.php?main_page=index"><img src="includes/templates/classic/images/logo2.jpg" alt="Is The Sin In You?" title=" Is The Sin In You? " width="651" height="205" /></a></td>

You can either make a wider logo or give the header a black background in the stylesheet. Your stylesheet_original.css:

/*HEADER CSS*/

TABLE.header {
  background-image: url(../images/header_bg.jpg); <-----delete old zc background
  background-repeat: repeat-x; <-----delete
  background-color: #ffffff; <-----change to #000000;

One of the lovely things about Classic is the two stylesheets, which sometimes both define the same elements. In those cases, stylesheet_new will be ignored and stylesheet_original will rule because it is loaded last.

The extra width you are seeing is because of warnings you are not seeing (black on black):

Warning: main(includes/languages/english/html_includes/define_main_page.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sinister/public_html/catalog/admin/zen-cart/includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_index_default.php on line 39

This is a whole other kind of problem which others can advise you on, but once you fix that the extra width will disappear.

[evillure]

is there anyway to change the apperance with out making a new template?

[gjh42]

You *can* continue in Classic and make the changes there - just be aware that it will cause you major headaches down the road....

[evillure]

ok part of the problem that im haveing makeing a new template is that say I want to use future zen (template) I have installed it and everyhting but its not showing up in the admin section under template manger, so that I could change the apperance to my likeing.

[Kim]

Exactly which directory did you upload the new template to?

[evillure]

I uploaded it to / public_html / catalog / admin / zen-cart / includes / templates / (Current Folder) the whole future zen folder and everything is in that directory

[Merlinpa1969]

you need to upload to
/catalog/includes/templates/

not in the admin

[evillure]

its not, its just there are two seperate folders called admin the first one is before you get to the zen cart folder

[evillure]

Ok this is prolly absurdly simple but its 4:00Am here and now I can't log in to the admin area I get this message

Warning: main(includes/configure.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sinister/public_html/catalog/admin/zen-cart/admin/includes/application_top.php on line 74

Warning: main(includes/configure.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sinister/public_html/catalog/admin/zen-cart/admin/includes/application_top.php on line 74

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/configure.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/sinister/public_html/catalog/admin/zen-cart/admin/includes/application_top.php on line 74