Apple Zen Support Thread

[mr smith]

Hello Jade et al!

First, thanks for a great template. It helped me in a pinch. And I've seen many interesting modifications of it. Popular contribution! /butter

After getting a site (re)launched, I've run into a problem and after an hour here and with Google I'm not sure I am even on the right path to a solution to my trouble. Oh, "What is it?", you ask.



Well, my trouble is that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 ( IE6 & IE7 ) lose track of the drop menu as the mouse travels south into the header, breadcrumb and main content. IOW, the submenu choices get "z-indexed" behind some other content even though the only z-indexing in my CSS is for the dropmenu. So, I surmise that z-index is not the trouble/answer as I've learned in the last hour that IE6 and IE7 are a nuisance to begin with such a menu.

Now, you may not have an inkling as to what the trouble is as I have moved the drop menu to the top of the page. So, whatever question(s) I have to answer, I'll provide the info be it what zen or apple zen files I've hacked and post any necessary code.

Sure hope you or anybody else can point me in a fruitful direction.

Thank you!

P.S. Now that I've finally jumped into the deep end I hope to continue learning more so that I can answer somebody's questions one of these days.

[mr smith]

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[misticloudz]

Hi again...

so the redirect works now, but for some reason it's looking for the .csshover file on my local directory from when I tested the site on my offline server, on both sites (with or without the www.) How would i go about changing this? I'm sure it's probably something easy, as always!

thanks again.
Tiff

[nataliajoe]

Hi

I am currently using apple zen template for v1.3.7, and thinking to upgrade my zencart to v1.3.8a. Please bear with my ignorance as I have never done an upgrade before this. I noticed that there are many differences on the files under this folder includes/templates/template_default/...

My question is, do i have to compare that file from v1.3.8a with those in apple zen package files of similar filenames?

eg. includes/templates/apple_zen/common/tpl_main_page.php and
includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php

do i have to compare these two files and merge the differences? i found out that the difference is just too many for me to handle..

any guidance or advice?

thanks a lot!!!

natalia

[jettrue]

Hi

I am currently using apple zen template for v1.3.7, and thinking to upgrade my zencart to v1.3.8a. Please bear with my ignorance as I have never done an upgrade before this. I noticed that there are many differences on the files under this folder includes/templates/template_default/...

My question is, do i have to compare that file from v1.3.8a with those in apple zen package files of similar filenames?

eg. includes/templates/apple_zen/common/tpl_main_page.php and
includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php

do i have to compare these two files and merge the differences? i found out that the difference is just too many for me to handle..

any guidance or advice?

thanks a lot!!!

natalia

This template will work in 1.3.8, however, there are some changes that need to be made. I'll probably update the template in the download section this weekend... its way overdue.

[jettrue]

Hello,

first I love that template ! Thanks allot.

But I have one problem when I´m going normally to my site url or click on home the sideboxes are normal shown on the site. But when I click on a products page the sideboxes are going under the product and not left or right of it.

I hope you can help me.

Can I have a link to the site please?

If the sideboxes are breaking up like that, it means that you either have an extra </div> somewhere, or you are missing a </div> somewhere.

[jettrue]

Hi again...

so the redirect works now, but for some reason it's looking for the .csshover file on my local directory from when I tested the site on my offline server, on both sites (with or without the www.) How would i go about changing this? I'm sure it's probably something easy, as always!

thanks again.
Tiff

It is doing that, because that is what you told it to do.

In includes/templates/apple_zen/css/stylesheet_header_menu.css you have this:

body {  
	behavior:  url(file:///C|/wamp/www/Copy%20of%20tiffstrinketsoffline/includes/templates/apple_zen/css/includes/csshover.htc);
	}

change it to this:

body {  
	behavior: url(includes/csshover.htc);
	}

And make sure you put csshover.htc Here:

/includes/csshover.htc

NOT here:
/includes/templates/apple_zen/css/includes/csshover.htc

[jettrue]

Hello Jade et al!

First, thanks for a great template. It helped me in a pinch. And I've seen many interesting modifications of it. Popular contribution! /butter

After getting a site (re)launched, I've run into a problem and after an hour here and with Google I'm not sure I am even on the right path to a solution to my trouble. Oh, "What is it?", you ask.

Well, my trouble is that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 ( IE6 & IE7 ) lose track of the drop menu as the mouse travels south into the header, breadcrumb and main content. IOW, the submenu choices get "z-indexed" behind some other content even though the only z-indexing in my CSS is for the dropmenu. So, I surmise that z-index is not the trouble/answer as I've learned in the last hour that IE6 and IE7 are a nuisance to begin with such a menu.

Now, you may not have an inkling as to what the trouble is as I have moved the drop menu to the top of the page. So, whatever question(s) I have to answer, I'll provide the info be it what zen or apple zen files I've hacked and post any necessary code.

Sure hope you or anybody else can point me in a fruitful direction.

Thank you!

P.S. Now that I've finally jumped into the deep end I hope to continue learning more so that I can answer somebody's questions one of these days.

Hmm... interesting. I wonder, does the issue still occur if the drop down menu color is not WHITE when it drops down? I'm wondering if it is a white on white issue with IE, and somehow its making the menu transparent, so it "looks" like its an indexing issue, when really its a color issue? Anyhoo, try another color and let me know.

Also, I'll be posting an apple zen update, with many changes to stylesheet_header_menu.css (if you want to get the changes now, you can get the stylesheet_header_menu.css code from my test site (www.zencart137.jadetrue.com), which addresses many IE menu issues.

[misticloudz]

It is doing that, because that is what you told it to do.

i knew it ws something stupidly simple like that... i think i was looking in the stylesheet.css instead of in the header menu stylesheet or something like that....
but yay, it's fixed! thank you so much. the page loads perfectly now.

[mygalaxy]

I can't seem to find the proper file to have additional links in the footer besides 'home.' I'd like to add the same links as the top (products, info, etc.). I tried searching the Developers Tool Kit, but still not sure if I can find it in Admin or need to implement the links manually.

Also, the breadcrumbs on my 'contact us' page shows "Home>Contact Us>Contact Us>Contact Us." Not sure how to fix that either. Thanks again!