Apple Zen Support Thread

[julian.c.lopez03]

I am using godaddy for hosting. I have been building my cart site for about 1 month now. I am down to the last two issues I cannot seem to fix by searching through the forums.

1.) BLUE TEXT IN THE PHOTO BELOW:
I want to change the "*Required Information" text color to blue. I tried inserting: .alert {color: #0000FF;margin-left: 0.5em;} inside the stylesheet and it still did not work. Please help! Any ideas.

2.) GREEN TEXT IN THE PHOTO BELOW
I want to move the Zip Code text box to the left hand side of the screen so it lines up with the other text boxes on the My Account page.

3.) In the drop down menu the background color of the Sub Categories for Cigars is a different color than the categories background color. I want to make all the drop down menu background colors the same. Where is the color code located for the background of the sub categories in the drop down menu.

THANKS EVERYONE

website address is the following:
elcubanocigars.com/shop

[DarkAngel]

I am using godaddy for hosting. I have been building my cart site for about 1 month now. I am down to the last two issues I cannot seem to fix by searching through the forums.

1.) BLUE TEXT IN THE PHOTO BELOW:
I want to change the "*Required Information" text color to blue. I tried inserting: .alert {color: #0000FF;margin-left: 0.5em;} inside the stylesheet and it still did not work. Please help! Any ideas.

2.) GREEN TEXT IN THE PHOTO BELOW
I want to move the Zip Code text box to the left hand side of the screen so it lines up with the other text boxes on the My Account page.

3.) In the drop down menu the background color of the Sub Categories for Cigars is a different color than the categories background color. I want to make all the drop down menu background colors the same. Where is the color code located for the background of the sub categories in the drop down menu.

THANKS EVERYONE

website address is the following:
elcubanocigars.com/shop

love the richness of your store, looks good but alas

i can not see what exactly you want to change color of for you left out the pictures.

but the file you may want to look at is tpl_drop_menu.php in your includes/templates/apple_zen/css/stylesheet.css
remember to work off a duplicate so original is safe.

[SPH]

http://www.prommart.com/index.php?ma...create_account

My Post/Zip Code field also moved to the far right, when I went to one column. Fix?

sph
www.prommart.com

[DarkAngel]

http://www.prommart.com/index.php?ma...create_account

My Post/Zip Code field also moved to the far right, when I went to one column. Fix?

sph
www.prommart.com

did you apply a mod to get to one column?

did you alter the create an account file?

was it looking right befoe the captcha was added?

[SPH]

http://www.prom-mart.com/index.php?m...create_account

It looked like my test site link above, still with right column.

Captcha worked and looked perfect.

One column is an alternative that comes with this template in the Read Me file. Globally turn off right column and insert this code in stylesheet, copied below asterisks.

I use IE9 but have Firefox. It shows that the post code is .inputLabel #postcode. But I can't find that in the stylesheet to try and float it left.

sph
www.prommart.com


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7. If you would not like ANY sideboxes on this site, simply go to your admin under "Configuration", then "Layout Settings", and set the "Column Right Status - Global" to "0". This will turn off both left and right sideboxes globally, whether or not any of them are set to "on" under "Layout Boxes Controller". Then add this to your stylesheet:

#centerColumnWrapper2 {
background:#ffffff!important;
}

.centerColumn {
float:left!important;
width:95%!important;
}

[DarkAngel]

http://www.prom-mart.com/index.php?m...create_account

It looked like my test site link above, still with right column.

Captcha worked and looked perfect.

One column is an alternative that comes with this template in the Read Me file. Globally turn off right column and insert this code in stylesheet, copied below asterisks.

I use IE9 but have Firefox. It shows that the post code is .inputLabel #postcode. But I can't find that in the stylesheet to try and float it left.

sph
www.prommart.com


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7. If you would not like ANY sideboxes on this site, simply go to your admin under "Configuration", then "Layout Settings", and set the "Column Right Status - Global" to "0". This will turn off both left and right sideboxes globally, whether or not any of them are set to "on" under "Layout Boxes Controller". Then add this to your stylesheet:

#centerColumnWrapper2 {
background:#ffffff!important;
}

.centerColumn {
float:left!important;
width:95%!important;
}

I have a client that uses this template too and although he has a custom create account we never had that problem until he created the custom one...it looked right but then I did not edit that part of the stylesheet.css

we have the left side turned off only leaving the right side showing.

our code is like this--which is the original one:

#centerColumnWrapper2 {
margin:0 .5em;
width:70em;
}
#centerColumnWrapper2b {
margin:0 auto;
overflow:hidden;
width:70em;
}
.centerColumn {
width:75%;
float:left;
margin:0 2% 2% 3%;
text-align:left;
line-height:1.6em;
display:inline; /* fixes IE Bug in IE6 and earlier - do not remove */
}

check to make sure you do not have both codes in your stylesheet....try removing one to see if that works or reapply the one you removed and remove the other one to test after refreshing the store page.

[SPH]

Thanks, will give it a try.

[SPH]

No, did not work to move zip code field to left.

I really want this template to work. But I'm finding little things that might add up to not using it, especially when IE is set to Compatability View (we cannot control how customers may set their browsers.)

[DarkAngel]

No, did not work to move zip code field to left.

I really want this template to work. But I'm finding little things that might add up to not using it, especially when IE is set to Compatability View (we cannot control how customers may set their browsers.)

true but that is going to happen with any template. especially when the browsers get updated, then no telling what the customer is gonna see or us for that matter.

have you done any editing to your files other than adding this mod?

[SPH]

Yes, it's messed-up that IE compatability view can do strange things to almost every template, even the newer free ones. On applezen, my bottom two banners can appear anywhere in compatability view, sometimes going across the middle of a category page. Other things as well.

I recently installed the Second Category Description Mod and Ultimate Cross Sell (the latter only few days ago.) But although UCS has it's own problems, it appears that the flying out zip code field happens with one column layout. So I went back to applezen's right column:

http://www.prommart.com/index.php?ma...oducts_id=5634

Link above is my main seo test product. I wanted a one column layout and intended to make several paragraphs of description, essentially turning the product page in to a blog devoted to that product. On Nov 4 it was page 4, position 10 on google. Today it is page 2, position 4 google for search term "Flaunt 91101". So I think my idea can work.

To compete with a competitor who this season actually took out domain names named after the dress designer and style number. See here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=188033

I think site looks less bare with the right column turned on. But seo strategy was to strip product pages of all extraneous text, including all columns, so product text can dominate without dilution. Then use UCS for related products from that category only.

But the zip code field flying to the right just looks too confusing for customers to register.

I'm thinking that maybe I could make/get a custom registration page. If it were 2 columns (the registration itself, still one column site layout), I think it would push the zip code field where it should be. Then try my one column seo strategy again.

sph
www.prommart.com - live site