Comstock Template

[discoverytdi]

Is that true that Clyde passed away? He was so nice. If this is true he will be sadly missed by all of us. I was just coming here to ask if the template would be updated for the new version of Zen Cart 1.5?

I'm using it on 1.5 with no problems so it should be ok

[nohart]

I'm using it on 1.5 with no problems so it should be ok

Awesome! Thanks for your feedback! Was it a major issue updating to the new version? I am up to v1.3.9h

[discoverytdi]

Awesome! Thanks for your feedback! Was it a major issue updating to the new version? I am up to v1.3.9h

I'm not to bad I alerted the comstock template on my local server and saved it as a separate template, now I just have to upgrade from 1.5RC2 to 1.5 final and upload the template just waiting for a few add ons to be upgraded to 1.5 then I'll go live. Clydes is one of the easiest to play about with http://www.rvsolarsystems.co.uk/ getting there though

[Robert Cooper]

Hi all....

I have ver. 1.5 of zen cart now and comstock template. I have some issues with the stuff lining up home, login/register, contact us, my account etc...in firefox, and looks like the pictures in ie 8 is kinda fuzzy until i bring up the full picture. any help would be greatly appreciated. the site is www.patchesrus.net any input on speed etc... will be helpful

thank you Clyde Jones

[nigelt74]

1) the pictures are fuzzy because the browser is being forced to resize them from the large version, and each browser uses a different way of doing it. I would recommend looking at some sort of image handling add on for that, although I think most are still beng worked on for the 1.5 release. To make it a bit clearer this
http://www.patchesrus.net/images/patch%201.jpeg
is th image your browser is downloading to make a thumbnail, normally you would have different sized images following zencarts guidelines or using an add-on so you would actually have a thumbnail sized image for the browser to download for a page that uses a thumbnail and bigger ones for where they are required, obviously if its downloading smaller images it will be faster

2) As to any alignment issues could you be more specific as i don't see a great deal of difference between IE and firefox with the exception of the tagline

Hi all....

I have ver. 1.5 of zen cart now and comstock template. I have some issues with the stuff lining up home, login/register, contact us, my account etc...in firefox, and looks like the pictures in ie 8 is kinda fuzzy until i bring up the full picture. any help would be greatly appreciated. the site is www.patchesrus.net any input on speed etc... will be helpful

thank you Clyde Jones

[Robert Cooper]

Well As i was looking last night i seen that it was in my Imac Firefox on the PC it did look OK ( I am still very new at this trying to learn) I will do some more reading on the images.

thank you for a fast reply

[Robert Cooper]

Okay....One more issue I have found was that in my listing Most I have 1 picture for ( a patch lets say) but some of the listings are showing 2-3 different pictures along with the right one. is there a way to correct this? here is the page

http://www.patchesrus.net/index.php?...roducts_id=729

Thank you

[nigelt74]

Okay....One more issue I have found was that in my listing Most I have 1 picture for ( a patch lets say) but some of the listings are showing 2-3 different pictures along with the right one. is there a way to correct this? here is the page

http://www.patchesrus.net/index.php?...roducts_id=729

Thank you

That link is giving me product not found

But, anyway the main reason for what you are describing is down to the way zencart handles images, in your case additional images are probably the problem.

there are two solutions,

1) look at the way you name images OR
2) Turn off additional images (if you don't intent to have more than one image this is the quickest option)

Here are the relevant tutorials

Why extra images are showing up
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=315

Additional images
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=58
the Additional info section describes your problem

My view with regards to image size is that its best to put the large image in (what you have been doing) and let a mod take care of the resizing for you, makes it idiot proof and easy to change things, if you want to for instance increase the size of your thumbnails one day its a 10 sec job rather than having to manually resize hundreds of images.

[nigelt74]

Well As i was looking last night i seen that it was in my Imac Firefox on the PC it did look OK ( I am still very new at this trying to learn) I will do some more reading on the images.

thank you for a fast reply

ah, i don't have an imac unfortunately, well I have a Bondi blue one in a box somewhere, but i dougbt it would run any modern version of Firefox.

You may get a mac user come along and look at it hopefully

[discoverytdi]

I'm currently reworking this template (yer I know I've been posting for fun but I really like this template) This will solve the white line at the top of the bestsellers sidebox
replace the original section of css with this in the stylesheet.css
.sideBoxContent {
padding: 0.3em 0.3em 1em 0.3em;
background-image:url(../images/sidebox_content_bg.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:bottom;
font-size: 1em;
line-height:normal;
}
.sideBoxContent a {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
.sideBoxContent a:hover {
background: #7998E1;
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
}