Apple Zen Support Thread

[Saberman]

I've included three extra colors in addition to the default apple green... red, blue, and grey. To change colors, simply open up includes/templates/apple_zen/css/stylesheet.css, and un-comment the color you want to use, and comment out the color you don't want to use.

Is there somewhere I can go to understand how to do comment(?) on stylesheet. I'm still learning. Thanks

[chadderuski]

Jade!

Great update! Looks fantastic, and you certainly did it with less brute-force than I!

[Theresa]

Hello,
I have been following the directions here from the News Articles & Mangement to add a news scroller box to my site. Even after installing the SQL patch the manager will not show in admin. In the layout boxes controller the news scroller shows up and I have turned it on. But there is nothing showing up on my site or the admin control panel.

http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zenca...t/install.html

I see the files are in the folders. I've been working on this for 2 weeks now... probably time to ask for help!

Any advice?
Thank you! Theresa www.joyoushome.com

[jettrue]

Is there somewhere I can go to understand how to do comment(?) on stylesheet. I'm still learning. Thanks

Here's a quick tutorial on commenting out items in the stylesheet:

In a stylesheet, sections like this will be hidden:

/* this stuff will be hidden */

Removing the /* and */ from a "hidden" section, will make it un-hidden.


So in the stylesheet, the green section comes un-commented:


/*green */

green styles are found here, and are not hidden

/* eof green */


And the blue (and red and gray) come commented:

/* blue

blue styles are found here, and ARE hidden

/*eof blue*/

To un-comment the blue, all you have to do is change

/* blue

to

/* blue */

Hope that helps!

[jettrue]

Hello,
I have been following the directions here from the News Articles & Mangement to add a news scroller box to my site. Even after installing the SQL patch the manager will not show in admin. In the layout boxes controller the news scroller shows up and I have turned it on. But there is nothing showing up on my site or the admin control panel.

http://www.dream-scape.com/pub/zenca...t/install.html

I see the files are in the folders. I've been working on this for 2 weeks now... probably time to ask for help!

Any advice?
Thank you! Theresa www.joyoushome.com

Hmm, Did you install the files in the appropriate apple_zen/ folders when needed?

[Saberman]

Here's a quick tutorial on commenting out items in the stylesheet:

In a stylesheet, sections like this will be hidden:

/* this stuff will be hidden */

Removing the /* and */ from a "hidden" section, will make it un-hidden.


So in the stylesheet, the green section comes un-commented:


/*green */

green styles are found here, and are not hidden

/* eof green */


And the blue (and red and gray) come commented:

/* blue

blue styles are found here, and ARE hidden

/*eof blue*/

To un-comment the blue, all you have to do is change

/* blue

to

/* blue */

Hope that helps!

That helped alot. Really need to spend more time learning about CSS and stylesheets.

Thanks again..

[Theresa]

Hmm, Did you install the files in the appropriate apple_zen/ folders when needed?

Hi there,
Yes, we even reinstalled the cart... I have followed two different tutorials and I'd list the other but can't find it now! Am I using the right tutorial? On one tutorial you change the includes folder default to your custom folder... did that.. but in the admin folder is the news box manager... to me that folder would need to be inside the custom folder. But it's not, the instructions say to just drop it into the publichtml/admin... I'm pretty bad at making sure I put the right folder on top of the right folder when I ftp... it gets very confusing! But we are sure we followed the instructions... I also checked the permissions... I think they are all correct..
Thank you so much for your time Jade, I thought about just using another template because my friend has had no trouble installing her blogs, news scroller...{jealous!!} but I LOVE your template and don't want to give up yet!!

Can you think of anything for me to try again on..? Thank you:)
Theresa

[jettrue]

Hi there,
Yes, we even reinstalled the cart... I have followed two different tutorials and I'd list the other but can't find it now! Am I using the right tutorial? On one tutorial you change the includes folder default to your custom folder... did that.. but in the admin folder is the news box manager... to me that folder would need to be inside the custom folder. But it's not, the instructions say to just drop it into the publichtml/admin... I'm pretty bad at making sure I put the right folder on top of the right folder when I ftp... it gets very confusing! But we are sure we followed the instructions... I also checked the permissions... I think they are all correct..
Thank you so much for your time Jade, I thought about just using another template because my friend has had no trouble installing her blogs, news scroller...{jealous!!} but I LOVE your template and don't want to give up yet!!

Can you think of anything for me to try again on..? Thank you:)
Theresa

I can't think of a reason why this template would disallow any add on. If it is truly turned on in the admin, there's nothing stopping it in the template. It sounds like you may have files uploading in the wrong place. Does this mod have its own support thread? I am not familiar enough with it. Now remember, if you're using this template, your "custom" folder is "apple_zen".

[reza]

hi
is there anyway to get header fkyout to display subcategories from right to left?
also I use multisite module and the filter function works perfectly for category sidebox, but header flyout doesn't react to this function and by results, all categories are seen!!!, also when I use two language and I don't translate one category in one of the other langueage, the not translated category remains a blank place in category sidebox of flyout,
is there any possibility to solve these problems? I abondoned apple zen fir this, I think it's the second time that I submit this question, and may be the last time if there is no idea or solution.

[jettrue]

hi
is there anyway to get header fkyout to display subcategories from right to left?
also I use multisite module and the filter function works perfectly for category sidebox, but header flyout doesn't react to this function and by results, all categories are seen!!!, also when I use two language and I don't translate one category in one of the other langueage, the not translated category remains a blank place in category sidebox of flyout,
is there any possibility to solve these problems? I abondoned apple zen fir this, I think it's the second time that I submit this question, and may be the last time if there is no idea or solution.

Apple Zen is not guaranteed to be compatible with every other mod out there, so you may have to abandon Apple Zen. As far was the right to left, in includes/templates/apple_zen/css/stylesheet_header_menu.css, you can change div#dropMenu ul.level8{top: 0; left: 12em; background:#4f4f4f} to div#dropMenu ul.level8{top: 0; left: -12em; background:#4f4f4f}

For the multi-site module, I'm sure there's some sort of modified functionality for the right category sidebox that causes it to filter. You'll need to find out what they did to make that work for that mod, and somehow apply that to includes/classes/categories_ul_generator.php (there's a category query in there, since it hasn't been modified for your multi-site module, of course it will show all categories, that is what it is designed to do).

As far as the language issue, I've not dealt with two languages, so I'm not fully sure what your issue is. There are three language files with apple_zen:

==includes/languages/english/apple_zen/header.php
==includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/apple_zen/headermenu.php
==includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/apple_zen/order_steps_defines.php

So maybe you need to copy them and place them in your custom language folder after modifying them?