Apple Zen Support Thread

[penzman]

A lot of people get confused with image handler.

All you have to do with image Handler is upload ONE and ONLY ONE image. Upload the largest size you want displayed on your website. This is what image handler displays as your large image. Don't upload medium or large images (remove them if you have), and don't upload them with any suffix, just "imagename.jpg" --- no _LRG.jpg or _MED.jpg. Image handler will automatically resize medium and small images for you, based on your image sizes set in "Configuration", "Images".

Cool! Got it displaying pics properly, thanks to your image sizes on previous page and the IH instructions.

The only annoyance is when editing pics in IH, it shows all displayed pics in max size... Trying to figure out which size option controls that so that i only see thumbnail size when working in IH.

[jettrue]

I need a little help getting the New Products for May to have 3 columns instead of one column that is on the left. I would like products to be centered.

I had it correctly done at first but after turning on and off various parts in the layout box controller and changing the setting to zero under the "Configuration", then "Layout Settings", and set the "Column Right Status - Global" to "0" ... I have it all messed up.

I do not want any side columns showing.

Also how can I change the color white to some other color in the header on both sides of the logo?

Here is the link to the problem site I'm working on.

http://www.fireflybags.com

using zen-cart 1.3.7 on the site.

Thanks for your help.

Its your css that's messed up... you're missing a whole big ole chunk of the site's css.

Your css ends right here:

#contentColumnMain, #navColumnOne, #navColumnTwo, .centerBoxContents, .specialsListBoxContents, .categoryListBoxContents, .additionalImages, .centerBoxContentsSpecials, .centerBoxContentsAlsoPurch, .centerBoxContentsFeatured, .centerBoxContentsNew, .alert {
vertical-align:top;


(and you're missing the closing } for that section). Open up the original css, find the section above, and add back all the missing css.

After globally turning off the right sideboxes, these are my instructions for making the rest of the site fill the center content:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...0&postcount=86

You can adjust the logo background color at #headerWrapper and #logoWrapperOuter

[jettrue]

My home link is not working on my catalog. I am wondering where i would look to file the path that it is trying to go to. Is this a template issue or a Zen cart problem??

Could I see a link where this issue occurs? Which home link isn't working? Since this problem doesn't exist (as far as I know) for this template, then its probably a problem outside of the template.

Is it possible to change the size of my right side boxes? If so where would go to do this. I'm not that familiar with php pages..

I addressed this here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=348

Its not necessarily an easy fix, as the template wasn't designed to adjust easily that way... but its doable.

[Hound]

While trying to add the About Us pages I have managed to let it take over my entire site! Can someone take a peek and see what I need to change.

www.wholesomehound.com/index.php

[jettrue]

While trying to add the About Us pages I have managed to let it take over my entire site! Can someone take a peek and see what I need to change.

www.wholesomehound.com/index.php

Yeah, something went wrong when you installed this. I wonder if not all files were uploaded, or you entered the code for this somehow in the wrong file. I would completely undo everything, and start fresh.

[Hound]

I fixed this by deleting all the files I had uploaded for the "About Us" mod.

When my index page came up the text from the page was displaying above the header. It was very weird. Fixed now. Hope no one else has this problem.

[chadderuski]

As far as I can find, there's really no way to get this spread out to the whole space. This is because A) different browsers have different default font sizes... so the menu is bigger, and could cause the menu to drop to a second line, and B) as people increase their font size, different browsers round up differently for padding, so again, it difficult to get the menu to the edge without making it go over.

There's probably a little room to play with, to get less space left over, but I figured when designing it it was better to make it look like its *supposed* to have leftover space rather than getting close but not quite, KWIM?

If you want a larger font, you can make it a tad larger, then reduced the 2em left and right padding. (padding: .6em 2em .6em 2em;)

Jade: You're right. No good solution for this. And thanks for the info on font size. I missed the 2em padding.

Trying to convince the boss (who thinks he knows everything) that "you can't do that" can be such a chore. But reminding him that this is FREE, and that if he doesn't like it that he can use Activant's e-commerce solution (who now owns our enterprise software) at a starting cost of $35,000 (less hardware) usually chases him away (yes, THAT is priceless!).

[jettrue]

Jade: You're right. No good solution for this. And thanks for the info on font size. I missed the 2em padding.

Trying to convince the boss (who thinks he knows everything) that "you can't do that" can be such a chore. But reminding him that this is FREE, and that if he doesn't like it that he can use Activant's e-commerce solution (who now owns our enterprise software) at a starting cost of $35,000 (less hardware) usually chases him away (yes, THAT is priceless!).

Ya, the only way around it is to change the template into a fixed width, change the menu into a fixed width, but then you miss the flexibility of having things resize and be fluid, so you'd have to ask your boss which is more important to him.

[dlaitila]

Thank, that worked...

[rei_amuro]

Hi jettrue,

Thanks a bunch. It works! Btw I thought comments are //. God bless ur new place :)