Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

[jettrue]

Hi again Jade,







I have tried to cut and paste the description in the includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php It moves the position of the text up or down depending where I put it but it wont stay over the right hand side of the product image, it stays either above or below it. I would much rather do it the way you recommended as I am not very knowledgable with this stuff and am sure the way I did it will eventually cause me problems. Could you poossibly advise me how to get it to the right of the image?

Try adding float:right to productDescription once you move it up. If you still have issues, could you link me to a page once you have it pasted?

[jettrue]

Hi Jade,

It seems like you're right. I am using my web hosting standard editor. This is dot5hosting.com and they use interactivetools HTML Area 3.0 [rev beta] editor. If that's not good, how should I approach this?

Thank you!

I know nothing about their editor. I'd ask your host for advice, or use a free ftp program like filezilla.

[jettrue]

And now I've run into one other glitch: I tried to turn the left column off in the layout settings page, since this particular site is supposed to have a fairly clean and streamlined look and I've disabled most of the sidebar boxes. The few necessary ones I've put in the right column, so I wanted to get rid of the left column.

But when I turned it off... total disaster! The right column shifted over to land smack on top of the main column, with all the content overlapping, and the background colour of both columns vanished!

Obviously I turned the left column back on right away - but why did this happen? Is there something I can change in the CSS to make it work without the left column?

I see your issues, unfortunately I'm dead tired tonight, and I've got a muscle spasm issue... will reply tomorrow.... or perhaps someone else will have some advice.

[speeds5]

Thanks Jade. I figured it out. I compared the two index files and I was missing a piece of the code, it's all good now.

I know nothing about their editor. I'd ask your host for advice, or use a free ftp program like filezilla.

[jettrue]

I've installed Cherry Zen on a site I'm working on, including the Column Layout Grid for Product Listing mod. Initially the column layout mod seemed to work fine once I set my product listing layout to columns.

But then I made a couple of changes to the header -- basically just a larger logo, removing the sales text, and altering the tagline CSS a bit so that it appears on a separate line under the logo instead of next to it (basically I just added clear: both to it, plus a border above and below).

And now my column layout is exactly like the row layout, except with dotted lines in between the different parts. I could have sworn that before I edited the header, I had each product in a little box of its own, three to a row. But not now. I tried to check out the CSS with Firebug, and I can't see how my one little CSS tweak could have done this. It looks like the table structure is completely different. Now I'm almost wondering if I hallucinated the way it appeared to be laid out at first?

I did search through this thread before posting, but didn't find much that seemed relevant to this issue. I did see a reference to there being a conflict between descriptions and the column layout grid mod, so I tried setting it not to show descriptions, but that didn't help.

Here's an example page if anyone wants to have a look:
http://shop.thesinglestep.ca/index.p...=index&cPath=2

You want it in three in a row? That is the columns option. It looks like you are using the row option (one on each line) and be sure that you have chose "columns" for "product-listing - Layout style"

To remove the left column, turn it off like you did before, in the css, change the padding-left for .outer to 15px:

.outer {
padding-left: 15px; /* Same width as margin-left for the float-wrap div */
padding-right: 150px; /* Our right column width */
}

and remove this section from the css:

#contentMainWrapperb {
background: url("../images/sidebox.gif") 0 0 repeat-y; /* This is the left column background "faked" with an image. */
}

[JeffM]

Love your template, using it a while now.

I just installed Links Manager and for some reason after a site is submitted, the boxes on the left are all scrambled on the right site for the "success" page. The links manager author pointed me here.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Jeff
www.educatorsbookbag.com/store

[skipper_2]

Hi again Jade,







I have tried to cut and paste the description in the includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php It moves the position of the text up or down depending where I put it but it wont stay over the right hand side of the product image, it stays either above or below it. I would much rather do it the way you recommended as I am not very knowledgable with this stuff and am sure the way I did it will eventually cause me problems. Could you poossibly advise me how to get it to the right of the image?

Try adding float:right to productDescription once you move it up. If you still have issues, could you link me to a page once you have it pasted?

Hi Jade, thanks for that all sorted now looks great!

Just one more question, above the add to cart button is the text add to cart and then a quantity box. I have managed to change the add to cart button to add to basket and would like to also change the text but cannot find the file to do it?

I would also like to change the words Estimate shipping costs on the shopping cart page to estimate delivery costs but cant find the file to edit.

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Skip

[spidersilk]

You want it in three in a row? That is the columns option. It looks like you are using the row option (one on each line) and be sure that you have chose "columns" for "product-listing - Layout style"

No, that's the weird thing -- I do have columns selected! I tried setting it back to rows just for comparison, and the only change was it took away the dotted line dividers. I set it back to columns again, and that brought the dotted lines back but made no other change. For some reason, the columns setting does nothing but add dotted lines.

To remove the left column, turn it off like you did before, in the css, change the padding-left for .outer to 15px:

.outer {
padding-left: 15px; /* Same width as margin-left for the float-wrap div */
padding-right: 150px; /* Our right column width */
}

and remove this section from the css:

#contentMainWrapperb {
background: url("../images/sidebox.gif") 0 0 repeat-y; /* This is the left column background "faked" with an image. */
}

Thanks - that seems to have halfway worked! It's no longer leaving space for the left column, but it still loses the background colour of the main and right columns, and the right column is now exactly where the left column was, over top of the content in the main column. I've uploaded a new screenshot so that you can see what it's doing...

[jettrue]

No, that's the weird thing -- I do have columns selected! I tried setting it back to rows just for comparison, and the only change was it took away the dotted line dividers. I set it back to columns again, and that brought the dotted lines back but made no other change. For some reason, the columns setting does nothing but add dotted lines.


Thanks - that seems to have halfway worked! It's no longer leaving space for the left column, but it still loses the background colour of the main and right columns, and the right column is now exactly where the left column was, over top of the content in the main column. I've uploaded a new screenshot so that you can see what it's doing...

Hmmm, the left column issue is not happening when I follow my instructions on your site in firefox, it works just right. Try not disabling the left column in the admin, just follow the css instructions. What browser do you see the issue in? I'd really need to see the issue "live" to figure out what is causing it. However, I won't be back on the computer until about 9pm central US time.

How many columns per row do you have set in the admin for the product listing? Also reupload common/tpl_columnar_display.php from cherry_zen.

[JeffM]

Love your template, using it a while now.

I just installed Links Manager and for some reason after a site is submitted, the boxes on the left are all scrambled on the right site for the "success" page. The links manager author pointed me here.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Jeff
www.educatorsbookbag.com/store

Got my answer from the support thread for Link Manager. Thanks anyway.