Apple Zen Support Thread

[vivaraquel]

Thanks for that. I am not new to filezilla, been using it for quite a while now so I know how to upload etc..

I replaced the html_definitions folder and of course, I must redo all the info pages again. This time I will try a different text editor and see what result I get. I'd love to see things appear as they were written.

Fingers crossed.

[molywerks]

Good luck.

Purely informational this note is, and maybe you know already, but the reason Zen Cart's text editor is advised against is because it does not return code properly if you need to edit it again. This is the case across the entire admin panel. For example, if you hard code an ampersand or a space, [FONT="Courier New"]&[/FONT] and [FONT="Courier New"] [/FONT], respectively, it will write properly to the database or file, but if loaded to an admin panel screen from the database or file, it will return a non-standard HTML ampersand, &, or a regular space, [FONT="Courier New"] [/FONT]. Thus, many use text editors and FTP. Zen Cart devs should fix this issue or explain why it is like this. Maybe they have but I've not run across an explanation yet. Like Zen Cart, WordPress is PHP/MySQL-based and doesn't have this trouble.

[vivaraquel]

Ok so before I change it again, I used jujuedit and filezilla for the main page and this is what I get http://www.dreamevent.com.au

How hard does it need to be to write up text?

[molywerks]

Something weird is happening with your CSS. When I view your home page, the text appears to be a default of a large serif. Then when I click some links, the pages appear to be in a default of a normal-sized sans serif. There is either some serious lag time for the custom CSS to be properly rendered or some sort of CSS issue causing oddness.

If you have been working on CSS, another tool I use in developing sites is Web Developer, a very helpful Firefox Add-on. I'm not entirely up to speed with it but I it works great to troubleshoot CSS. Setting views of Information > Display Element Information and Information > Display Topographic Info have been invaluable for me.

BTW, note that I am not trying to offend you or your skill level. I am (and may be) posting a lot of extraneous info here and there because I'm putting together a tutorial over the next week or two to hand off a Zen Cart site I developed for a client and will be coming back to the forum to grab my riffs. Thus, I'm somewhat trying to get in the mode of replying for lowest common denominator and thus am trying to assume a low skill level regardless of actual. Not the easiest thing to train HTML newbies let alone computer newbies. And I'm no skilled coder by any means. I've got a long way to go.

[vivaraquel]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I will not mess around with the CSS though. Out of all the sites I have created using ZC this is the only template that truly tries my patience when it come to just adding text.

I think I'll just use the html editor option on the admin and do the best I can.

Good luck with that tutorial.

[molywerks]

Thanks, good to know. Apple Zen is my first template. Although, I've hacked it beyond recognition outside of the dropdown and shopping cart.

[Website Rob]

Ok so before I change it again, I used jujuedit and filezilla for the main page and this is what I get http://www.dreamevent.com.au

How hard does it need to be to write up text?

Minor point:

<div id="logo"> ... Art of E-Commerce " width="700px" height="140px" /></a></div>

You should remove the 'px'.

[Website Rob]

Other tools I find handy are:

• HTML Search and Replace, $20, for searching for text across all my mods and zen cart core code. It does mass search and replace into wildcarded files and into subfolders. FWIW, I purchased a copy and love it!
• AllFileRenamer, renames files with a variety of options, including subfolders. I've used this for a couple of years.
• FileRenamer has a great variety of options and is incredibly powerful, free, $20 gets you UNDO and subfolder capabilities, which is all that I have been missing, plus other features, I think, but I don't know for sure because for subfolders, I use AllFileRenamer.

Thanks for sharing the list. The two File Renamer programs work excellent on my Win 2000 and will definitely come in handy. The 'sherrodcomuters.com' site also has a Sherrod FTP program which looks good but requires .NET Framework, which I don't have so cannot use.

HTML Search and Replace I was already aware of and is an excellent program as well.

[jdhone]

The advice I gave you affects much more than the logo, it was the correct reply and did relate to the issue. If you posted a link, I could know for sure.

Here is a link to my site. http://jhaudiotech.com/shop

To repeat my request...I would like my Category and Subcategory listings to wrap horrizontally accross the page, just like the "featured, or new product" listings do. Is this possible? If so, how do I accomplish it.

Also, if you have any suggestions for my site, I would appreciate those as well.

Again, thank you for all your help!

[molywerks]

See attached image.*

Removing one checkout link, keeping the other
I'd like to remove the checkout link in the blue circle but keep the other checkout link in the dropdown. Has anybody tried this? I'm hoping someone else has already done the legwork on removing it (or another link from that row: home, login, my account, shopping cart and/or checkout.

Dropdown submenu alignment
See the dropdown edge circled in green. Has anybody successfully gotten their dropdowns and submenus to lineup properly when the initial view of the dropdown is all white?

*Is it possible to embed images uploaded to zen-cart.com?