Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

[jettrue]

Is there a way to make this template IE8 compatible and have the compatibillity button not appear?

I am not sure what you are referring to.

[hasnut]

When I enable top search box , it shows on left/right side also in top. I dont want to show it on left or right. how to do that?

[jettrue]

When I enable top search box , it shows on left/right side also in top. I dont want to show it on left or right. how to do that?

Turn it off for the left/right status.

[gsdcypher]

hi jade,

what is the best way to put a line at the bottom of the left and right columns?

could i use something like border-bottom? if so, where would the code go so it just but the line at the bottom of the left and right columns and not the middle of the page?

thanks.

[rwoody]

Jade, I'm in the process of redesigning an existing site and your template had nearly all the layout features I had intended to build - so first of all thanks a ton for your great work

I made a few layout changes, (no right column) and followed your directions; however I'm having a few issues I was hoping you might be able to help with.

First in IE (6/7) the left column is being pushed way down by the center. Now I created a margin between the content and the left column, thinking that would solve the issue.. no joy. I changed my products column number to 2 vs. 3 to see if that made a difference - no joy. I also played with the float margins - no help there either. Any suggestions. Here's a link to the test bed mysite

Now on a side note and I'm going to post this to the general area of the forum as it's not related to your template - After working most of the night on some custom coding that all worked fine when I went to bed in the wee hours, I wake up to find my home page has vanished..LOL - The rest of the site displays just fine - just the main_page define will not display. I've changed templates so this is not an issue with your template, but I thought I would mention that in case you've ever seen anything like that in the past.

I also am working on the menu by implementing the drop down. One question there - The second level of the menu covers the first level when it is moused over. What can I do to adjust the css so that you can still see the first level. Example - Home - if you were to try to click Home to return to the main, you can't the New Products jumps up over the top of it.

Thanks again for such a nice template.. I'm off to see if anyone else has ever lost the main page before..

Ruth

[rwoody]

Thought I would post back as I found two solutions of my three problems

On the content pushing the left column down - I added an stylesheet_ie6 and ie7 - on both I indicated that the #content width be reduced to 99% from 100% and it did the trick! All looks nice. The mysterious missing front page was due to a very tired developer last night doing something silly.. we'll just leave it at that...LOL

Now I'm going to go back to playing with the menu as I really want to do some major customizations there, so input could really be helpful.

1. the first issue still needs to be addressed (second link covering the top link)
2. Next - I want to add three sets of custom links to the menu that have children (sub menu-items). Not quite sure "yet" how to do that with this menu, so if anyone has insight just jump right in there. I'll post back my progress in the event anyone else is working on setting the drop down menu in to replace the standard top menu.

Ruth

[TJR Stores]

It will be easy to remove sideboxes on the home page, since the home page has its own selector. The code below will remove sideboxes from the home:

#indexHomeBody #navColumnOne, #indexHomeBody #navColumnTwo {display:none;}
#indexHomeBody .float-wrap {margin:none!important;width:100%;}
#indexHomeBody .outer {padding:0;width:98%;margin:0 auto;}
#indexHomeBody #contentMainWrapper {background:#ffffff;}

Then you could JUST have text on your home page, that is defined in your "Define Pages Editor" in your admin.

I'll let you think about what you want to do from there, but the above is a quick way to remove all sideboxes from home.

Hi,

Done this and it works fine in FF and IE6 but not in IE7. I realise it is an old post but looking through further into this thread to see if anyone else had this issue I couldn't see anything by page 200 so decided to post for help.

In IE7 it throws the image (Content from the main page) up to the top right way off page.

www.tjrstores.com/lingerie

Thanks for the help in advance.

Rob

P.S. I added in the position: relative; /* IE needs this */ into 2 parts of the CSS code quoted above and still no luck.

[rwoody]

It's really important to read the enclosed readme file that Jade provided. The columns are done by css positioning vs. using the normal right and left box setups. She gives very detailed information on how to do this in this file. Also the image for the sideboxes are removed within the css.

Hope that helps.

[TJR Stores]

Hi Thanks for the reply.

I followed the instructions carefully and all is working fine. It just does not work in IE7. It seems to be a bug associated with IE7.

Thanks
Rob

[rwoody]

Solved my issues!! - I had forgotten to go back to the original style sheet and remove and modify the setting for the original menu styling. I wanted this menu to blend with the existing design and it does not beautifully!!!

Thanks again for two such great contributions!!! They are even better together!!
Ruth