Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

[jettrue]

Thanks Jade...that worked great!

My site is starting to look pretty now. I still can't get a divide line between the header and the body of the site.

I've followed your instructions for the EzPages bar, but it's not showing up on my site. Something is also wrong with the search bottom. There's a space above the red bar at the top and if I scroll up the bar will line up with the search bar. I shouldn't have to do that though. Really don't think the space at the top of my screen should be there at all. It's like the whole site is shifted down on the page too much.

If you get the time, could you please take a look...maybe you know of an easy fix.
http://www.paradiseembroiderydesigns.com
Thanks,

You've got these weird symbols at the top of your site (I can see it in firefox and camino)


Which tells me you have an issue with some file you've uploaded. I would ask in the general forum, I think it's a common issue that is easily fixed.

As for the search_header.php, you need to go to "Tools", "Layout Boxes Controller", and turn off the right sidebox for 'search_header.php'. As described in the readme.txt, only the single column status should be set to "ON".

What do you mean by 'I still can't get a divide line between the header and the body of the site.'

[jettrue]

Dear Jettrue, thank's for the great template.

I have a question. How to add one or two additional menu on the header menu?

Thank's for attention...

Open up includes/templates/cherry_zen/common/tpl_header.php

Be sure to make #navMain a little bit wider if needed in the stylesheet.css. But too much wider and you'll break the layout. I'd only add one additional item there.

[Micki]

You've got these weird symbols at the top of your site (I can see it in firefox and camino)


Which tells me you have an issue with some file you've uploaded. I would ask in the general forum, I think it's a common issue that is easily fixed.

As for the search_header.php, you need to go to "Tools", "Layout Boxes Controller", and turn off the right sidebox for 'search_header.php'. As described in the readme.txt, only the single column status should be set to "ON".

What do you mean by 'I still can't get a divide line between the header and the body of the site.'

Thanks Jade:

I will take your advice and post in the generak forum to see if somebody can help direct me on how to fix the top of my site.

If I choose to have my categories read in tabs instead of the sidebox, I get a nice dark green bar that divides the header from the rest of the site below the header. The appearance with the dark green bar makes the site look much nicer. Only problem is that I don't want my categories reading in tabs there. Thought I could activate the Ez Bar to solve this problem, but I can't get that to work. I'm thinking that I could take the image of my header and add a dark green bar to the image, save and re-upload. My original thought was to use your Ez Bar and if it was possible to change the colour from grey to green.

Sorry I am being such a pain, but I love your template and really want it to work for my site.

[michellepchy]

It's not possible, otherwise I would have done it that way to.

Open up the sidebox.gif that I provided in any image editing software, it can even be "paint", replace the color I put in the file with the color you want.

Thank you I have figured out how to change it in paint to match my html code I wanted. Its looking a lot better now.

[jettrue]

Thanks Jade:

I will take your advice and post in the generak forum to see if somebody can help direct me on how to fix the top of my site.

If I choose to have my categories read in tabs instead of the sidebox, I get a nice dark green bar that divides the header from the rest of the site below the header. The appearance with the dark green bar makes the site look much nicer. Only problem is that I don't want my categories reading in tabs there. Thought I could activate the Ez Bar to solve this problem, but I can't get that to work. I'm thinking that I could take the image of my header and add a dark green bar to the image, save and re-upload. My original thought was to use your Ez Bar and if it was possible to change the colour from grey to green.

Sorry I am being such a pain, but I love your template and really want it to work for my site.

#logoWrapper {border-bottom:15px solid #000000}

change to the height and color you want.

[spottedhaggis]

Installed and started working on customising this.

Everything looks great graphically, however the darn css has be conflounded.

My monitor res is set to 1280 x 1024 and I have managed to fudge the css to accommodate the sizes I need it to be, in my case 99% width always.

With the default settings I had a scroll bar accross the base of the site, setting to 99% removed this.

I then had to add a top margin above the category title because for some reason I had a gap of 12 px.

So, with the above res it looks perfect, however if I set my resolution to the norm and more common 1024x768 the content part of the site flows into the right column.

Can you please explain how exactly this css works for this site, as I am confused.

[jettrue]

Installed and started working on customising this.

Everything looks great graphically, however the darn css has be conflounded.

My monitor res is set to 1280 x 1024 and I have managed to fudge the css to accommodate the sizes I need it to be, in my case 99% width always.

With the default settings I had a scroll bar accross the base of the site, setting to 99% removed this.

I then had to add a top margin above the category title because for some reason I had a gap of 12 px.

So, with the above res it looks perfect, however if I set my resolution to the norm and more common 1024x768 the content part of the site flows into the right column.

Can you please explain how exactly this css works for this site, as I am confused.

Conflounded. Nice new word.

My advice to you, is to put it back to the original css, sounds like you've conflounded it.

Width section should look like this:

/* site and main content width section */
	
html>body {
	width: auto;
}
#nw {
	width:80%; /* main site width; if you'd prefer a fixed width site, enter the width in px here. */
	max-width:1300px; /* prevents the main content from getting wider than 1300px in sites other than IE */
	min-width:1000px; /* this prevents the main content from getting smaller than 1000px in browsers OTHER THAN IE. You can make this as small as 800px, BUT any smaller than that, and the top header menu will break into two lines. Also, if you make this width 800px, you will need to make sure your product image on the product info page is no wider than 190px */
}
/* IE only. Controls Width of Site and Main Content*/
* html #nw {
 width:expression((d=document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat" ? document.documentElement : document.body) && (d.clientWidth > 1300? "1300px" : d.clientWidth > 1048? "80%" : d.clientWidth < 1048? "1000px" : "80%")); /* this prevents the site from getting smaller than 1000px or wider than 1300px in IE */
}
/* end IE only */
/* end site and main content width section */

Then try replacing ALL instances in the section above (even the IE section) of 1000px to something smaller, like 950px or less (till the issue goes away), and ALL instances of 1300px to something smaller, like 1250px or less.

Also, could I see a link?

Also, does your issue happen with my test site, http://www.cherryzen.sagefish.com ?

[spottedhaggis]

Hi

Glad you like my made up word, kinda describes anything you like, thats problematic anyway.

ok, I see the default setting offers a fairly large margin on both sides, I would like a much smaller one, around 5-10px max width either side.

I thought I had it cracked but then I changed my resolution and found it busted rather than cracked.

Here it is as it stands now

http://www.spottedhaggis.com/macro

This is pretty much how I want it to look at any resolution, now if your viewing it at a typical 1024 then it will look awfull.
Here is an image of what it looks like on my screen and resolution.



If there was an easier way to fix what I have now that would be great, took me ages, lol.

Thanks

[the_doomsayer]

Ive no idea if this is template related or not but the onlysideboxes I can get to appear are "Categories" and "Information". Any other sideboxes just wont appear.

[the_doomsayer]

Ive no idea if this is template related or not but the onlysideboxes I can get to appear are "Categories" and "Information". Any other sideboxes just wont appear.

Correction, I cant get "Tell A Friend" to appear on the left.