Cold Steel Template Support Thread

[hendrickx]

Hey Clyde, thanks for the template, it's amazing.

One small question: We use subcategories like mad in our site. Is it possibile to get the categories list to show them wehn someone clicks a category?

For example, the list on the left. When someone clicks "Books" I want it to look like this:

Altar Items
Athames
Besoms
Bookmarks
Books
  Annuals
  Blank Books of Shadows
  Bookends
.
.
.

Right now, there's no good way to quickly jump from one subcategory to the next.

If you'd like to bee the site: http://www.thebrassbell.net

Thanks!

EDIT: I must need some caffeine. It already does this. Never mind.

[zglider]

Hello Clyde,
Thanks for a very fine template, it's perfect for me.

I do want to give you a report of a browser rendering problem with the 2 column format on the login page.

Using Mozilla Seamonkey Ver 1.1.14 the columns overlap each other by, as a guess 20 - 40 pixels, The borders of the left column overlay the right column lettering. To give you a rough idea of the extent, the left vertical line border crosses the "a" in "Email" on the right side near the top of the page.

The left column is definitely wider than the right -- as a guess, because the wording embedded in the top left border, "New Customer? Please Start Your Checkout Here" is so wide. I think it's pushing the right side border to the right.

Maybe that wording could be reduced?

As a cross check I tried it on another computer running Firefox, and the page rendered okay.

I also tried changing the View>Text Zoom 50% in Seamonkey, but it had no effect on that page's text size, or the overlap problem.

I'd be happy to test anything if you're interested in supporting this browser. I realize it isn't mentioned in your supported browsers list.

Thanks anyway for a great looking template!

[clydejones]

Hello Clyde,
Thanks for a very fine template, it's perfect for me.

I do want to give you a report of a browser rendering problem with the 2 column format on the login page.

Using Mozilla Seamonkey Ver 1.1.14 the columns overlap each other by, as a guess 20 - 40 pixels, The borders of the left column overlay the right column lettering. To give you a rough idea of the extent, the left vertical line border crosses the "a" in "Email" on the right side near the top of the page.

The left column is definitely wider than the right -- as a guess, because the wording embedded in the top left border, "New Customer? Please Start Your Checkout Here" is so wide. I think it's pushing the right side border to the right.

Maybe that wording could be reduced?

As a cross check I tried it on another computer running Firefox, and the page rendered okay.

I also tried changing the View>Text Zoom 50% in Seamonkey, but it had no effect on that page's text size, or the overlap problem.

I'd be happy to test anything if you're interested in supporting this browser. I realize it isn't mentioned in your supported browsers list.

Thanks anyway for a great looking template!

Sorry, I've never heard of nor am I familiar with Seamonkey. given that fact and the lack of a link to your site, I'm afraid I can't address the issue you are describing.

[clydejones]

Sorry, I've never heard of nor am I familiar with Seamonkey. given that fact and the lack of a link to your site, I'm afraid I can't address the issue you are describing.

further to the above post and shooting in the dark.

Open login.css (includes/templates/cold_steel/css/login.css)

You might want to adjust the width and margin settings in these three declarations. In particular look at adjusting the width of .centerColumn

.centerColumn {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
width: 90%;
}
.returning {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0 0 18px 0;
width: 49%;
float: right;
}

.newcustomer {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0 0 18px 0;
width: 49%;
float: left;
}

[zglider]

Sorry, I've never heard of nor am I familiar with Seamonkey. given that fact and the lack of a link to your site, I'm afraid I can't address the issue you are describing.

Hi Clyde, I didn't include a link because I guessed that you didn't use and test with Seamonkey.

If you're interested:

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

I use Puppy Linux 4.1.2, which comes bundled with the Seamonkey suite. Seamonkey is powered by Mozilla and the Gecko renderer. It is essentially a continuation of the venerable Netscape internet suite.

The other reason I didn't include it was that since I'm just setting up the site now and learning Zencart in the process, I didn't want to worry about any premature setup security vulnerabilities and additional site visits by publishing the URL here.

Thanks very much for the suggested test fix, I'll try that and report back to you.

Again, thanks for your work and very fine template.

[zglider]

Clyde, thanks,
the width value does indeed control the overlap in my Seamonkey 1.1.14 browser.

I tried 100% first, but that pushed the outer edges on top of the outer light grey border line. There wasn't much clearance between the two inner columns so I then tried 99%.

This kept everything from overlapping. I also checked the appearance out in Firefox on another computer, and there was also no overlap there. The center margin space is much larger on Firefox than on my Seamonkey browser, but certainly the SM rendering is acceptable.

I'm attaching screenshots of the Seamonkey browser with width settings of 90% and 99%.

My setting:

.centerColumn {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
width: 99%;
}

Thanks so much for your help above, Clyde.

[zglider]

Final note on Seamonkey rendering..

I experimented around with browser controls and settings.

View>Text Zoom>Smaller had no effect on the CS Login page.

Edit>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts>Proportional Size was set at 14 pixels as a default.

I changed this to 12 pixels, and the Cold Steel Login page rendered the same as the Firefox browser.

I don't know whether the 14 pixel font size is a Seamonkey default, or a Puppy Linux Seamonkey setup default.

If this varies from other browsers' standard default font size, I will bring it up as a change request issue with whichever one is setting it that way.

[zglider]

Edit>Preferences>Appearance>Fonts>Proportional Size was set at 14 pixels as a default.

Wrong.

Further tests show it wasn't the Font Size setting, in preferences, it was the Minimum Font Size setting.

That was set at 12 pixels by default. It should have been set to 10 (or less) to render your template page correctly.

Sorry about the multiple posts, but this forum doesn't allow editing of older posts after 7 minutes.

[jvalent]

How do I change the size of the logo area so that it does not shrink my logo?

Thanks

Jeff

[clydejones]

How do I change the size of the logo area so that it does not shrink my logo?

Thanks

Jeff

You an set the height and width of the logo by editing
includes/languages/english/cold_steel/header.php

define('HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH', '157');
define('HEADER_LOGO_HEIGHT', '88');


You can adjust the height of the logoWrapper to match the height of your logo by opening
includes/templates/cold_steel/css/stylesheet.css

#logoWrapper{
margin:0;
background: url(../images/header_bg.gif) no-repeat;
height:112px;
width:917px;
position: relative;
top:0;
left:0;
}