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13 Oct 2008, 6:33 PM
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A few questions...

First off, thanks to anyone who takes a look at this for me...I am having two issues (at least that I want to fix now):

  1. For some reason, my site is centered in Firefox, but not in IE...

  2. Is there anyway to get rid of the |_ characters that show up before the subcategories in the list?

web site is: https://www.firesalegolf.com/catalog

Again thanks, this is driving me batty

13 Oct 2008, 6:51 PM
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Re: A few questions...

Answer to #2 is Admin? Configuration> Layout Settings> Categories Separator between the Category Name and Sub Categories

Question for you - Have you searched the forum for your hosting? Might want to do that before you get too far along.

13 Oct 2008, 7:21 PM
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Re: A few questions...

NOTE: you are going to be very very sad with image files as large as:
1620.12 KB (1659004 bytes) :eek:

Might wish to reduce those to 1 - 10k each ...

13 Oct 2008, 7:24 PM
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Re: A few questions...

I have not searched my hosting forum...not entirely sure what you mean with that question?

Ajeh- Is that just because of loading time, or are their other drawbacks to having big images?

13 Oct 2008, 7:33 PM
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Re: A few questions...

I will not stay on your site to wait for your images to finish downloading some day to my computer and filling up my cache with images of that size so I will spend all of my money else where ...

Clear your cache and see how long a page takes to load ...

Now, pay your hosting provider for each customer that clicks on each page for the bandwidth this will use ...

Now, pay your hosting provider for each spider that comes to your site and sucks down those images and all of the bandwidth that will be used ...

Now pay ... :eek:

You really want to get those images down to a normal, acceptable size before you run out of money, customers or get in trouble with your hosting provider for excessive bandwidth etc. ...

13 Oct 2008, 7:35 PM
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Re: A few questions...

Ajeh:

I will not stay on your site to wait for your images to finish downloading some day to my computer and filling up my cache with images of that size so I will spend all of my money else where ...

Clear your cache and see how long a page takes to load ...

Now, pay your hosting provider for each customer that clicks on each page for the bandwidth this will use ...

Now, pay your hosting provider for each spider that comes to your site and sucks down those images and all of the bandwidth that will be used ...

Now pay ... :eek:

You really want to get those images down to a normal, acceptable size before you run out of money, customers or get in trouble with your hosting provider for excessive bandwidth etc. ...

Point taken, I will change the image sizes.

Do you have any idea as to why the site is not centered in IE?

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Re: A few questions...

Afraid I am not a designer ... perhaps a designer type will happen along and be able to help you out with centering your site on all browsers ... :smile:

13 Oct 2008, 7:54 PM
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Re: A few questions...

Ajeh:

Afraid I am not a designer ... perhaps a designer type will happen along and be able to help you out with centering your site on all browsers ... :smile:

Thanks, I appreciate your help. I reduced the image files significantly. I don't want to reduce them too small in case someone wants to "view larger image".

Along the same lines, is there anyway to optimize the images so that the smaller ones don't look so squished?

13 Oct 2008, 8:07 PM
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Re: A few questions...

If you take the time to read up on the Zen Cart images, it will show you how you can have Small, Medium and Large Images in addition to the Small and Large additional images per product ... :smile:

13 Oct 2008, 8:08 PM
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Re: A few questions...

Ajeh:

If you take the time to read up on the Zen Cart images, it will show you how you can have Small, Medium and Large Images in addition to the Small and Large additional images per product ... :smile:

That's perfect...is that an add on? I don't see the option anywhere...

13 Oct 2008, 8:25 PM
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Re: A few questions...

This is all built into Zen Cart ...

You might do a search in the Tutorials/FAQs on: image

That should help get you started ...

There are also numerous threads on images for the small, medium and large images as well as the additional small and large images throughout the forum ...

13 Oct 2008, 8:31 PM
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Re: A few questions...

Thanks I'll do some research.

Anyone who happens upon this thread...I am still looking for help on the IE/Firefox issue...

13 Oct 2008, 9:46 PM
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Re: A few questions...

When I said search for your host - I meant use the search facility of this forum to look for them -

18 Oct 2008, 12:12 PM
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Re: A few questions...

try changing in body tag of css

margin:0;

to

margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
19 Oct 2008, 6:26 PM
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Re: A few questions...

-Steve-:

try changing in body tag of css

margin:0;

> to
> ```
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;

THank you for your help, it doesn't look like it worked. DO you have any other ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated.

20 Oct 2008, 9:13 AM
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Re: A few questions...

ok .. try adding the above code to

#mainWrapper

in css stylesheet

looks like there might be a few unclosed div tags before you get to that section in template (not sure as no idea what trying to achieve)

also believe

<div id="mainWrapper">

should be at top of template page and not your

<div id="headerWrapper">

as said .. no idea what trying to achieve in the end so am only guessing

20 Oct 2008, 3:07 PM
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Re: A few questions...

About your image things, try Image Handler 2. It's an add-on that will do all resize things for you . So, just leave your large images there. The add-on will make a smaller one automatically.

21 Oct 2008, 5:16 PM
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Re: A few questions...

Thanks for the info. I will look into it.

21 Oct 2008, 5:17 PM
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Re: A few questions...

Thanks Steve. I will try it tonight and post the results. Again, I appreciate everyone's help.