Product Info Popup Windows

Every time I create a new category rather than it giving me the layout of the main products page where when I look at the source code is "indexBody" for the body ID it gives me a product pop up window page which under the body tag is "productinfoBody". So how do I create a new category that is not a pop up window function but rather an actual products page.

I'm confused... are you talking about zencart here? The behaviour you describe (as far as I can understand what you are saying) does not sound like zencart.

What you describe does not sound like standard behavior. There should be no popups except for larger images. Post a link to your site so we can see how this is acting.

:D As is so often the case, Glenn and I reply at the same time... Sometimes he wins the race, sometimes I do... :laugh:

schoolboy:

I'm confused... are you talking about zencart here? The behaviour you describe (as far as I can understand what you are saying) does not sound like zencart.
cart.justspice.org is my cart site. When you go to Spices blends and rubs it is starting to shape up how I want it to look, however when you go to Gifts it is basically the screen that you would get if you would click on a product from my "spices blends rubs" page. In other words the more info page for that particular product. Everytime I create a new category it is based on this more info product page as opposed to a product list page. Does that make more sense?

You (or someone) has been carving up the PHP files. Just what was done is impossible to tell. Your header becomes your footer, your centre column drifts about...

... something very wrong with your CUSTOM template.

Switch back to CLASSIC template to see if the layouts go back to normal. If normality returns, start developing your CUSTOM template from scratch and DON'T hack the core code.

Actually I'm just now playing with it right now so it is moving around I'm creating divs and redoing some of that code. I can switch that back easy enough. The problem is when I create a new category it's not creating a product category page like the spices blends rubs it's creating a page like the "more product info" shouldn't it create a page that I can add products too?

Zencart does not work on flat HTML. It works using php which assembles a page, gathering the components from a wide variety of places.

I have no idea how skilled you are at php or html, so I don't know what level of advice to give you, but one look at your site right now suggests you are carving up the php and embedding bits of it into hard-coded html.

You are opening a sea of problems using this method (but if you perfect it, you may well be offered a job at TemplateMonster :D )

Really disappointed in the help here. Searching and reading for the last hour to try and find something similar to my issue I found an entry that was the same thing as what I was talking about on my page and just clicking through my site should have been easily visible to you. It said to go in and change this Admin->Configuration->Layout Settings->Skip 1-prod Categories ... turn this off. That worked. Now things are coming together. Not doing anything fancy but changing my CSS and some of the common php templates. Just need some simple questions answered once in a while to set me on the right path.

squaremeadows:

Really disappointed in the help here. Searching and reading for the last hour to try and find something similar to my issue I found an entry that was the same thing as what I was talking about on my page and just clicking through my site should have been easily visible to you. It said to go in and change this Admin->Configuration->Layout Settings->Skip 1-prod Categories ... turn this off. That worked. Now things are coming together. Not doing anything fancy but changing my CSS and some of the common php templates. Just need some simple questions answered once in a while to set me on the right path.

I think you got some good advise based on your questions and short of spending HOURS tracing EVRYTHING you did I think that what was posted was appropriate....

Be Patient and do your mods excersing caution and do then one bit at a time so you can EASILY undo and restore....

squaremeadows:

Really disappointed in the help here. Searching and reading for the last hour to try and find something similar to my issue I found an entry that was the same thing as what I was talking about on my page and just clicking through my site should have been easily visible to you. It said to go in and change this Admin->Configuration->Layout Settings->Skip 1-prod Categories ... turn this off. That worked. Now things are coming together. Not doing anything fancy but changing my CSS and some of the common php templates. Just need some simple questions answered once in a while to set me on the right path.

When I looked at your site, each link I clicked RADICALLY altered the position of key fundamental elements. On one screen the header was at the BOTTOM where the footer should be. In another screen the center column was shifted left with the header and footer centered.

On another page there was no header anywhere!

Now you want people to look at this dog's breakfast and spend a few hours unravelleing your changes in an effort to assist you. Offer to pay (Commercial Help Wanted), and we'll happily bid a price to spend the required hours fathoming out your structures.

In my opinion (and I reiterate, from my observation of your site) the approach you are taking to structure your layouts is fundamentally flawed and will present headaches down the line... including the ability of any experienced zenners to give reliable answers.

Fix up you template first, then worry about admin switches.

Actually my apologies for the confusion on your part as no one had responded to me so I was just playing around with inserting DIVs and other things just to see what the capabilities were with ZEN to alter the look. So when you went in you were seeing things completely out of place which wasn't the issue. Thus you thinking I'm doing something completely funky with combining PHP and CSS HTML. I design websites (not PHP) and am quite versed with CSS, Dreamweaver, Flash coding and structures. Very frustrating for me to then take a PHP "template" and figure out where changes are located and how to go about making those changes when I just want to drop and drag so to speak. I just want to see the file and the code and manipulate it accordingly. Learning process that's for sure. At any rate answer found on the forum which was just changing that one area to "False". It's now starting to take shape. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for your intended help.