Aberdeen Neutral Template Support Thread

DivaVocals:

You can always download the last version and the new one and do your own file comparison to see what's been modified..

99% authors always include which files have been modified.

There was a lot of problems with this template to begin with since Jennifer was the not the original author.

I have completely re-written it to make it function 100%. Plus have added other goodies. My clients love it and there is no problem with it now.

Linux:

99% authors always include which files have been modified.And Anne didn't include one which IMHO is not a big deal considering she contributed this template for FREE. My point was that if you needed this information, that a quick looksee using a file comparison program is and easy enough way to get the information you needed.

Another thing to consider is perhaps hasn't been able to respond to requests for this information because she is busy at the moment and wouldn't be able to provide this information for a FREE template while working on work that pays the bills.. :smile:(which is exactly what is going on based on a response for similar information requested in another support thread for another one of her templates..)

Linux:

There was a lot of problems with this template to begin with since Jennifer was the not the original author.Dunno who Jennifer is, but Anne is the original author of this template..

Linux:

I have completely re-written it to make it function 100%. Plus have added other goodies. My clients love it and there is no problem with it now.Excellent!!:clap: that's the point of free templates.. to use them as a starting point for your own great ideas.. Though I never had a problem with functionality with this template..

Sorry for the confusion. Jennifer is my name, but I go by middle name Anne. Just way too many Jennifers in my generation :smile:

Sorry to have not included the list in the release, but I was quite pressed for time. I contribute these free templates in my free time, which is pretty sparse and getting sparser as the demand grows for custom zen cart design.

I have completely re-written it to make it function 100%. Plus have added other goodies. My clients love it and there is no problem with it now.

I have no idea what you are implying here. If you find any problems, it would be beneficial to the community post the fix.

Thanks,

Anne

picaflor-azul:

Sorry for the confusion. Jennifer is my name, but I go by middle name Anne. Just way too many Jennifers in my generation :smile:Ahhhhhhhhhh... :laugh: Color me corrected!!!:laugh:

picaflor-azul:

Sorry to have not included the list in the release, but I was quite pressed for time. I contribute these free templates in my free time, which is pretty sparse and getting sparser as the demand grows for custom zen cart design.You don't need to apologize.. Not all mod authors include a list of changes files anyway.. (99% REALLY??? sounds like a random number) Many MAY include a list of files included (changed or otherwise) and a changelog..

Anyway.. The point is this: You created this template in YOUR free time, and then donated it to the community for FREE. You have supported it for FREE, and frankly girl IMHO that's more than generous and you owe no more to the community let alone an apology..

The list of changed files can easily be obtained by anyone willing to invest the time into getting this information for themselves if it's important, and not including it in a FREE contribution is MINOR since it's not like the information is UNOBTAINABLE..

picaflor-azul:

I have no idea what you are implying here. If you find any problems, it would be beneficial to the community post the fix.Yeah I was confused about this too since I had NO issues with this template.. Unless he's referring to the MINOR fix required to get rid of the javascript error from the slideshow.. Which IMHO was MINOR since there was an EASY fix posted AND this fix has since been included in the new release of this template..

picaflor-azul:

Yes, this is no problem. Search the forum for how to remove sideboxes from the main page---it has been asked and answered many times.

If you read the readme file there are instructions on using images of different dimensions.

Thanks,

Anne

Hi Anne,

I actually had already done a search before posting. I found the code to use:

if ($this_is_home_page) {
$flag_disable_left = true;
$flag_disable_right = true;
}

and they say to put it into:

/includes/templates/your_template/common/tpl_main_page.php

but this file does not exist in your template (or at least in a place I can't seem to find) so I was worried it could not be done with your template. Glad it should be no problem but could you point me to the specific file where I have to put in the code and I can take it from there?

I had no problems getting the images to adjust. I also went over the read me file before posting and figured it out no problem.

Thanks for your help.

Will

picaflor-azul:

Sorry for the confusion. Jennifer is my name, but I go by middle name Anne. Just way too many Jennifers in my generation :smile:

Sorry to have not included the list in the release, but I was quite pressed for time. I contribute these free templates in my free time, which is pretty sparse and getting sparser as the demand grows for custom zen cart design.

I have no idea what you are implying here. If you find any problems, it would be beneficial to the community post the fix.

Thanks,

Anne

This theme was originally written by blingthemes...and one of your original releases you forgot to remove their links. If you read back to your original release...yes their were problems. When questions were asked by new zenners...simply questions..you were very rude to them. Your sole purpose was not to help the community but to obtain work using Zen Cart and benefit financially from your so called "free themes". There are a lot of real great programmers who have written addons solely for the purpose of contributing to this community without the intention of financially benefiting from it.

Linux:

This theme was originally written by blingthemes...and one of your original releases you forgot to remove their links.If you are going to make such an accusation, then you need to back it up.. I've been through EVERY file in the original release of this theme and found no Blingthemes links/files. I'd like to know which Blingtheme this template is supposed to be lifted from?? Which files are these links in??

Linux:

If you read back to your original release...yes their were problems. When questions were asked by new zenners...simply questions..you were very rude to them.** Your sole purpose was not to help the community but to obtain work using Zen Cart and benefit financially from your so called "free themes". ** There are a lot of real great programmers who have written addons solely for the purpose of contributing to this community without the intention of financially benefiting from it.And again, if you are going to make such accusations, then you need to substantiate your claims.. Name ONE place in this entire support thread which support this accusation.

I've been here from the time this theme and all of Anne's themes were first submitted, and Anne has been nothing but nice and helpful to everyone. I see no place where her postings even come close to what you accuse her of.. There were no "problems" with this template. MUCH of this support thread is filled with posts from folks who did not install/configure the template correctly or were trying to expand the template for suit their own needs.. Anne has been helpful and responsive to all.. What are YOU referring to???

brokenbird:

Hi Anne,

I actually had already done a search before posting. I found the code to use:

if ($this_is_home_page) {
$flag_disable_left = true;
$flag_disable_right = true;
}

and they say to put it into:

/includes/templates/your_template/common/tpl_main_page.php

but this file does not exist in your template (or at least in a place I can't seem to find) so I was worried it could not be done with your template. Glad it should be no problem but could you point me to the specific file where I have to put in the code and I can take it from there?

I had no problems getting the images to adjust. I also went over the read me file before posting and figured it out no problem.

Thanks for your help.

Will

The file doesn't exist in the template package because I made no changes for it. If you need to edit this file you need to create an override for it.

thanks,

Anne

Linux:

This theme was originally written by blingthemes...and one of your original releases you forgot to remove their links. If you read back to your original release...yes their were problems. When questions were asked by new zenners...simply questions..you were very rude to them. Your sole purpose was not to help the community but to obtain work using Zen Cart and benefit financially from your so called "free themes". There are a lot of real great programmers who have written addons solely for the purpose of contributing to this community without the intention of financially benefiting from it.

No, you are 100% incorrect. I am not associated in any way with bling themes and wrote this template package myself.

You seen very confused--you are confusing me with someone else. I have never been rude to anyone asking questions, especially newbies. If people have questions that are unrelated to the template, I point them in the right direction.

As for benefiting financially from the templates, this is a real joke. At last count on July 8th, 2011, I had given away over 43,800 template packages at a retail value of over $6 million. Believe me when I say that I have received no where near that amount in donations :laugh: Probably close to $100.

Before making such a rude post, check your facts and at least get straight who it is you are talking to and about.

Thanks,

Anne

Anne you don't need to respond to these false accusations at all.. It's easy enough to see (prove) that there's no merit to them.. I can attest to the fact that no such files (with blingthemes links) exist in ANY of your template packages..

Seems blingthemes has made some lofty claims on this forum in the past that the "Easy Slider plugin for jQuery" you used in your themes (and that blingthemes and other template contributors have also used in their themes as well) was CREATED by blingthemes.:laugh::laugh: .

I'm sure the good folks at CSS Globe would find this amusing since it is in fact their slideshow script. You and other template authors who've used this script have made no secret of it, made no claims to it's authorship and in fact have documented in your theme's documentation the inclusion of this slideshow script..

With regards to the "Easy Slider plugin for jQuery" slideshow, Blingthemes went so far with his claim of authorship as to accuse another template creator (who also has a STELLAR reputation here) of "stealing" the slideshow from him.. Perhaps Linux also bought into ridiculous allegation..

picaflor-azul:

No, you are 100% incorrect. I am not associated in any way with bling themes and wrote this template package myself.

You seen very confused--you are confusing me with someone else. I have never been rude to anyone asking questions, especially newbies. If people have questions that are unrelated to the template, I point them in the right direction.

As for benefiting financially from the templates, this is a real joke. At last count on July 8th, 2011, I had given away over 43,800 template packages at a retail value of over $6 million. Believe me when I say that I have received no where near that amount in donations :laugh: Probably close to $100.

Before making such a rude post, check your facts and at least get straight who it is you are talking to and about.

Thanks,

Anne

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1025270&postcount=553

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=958630&postcount=8

Seems to have the bling theme is both of these templates.

Amazing!

picaflor-azul:

As for benefiting financially from the templates, this is a real joke. At last count on July 8th, 2011, I had given away over 43,800 template packages at a retail value of over $6 million. Believe me when I say that I have received no where near that amount in donations :laugh: Probably close to $100.

6 million!! Retail value??!

Entertaining math. Who in heck is going to believe that one!

Linux:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1025270&postcount=553

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=958630&postcount=8

Seems to have the bling theme is both of these templates.

Amazing!I KNEW you were gonna bring these threads up.. Well if you read further in these threads you would know that person's seeking help mixed up files from one of the Blingthemes with files from Anne's theme.. That code has NEVER been in any of Anne's templates..

Bottomline is you are wrong.. You've made an UGLY accusation and your PROOF isn't proof at all..

ETA: did you even READ one of the posts you cited as "proof"???

SPH:

Hi, that's what I did:

define('TWITTER', '');
define('FACEBOOK','');

But it still went to blingthemes.

In fact, I just uploaded your original with your twitter/facebook urls and it still shows blingthemes. Even in another browser Firefox.

**I know you don't have blingthemes anywhere, but I tested their Estorenow template not long ago. Somehow, somewhere, I'm kinda cross-overed? Looks like I cannot even put my url when I get one.
**
Unless some browser cache thing...?

I still have some estorenow files on server from testing, I probably should delete those and all templates I'm no longer interested in.

Steve

and this dude by HIS OWN ADMISSION stated that one of the file from a previous installed template cause his issue with Anne's template:

derek.b:

Without sounding all gushy, that worked a treat, it was where to put the tags which confused me and being a non PHP/HTML/CSS expert in any way shape or form this was what I needed - You Legend!:smile:

Ok so I looked at this again this morning and went on the hunt in my FTP program to see if there was any files that perhaps didn't look right or out of context with Anne's theme, low and behold I clicked on web/includes/extra_configures and in there was a file named estoreparameters.php, after downloading this and opening it up in my text editor it was full of Twitter/Youtube define statements and was obviously causing a conflict!!

Well all I can say is many thanks to Yourself and Anne for the help, I have managed to get 6 months into this without asking any questions and soley using the search function but had come to the stage where my eyes could not handle anymore!!

Once again Many Thanks:clap:

So again where is your proof for this nasty, untrue allegation that you've made???

Linux:

Entertaining math. Who in heck is going to believe that one!And we should believe your mean spirited, untrue accusation??? Anne's done nothing to you or anyone, and yet you come here and cast doubt upon her integrity without anything resembling real facts to back your accusations up..

picaflor-azul:

The file doesn't exist in the template package because I made no changes for it. If you need to edit this file you need to create an override for it.

thanks,

Anne

Hey that did the trick perfectly thanks! Like I said, I'm still pretty green to PHP. Didn't know all I had to do was copy the file.

Thanks again! And ignore that Linux guy... Dunno what his problem is but he comes off like a tool anyway so no one will take him seriously.

Hey,

Sorry, I've got one more question that maybe you can help me with.

Here is my site in progress: http://brokenbird.ca/cart/

I'm trying to add a dropdown css menu where the red header info is: ie, the links to home/contact us/log in etc. So that it looks something like the one I designed here:

https://www.brokenbird.ca

I plan to leave the log in / shopping cart info but want to add my menu to it.

I have already added the appropriate .js files and edited the stylesheet.css document with the right code but for some reason I can't find where this header menu information is located so I can't experiment with placing my own menu. Could you point me to the appropriate file so I can play with it a bit?

I know this sounds like a bit of a lazy question but I really have been looking around for nearly an hour trying to find the right one.

Thanks,

Will

DivaVocals:

Post your questions in the support thread, the question & the answer will benefit others with similar issues.

Hopefully, professional people will see how you act & respond in a forum and not use your services and how your above statements with benefit others.

What's scary about YOU is your comments are very anger related and out of control.

Linux:

Hopefully, professional people will see how you act & respond in a forum and not use your services and how your above statements with benefit others.Ummm yeah.. okay...:laugh: My above statements will help others to see your accusations are baseless and untrue.. So yes.. I hope they will benefit others..

Linux:

What's scary about YOU is your comments are very anger related and out of control.Out of control?? :laugh: Angry?? Yeah okay.. You came here to this support thread and lobbed accusations against a community member which are not support by fact I simply asked you substantiate your claims, and I'M out of control??:laugh: Okay.. thanks for the insight..:laugh:

brokenbird:

Hey that did the trick perfectly thanks! Like I said, I'm still pretty green to PHP. Didn't know all I had to do was copy the file.

Thanks again! And ignore that Linux guy... Dunno what his problem is but he comes off like a tool anyway so no one will take him seriously.

I am so happy that it worked :hug:

Thanks,

Anne

brokenbird:

Hey,

Sorry, I've got one more question that maybe you can help me with.

Here is my site in progress: http://brokenbird.ca/cart/

I'm trying to add a dropdown css menu where the red header info is: ie, the links to home/contact us/log in etc. So that it looks something like the one I designed here:

https://www.brokenbird.ca

I plan to leave the log in / shopping cart info but want to add my menu to it.

I have already added the appropriate .js files and edited the stylesheet.css document with the right code but for some reason I can't find where this header menu information is located so I can't experiment with placing my own menu. Could you point me to the appropriate file so I can play with it a bit?

I know this sounds like a bit of a lazy question but I really have been looking around for nearly an hour trying to find the right one.

Thanks,

Will

I would strongly recommend not trying to code this yourself, but starting from one of the great css drop down menus already in the free software downloads section. Then you can add your links into it. Be sure to check for files that need to be merged (off the top of my head you will have to merge the tpl_header.php and maybe another).

If you want to code from scratch you can edit the includes/templates/aberdeen_neutral/common/tpl_header.php file.

Thanks,

Anne