Andover Modern Template Support Thread

I guess it would help if I provided more detail...

My slide show disappeared from my home page.

I went to admin--tools--define pages editor--define_main_page.php set "plain-text" for the text editor drop down. However, instead of inserting:

after the last </div> tag I added it in front of the first div tag. I did end up with text above the slide as I wanted it but still wanted there to be a space between text and slide. This is where I think I went wrong: I went to add a space and change the text size through HTML Text instead of Plain Text.
I tried copying and pasting the area that I messed up from the original andover_modern main page php file but still no images. Please help.

http://www.naturallyspeakingfoods.com

Thanks

This is where I think I went wrong: I went to add a space and change the text size through HTML Text instead of Plain Text.

Yes, this is where you went wrong. This page contains php code and can not be edited with a wysiwyg editor. You can only edit with the plain text editor. Restore the main page by uploading the includes/languages/english/html_includes/andover_modern/define_main_page.php file from the template package to your server.

Add space between the text and slideshow by stylilng the div in your stylesheet.css file.

Thanks,

Anne

Thanks Anne! It worked of course. You get an "A" for awesome.

Thanks :smile:

picaflor-azul:

Go to admin--tools--define pages editor--define_main_page.php be sure that you set "plain-text" for the text editor drop down. After the last </div> tag add this:

Didn't realise at the time but the "Monthly Specials" and the "Featured Products" text is big compared to other pages. Would inserting this code have changed hat???? I cannot figure out how I did it, nor how to correct it.
Thanks in advance.

Also, is there a way to change the subcategory text colour in the navigation menu/column on the left of all pages. I just want to distinguish the category pages from the subcategories.
Cheers
Raquel

Didn't realise at the time but the "Monthly Specials" and the "Featured Products" text is big compared to other pages. Would inserting this code have changed hat???? I cannot figure out how I did it, nor how to correct it.
Thanks in advance.

Also, is there a way to change the subcategory text colour in the navigation menu/column on the left of all pages. I just want to distinguish the category pages from the subcategories.
Cheers
Raquel

If you post a link to your site I can take a look.

Thanks,

Anne

https://www.oddsnsods.com.au

I seem to be having some trouble changing the color of one of my boxes/table header? I'd like to change it from the gray color to a black.
I also would like to delete the hyphen that's next to "Item Name"

Image: Attachment #9508

My Site: http://www.naturallyspeakingfoods.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3

Thanks

Hi Anne,

Firstly may i thank you for sharing your great zen-cart template.

I have installed the script OK and everything seems to be working OK.

however, allthough everything onsite is working correctly, when i try to validate my site for valid XHTML i'm getting many errors in my markup.

The errors seems to be mostly related to javascript errors in the markup which the validator does'nt like.

If i post my site would you be kind enough to have a quick look to see if you can tell me whats happening please?

my site is http://vintagesilver.co.uk/

and the XHTML validator results: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fvintagesilver.co.uk%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.2

many thanks.

I seem to be having some trouble changing the color of one of my boxes/table header? I'd like to change it from the gray color to a black.
I also would like to delete the hyphen that's next to "Item Name"

Image: Attachment 9508

My Site: http://www.naturallyspeakingfoods.co...=index&cPath=3

Thanks

Have you tried adding this to your stylesheet:

.productListing-rowheading {background-color:#000;}

Use the developers toolkit in your zen cart admin to search for text that you want to change.

Thanks,

Anne

Hi Anne,

Firstly may i thank you for sharing your great zen-cart template.

I have installed the script OK and everything seems to be working OK.

however, allthough everything onsite is working correctly, when i try to validate my site for valid XHTML i'm getting many errors in my markup.

The errors seems to be mostly related to javascript errors in the markup which the validator does'nt like.

If i post my site would you be kind enough to have a quick look to see if you can tell me whats happening please?

my site is http://vintagesilver.co.uk/

and the XHTML validator results: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...alidator%2F1.2

many thanks.

The template has been validated with no errors for w3c xhtml and css. You have made a change that is causing the errors. Go to your jscript_easySlider.php file and wrap the javacript in comments.

Thanks,

Anne

Didn't realise at the time but the "Monthly Specials" and the "Featured Products" text is big compared to other pages. Would inserting this code have changed hat???? I cannot figure out how I did it, nor how to correct it.
Thanks in advance.

When you added the home page text you neglected to close font tags or font size tags.

Also, is there a way to change the subcategory text colour in the navigation menu/column on the left of all pages. I just want to distinguish the category pages from the subcategories.
Cheers
Raquel

Add this to your stylesheet_betterCategoriesEzInfo.css

a.category-products{color:#your new font color number;}

Thanks,

Anne

Hi Anne,

Having a hard time installing ez pages.

I turned it on in the layout controller.
I created a ez page.

The sidebar box does not show at all (EZ page)

Also, can you use CKEditor to create EZpages? or does it have to be plain text. Hoping to use CKEditor or something similar to create pages. I guess Im having a hard time using just plain txt and making it look good.

Thanks!!
Peter

Hi Anne,

Having a hard time installing ez pages.

I turned it on in the layout controller.
I created a ez page.

The sidebar box does not show at all (EZ page)

Also, can you use CKEditor to create EZpages? or does it have to be plain text. Hoping to use CKEditor or something similar to create pages. I guess Im having a hard time using just plain txt and making it look good.

Thanks!!
Peter

This is not a problem with the template. Did you specify a sort order for the page you made? And did you make sure to check footer "yes"?

I believe that if you install the editor you can use it to create ez pages.

Thanks,

Anne

picaflor-azul:

The template has been validated with no errors for w3c xhtml and css. You have made a change that is causing the errors. Go to your jscript_easySlider.php file and wrap the javacript in comments.

Thanks,

Anne

Hiya Anne, Many thanks for your quick reply.

I have wrapped the jscript_easySlider.php in ```

 Thanks.

 My site seems to be loading the JS for the scroller twice into the page source for some reason..? everythings working fine, im just wondering if i should be deleting a file somewhere thats not needed?

 Also, could you please tell me how i can change the 'Categories' caption tag to something else. i have searched all the definition files but cant find that one.

 Many thanks.

Hiya Anne, Many thanks for your quick reply.

I have wrapped the jscript_easySlider.php in
Code:

<script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ **JS CODE** //]]> </script>

and that seemed to have done the trick, and now my site is passing the XHTML markup validation.

Thanks.

My site seems to be loading the JS for the scroller twice into the page source for some reason..? everythings working fine, im just wondering if i should be deleting a file somewhere thats not needed?

Also, could you please tell me how i can change the 'Categories' caption tag to something else. i have searched all the definition files but cant find that one.

Many thanks.

If you have followed the directions here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=961529&postcount=248

then it seems like you have forgotten this step:

Now go back and delete the original jscript_easySlider.js from includes/templates/yourtemplate/jscript

I am not sure what you mean by "categories caption tag"? but you can use the developers toolkit in the admin to search for any text that you want to change.

Thanks,

Anne

picaflor-azul:

Have you tried adding this to your stylesheet:

.productListing-rowheading {background-color:#000;}

> 
> Use the developers toolkit in your zen cart admin to search for text that you want to change.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Anne

Hi Anne 

Yes, that worked. Whew!

Now what would I have to do to change all of the gray text to black?
I've tried going through the style sheet and looking for grays but all of them seem to be for the borders. I'm fine with gray borders, I'd just like to change the text color.

I would also like to add more spacing on the products list page so the image won't be so cramped. I believe that has something to do with padding but I have no clue where to change that.

At this point I am going to refer you to the w3c schools css tutorials.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/

I don't mind helping out if someone gets stuck, but I do believe that if you are going to try and customize a zen cart template yourself, you should do some leg work so that you can do these basic changes.

Thanks,

Anne

I just submitted an update, hopefully it will be available for download soon!

Version 1.2 fixed slider javascript bug, added html readme file, added 3 column layout, replaced install.txt file with correct readme.txt file, resized slider images, centered slider, set twitter and facebook links to open in a new tab, fixed twitter and facebook links css bug, added home page image and text layout, added custom button to search sidebox, fixed attributes layout in ie6 and ie7, fixed many minor css bugs.

Thanks,

Anne

picaflor-azul:

If you have followed the directions here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=961529&postcount=248

then it seems like you have forgotten this step:

I am not sure what you mean by "categories caption tag"? but you can use the developers toolkit in the admin to search for any text that you want to change.

Thanks,

Anne

Hi Anne,

I had deleted the jscript_easySlider.js, but i somehow managed to replace it with another copy of the jscript_easySlider.php, silly me. I deleted that from includes/templates/yourtemplate/jscript and all is good, many thanks!

The Categories caption (the one above the left nav links box) that i wanted to change was found by searching in the admin developers toolkit section, as you suggested, it was in the /includes/languages/andover_modern/english.php folder > define('BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES', 'Categories'); i changed it to > define('BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES', 'Vintage Silver');

Many thanks again Anne for sharing this great template.