Carousel Sidebox - New, Featured & Specials: SUPPORT THREAD

jagall:

Hi I have just installed this, something I have been hoping would be available and it is now but it is not working for me, I know something I am doing or not. I have s3slider running also and feel there is a conflict. The product appears in the feature box but will not scroll and buttons do not work. I have tried moving the two lines of code to different places in tpl_header but no real difference (actually not quite sure where it should go at all) nor am I sure about the advice to delete the jquery library as this may contribute also. cheers:D

just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this please

@jagall - from the readme...

"Known Issue 1: if you are running other jquery modules (e.g. jqueryLightbox, Fual Slimbox etc) it may be necesssary to reposition the 2 lines of code in Installation #4 just after the <base> tag rather than before the </head> tag if you get errors in those modules. It may also be necessary to delete older versions of the jquery library."

Not knowing where any other instances of your jquery library may be, or how old they may be, I can't be of more help.

@lissa8723 - please see post#13

All other information about file location is in the readme file.

Thanks for getting back to me. Well i already moved the 2 lines to the base line and just before the s3lider comes in. I suppose I am not sure what you mean by deleting older versions of the jquery library (that is jquery library) sorry this may be really obvious but gotta ask. thanks

Hey there, really love the carousel sidebox mod. However, I'm having a couple problems I hope can be addressed. Here's how it looks on my site:

[IMG]http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3595/unledubz.png[/IMG]

1. My biggest problem is that only one product is shown per page. It does scroll, and the buttons do work, but only one product is shown. This product changes page per page.

2. The name of the product is in black, and is difficult to read of my dark background. How can I change this text to white?

3. The Buy Now button is slightly cut off...a bit annoying :(

4. The least important of my issues is that the contents of the sidebox all hug the left side a little...is there a way I can perfectly center the info inside?

I've tried placing the JS code in step 4 after the <base> tag as instructed above, but this stops the scrolling entirely and stops the buttons from working. I have a lightbox-esque module installed called slimbox. I've also tried lengthening this sidebox in it's CSS script, but it doesn't stop the buy now button from being cut off.

Tamuren:

1. My biggest problem is that only one product is shown per page. It does scroll, and the buttons do work, but only one product is shown. This product changes page per page.

2. The name of the product is in black, and is difficult to read of my dark background. How can I change this text to white?

3. The Buy Now button is slightly cut off...a bit annoying :(

4. The least important of my issues is that the contents of the sidebox all hug the left side a little...is there a way I can perfectly center the info inside?

I've tried placing the JS code in step 4 after the <base> tag as instructed above, but this stops the scrolling entirely and stops the buttons from working. I have a lightbox-esque module installed called slimbox. I've also tried lengthening this sidebox in it's CSS script, but it doesn't stop the buy now button from being cut off.

2-4 are all css related.

1 is probably because of a conflict with the slimbox code - if you can supply ftp details via pm, we'll have a look at it as soon as we can

Very good add-on. I do not have any problems with the products sliding or with the buttons.

I actually have two questions.

1. How do you change the background colour from white (I think I know how to do it however I would like it to be confirmed.

2. I would like to put this in a box, simular to the rest of the sideboxes. I have looked around in all the upleaded pages and I cannot see where to put the command lines. I know I have missed something but what?

Off topic: any plans for more sidebox items?

www.edencraftsupplies.co.uk/shop

Hi

The broad answer to 1 & 2 is using CSS. It's not the place for a css tutorial, but I'd recommend using the Web Developer Toolkit add-on for Firefox which makes editing of the CSS much easier once you get familiar with it.

No other plans at the moment - I'm afraid we're a little busy with our commercial stuff.

You say both done in the css, which one? there seam to be several I could change

It is fairly straight forward to put a box around it if you look properly.

For those who are stuck

1. When you have upload and running carousel, find stylesheet_carousel.css (/includes/templates/YOUR-TEMPLATE-NAME/css/)

2. Find #scrolldiv (first line [my first line])

3. #scrolldiv {
   border:0px solid #cc;
   width: 165px;
   height:250px;
   padding-top:10px;
   }

4. change to say #scrolldiv {
   border:1px solid #ff0000; {or colour of your choose}
   width: 165px;
   height:250px;
   padding-top:10px;
   }

5. border: is the size that you want to make the 'border around your carousel.

6. px solid: is the colour

7. I have found a very good website that lists and shows a colour template www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

When I have worked out how to change the size of the sidebox I will post that here too.

adb34:

It is fairly straight forward to put a box around it if you look properly.

For those who are stuck

1. When you have upload and running carousel, find stylesheet_carousel.css (/includes/templates/YOUR-TEMPLATE-NAME/css/)

2. Find #scrolldiv (first line [my first line])

3. #scrolldiv {
   border:0px solid #cc;
   width: 165px;
   height:250px;
   padding-top:10px;
   }

4. change to say #scrolldiv {
   border:1px solid #ff0000; {or colour of your choose}
   width: 165px;
   height:250px;
   padding-top:10px;
   }

5. border: is the size that you want to make the 'border around your carousel.

6. px solid: is the colour

7. I have found a very good website that lists and shows a colour template www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

When I have worked out how to change the size of the sidebox I will post that here too.

OK.

Using

#scrolldiv {
border:1px solid #ff0000; /* border & colour */
width: 165px;
height:250px;
padding-top:10px;

change width: to the width your are using for your sideboxes. My sideboxes are 200px so mine says 'width: 200px;'.

I hope this helps anybody

Ryk:

@jagall - from the readme...

"Known Issue 1: if you are running other jquery modules (e.g. jqueryLightbox, Fual Slimbox etc) it may be necesssary to reposition the 2 lines of code in Installation #4 just after the <base> tag rather than before the </head> tag if you get errors in those modules. It may also be necessary to delete older versions of the jquery library."

Not knowing where any other instances of your jquery library may be, or how old they may be, I can't be of more help.

@lissa8723 - please see post#13

All other information about file location is in the readme file.

Hi Ryk,

Just to let you know i did get this sorted and it was the fact that I had jquery library already installed (grasp it now better), just removed one version and have the carousel and 3slider running on the one version. thanks for help.

I installed this add on but i could never quite get it to work fully. Right after I installed it and ever since my site is running crazy slow :/ I took out all the files for it but it is still running slow that the pages never want to load. Im worried that it is turning customers away because one minute they might have a page and the next it wil not load to keep looking or checkout. It happened right after I did the install. Would you know of a reason that would cause this?
Is there a mysql code for uninstall?
Thanks for any help, im sorry i could never get it running it looked really cool :/

Hi, i added a border to the sidebox, but how do i remove the empty space between the box header and box content?

Installed this mod. Dreamy easy to do, and working beautifully. One small problem, though. The product link text doesn't wrap like it does in a normal sidebox, so it hangs over the right border on some items. I tried text-align:left, but that doesn't really solve the problem and I don't like the way it looks that way.

You can view what I'm talking about at my sandbox:

http://www.oozix.com/store

I left one regular sidebox active for comparison. Any ideas?

@lissa8723 - see post #22; this is the most likely reason

@melirlbr - I need to see what area you're talking about but it will most likely require a bit more adjustment using the css

@RescoCCC - have asked our developers to have a look. Thanks for the nice comments!

Just wanted to report back that I fixed the word wrap issue. Was actually a pretty simple problem that took my old tired brain a bit to figure out. The text wasn't wrapping because my sideboxes are 150px and the width specified in the CSS file was 163px. Just changed the width in the CSS and all is well.

Thanks for a fabulous mod!

I'm with you on the old tired brain! :D

Thanks for posting your solution - and thanks again for you comments about the mod.

Hi there,

Great addon - I Love it!!

I have the carousel working well after a bit of css hacking. My main issue was the fact that I have altered the background image of my sidebox and wanted to keep this styling within the carousel. This I have managed to do and it looks great!

However -

I have two distinct stylings for my left column and my right column and consequently two distinct carousel css stylings. Is there a way I can load a particular css stylesheet for the carousel on the left column and a seperate one for the right column? OR is there a better way to have seperately styled css for "carousel LEFT" and "carousel RIGHT" (At the moment I'm having to swap the carousel style sheet based on which column I want to use - This is obviously a headache!)

Hope that makes sense! (BTW I can't post a link to my site as I'm working locally at the moment.)

:D

Wow I've sorted it!!

I simply pre-fixed the relevant css style declarations with either #navColumnOneWrapper or #navColumnTwoWrapper so as to differentiate between columns.

I guess this is basic css but I'm still learning and sometimes forget my way around!

jagall:

Hi Ryk,

Just to let you know i did get this sorted and it was the fact that I had jquery library already installed (grasp it now better), just removed one version and have the carousel and 3slider running on the one version. thanks for help.

I get nothing. The sideboxes load as normal without any scrolling or buttons. I've tried the code in both places as recommended but still nothing. The only thing I havn't tried is deleting old jquery libraries because it is not stated where to find them.

I am still at a fairly fresh install without any other mods than this one so if someone could tell me where and how to replace old jquery library, i'd appreciate it.

http://www.contriveitnow.com/tbp/store