Oxford Dark Template Support Thread

I have been customizing the template for about 6 days now and have been trying to hold have bothering you with questions but I need some guidence. I am finding the text and the background not to have enough contrast and being hard to read and would like to maybe increase the font size a little in the category boxes and the color. The shipping esitmator pop-up is almost impossible to read as the background is black and the font color is dark gray. I went to the css stylesheet and change the font color in the first line. It made it much better to read the shipping estimator but then product pages were getting harder to read as they have a white background. The estimator also has a green tab runnign through I would like to change.....where can I find the code to change these items?
Note: When I did change the font color not everything changed in the estimator, the "close window" text never changed and was almost impossible to see with the rest of the text brighter.
Thanks in advance https://www.torontoturbo.com/online

racinjason:

I have been customizing the template for about 6 days now and have been trying to hold have bothering you with questions but I need some guidence. I am finding the text and the background not to have enough contrast and being hard to read and would like to maybe increase the font size a little in the category boxes and the color. The shipping esitmator pop-up is almost impossible to read as the background is black and the font color is dark gray. I went to the css stylesheet and change the font color in the first line. It made it much better to read the shipping estimator but then product pages were getting harder to read as they have a white background. The estimator also has a green tab runnign through I would like to change.....where can I find the code to change these items?
Note: When I did change the font color not everything changed in the estimator, the "close window" text never changed and was almost impossible to see with the rest of the text brighter.
Thanks in advance https://www.torontoturbo.com/online

All of the font colors, sizes, etc. are in the stylesheets located in the includes/templates/oxford_dark/css folder. I would recommend installing the firebug addon for firefox and googling a beginners tutorial. It is very easy to use and will tell you the exact line of the exact stylesheet that you need to edit to make changes.

If after you give firebug a stab you sill have specific questions, you can post here and I will try to help you. I do believe in you doing your own footwork though so you should be able to figure out most of the customizations yourself and only post if you get stuck ;-)

Thanks,

Anne

My zencart is complete..........I am very happy with the results, I will continue to tweek in in the next few days. I noticed when some of the images were saved as jpegs they lost a bit of color. I am hoping I can save them as png's and not corrupt the code?

There is just one thing I need help fixing and that is the header on the main page (new, featured, specials)is not centered and I cannot find where to correct it. My searching makes me beleve there is a bunch of scripts running it?...............I was hoping I could just add <align-centre> somewhere to fix it.
What file would I have to do that in?
Thanks
for the great template.
https://www.torontoturbo.com/online

racinjason:

My zencart is complete..........I am very happy with the results, I will continue to tweek in in the next few days. I noticed when some of the images were saved as jpegs they lost a bit of color. I am hoping I can save them as png's and not corrupt the code?

There is just one thing I need help fixing and that is the header on the main page (new, featured, specials)is not centered and I cannot find where to correct it. My searching makes me beleve there is a bunch of scripts running it?...............I was hoping I could just add <align-centre> somewhere to fix it.
What file would I have to do that in?
Thanks
for the great template.
https://www.torontoturbo.com/online

To center the tabs in the stylesheet_tab_menu.css file, add this to the #moduleMenu:

width:470px;margin:0 auto;

Thanks,

Anne

I located the "Shop by Brand" in the includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/oxford_dark/headermenu.php. However, if I remove the wording 'Shop by Brand' it leaves extra spaces on the header menu. I looked at the includes/templates/oxford_dark/css/stylesheet_mega_menu.css as instructed on the readme file, but none of the dropdown classes are listed as described in the instructions.

Can you please provide some guidance?

jt1020:

I located the "Shop by Brand" in the includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/oxford_dark/headermenu.php. However, if I remove the wording 'Shop by Brand' it leaves extra spaces on the header menu. I looked at the includes/templates/oxford_dark/css/stylesheet_mega_menu.css as instructed on the readme file, but none of the dropdown classes are listed as described in the instructions.

Can you please provide some guidance?

If you read the reame.html file carefully you will see that you have to add the classes to the stylesheet_mega_menu.css file to hide the drop downs. They are not already there.

Thanks,

Anne

Hi! This is a amazing theme i just have a few questions because I am a total noob.. First is how can I disable the slideshow and second how do I get my top tab to say my sites name rather than Oxford Dark? Thank you in advance for any help

phantompoet:

Hi! This is a amazing theme i just have a few questions because I am a total noob.. First is how can I disable the slideshow and second how do I get my top tab to say my sites name rather than Oxford Dark? Thank you in advance for any help

You can disable the slide show by adding the following to the stylesheet.css file:

#home-banner{display:none;}

Please do a search on the FAQ's section for the answer for your second question.

Thanks,

Anne

A quick question if I may. .

Instead of showing Featured Products in Tabbed center box, I would like to instead show all my main categories with category image in grid format. I know I can switch the featured products tab off so that it does not display, but I need to know how to instead show categories in one of the tabs..

So in the tabbed centerbox I would like **Categories **(grid layout with category images) | New Products | Specials

If you can please tell me if this is possible and what code to add/edit/replace in order to realize this.

enigma666666:

A quick question if I may. .

Instead of showing Featured Products in Tabbed center box, I would like to instead show all my main categories with category image in grid format. I know I can switch the featured products tab off so that it does not display, but I need to know how to instead show categories in one of the tabs..

So in the tabbed centerbox I would like **Categories **(grid layout with category images) | New Products | Specials

If you can please tell me if this is possible and what code to add/edit/replace in order to realize this.

This will involve custom programming. I would take a look at the tabbed home page modules thread to see if this has already been covered there, if not, I would hire a programmer.

Thanks,

Anne

Okay thank you, I will have a look at that thread.

Hi,

I don't know if anyone is looking at this thread anymore, but just in case, I'll give it a try.

Anne, I followed your read me file for installation.

Using FileZilla, I dragged the 'includes' folder into the root directory.

Then I went to the templates section of ZenCart admin.

Not there!

I knew it sounded too simple.

Any ideas?

fourforfore:

Hi,

I don't know if anyone is looking at this thread anymore, but just in case, I'll give it a try.

Anne, I followed your read me file for installation.

Using FileZilla, I dragged the 'includes' folder into the root directory.

Then I went to the templates section of ZenCart admin.

Not there!

I knew it sounded too simple.

Any ideas?

I answer posts to all of my free template threads daily.

You need to double check that you uploaded the files to the correct location on your server. If you are not seeing the template in your admin--tools--template selection then you have at least one or more files in the wrong place.

Thanks,

Anne

Step 3 of 3 - Order Confirmation page has the letter "x" that appears next to the number in the Qty. (See picture from your demo site below) It also appears in the admin panel under the customers purchase. Is it possible to remove the letter? If so, how?

jt1020:

Step 3 of 3 - Order Confirmation page has the letter "x" that appears next to the number in the Qty. (See picture from your demo site below) It also appears in the admin panel under the customers purchase. Is it possible to remove the letter? If so, how?

This has nothing to do with the template, it is native zen cart functionatily. If you want to change it you can do a developers toolkit search and find out what files need to be edited.

Thanks,

Anne

picaflor-azul:

This has nothing to do with the template, it is native zen cart functionatily. If you want to change it you can do a developers toolkit search and find out what files need to be edited.

Thanks,

Anne

I am a novice with zen cart and can't seem to locate the files to correct it. Can you possibly assist me in correcting this or finding the files?

jt1020:

I am a novice with zen cart and can't seem to locate the files to correct it. Can you possibly assist me in correcting this or finding the files?

Please do a search in the FAQ's section of this site for a tutorial on how to use the developers toolkit.

Thanks,

Anne

Anne I hope you can help me with this obnoxious problem....

I have never had this happen before with any template. It states that it can be used with 1.3.9h (her live store) so it got installed. I had installed/tweaked/edited it in a test 1.5 store for when she feels ready to upgrade and it worked beautifully.

From the get go it was problematic...it would not show online...you could see it listed in admin but total blank online...then suddenly it allowed the template to be seen. I have checked the directory and files permissions and all are chmodded right. Her host even set the permissions higher they said.

If you go here: https://www.pennylanebridal.com.au/shop/

You can see the about us text at the top. It will not go away.

Now I went thru and deleted all its files (to make things go away), checked to make sure none got left behind and/or misplaced in other directories and still.....

the about us text at the top is there. nothing makes it go away. I even installed just that file into the current template and deleted the text from the admin area but it is still there. I have looked at the database and there is no mention of about us anywhere there either.

it doesn't show that it is in ANY file in the entire stores files so can't locate where it is showing from...it is a ghost of text...lol

When the page loads up you get a flash of a white background with the text (left aligned) then it loads the current template and the text is centered at the top.

Any idea of what to do now?

Hi,

Yes, really messed-up and I also haven't seen that before. Especially with a Picaflor template.

I did notice from your view source that the template is not Picaflor's oxford but a TM template "Theme277/css/stylesheet_tm.css". Is there some conflict with the templates?

Do your log files show anything re errors?

Steve

Hi Steve,

No the template showing right now is the Theme277 since oxford did not want to work at all with 1.3.9h of zencart. I have removed all oxford files and this does not show in define pages at all.

I even uploaded the about us file into the theme277 then removed the text from the file and still it shows. admin dev tools says it is not located in any file neither in main files nor admin files, yet it shows itself there.

I have not been able to get rid of it and wanted to see if someone could give me a hint of something else to do.

It acts like it is living in some file on the server but I sure can't find it.

She would love to have it show and work in the live store, says it can be used in 1.3.9h and hopefully we can get it to behave but otherwise we doctored the template she has now.

My next step tomorrow night will be to replace all the core files with fresh ones to see if something is not kosher any more.