Better Categories Contrib & ezpages

My case is bit changeling...at least for me…

I have a bilingual bookstore website (https://www.best4future.com). Right now I am selling Chinese books. So you can see(The category is on the right side of the website.
), the pointer image is a Chinese flag before each category (e.g. learn Chinese, Chinese story books, Chinese multimedia). But I want to expand the bookstore to French, German, Spanish and Japanese.

And I want to use a French flag for all the categories relating to French language (e.g. learn French, French story books, French multimedia). The same, a German flag for all the categories relating to French language (e.g. learn Germany, Germany story books, Germany multimedia).

Is there any way to achieve that? Thank you so so much!!

lina0962:

My case is bit changeling...at least for me…

I have a bilingual bookstore website (https://www.best4future.com). Right now I am selling Chinese books. So you can see(The category is on the right side of the website.
), the pointer image is a Chinese flag before each category (e.g. learn Chinese, Chinese story books, Chinese multimedia). But I want to expand the bookstore to French, German, Spanish and Japanese.

And I want to use a French flag for all the categories relating to French language (e.g. learn French, French story books, French multimedia). The same, a German flag for all the categories relating to French language (e.g. learn Germany, Germany story books, Germany multimedia).

Is there any way to achieve that? Thank you so so much!!

Can anybody help me? It has been posted for more than a month....

lina0962:

Can anybody help me? It has been posted for more than a month....

Depends on which category sidebox module you are using. There are various modules out there that support a language override folder with the icon within.

Twitch.

You are using the categoriescss menu (not sure of its mod name) on the left, and BetterCategories on the right. I don't know if either of them supports multiple languages, but if the list markers are specified in the stylesheet, you can redefine them in your language stylesheet.

BetterCategories puts the icon into the HTML output; you would have to ask in its support thread if there is a language override for that. It uses the /template_default/images/ folder, so I don't think so.

Categories Dressing natively supports multiple languages for text and images.

The categoriescss menu uses a background-image in the stylesheet, so you should be able to override this in your language stylesheet if you want to:

stylesheet_categories_menu.css (line 55)
div#nav-cat li.submenu {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background-image: url("../images/bc_cat_boxes.gif");
background-position: left center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-left: 25px;
z-index: 1500;
}

Just realized that this IS the support thread for BetterCategories - the different post titles on the whole page that I see now threw me off. Let's get the post titles back to base...:)

Please tell me how to turn off the smileys in the ezpage nav butons.
Thank you

pageblair:

Please tell me how to turn off the smileys in the ezpage nav butons.
Thank you

From the "readme.txt"

• Don't want an image!
  Copy the 1x1_transparent.gif to the relevant image file. Don't remove the image from the php files as it fixes a problem with IE6 and allows the rollovers to work on the entire cell, not just the text link. The bestseller sidebox default image is the 1x1 transparent pixel.

Thank you!

What file contains:

I want to fill in the alt tag. Is there a way use the image name as a default for this alt tag?

I tried using Developers Toolkit but cannot locate the file that creates the empty alt tag for this image...

CustomBooks:

What file contains:

<div class="betterCategories"> <a class="category-top" href="http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=32"> <img src="includes/templates/mytemplate/images/bc_cat_pointer_right.gif" alt="" width="19" height="13" />mycategory</a></div>

I want to fill in the alt tag. Is there a way use the image name as a default for this alt tag?

I tried using Developers Toolkit but cannot locate the file that creates the empty alt tag for this image...

You can, but is there a point to this???

Edit \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE\sideboxes\tpl_categories.php
Search for each zen_image function eg:php $pointer = zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . 'bc_cat_pointer_right.gif'); and add the alt name you want to use. So this becomes...```php
$pointer = zen_image(DIR_WS_TEMPLATE_IMAGES . 'bc_cat_pointer_right.gif', 'bc_cat_pointer_right.gif');

I haven't tried the above but it should work

Can you tell us why to want to do this?
I would have thought you would want to hide any alt name for these pointers

gilby:

Can you tell us why to want to do this?
I would have thought you would want to hide any alt name for these pointers

Many thanks! That worked; I wasn't sure if the $pointer statement was where to add the alt tag or exactly how to add an alt tag to that statement. Weak php. Why: needed alt tag for SEO.

And how on earth is having a generic alt tag on a marker image going to affect SEO? I could theoretically see it affecting validation, as you are supposed to have alt tags for images, but this is a content-free image and it won't increase relevance to have an alt label popping up when someone happens to mouse over the pointer.

I have the BetterCategories mod installed and just installed a new sidebox that isn't included in the mod. Is there a way to add a new sidebox to the mod so that it shows the BetterCategories properties as well?

rrzc:

I have the BetterCategories mod installed and just installed a new sidebox that isn't included in the mod. Is there a way to add a new sidebox to the mod so that it shows the BetterCategories properties as well?

Sure...
review the template files in the mod and add a better??? class to your template file for your new sidebox.

gilby:

Sure...
review the template files in the mod and add a better??? class to your template file for your new sidebox.

Thanks. Would I have to add a pointer to the template file of the sidebox that is being added? The sidebox is displaying bullet points (which are different from the pointer images in the mod) and I would like to remove them/replace with the transparent image.

The issue in the previous post has been resolved.
Does a pointer image need to be added to the new sidebox template file to resolve the IE6 issue?

rrzc:

The issue in the previous post has been resolved.
Does a pointer image need to be added to the new sidebox template file to resolve the IE6 issue?

Depends what you are displaying?
Generally, Yes it does need it.

At this point, I would not bother with extra effort to accommodate IE6 unless your target market is unusually limited to old technology. As long as it works correctly for them, a few odd bits are just a gentle nudge that they should be using something else. Even people with win2k systems who can't upgrade past IE6 can use the newest Firefox, and employees who complain about the limitations of corporate fixation on IE6 may help move them to the current decade.

gilby:

Depends what you are displaying?
Generally, Yes it does need it.

The sidebox displays product links. Its working fine with the mod after adding 'better' to the template files, but I would like to accommodate IE6. The rollover is working properly. What code would need to be added to the sidebox template file to add the transparent pointer image?

After changing the default pointer image to the transparent image in the categories sidebox, a dot (.) appears in front of each category when it is under the rollover.
Does anyone know how to remove this dot?