Zen-Cart Logo

Hi
I know that this is outlined in the FAQ and I have done what they've suggested.

My problem: I cannot get rid of the Zen-cart logo in the upper right hand corner of my site. I have eliminated every "logo.gif" and replaced them with my gif name, made enough copies of the gif file to wallpaper my bathroom. Still nothing.

Suggestions please?:cry:

Can you give us the site url and version?

I have the same issue to remove the logo. Please help.

This is going to sound silly, but have you cleared your browser cache?
Do that, then reload (don't just refresh) the page.

If you still see the wrong logo, right-click on the logo and you should see some option to view image (or try properties in IE). This will show you the exact url the browser is fetching the image from.

Check that file-if it's your image and not the old logo that is showing, rename it, refresh your browser (image should disappear) and name it back again.

Ng

@inner-beauty: Found your site ;) the path to that logo is:
/includes/templates/template_default/images/logo.gif

Ng

Thank you.

NotGoddess:

the path to that logo is: /includes/templates/template_default/images/logo.gif
BUT, that's not where you should put your logo.

You have created your own tenplate directory called my_template. You should create a directory inside it called images and place your logo there. Zen Cart will look first for you logo, stylesheet and template file in the durectories under my_template and only if it doesn't find them will it go looking in template_default. The risk of changing things in template_default is that if you upgrade, your changes may be lost.

If I could make one other observation about your site. Your images desparately need optimising for the web. Your thumbnails currently range in size from about 1.5k to almost 1.7MB. Maybe you planned this for later in your development cycle, in which case I apologise for bringing it up now.

No, no need to apologise.

I'm really quite new at all this and learning every step of the way.

Since you brought it up, how do I "maximise the images". (in plain english, please :blush: )

And I followed the instructions for the images and so far I've got the zen-cart removed :thumbsup: but have trouble getting mine in:no: So I'll keep working on that.

Thanks again for all your help.

Kim
https://www.individual-beauty.com

Kim

A question to help answer yours ... do you use graphics software, and if so, which package.

No I don't. I load the images through the admin features when adding a product. The original images are loaded to the computer via the camera software (Kodak). I don't have an intermediate program that I use to manipulate or handle graphics of any kind.

I told you I was new at this :blush:

I appreciate all your patience help.

Kim

What I use for this is freeware EasyThumbnails, you can find it here:
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/
Using this I copied your "Honey Coloured Braclet" pic that is natively 2304X1536 pixels with a size of 351KB and converted it to the Zen size of 120X80 pixels resulting in a size of 1.5KB.

Zen allows for three sizes of pics that are all in the images directory at the root and also in the large and medium sub dirs. These relate to the standard image used for standard display, a medium image for when a product description is loaded, and a large image when a customer clicks 'larger image'.

The smaller image sizes load quicker and due to smaller size do not have to suffer in clarity. This provides your customers with faster loading pages. If the customer is interested, they might want to view a larger image and are interested enough to allow the larger time to load.

You should match your image thumbs to the sizes specified in your admin/config/images.

Easy Thumbnails allows batch conversion so that this is not a tedious image at a time process. Just convert them, FTP to their respective dir's and ZEN will load the correct image size.

@kuroi: I was just helping her find the errant logo, but you correct, she should be making changes in her custom template.

@kim:
GIMP and Irfanview are very good programs. IF is good. GIMP is better but has a higher learning curve (but it has unsharp mask). There are a few good image tutorials on this site & others.

If you install the Image Handler 2.0 for v1.3 (http://www.breakmyzencart.com/) it will resize images for you-you just upload your largest image.

Just set your image settings after installation & before you start uploading :) (admin -> configuration -> images)

You should always at least crop/resize your images to the size the largest would be-that way you are uploading a 50k image instead of a 4mb image straight from the camera.

-Ng_