Free Template "Future Zen"

ebatte:

I followed the installation instructions and get the following errors:

Warning: main(includes/languages/english/header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.domain/ebatte/mydomain.com/shop/includes/languages/english.php on line 616

Warning: main(includes/languages/english/header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.domain/ebatte/mydomain.com/shop/includes/languages/english.php on line 616

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'includes/languages/english/header.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.domain/ebatte/mydomain.com/shop/includes/languages/english.php on line 616

Any suggestions on how to fix this?
This is nothing to do with the template. Instead I believe that you may have a corrupt english.php file. This may not be obvious, because the file may appear OK in a directory listing. I recommend re-uploading this one file and trying again.

Good luck.

Sorry for the most likely newbie questions...

On the main page where your log yourself in and new products for X are the bar that the words new products for X is in, is that a set graphic? (another words i need it to match the top bar and go all the way across, the text is centered but the bar is short.) or is that something i can make longer w/i CSS?

Also on the top there is the list of topics and then in a pretty blue bar the EZPages, and stuff, can you please point me to the correct sheet to change to take out the EZPages and stuff and move my topics down in to it?

sorry im am rather new at this and i cant figure out exactly where in the code it is.

Thanks!

oh and when i put this stylesheet up and rang the jewelry designer to ask her if she liked this one she was all OMG THATS SO PRETTY!!

So glad you llike the template. It's a very simple template that shows how easy it is to create something a little different from Classic Zen Cart template

Lala_G_Clef_Jewelry:

On the main page where your log yourself in and new products for X are the bar that the words new products for X is in, is that a set graphic? (another words i need it to match the top bar and go all the way across, the text is centered but the bar is short.) or is that something i can make longer w/i CSS?This version of the template has fixed widths overall and for the graphics. You would need to edit the graphics to make them fit your preferred if you change the width. However, there are also techniques for allowing the width of the page to vary and the width of the graphics to vary with them. This approach can useful even if you intend to use a fixed width page layout, as it allows the graphics to be designed, before you settle on your page width. There'll be a short tutorial on varaible width graphics coming out soon.

Lala_G_Clef_Jewelry:

Also on the top there is the list of topics and then in a pretty blue bar the EZPages, and stuff, can you please point me to the correct sheet to change to take out the EZPages and stuff and move my topics down in to it?Think of this as two separate actions. First turn off the EZ-Pages bar by going to the Config menu in Admin and selecting EZ-Page Settings (at the bottom in a default installation). Then set the value for EZ-Pages Display Status - Headebar Setting to 0 to turn off the bar you don't want.

Then, provided you don't have more than one line of topics (the official name is categories) find the following in your CSS> #navEZPagesTop {

background-image:url(../images/fullwidth_capsule.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
font-size: 0.95em;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0em;
padding: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1.5em;
}and replace it with> #navEZPagesTop, #navCatTabs {
background-image:url(../images/fullwidth_capsule.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
font-size: 0.95em;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0em;
padding: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1.5em;
}

#navCatTabs {
padding:0;
}If you have more than one line, you will need to edit the graphic to make it taller. Though there will be a slightly more advanced tutorial on variable height graphics coming along a little after the one referred to earlier.

thanks chap, good work on the new template :)

Hi,

I must say your template is much better than the originals.

Anyway, I face some problem.

The alignment went off

Please advice me how to recitify them...... as I am very new in this....

Thank you Thank you Thank you!!

That worked very well!!

as for the first question, now i think i may just NOT want that part on the front anyways, i dunno, still deciding if i like that look or not or if i just want it to be a few products instead of so many....

my site is https://www.gclefjewerly.com/catalog if you want to see what ive, umm, messed with ;) there are still silly things here and there that i havent bothered to change yet like the tag line here so im reminded that i need to finish up what the heck im doing! but its a work in progress... oh and the logo will change since she likes the blue so much and besides that one was a 30sec she needed something up logo pos anyways... :D

Again thanks so much!

lawsu:

Hi,

I must say your template is much better than the originals.

Anyway, I face some problem.

The alignment went off

Please advice me how to recitify them...... as I am very new in this....

my newbie answer would be that your font-size is too large. try playing with it and see if that helps. I would guess you have it set at like 2em try maybe 1.7em

Lala_G_Clef_Jewelry:

my newbie answer would be that your font-size is too large. try playing with it and see if that helps. I would guess you have it set at like 2em try maybe 1.7em

You mean the main category or sub-category fonts?

I did not even adjust it as I do not even know where to adjust it.... :blink:

are you talking about the wording of New Products For May Digital wording?

actually there is 2 problem.

1. The "New Product for May" should sit inside the center border by itself.
2. The sub categories starts to occupy the center border kicking the category "New Product for May" out of the space.

lawsu:

actually there is 2 problem.

1. The "New Product for May" should sit inside the center border by itself.
2. The sub categories starts to occupy the center border kicking the category "New Product for May" out of the space.Can you post a link to the site with these problems?

Hi Kuroi-

Your 'Future Zen" CSS/images package is a fine educational tool which should help assist Zen Cart newbies understand how to create/adapt their own CSS based Zen Cart templates. Probably best to highlight that it is not a "complete" template set, per se. (ahh... now I see later in this thread you posted "This isn't intended to be a finished template, but rather a gentle nudge..."). So this means it should not be a considered a "plug & play" replacement for the stock templates bundled with Zen cart. Like you stated, just a starting point.

Since it is a learning tool it might be good to include a readme which documents the differences between the provided future-zen CSS and the stock template_default CSS.

A couple notes to those whom already have an existing 'custom' template and want to "play" with this package.

I. Be sure to copy the files over from the "custom" directories below (if you have them) to their respective "future-zen" directories (or whatever name you used for the new template. Yes you will have to create the "future-zen" directories whereever needed).

/includes/modules/custom/
/includes/modules/sideboxes/custom/

/includes/languages/custom/

/includes/languages/english/custom/
/includes/languages/english/html_includes/custom/
/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/custom/

/includes/templates/custom/buttons/
/includes/templates/custom/common/
/includes/templates/custom/popup_image_additional/
/includes/templates/custom/sideboxes/
/includes/templates/custom/templates/

II. And you may want to copy files from:

/includes/templates/custom/css/
/includes/templates/custom/images/

Use care to not overwrite the CSS file and the images files provided by Kuroi in /includes/templates/future-zen (unless you are sure that is what you want to do).

You also may have other custom directories which you may need to copy over.

III. The header image (logo) is already rendered via /includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_header.php.

So that the logo does not duplicate itself you will need to edit and save as /includes/templates/future-zen/common/tpl_header.php.

Comment out:

<div id="logo"><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">' . zen_image($template->get_template_dir(HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images'). '/' . HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE, HEADER_ALT_TEXT) . '</a>'; ?></div>

Question in regards to the fixed size graphics...

Is it possible to provide the source vector files used to create the following sidebox and column and header images?

sidebox_top.gif
sidebox_middle.gif
sidebox_bottom.gif
title_bg.gif
centercolumn_capsule.gif
fullwidth_capsule.gif
header_bg.jpg

This would allow end-users to change the horizontal sizes, and fill, border and background colors, border thickness, etc (and also adjust colors outside of rounded corners to match background) without having to create the graphics from scratch.

I am unsure what would be the best standard file format used to distribute the vector outlines. Something open-source that can be imported into many vector based applications? (I use proprietary Photoshop CS and Illustrator CS).

Look forward to your "short tutorial on varaible width graphics".

Woody

Woodymon:

III. The header image (logo) is already rendered via /includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_header.php.

So that the logo does not duplicate itself you will need to edit and save as /includes/templates/future-zen/common/tpl_header.php.

Comment out:

<div id="logo"><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">' . zen_image($template->get_template_dir(HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images'). '/' . HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE, HEADER_ALT_TEXT) . '</a>'; ?></div>

Darn forum edit post timeout. too short!!

Anyway, you can avoid the above tpl_header.php.edit by removing the logo URL from the new CSS. But then that would defeat the purpose here, attempting to render the website as much as possible using CSS techniques, when warranted.

Woody

kuroi:

Can you post a link to the site with these problems?

Look here

Please advice me....... taking note that I really a newbie..... :wink2:

Hi Kuroi,

I've downloaded your template (just started setting up my first ZC shop today and now want to start customising before I proceed any further - take a peek if you like at http://sccambria-online-linux-store.com/shop )

As you can see I've already run into a few little problems e.g fitting my new "header_bg.jpg" into the top! Also can't find the files referred to by Matthew Therrier in his book "Zen Cart Building an Online Store the Zen way" - I guess he's referring to an earlier version.

Anyway I fancied trying the "Future" template. I followed your install txt and the directory and fies are now in my ..../inludes/templates directory on the server - PROBLEM IS although there are three template folders shown in that directory (classic, template_default and now future_zen_v1_1) only the classic shows up under tools/templates in my admin page.

Any suggestions why this is? I've tried all ways to make the other two show but to no avail!

Thanks,

Gwilym

I am so sorry you wasted money on that book...

Hi Kuroi,

I've just downloaded your template. I'm in the middle of getting my first ZC store up and running (take a peek if you like http://sccambria-online-linux-store.com/shop ) As you can see I've already started running into problems with the "header_bg.jpg" that I'd like to use! It's only a couple of hours since I installed the v1.3.0.1and I've already got a few issues with Matthew Therrien's instructions on how to change a few things in his book "Zen Cart Building an Online Store the Zen Way" - for beginners! I guess it's not his fault as the book came out before the latest version of ZC.

I've uploaded your template as per install.txt. Problem is in my .../includes/templates directory there's three template directories (classic, template_default and now future_zen_v1_1) however in my admin control panel (templates section) only "classic" is listed! No others are available or even mentioned. Any ideas?

Many Thanks,

Gwilym

You don't think much of it then? I've found it quite good (apart from the wrong references to certain files). it's not very slick, but does a reasonable job of easing people into the water! I have to say that his response time to queries is lightning fast (I had an issue with an error message about my server) he replied in in a flash with a good reply that got me going straight away.

Have you had a bad experience?

G.

Welcome. Let's take a look at each of your problems in turn

Big GEE:

As you can see I've already run into a few little problems e.g fitting my new "header_bg.jpg" into the top!As your header image is a background image, it will be fitted as many or as few times as necessary to fill the div to which it is the background. To make it fit exactly, you could give the div the same height as your image by fixing the height of TABLE.header in your original stylesheet.

Big GEE:

Also can't find the files referred to by Matthew Therrier in his book "Zen Cart Building an Online Store the Zen way" - I guess he's referring to an earlier version.I'm not familiar with the book to which your refer, but your conclusion is almost certainly right. Zen Cart has recently gone through a significant upgrade to move away from tables and towards CSS for layout. This is a hugely beneficial step, but also discontinuous and some aspects of the old structure could not (and should not) be maintained.

Big GEE:

Anyway I fancied trying the "Future" template. I followed your install txt and the directory and fies are now in my ..../inludes/templates directory on the server - PROBLEM IS although there are three template folders shown in that directory (classic, template_default and now future_zen_v1_1) only the classic shows up under tools/templates in my admin page.You will never see the template_default as a template that you can select. It's not strictly a template, but rather a set of defaults that plug any gaps in the template that you are using. It's more of a surprise that you can't see Future Zen. Could you take a look in the directory where you have put the future Zen template and check that there is a template_info.php file there.

Big GEE:

Have you had a bad experience?
Pssst. Big Gee. Over 'ere. A quiet word in your lug'ole. Kim is one of the developers of Zen Cart and I doubt there's anybody who knows more about it, or is in a better position to judge how well the book represents it.