recently viewed

musicfreer:

I saw the sidebox at product info page

The recently view sidebox can show up anywhere you want. Because we disable certain boxes on certain pages, that's why you don't see it on the index page.

BlessIsaacola:

The recently view sidebox can show up anywhere you want. Because we disable certain boxes on certain pages, that's why you don't see it on the index page.

thanks for your reply!
I really love the layout of your best seller and recently viewed sidebox

is it possible for you to share the codes of the tpl files of best seller and recently viewed sideboxes?

thanks in advance!

FYI, I want to have a dotted line break between products, and a certain spacing between photos and products names...

musicfreer:

thanks for your reply!
I really love the layout of your best seller and recently viewed sidebox

is it possible for you to share the codes of the tpl files of best seller and recently viewed sideboxes?

thanks in advance!

FYI, I want to have a dotted line break between products, and a certain spacing between photos and products names...

Both the recently viewed and best sellers mods were downloaded and installed as they are. The othe stuff is just stylesheet changes and the information for that is included with the readme file. There is really nothing special that we've done other than adding padding for spacing.

You can change the line style to dotted with the css class instead of solid line.

musicfreer:

wo, your site is so professional!
I found that u also use the RSS feed contri. When I click the button, it directed me to a page which allows me to choose to add the feed to browser bookmark, google reader or yahoo. However, it only works with the browser bookmark. If I choose google and yahoo, it doesn;t work at all. I have the same situation with you. Do you have any idea about it?

Can you please send me a link to the page you're talking about, when I try to subscribe to the css, I did not get google or yahoo reader.

BlessIsaacola:

Both the recently viewed and best sellers mods were downloaded and installed as they are. The othe stuff is just stylesheet changes and the information for that is included with the readme file. There is really nothing special that we've done other than adding padding for spacing.

You can change the line style to dotted with the css class instead of solid line.

thanks, I am kinda new to zencart and php, so not much idea about it... anyway I will keep on trying. Any hints about the CSS that you could give me?

for the RSS pls goto this page
http://www.clevershoppers.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=specials

I am using FF3, it will ask if I want to add the feed to browser, google or yahoo

yahoo link:
http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clevershoppers.com%2Findex.php%3Fmain_page%3Drss_feed%26feed%3Dspecials

I found that google is working fine too, just yahoo doesnt

musicfreer:

thanks, I am kinda new to zencart and php, so not much idea about it... anyway I will keep on trying. Any hints about the CSS that you could give me?

for the RSS pls goto this page
http://www.clevershoppers.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=specials

I am using FF3, it will ask if I want to add the feed to browser, google or yahoo

yahoo link:
http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clevershoppers.com%2Findex.php%3Fmain_page%3Drss_feed%26feed%3Dspecials

I found that google is working fine too, just yahoo doesnt

this error msg popped out when I tried to add your feed to yahoo

"There were some problems while loading your page:

Sorry, we were unable to add this feed. Please try again later."

musicfreer:

thanks, I am kinda new to zencart and php, so not much idea about it... anyway I will keep on trying. Any hints about the CSS that you could give me?

for the RSS pls goto this page
http://www.clevershoppers.com/index.php?main_page=rss_feed&feed=specials

I am using FF3, it will ask if I want to add the feed to browser, google or yahoo

yahoo link:
http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clevershoppers.com%2Findex.php%3Fmain_page%3Drss_feed%26feed%3Dspecials

I found that google is working fine too, just yahoo doesnt

The information about the css is nicely laid out in the readme.txt file downloaded with the mod. All the classes are nicely laid out at the bottom of the class.

I copied the code and pasted it in the standard stylesheet.css and modified it but you can also make it a separate file if you preferred.

Here is the code that we are using which may or may not work for you depending on your column width.

#bestsellers .wrapper {
	margin: 0em 0em 0em 0.2em;
	font-size: 0.9em;
	}

#bestsellers ol {
	margin-left: 0.7em;
	}

#bestsellers li {
  margin-left: 5px;
	padding-top: 5px;
	margin: 0em 0em 1.0em 0em;
	clear: both;
	}

.bestsellersBorder {
	border-bottom: 1px dotted Silver;
	padding-top: 5px;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	padding-left: 4px;
}

BlessIsaacola:

Here is the code that we are using which may or may not work for you depending on your column width.

#bestsellers .wrapper {
margin: 0em 0em 0em 0.2em;
font-size: 0.9em;
}

#bestsellers ol {
margin-left: 0.7em;
}

#bestsellers li {
margin-left: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
margin: 0em 0em 1.0em 0em;
clear: both;
}

.bestsellersBorder {
border-bottom: 1px dotted Silver;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-left: 4px;
}

thank you so much, I will try to append it and apply it to recently viewed box too

thanks again!

musicfreer:

thank you so much, I will try to append it and apply it to recently viewed box too

thanks again!

That will not work for recently viewed sidebox because that sidebox is not calling any of the classes defined in the code that I pasted.

That code ONLY affects the best_seller mod available for download (NOT even the standard bestseller that's included with ZC).

BlessIsaacola:

That will not work for recently viewed sidebox because that sidebox is not calling any of the classes defined in the code that I pasted.

That code ONLY affects the best_seller mod available for download (NOT even the standard bestseller that's included with ZC).

yeah sure, thanks for reminding, so I will see if I am able to add the class to the tpl file

but I saw that your recently reviewed layout is different from original. Originally the image is stick together with the product name without any space. Did you make any change to it?

musicfreer:

yeah sure, thanks for reminding, so I will see if I am able to add the class to the tpl file

but I saw that your recently reviewed layout is different from original. Originally the image is stick together with the product name without any space. Did you make any change to it?

The classes that control those are:

.recent-products-name
{
padding-top: 0pt;
padding-right: 0pt;
padding-bottom: 0pt;
padding-left: 8px;
font-size: 1em;
}

.rent-products-price
{
padding-top: 0pt;
padding-right: 0pt;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 8px;
}

BlessIsaacola:

The classes that control those are:

.recent-products-name
{
padding-top: 0pt;
padding-right: 0pt;
padding-bottom: 0pt;
padding-left: 8px;
font-size: 1em;
}

.rent-products-price
{
padding-top: 0pt;
padding-right: 0pt;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 8px;
}

thanks a lot! let me get a try!

Allow me to ask one more question. It is about the image size. I saw the small image on your best seller and recently viewed box is a real small image. Mine is a big image (400 x 400) being resized to a small one. Do you use image handler? Would you please teach me how to load a small image as this would largely speed up the site.

Thanks

my site for your reference:
<http://www.locomolife.com/store/>

musicfreer:

thanks a lot! let me get a try!

Allow me to ask one more question. It is about the image size. I saw the small image on your best seller and recently viewed box is a real small image. Mine is a big image (400 x 400) being resized to a small one. Do you use image handler? Would you please teach me how to load a small image as this would largely speed up the site.

Thanks

my site for your reference:
http://www.locomolife.com/store/

Unless you already fix your problem. Both your bestsellers and recently viewed are resizing just fine. To test this, right click on the image and view property.

Yes, we use IH2 on our website.

yes, I just installed IH2 to resize the picture. It works fine there. Just it crashes with another mod I am using, Swap Image on Mouseover
With this mod, when u hover to additional picture in product info page, the main pic will change automatically to the one u hover.

But after I installed IH2, it doesn;t work now. Do you have any idea that I can stop the resizing function on product info page? I only need the resize function on other pages, and I do not need the zoom function

thanks!

Btw, there is a line break under the first product of the best seller side box. It looks weird. Do you know how I can get rid of it? Or how I can have it under every product, but not just the first product?

too many questions, thanks...

musicfreer:

yes, I just installed IH2 to resize the picture. It works fine there. Just it crashes with another mod I am using, Swap Image on Mouseover
With this mod, when u hover to additional picture in product info page, the main pic will change automatically to the one u hover.

But after I installed IH2, it doesn;t work now. Do you have any idea that I can stop the resizing function on product info page? I only need the resize function on other pages, and I do not need the zoom function

thanks!

Well, all the settings are under configuration - images. You can disable the zoom and the resizing but you need to understand how the resizing work and affects other images. For example the small image size is what bestsellers mod uses to resize...it takes that value divided by two (and you can change the formular). But that size setting also affects about 5-7 other images that are called by Zen Cart....

You can trick IH to not resize your large image for example by setting it to a number greater than your biggest image. So for example if your biggest image is 680 x 480 you can either set it to 800 x 600 or 0 x 0 and image handler will not resize.

I am also not sure if you did a file compare or not and merge code where they are needed. IH2 works fine with the other mod, you just need to account for it..

I have uninstall the other mod from our test environment so I don't have access to the changes in the file anymore. If you look in the thread for the mods that you're interested in, you will probably get better support instead of using this thread for every topic.

musicfreer:

Btw, there is a line break under the first product of the best seller side box. It looks weird. Do you know how I can get rid of it? Or how I can have it under every product, but not just the first product?

too many questions, thanks...

That's there because you did not follow the instructions that have been posted in the thread for bestsellers. Apply the changes in that thread and everything will work fine.

thanks, actually I did try to paste the codes on the readme file to the css stylesheet. But still it is not working. The border still exists. I will try more! Thanks a lot for your time. I better do not border you too much! Thanks again!

musicfreer:

thanks, actually I did try to paste the codes on the readme file to the css stylesheet. But still it is not working. The border still exists. I will try more! Thanks a lot for your time. I better do not border you too much! Thanks again!

I am not sure that we are talking about the same thing. If you go to the other thread, you will notice that this issue was discussed and there is a new file released to fix it as well as the code pasted.