Things every New Zenner needs to know

huhm, i don't see the css button - should I be in admin for this or on the Main_page itself??

You may not have the FireFox toolbar open. This is not in the admin section of your site but in the toolbars in FireFox.
Or, it may not be installed. Look first under Tools in FireFox. Is there a menu item Web Developer? If not, it's not installed.
If it is there, got to View, Toolbars and click on the Web Developer Toolbar.
Once the toolbar is open, you'll see a green blob next to the letters CSS.
The other helpful item on that toolbar is information. Items 4 through 6 on that menu are very helpful to me.

you are right it is not installed - how do I get it?

http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper\ for the Web Developer and http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ for the HTML Validator.

There are many others you may like as well. Just got to Tools, Extensions to find more.

Ahh, good looking out! - Thanks for the help!:D

one more thing, I just replaced my template, what is the path to change the footer (copyright info) & the header (my own Custom Logo/header)?

Here's where your other great tool comes into play. Go into the admin portion of your site, to the tools menu. Go down to Develeoper's Toolkit and open it. In the last item on the list, enter Copyright in the left-hand box. Tab to the next and select the one that searches in both the admin and catalog. Tab again to the search button and hit enter.

You'll use this almost as much as FireFox.

:smile: COOL!!! Now it comes up with a whole bunch of them, can the search be narrowed down? I take it the same applies to the "tag line"!? Another question (fyi, thanks for your patience) can the body width be adjusted, I am not using any right side boxes - just on the left, and I wanted to strech it out to the far corner, sdo it looks fuller, is this possible??

Usually you can narrow it down by the name of the file. Header, footer, and main would give you a pretty good idea of where they would be putting data. Others are not as revealing but you will get the hang of it.
Use Firefox for the appearance of the site. If you use information and display div order. you'll note that some things are called wrapppers. These define the size of the area they wrap. By adjusting them in the css, you'll resize the site.

Remember that changes to files should be saved in your template override files to save them from being overwritten in future upgrades.

you lost me there - how do I save them in the overide??

Winfab-

Bolding, exclamation points and yelling are generally frowned upon. They indicate a bad attitude. Now, there are lots of very nice people that are willing to help if you will be patient.

The files you need to look at are on your web server and you need to access them via FTP. If you do not know what that is then please Google for a basic FTP tutorial.

I am sorry I didn't realize that, I was just trying to make it stand out - I will keep it it mind for future postings - thanks for the heads up

anyway....:D
Don't know what template you are using without a link to your site and I am on a laptop in the middle of nowhere so we'll word it this way.
if the file is includes/templates/whatever.php, you would change it and save it as includes/templates/winfab/whatever.php.
This is, of course, assuming that your are using winfab as your directory names for the override directories.
Search the FAQs and wiki for a better explanation of the override system.

the url is https://www.apostle.com I found the email footer, made the changes, re-uploaded and it still looks the same - Am I missing something, is there more then one place I need to make this change (I changed it under includes/languages/english/email_extras.php) the change didn't take place...not sure about that, any ideas??

I believe the override is under winwood

Winfab:

the url is https://www.apostle.com I found the email footer, made the changes, re-uploaded and it still looks the same - Am I missing something, is there more then one place I need to make this change (I changed it under includes/languages/english/email_extras.php) the change didn't take place...not sure about that, any ideas??Unless you look at an email, you won't see a change. try looking for just plain footer.:wink2:

And..... Since you have changed to the sophyblue template, the file would be saved as includes/languages/english/sophyblue/email_extras.php

We were attracted to Zen by it's multilingual capabilities. We are bravely starting a zen store with 5 languages and I would love reading a good tutorial on how this works and how not to end up mixing up language translations when they are updated (which will be constanly on our site). To add to the potential problems the original language to be translated could be any of them to all the rest.

I'm a real new Zenner and I would like to know how to post a new thread.

I do not need to post right now but yesterday I searched and searched for a way to post a new thread. It took me a long time but I finally found a button that took me to a new post box.

Today, I'm looking again but cannot find a way, so having a "Post New" button in the navigation would be great.

Just my opinion.

Syl