Sophy Blue Template

Hey all,

First of all thank you for the template! I modified the template a little for my wifes gift basket site at http://www.monumentalgiftbaskets.com. :cool:

Here's my question, the site is still in its infancy. I am using statcounter and I noticed that someone navigated to our site via MSN, searching keywords monumental gift baskets. Rather strange, but I did a search just to see, of course we are number one.

Here's the rub, the description reads as follows : "HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION ... Monumental Gift Baskets. Impress that special someone with a themed gift basket." Notice the "HOME_PA..." section? Did I set something wrong in our Meta_Tags.php? Any ideas are much appreciated!

Version: 1.3.8a

Matt

First of all the "Themed Gift Basket" is incorrect since is themed by IDEAS.

I don't understand what you are sayins since your store is Monumental Gift Baskets even the domain is that. So you are saying that you don't want people to find you using your name as keyword?

Sorry...I'm not sure where I messed up there.

"Themed Gift Baskets" is the set of Keywords I am using on our site for SEO. When I went to MSN and punched our site into the search "Monumental Gift Baskets" our site showed up on the results. Here is what MSN posted for the results...

**Monumental Gift Baskets

HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION ... Monumental Gift Baskets. Impress that special someone with a themed gift basket.

* monumentalgiftbaskets.com  * · Cached page**

Notice the first part of my search results shows [HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION].

Why would the search engine pick-up on [HOME_PAGE....] as keywords? I thought that the template was designed to use a definition and that would direct the SE to [Meta_Tags.php]? I've edited both meta_tags pages, so I'm a little lost.

I hope I explained it properly. :yes:

Thanks

"Themed Gift Baskets" is the set of Keywords I am using on our site for SEO.
Shouldn't be on the footer. You are saying that the theme of the site was made by "Gift Baskets". This is not the proper way to do SEO.

Why would the search engine pick-up on [HOME_PAGE....] as keywords?
Your metatags look this way, that's why:

<title>Monumental Gift Baskets</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="HOME_PAGE_META_KEYWORDS" />
<meta name="description" content="HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="author" content="The Zen Cart™ Team and others" />
<meta name="generator" content="shopping cart program by Zen Cart™, http://www.zen-cart.com eCommerce" />

The template was designed for 1.3.6. After that the metatags were taken to a file of their own. If you haven't work on that, maybe that's your problem. Also check if you are using the overrides correctly.

Meta Tags:

includes/languages/english/meta_tags.php

// page title
define('HOME_PAGE_TITLE', 'Monumental Gift Baskets');
define('TITLE', 'Monumental Gift Baskets');

// Site Tagline
define('SITE_TAGLINE', 'Themed Gift Baskets');

// Custom Keywords
define('CUSTOM_KEYWORDS', 'Themed, Gift, Baskets, Wedding, Welcome, Home, Graduation, Blooming, Roses, Under, Baby, Candy, Bouquets, Pets, Easter');

// Home Page Only:
** define('HOME_PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION'**, 'Monumental Gift Baskets offers a great variety of stunning gift baskets for any occasion. Weddings, Graduation, New Baby, Candy Bouquets, Roses, and so much more.');
define('HOME_PAGE_META_KEYWORDS', 'Themed, Gift, Baskets, Wedding, Welcome, Home, Graduation, Blooming, Roses, Under, Baby, Candy, Bouquets, Pets, Easter');

includes/languages/english/sophyblue/meta_tags.php

// page title
define('HOME_PAGE_TITLE', 'Monumental Gift Baskets');
define('TITLE', 'Monumental Gift Baskets');

// Site Tagline
define('SITE_TAGLINE', 'Themed Gift Baskets');

// Custom Keywords
define('CUSTOM_KEYWORDS', 'Themed, Gift, Baskets, Wedding, Welcome, Home, Graduation, Blooming, Roses, Under, Baby, Candy, Bouquets, Pets, Easter');

I do not claim to be an SEO expert and I will fix my footer. But this is a listing of my meta_tags.php from both locations. The upper one clearly defines description and keywords as is requested on the main page. So my question would be why the front page is not pulling the info properly?

Just focus your atention to this directory:
includes/languages/english/sophyblue/

Did you check the header code? Just in case is not the old code.

Ok, I fixed it. Basically, both meta tag files contained different information in each. I went through and made sure both files had all the info from each other. After I did this the keywords and description showed. Thanks for the shove in the right direction.

Ideas Girl;

A few questions ... for one, I don't have any text at the bottom that indicates that you designed the template from which I modified my store. Where was that info? Where do you prefer it to go?

My second question is regarding the missing "information.php" file (at least it seems to be missing). I'll show you a screenshot:

http://store.behaviorresearchcompany.com/shared/information_sophyblue.gif

or http://tinyurl.com/b6ud24

The site is temporarily up at http://store.behaviorresearchcompany.com/

Also, what are the mods that I have to deal with because it was developed for 1.3.6? Is there a turorial somewhere? I've tried to read through this thread, but it is incredibly difficult to read the whole thing.

Thank you so much. It really was a great template from which to work!

S

I don't have any text at the bottom that indicates that you designed the template from which I modified my store. Where was that info? Where do you prefer it to go?
Just upload the folder of languages included with your template and you are done.

My second question is regarding the missing "information.php" file (at least it seems to be missing). I'll show you a screenshot:
It's not missinig. On the contrary, a custom sidebox for "information" was created.

Also, what are the mods that I have to deal with because it was developed for 1.3.6?
No, there were minimum changes made to the template structure from 1.3.6 to 1.3.8 that you probably can pickup on the forums with the log changes from version to version.

ideasgirl:

Just upload the folder of languages included with your template and you are done.

I'm sorry to be dense, but I think I did? I didn't NOT upload anything.....

Thanks for your help.

S

Hello,

I've installed this beautiful template and am trying to get it all set up, I've been trying to locate the file to change the site title. Thought I found it but the text that is showing in the file isn't what is showing on the site.

I'm looking in: /public_html/includes/languages/english/sophyblue/meta_tags.php

Under Page Title, I have what I want there but it's not showing up in the browser title bar when you bring the site up. It's still showing, "HOME_PAGE_TITLE-Windows Internet Explorer".

Can someone help me find the correct area?

Thanks
Jim

Hi Jim,

This template was made for 1.3.7 and that particular area changed on 1.3.8. This is the correct process to do what you want:
-from FTP browser go to
/includes/languages/english/sophyblue/ (computer)
/public_html/includes/languages/english/ (server)

-from the server download:
header.php
index.php
meta_tags.php

Those are the 3 main pages you have to make changes to. The one for the title is the meta_tags.php.

-after making the changes as you want them, upload all of them to:
/public_html/includes/languages/english/sophyblue/

That should work... Have fun!

The left column box title "New Products [MORE]" is scrolling off the header of that box. Is there a way to fix this? I sized the left column to 175px so the bottom of the box would line up properly. I would like to show this box but I don't like how the text is not fitting on the column header.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Can you give me a link?

Hi,

I have installed your template on my cart and for some reason the top horizontal row of categories does not wrap - it just keeps going off the screen. I've looked at the #navMainWrapper and set it to 844px wide, but it still won't wrap in IE. It looks fine in Firefox, and it will wrap on the Classic template. I don't know what I am doing wrong - the CSS coding looks very similar to the classic so I don't know why it won't wrap. You can see what I'm talking about here: http://craftesite.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=

I've looked at the #navMainWrapper and set it to 844px wide, but it still won't wrap in IE
That's not the line that manages that area of the template.

You should go around line 293:

#navMain ul li, #navSupp ul li, #navCatTabs ul li {
	display: inline;
	white-space: nowrap;
	}

Change it to:

#navMain ul li {
	display: inline;
	white-space: nowrap;
	}
#navSupp ul li, #navCatTabs ul li {
	display: inline;
	}

This start I belief with IE8 but didn't happen before.

mmcdonald2k:

The left column box title "New Products [MORE]" is scrolling off the header of that box. Is there a way to fix this? I sized the left column to 175px so the bottom of the box would line up properly. I would like to show this box but I don't like how the text is not fitting on the column header.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Here's a few posts regarding the sidebox headers with links in 'em that might be of some help..

The first link below deals with how to remove these sidebox header links altogether..

The second link below in particular deals specifically with why the font size of the hyperlinked sidebox headers are so much larger than the font size of the rest of your sideboxes headers (and yep you guessed it.. it's a CSS fix..:smile:)

Hope this helps..

Removing title box heading link in sidebox

Sidebox Heading Fonts--some are larger than others

The left column box title "New Products [MORE]" is scrolling off the header of that box. Is there a way to fix this? I sized the left column to 175px so the bottom of the box would line up properly. I would like to show this box but I don't like how the text is not fitting on the column header.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

If you upload the language files in the template, it should fix this.

You are awesome! Your fix worked. Thanks for the help and for sharing your template!!

Hi, I'm new to Zen Cart and html programming in general so please be patient with me. I've downloaded the sophy blue template (Very nice, by the way!) and am customizing it for my store. I'm currently having trouble editing the header. My store name shows up as expected, but I was hoping to give it a larger font size. Or, I would also consider putting my own logo in place and replacing the Zen-Cart logo. I've been looking for a while now and just not confident that I can make the changes without seriously screwing something up. Can someone please point me to the right files and help me understand how to modify them properly? Can this all be done from the admin control panel or do I need to modify the code? Thanks in advance!