Almost done, a few questions

Hello everyone, first off I'd like to say that I love Zen Cart and it seems to be the best out there right now. I'm the webmaster for http://www.upscalelighting.com
and I'm working on the cart which is located here http://www.reachus.us/ZenCart/

My first question is, how do I change the color of those pink boxes to somthing that matches the rest of my site, like a blue or so. I'm sure it's a simple explaination except I can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

My second question is : Is there anyway to reorganize products I've already added to the catalog into different categories. For example, right now I have say 3 different lines of lighting, I'd like to change the categories from the names of the lines to general tittles like Wall Sconces, Pole Lamps etc Except I would also like to preserve the old category system. Is there a way to do this without adding the lights in a second time under a different category name? I suppose that question may have seemed vague.

I suppose I'll save the other questions for when we fix these lol
Thanks again!

My first question is, how do I change the color of those pink boxes to somthing that matches the rest of my site, like a blue or so
I am assuming that you can find your way around the file structure.

In includes/templates/your_template/css/stylesheet.css open this file and search for "ff6699" this is the pink color and replace it with "339999" this will match your other aqua boxes.

My second question is : Is there anyway to reorganize products I've already added to the catalog into different categories.
You should take stock of how you want your items organized. There is a method to add an item to another category but difficult to make the original hidden. You might want to look at the manufacturers linkage that is part of ZenCart. This provides for in the cart searching by Mfg. and search can also be used to select items that belong to a line i.e. like the "RoMantic"series. making it simple for the shopper to locate the matching items in a line.

You can re-organize by moving the item using the admin > catalog > area and selecting the move function

Thank you so much for your help, it is more than appreciated. I'm implementing the changes and they should be done by the time you read this. Thanks again!

-Ed @ UpscaleLighting.com

Ok, so I said I had a few more questions but I'd save them until after I fixed the last ones so here goes:

I need to make a selectable drop down type menu to choose certain options for the products on my site. I would preferably like to put them in the driscription so the customer can choose his options before adding it to the cart. Of course, I'd need the information on the customer's option selection to carry through the cart and into the order form I recieve. I'm sure it's not hard but this is my first time using ZenCart, if you could point me in the right direction I'm sure i can take it from there.

Thanks again!

You do this by defining attribute names i.e. size and attribute values i.e. s,m,l,xl and linking them to your product. You have the choice of radio buttons or dropdown and can have multiple attribute names i.e. size, color, style, etc.

Thank you so much, I've got it figured out. My next question is:

Is there anyway to make the drop down menu more prominent in the description? For example, giving it a colored box or somthing, just to draw more attention to it. I'm guessing it's in the stylesheet.

You need to get FireFox and the web dev tools. as this will allow you to determine the class of each represented item and then you can find this in your css file or add it and style away...

It is one of these I think:

.wrapperAttribsOptions {
margin: 0.3em 0em;
}

#cartAttribsList {
margin-left: 1em;
}

You can add style options once you have determined which one controls what you are seeking.

Awesome, I'm already using Firefox.

Now, is there a way to display the wheights and heights for products in the description page? Or am I just going to have to make a little html table and insert it into the description for each product?

Sorry to be a pain, but this is helping me more than you can know and saving me a lot of time.

AS you are familiar with html...and having looked at your site....you might be interested in a mod(simple one) that allows tabs in the product description that you can customize for your purposes.

It is called tabs_lite and is in the downloads section under the templates area. This is a very nice add on and allows detailed information to be added and handled easily I also do not know what you intend as a sales mode but this tab mod also works well with the cross sell mod(a bit more complicated to install) and you can do suggestive selling/linking of products.

I can't thank you enough Kobra! I've installed the tabs and they look great.

Just one more question for today:

Most of the products we offer are customizable and made to order, my boss doesn't want to have an inventory count in the description but when if I don't put in a number it will say the product is sold out. Is there anyway to keep it from doing this? Should I simply replace the "Sold Out" graphic with a "Made to Order" graphic?

One way is to enter the stock at a very high number i.e. 100,000 and then turn off the display stock in the admin.

Sorry to jump in but was going into verbose withdrawal :lol:
The question was> My second question is : Is there anyway to reorganize products I've already added to the catalog into different categories. For example, right now I have say 3 different lines of lighting, I'd like to change the categories from the names of the lines to general tittles like Wall Sconces, Pole Lamps etc Except I would also like to preserve the old category system. Is there a way to do this without adding the lights in a second time under a different category name? I suppose that question may have seemed vague.I believe what you are trying to do is have the same item listed in more than one category without having to enter or edit more than one item.
If that is true, you enter the product once then return to it in categories/products. Next to the product name, you'll see several round, colored buttons. The blue button with the C is the copy button. M is the move button.
With the copy button, you have two methods available - Link and Duplicate.
Here's the rub. Duplicate is not what you want IF you want one item listed in two or more places. Link will list the item in two or more AND allow you to edit from any category it is in. Editing any instance of "World's Greatest Product" will edit them all.

TOO COOL!:smartass:

Awesome Dbltoe, that was exactly what I wanted to do, I wasn't sure if I explained it properly enough. My boss wanted me to list them differently but there's no way I was going to re-enter all the products lol

Thank you!! :thumbsup:

Is there anyway to hide the old categories, and maybe even place them all as sub categories into a new category labeled something like "Browse by Line"?

Or at the very least, can I jsut hide the old categories?

You:
Awesome Dbltoe, that was exactly what I wanted to do and:
Is there anyway to hide the old categories, and maybe even place them all as sub categories into a new category labeled something like "Browse by Line"

Myself:
You should take stock of how you want your items organized. There is a method to add an item to another category but difficult to make the original hidden.
I did not think that from your orig post that this is what you wanted and why I suggested that you look at the mfg function...your browse by line is a look at the manufacturers line function built into Zencart.

It's cool Kobra, your other suggestions have been more helpful than I can say. I wasn't entirely sure what I wanted to do, I just didn't want to have to input all the products again lol