Simple Zen Template - Support Thread

Hi,

Ill let you know about the fonts once I adjust them.

About the spacing. When I edited it with the code you gave it all dissapeared, I mean the its like no code was ever entered. :down:

Yes I use IE with Medium font size compared to my other sites the font size here are much larger thats why I asked.

Thanks
Gavin

Him

No the spacing it correct i entered it wrong lol.

Ok and the font looks much better now aswell. Thanks for the help.

Gavin

Hi,

More questions.

On the right sponsors and have you seen... are alligned left, how can I allign them to center?

Thanks
Gavin

cyptc:

Hi,

More questions.

On the right sponsors and have you seen... are alligned left, how can I allign them to center?

Thanks
Gavin

Add
.rightBoxHeading

to this long line of centered stuff:

.centeredContent, TH, #cartEmptyText, #cartBoxGVButton, #cartBoxEmpty, #cartBoxVoucherBalance, #navNextPrevWrapperTop, #navNextPrevWrapperBottom, #navCatTabsWrapper, #navEZPageNextPrev, #bannerOne, #bannerTwo,  #bannerThree,  #bannerFour,  #bannerFive,  #bannerSix, #siteinfoLegal, #siteinfoCredits, #siteinfoStatus, #siteinfoIP, .center, .cartRemoveItemDisplay, .cartQuantityUpdate, .cartQuantity, .cartTotalsDisplay, #cartBoxGVBalance, .leftBoxHeading, .centerBoxHeading, .productListing-data, .accountQuantityDisplay, .ratingRow, LABEL#textAreaReviews, #productMainImage, #reviewsInfoDefaultProductImage, #productReviewsDefaultProductImage, #reviewWriteMainImage, .centerBoxContents, .specialsListBoxContents, .categoryListBoxContents, .additionalImages, .centerBoxContentsSpecials, .centerBoxContentsAlsoPurch, .centerBoxContentsFeatured, .centerBoxContentsNew, .gvBal, .attribImg {

	text-align: center;

	}

Thanks that worked like a charm.

As I continue to work on the site some more things pop up and I cant stand to not ask as I couldnt find it by search.

How do I cahnge the background color from grey to something else.

Thanks again

Gavin

Also I would like to change the colors of the middle section. So for example the sides are blue and the middle yellow or something different. You know so the middle does not seem so attached to the sides.

cyptc:

Thanks that worked like a charm.

As I continue to work on the site some more things pop up and I cant stand to not ask as I couldnt find it by search.

How do I cahnge the background color from grey to something else.

Thanks again

Gavin

cyptc:

Also I would like to change the colors of the middle section. So for example the sides are blue and the middle yellow or something different. You know so the middle does not seem so attached to the sides.

Background color --- everything that you want to change as far as color is in the css file. Have you tried playing around with the css? For instance... if you look at the body tag in the css file, it has a background color (background:#999;). Try changing that. You never know. :smartass: :lol:

If you look at the page source, you can see that the sideboxes are controlled by:
#navColumnOne (left side) and #navColumnTwo (right side)

The center stuff is controlled by:
.centerColumn

Just add the background colors you want to those.

What I do when I want to change css in a site, is to first look at the source, and find what section I'm wanting to change, then find that tag in the css.

Hi,

All your help has worked well. Its turning out great.

I know I can be a pain sometimes with all these questions I'm sorry. I am trying to play around the css before I ask any questions but theres some I cant get in the code being a rookie at this and knowing only basic html. Im better with hardware since thats what I earn my living on :lol:

I have a couple things.

Being the only director of my company and having recently expanded from out of eBay sales hence I needed a website.

1. It does not have that professional look, I am missing something. I love criticism, I believe the more I am criticized the better I can improve my faults. Please please look at me site an tell me what you think I can improve :) Other than my logo as all my business cards have that logo lol.

2. If you look at my page https://www.street-market.co.uk youll see that the grey line in the header has a break in the middle; I cant fix it. I have looked at other sites using simple zen and the problem does not exist so the problem can not be from the way I am viewing it.

HELP ME PLEASE! :lamo:

cyptc:

2. If you look at my page https://www.street-market.co.uk youll see that the grey line in the header has a break in the middle; I cant fix it. I have looked at other sites using simple zen and the problem does not exist so the problem can not be from the way I am viewing it.

HELP ME PLEASE! :lamo:

Your logo is 90px tall... the original logo is 86px tall... either you need to resize your image to 86px tall, or in the css change:

#tagline ul {
height:86px;
margin:0;
width: 336px;
background:#fff url(../images/topnav.gif) no-repeat right top;
}

to height:90px

Do you realize you have an issue on your product pages as well? (I'm looking at the sony vaio laptop). The description is wider than it should be, and it's pushing the right sideboxes off the page. (At least in Safari and Firefox its doin that). Either you need to turn off the right sidebox altogether, or decrease the width of your center content. Right now the table containing the extra product information is set to 529px wide.

You also need to change this section:
#productDescription, .shippingEstimatorWrapper {
padding: 0.5em;
}
to
#productDescription, .shippingEstimatorWrapper {
padding: 0.5em;
clear:both;
}

That will move the product description table down where it needs to be.

Can we continue this via PM? I think some of this is getting beyond the scope of this template thread. I'm happy to help, but would rather do it off the thread.

Thanks!

Hi,

Sure sorry for filling up all the tread with non-template related issues. I would appreciate if you can send me a pm with further critisism.

Thanks
Gavin

Has anyone tried simple zen in IE 7 ?

Wondering if you've hit any snags

Thanks :-)

I've reviewed all the templates, including Simple Zen, with IE7 and FF2 and haven't noticed anything obviously wrong in any of them.

This template has been updated for 1.3.6, basically I just made the changes noted here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49957

You can find it in the downloads section! :cool:

Added another quick update, as I forgot to make a small edit in includes/templates/simple_zen/common/tpl_header.php. Simply change:

Hi,

I installed simple Zen 1.8 on my Zen Cart 1.3.5 (German version) everything works fine only the picture with the shopping cart/contact us/my account (and the links) are missing. Did anyone has an idea how I can fix it? I tried the 1.5; 1.6 and 1.7 before and I had the same problem.

You can see it here: http://lm.teestube-online.de

I love this template, so I hope someone knows how to fix this problem.

Thanks and greats

Christian

It's probably because you are using a german languages folder?

You need to upload the changes that are found in includes/languages/english/simple_zen/header.php

Christian111:

Hi,

I installed simple Zen 1.8 on my Zen Cart 1.3.5 (German version) everything works fine only the picture with the shopping cart/contact us/my account (and the links) are missing. Did anyone has an idea how I can fix it? I tried the 1.5; 1.6 and 1.7 before and I had the same problem.

You can see it here: http://lm.teestube-online.de

I love this template, so I hope someone knows how to fix this problem.

Thanks and greats

Christian

I uploaded the file in the German language folder and it works!

Thanks a lot jettrue!

Greats

Christian

how do you turn on the right side boxes, i increased the width of the main page and now i'd like to add a few sidboxes on the right side

https://www.gorillagear.ca

got it now i'm curious if how you can disable the right side boxes as i only want them to be displayed on the main page

Love your template! I am still on the fence about the footer links: being visible only on mouse overs. Is there a way to turn this off?