cant get past header

I have a single colum layout no colums left or right.
Ok so i've gotten past the header and footer... those are working fine.
i have added an image for the header and thats fine...
i cant for the life of me figure out how to move on past that. what do i do to edit the main section? adding buttons? linking those buttons to mens/womens sections... im really lost and i've been going at this for hours now.

I will try to help as best I can. Have you already added categories? If not, try adding a couple of categories.

Under Configuration --> Layout Settings --> Main Page - Opens with Category should be set at 0 by default. This setting should make your Top Level categories show on the Main Page, if you don't have anything else on the Main Page.

If you want to add your own text and images to the Main Page, try Tools --> Define Pages Editor --> define_main_page.php

the catagory is set to 0 but the main catagory i want displayed is 65. now i know i could just change the 0 to 65 but then when you hit "home" it will take you to 0 not 65.... back at square one.

If you change the number to 65, then when you hit "Home" you will be taken back to category 65, not 0. Try it, and see if it does what you want it to.

I'm not really clear on what your issue is and what you're trying to do. It sounds like you're at the point where you should be adding categories/products.

What specifically do you want to do?

Do you have a url we can look at?

ok so ive tried both options using 65 instead of 0 and that didnt work.
also tried using the "main page" editor and nothing happened there..
am i missing something?

http://www.ransomapparel.com/store

and now this is poped up above the header...

{ return '0.00'; } } //// // Create a Coupon Code. length may be between 1 and 16 Characters // $salt needs some thought. function zen_create_coupon_code($salt="secret", $length = SECURITY_CODE_LENGTH) { global $db; $ccid = md5(uniqid("","salt")); $ccid .= md5(uniqid("","salt")); $ccid .= md5(uniqid("","salt")); $ccid .= md5(uniqid("","salt")); srand((double)microtime()*1000000); // seed the random number generator $random_start = @rand(0, (128-$length)); $good_result = 0; while ($good_result == 0) { $id1=substr($ccid, $random_start,$length); $query = "select coupon_code from " . TABLE_COUPONS . " where coupon_code = '" . $id1 . "'"; $rs = $db->Execute($query); if ($rs->RecordCount() == 0) $good_result = 1; } return $id1; } ?>

ok something is really messed up....
when i go to admin/tools/define pages editor, a blank page comes up...
im not sure what i did but it dosent seem good.
anyone help me?

p.s. my add new product button also leads to a blank page now...

well now your link ends up at a page not found and the url switches to pointing to the zc_install directory......Something is definetly screwed up. Something is not being found so it doesn't think its installled and tries to call the index.php in the zc_install directory, which appears to have been deleted like it should be after install.......

ok so ive just started over completely...
i erased everything and re-installed.... shitty part is now all the stuff my friend did for me and the database i had going is not up. i did a backup of the "store" file before doing any of this in hopes i might be able to fish out the database.
anyone know how i could do that so i dont loose the customes i already had?

p.s. this forum rocks! people are friendly and very helpful. thanks for having patience with the a newbe.:thumbsup: