Need help with a couple of things

So this is my first time trying to use Zen Cart and it has taken me MANY hours to get this far: http://www.thedonutlounge.com/zencart/catalog/

Here are a few things I'm having a hard time figuring out.. any help would be greatly appreciated!

1. I was wondering how to take away the Categories Tabs listing that shows up below the header.

2. How do I customize the Information section because I don't want all those pages showing nor w/ those page titles?

3. How can I get the Categories to already show WITH the subcategories and not having to click on the "-->"?

4. How do I get rid of "Congratulations! You have successfully installed your Zen Cart™ E-Commerce Solution." on the main page?

5. I was able to edit the copyright info at the bottom, however, I tried changing the background color to match the background of my site (like the Home, Log In part above) but it wouldn't work. I inserted a body tag in the tpl_footer.php page.. I think that is where I went wrong. So I'm wondering where I can change it at.

I guess that's all for now. If I could fix those 5 things I'd be so happy for the time being until I add more pages and features. Thank you in advance!

Question 1.
admin > configuration > layout settings > Categories-Tabs Menu ON/OFF
Set this to 0

Thanks, I actually just found that before I checked back here.

Another question:

I found how to change the size of certain images for products etc. but where do I change the size of my Categories images like on the main page? The pic I uploaded should be 100x100px yet it comes out so tiny.

thedonutlounge:

How do I change the image size of my category images (like the one I have displayed on the main page)?

Take a look here:
admin > configuration > images

thedonutlounge:

So this is my first time trying to use Zen Cart and it has taken me MANY hours to get this far: http://www.thedonutlounge.com/zencart/catalog/

Here are a few things I'm having a hard time figuring out.. any help would be greatly appreciated!

1. I was wondering how to take away the Categories Tabs listing that shows up below the header.

2. How do I customize the Information section because I don't want all those pages showing nor w/ those page titles?

3. How can I get the Categories to already show WITH the subcategories and not having to click on the "-->"?

4. How do I get rid of "Congratulations! You have successfully installed your Zen Cart™ E-Commerce Solution." on the main page?

5. I was able to edit the copyright info at the bottom, however, I tried changing the background color to match the background of my site (like the Home, Log In part above) but it wouldn't work. I inserted a body tag in the tpl_footer.php page.. I think that is where I went wrong. So I'm wondering where I can change it at.

I guess that's all for now. If I could fix those 5 things I'd be so happy for the time being until I add more pages and features. Thank you in advance!

Question 2's answer: Go to Admin>tools>Define Pages Editor, select "Main Page" and delet or re-define the text there.

Question 3's answer: Go to the downloads section, and download a mod like the CSS Flyout Menu (link in my signature).

Question 4's answer: In your folders, go to includes/languages/English/index.php and find those lines in the code, and edit or delete them.

Question 5's answer: Change ALL background colors in stylesheet.css located in includes/templates/template_default/css/stylesheet.css
Note: If you've installed a custom template, then, go to it, instead of template_default. The rest of the path remains the same.

Hope this helps.

haredo:

Take a look here:
admin > configuration > images

I tried that and I found one that said Categories but it only relates to the Category images on the Product info page so it did nothing to the main page.

Get Em Fast:

Question 2's answer: Go to Admin>tools>Define Pages Editor, select "Main Page" and delet or re-define the text there.

Ooops, sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant the Information section of the Sideboxes (which isn't viewable right now). But under it are other links like Shipping & Returns, Gift certificate FAQ, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I guess is part of the default template. I wanted to make my own links under that sidebox heading.

Oh my.. seems like your Home/Log In are white text in Firefox and reside into the white layout, the opposite of how pleasant it looks IE.

Sketchy:

Oh my.. seems like your Home/Log In are white text in Firefox and reside into the white layout, the opposite of how pleasant it looks IE.

Thanks for letting me know! I wish all browsers were the same...

You're welcome. Yeah, wouldn't that be nice. Although, Firefox is still more compliant than IE7. Your custom header code probably just requires minor adjustment.

Sketchy:

Oh my.. seems like your Home/Log In are white text in Firefox and reside into the white layout, the opposite of how pleasant it looks IE.

thedonutlounge:

Thanks for letting me know! I wish all browsers were the same...

donut, I see you're working on the "Home" "Login" problem. I see you're in the right area. Try this (I was working on it, too):

#navMain ul, #navSupp ul, ul {
margin: -1.5em;
padding: 0em 0.9em;
list-style-type: inline;
text-align: center;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

This will actually move those links up int the dark red background are, so anyone with any browser shouldn't have any problems seeing them.
Oh, yea.......as far as thos links in the boxes......I can change what it says, but changing where those links go to, requires someone with a lot more php experience than me, because I think you've got to change code in several different page to accomplish that. Sorry.

Hope this helps with the Home and Login link problem, though.

Whoa! What happened there? I just changed a couple of the margin numbers, and it looked good. I guess you found those EXACT lines?
I'm working with your site on FF with the Developers Tool Kit, and when I edited you CSS, It was perfect. But, I see you had the links in dark red area, but the whole logo moved over to the left.

I see you've got it taken care of. Looks good.

Get Em Fast:

I see you've got it taken care of. Looks good.

Thanks! Too bad I didn't see your suggestions sooner. I did a lot of rearranging and tinkering to get it looking right in Firefox. I ended up taking the links out of the navmainwrapper tag altogether and then adjusted the CSS for the headerwrapper and it worked.

And about those links, it's okay. I'm not going to use sideboxes at all.

I'm pretty much satisfied with all the changes everyone has helped me with. Now I'm just looking for how to customize my Product pages. I don't really like the layout. I'd like to take out the Write Reviews & Tell a Friend buttons and also I'd like to use more than one image for my products... and a larger image. I had it working earlier where the image I uploaded showed up in its full view but I changed something and now it's a thumbnail again.

Trying to customize zen-cart has been my greatest website challenge but I must say, I'm learning a lot more about php & css.

I'd like to take out the Write Reviews & Tell a Friend buttons

Disable "Write a Review" and/or "Tell a Friend"

~Admin - Catalog - Product Types - Product General(depending on your store set-up, you may have to do the other ones) - Edit Layout:

"Show Product Tell a Friend button" ~Set to 0(off)

"Show Product Tell a Friend button" ~Set to 0(off)

Also, accordingly remove the corresponding sideboxes via the Layout Boxes Controller if you haven't already.

Sketchy:

Disable "Write a Review" and/or "Tell a Friend"

~Admin - Catalog - Product Types - Product General(depending on your store set-up, you may have to do the other ones) - Edit Layout:

"Show Product Tell a Friend button" ~Set to 0(off)

"Show Product Tell a Friend button" ~Set to 0(off)

Also, accordingly remove the corresponding sideboxes via the Layout Boxes Controller if you haven't already.

Thank you. I actually found that one the other day.

But, I am now having trouble with adding a new page. I followed all the steps, created a tpl_CUSTOM_page, header_php, define_CUSTOM, and CUSTOM pages. The page shows on my site http://www.thedonutlounge.com/zencart/catalog/index.php?main_page=blog and the define_blog.php page shows in the drop down menu on Define Pages Editor. However, when I edit it nothing shows! I've tried to go through my codes again and again but I can't find anything. Even when I edit define_blog.php using my own editor and not through admin, nothing changes.

What could be going on?

I've never made pages like that, so I'm not sure.

I checked the page source from that blog page and compared it with your shop page.

It seems apparent that nothing is there.. for content.

I also don't know if this is why, but on your shop page there is div set up for content. Your blog page doesn't have this content div. I don't believe an editor sets this up.

In short form, the difference comparison is as follows:

<div class="centerColumn" id="blog">
<h1 id="blogHeading">BLOG</h1>


<div class="centerColumn" id="pageThree">
<h1 id="pageThreeHeading">SHOP</h1>

<div id="pageThreeMainContent" class="content">

Maybe see if there was a component left out. Other than that, someone else might have a clue what the exact problem is.

Sketchy:

In short form, the difference comparison is as follows:

Hmm weird, when I go to my tpl_blog_default page my content tag is in there.

Pretty much everything that was done for the Page_# pages by Zen Cart, I have copied to make a new page. So I'm not sure why my define_blog.php isn't working :[

Oh, that's strange.

Have you tried it again, starting from a new set of files? Sometimes that helps to smooth out the rough edges. If you want, PM me to maybe send the files, so I could perhaps have a look. Four eyes usually are better than two in some cases. I wouldn't mind learning the ropes as I have no real need to make any of my own or perhaps I could to learn and then send you the files for comparison sake.