Apple Zen Support Thread

Hi, I am using your template and site is staring to look good. But I am stuck. I would like to move entire cart from center to left. I have added:

float: left;

within body tag. This works ace in Firefox eg moves everything to left, but in IE it's still in the center. I have been playing around trying to fix it without any luck. Would appreciate any advise.

Thanks in advance.
Peter

I love this template, but can't get some of the boxes working. No matter what I do I cant' get the shopping cart side box to show up. I've set it to right side and on but nothing shows up. Other boxes work, but not shopping cart and a few others.

Any ideas?

Thanks! Corina

you need to be logged on to see the shopping cart...

Hi!

Firstly, like to acknowledge the commitment Jade has made to this thread and the template. Insane dude!

I hope to save him some time and maybe someone else can point me in the direction of solving this issue. I cannot for the life of me figure out what I did to shift the horizontal dropdown menu down. I think I may know what the issue is, but in which file I'm not too sure. I have reinstalled the theme and the problem was still there, so I think it might be a conflict between original zencart files and the apple zen files. I have attached an image so there is a clearer picture of what I mean:
http://www.pinin.com.au/images/pininsiteheader.JPG

And our website: http://www.pinin.com.au

Also, does anyone else have a formatting issue with the template? For some reason, paragraphing does not work properly with my product descriptions.

If anyone can point me in the direction of which files I should be altering, that would be a great start!

Corina:

I love this template, but can't get some of the boxes working. No matter what I do I cant' get the shopping cart side box to show up. I've set it to right side and on but nothing shows up. Other boxes work, but not shopping cart and a few others.

Any ideas?

Thanks! Corina

You need to be logged in and have placed some items in your shopping cart before it appears. If customers are logged in and browsing, I don't think the shopping cart sidebox pops up until they ACTUALLY start shopping and put things in their cart.

If it still doesn't, you should doublecheck in your admin that the configurations you've put in place are correct.

If that fails, I think you should reinstall the sidebox files. Backup everything obviously!

olieve:

Hello, Jade,
I did not receive any reaction on my email I sent the 20th of Nov.
Now I uploaded my site.
Please visit http://www.olieve.be/shop
to see my problem.
If not clear please ask.
Thanks a lot in advance.

Olieve.

Your url is not working :P

sykes48:

Hi there,

I was trying to load the real cool Apple Zen template but being a real luddite I have clearly corrupted a file somewhere.

Now when I go to my site nothing is displayed below the header.

I am desperate fro help but bear in mind I am a complete noob.

I am using Zen cartV1.3.8

Cheers
Lee

Have you tried the debugger thing for Zencart? I think that would be a great start if you think one file is screwing up everything else. Just follow the instructions, and if one of the files is corrupt and therefore has bad coding, the log files will pick it up and you can change whatever it is that needs to be changed.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84613

sykes48:

Hi there,

I was trying to load the real cool Apple Zen template but being a real luddite I have clearly corrupted a file somewhere.

Now when I go to my site nothing is displayed below the header.

I am desperate fro help but bear in mind I am a complete noob.

I am using Zen cartV1.3.8

Cheers
Lee
Could I see a link? It sounds like you might not have uploaded all of the files. Check, double check, triple check, etc., that each file has ended up in the right place. Is only half of the drop down menu present as well? That means you haven't uploaded all of the files in the correct spots.

peterapo:

Hi, I am using your template and site is staring to look good. But I am stuck. I would like to move entire cart from center to left. I have added:

float: left;

within body tag. This works ace in Firefox eg moves everything to left, but in IE it's still in the center. I have been playing around trying to fix it without any luck. Would appreciate any advise.

Thanks in advance.
Peter

It's the margin:0 auto's in the stylesheet that are forcing the centering. Find this section:
/wrappers - page or section containers/

and start removing margin:0 auto's there.

You'll also need to remove it from #contentMainWrapper, and others. You don't want to remove all of them, just for the outer most divs for the section you are wanting to change. View the source of your site to get an idea of which div's you'll need to remove the margin:0 auto from.

jettrue:

I've included three extra colors in addition to the default apple green... red, blue, and grey. To change colors, simply open up includes/templates/apple_zen/css/stylesheet.css, and un-comment the color you want to use, and comment out the color you don't want to use. You'll also need to open up includes/templates/apple_zen/css/stylesheet_header_menu.css to change the colors in the drop down menu.

Hello: I've been searching this thread for 3 weeks. Is there a way to change to color schemes other than the ones included with this template or is there a way to change the color of the black horizontal menu bar only? Thanks

KristineG:

Hello: I've been searching this thread for 3 weeks. Is there a way to change to color schemes other than the ones included with this template or is there a way to change the color of the black horizontal menu bar only? Thanks
Of course, you can change to any color you like by using the stylesheet, or opening up the images in the includes/templates/apple_zen/images/ folder in an image editing program and change the colors.

jettrue:

Of course, you can change to any color you like by using the stylesheet, or opening up the images in the includes/templates/apple_zen/images/ folder in an image editing program and change the colors.
Thank you for the reply. I did find how to change the site colors. The only problem I'm having is changing the Menu bar from black to another color. I did manage to change the drop down color but I don't care for the black main catagories menu bar. Can you give me the location for that one? If I'm not being clear, here's a link to my site. www.coutiva.com
Thanks

Hi there,
I've searched in every corner of the forums, and I'm sure the answer is here somewhere but I can't find it! :frusty:

I'm having a problem with my sideboxes. When I activate them they appear at the bottom of my screen under the main text on the right hand side. This happens with any sidebox I activate under Tools>Layout Boxes Controller.

I've checked the column widths in Configeration>Layout Settings and they are all at 150px.

Can anyone please help!!!!

Many thanks!

Tiff - bumboo.com.au

bumboo:

Hi there,
I've searched in every corner of the forums, and I'm sure the answer is here somewhere but I can't find it! :frusty:

I'm having a problem with my sideboxes. When I activate them they appear at the bottom of my screen under the main text on the right hand side. This happens with any sidebox I activate under Tools>Layout Boxes Controller.

I've checked the column widths in Configeration>Layout Settings and they are all at 150px.

Can anyone please help!!!!

Many thanks!

Tiff - bumboo.com.au

Its because you did this:
.centerColumn {
width:95%!important;
float:left;
margin:0 2% 2% 3%;
text-align:left;
line-height:1.6em;
display:inline; /* fixes IE Bug in IE6 and earlier - do not remove */
}

That width is supposed to be 75%.

I assume you changed it because you wanted to have the image go all the way across the home page.

IF you change it back to 75%, then the sideboxes will work as desired.

If you want the sideboxes to never show on the home page. I think adding this to your css will do it:

#indexHomeBody .centerColumn {
float:left!important;
width:95%!important;
}

#indexHomeBody .navColumnTwo, #indexHomeBody .navColumnOne {display:none;}

Hi Jade,
Thank you so much for your excellent help! It fixed my problem perfectly. I think you're incredibly generous with the assistance you give everyone.
Sincere thanks!
:clap:

Hi there,

Great template...but now I am struggling. I have made a lot of changes to the template most of which I am happy about.

My site is: https://www.electronicgiftshop.co.uk

I have added display: none to the css because I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the home log in and search bar in the main header (think that is what it is called)

However, all I really wanted was to display a logo above the drop down menu.

Now I am stuck..so any help would be really appreciated

thanks

Lee

sykes48:

Hi there,

Great template...but now I am struggling. I have made a lot of changes to the template most of which I am happy about.

My site is: https://www.electronicgiftshop.co.uk

I have added display: none to the css because I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the home log in and search bar in the main header (think that is what it is called)

However, all I really wanted was to display a logo above the drop down menu.

Now I am stuck..so any help would be really appreciated

thanks

Lee

Well a lot more hours later I am just about there except I can't seem to get a logo to show...stumped..any help?

Cheers

Lee

sykes48:

Well a lot more hours later I am just about there except I can't seem to get a logo to show...stumped..any help?

Cheers

Lee

I have managed to sort my logo out. My last issue is the layout changes depending on which browser you use, I have tried the latest IE& and Mozilla Firefox.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Lee

www,electronicgiftshop.co.uk

I agree, great templete. This is what I did with it:
http://mrcleanmobileautodetail.com/autodetail[/url]
I will gladly share css.

Stuart
[email protected]

911computer-rescue.com

jettrue:

If you want the sideboxes to never show on the home page. I think adding this to your css will do it:

#indexHomeBody .centerColumn {
float:left!important;
width:95%!important;
}

#indexHomeBody .navColumnTwo, #indexHomeBody .navColumnOne {display:none;}

I would like to remove the sidebox from the main page only. Using the bit of css above, found in a previous thread, I attempted to achieve this but the sidebox was only pushed down, not removed. Here is a screen shot.

I have also tried the following, on tpl_main_page.php, as per a Zen tutorial:

if ($this_is_home_page) {
$flag_disable_left = true;
}
But also had no success.

FYI: I followed Apple Zen tip #5 and moved the sidebox to the left, although not recently. However, that may be playing into this, as well.

Thanks for what ever help you can offer.