Apple Zen Support Thread

Hi again Dark Angel and others...
I found the fix to have the arrows show up in the dropdown menus...!
You simply have to 'un-comment' two lines in the CSS file called "stylesheet_header_menu.css"...
That did it... and yes, it was in the Readme.txt file... :-O
Best regards...

Hello again...

Last tweak for me to conquer with this great Template...!

I would really like to have the Categories and Sub-Categories
to appear fully-expanded in the 'Categories' menu on the right...
(where all the right-side boxes are)...

LINK: http://bit.ly/iRWAVN

Right now, the menu shows a text-made arrow to show that
there are sub-categories... but i would like the menu
to be fully-expanded all the time...

Please let me know how this can be accomplished...!
Many thanx.. :D

Inspire:

Hello again...

Last tweak for me to conquer with this great Template...!

I would really like to have the Categories and Sub-Categories
to appear fully-expanded in the 'Categories' menu on the right...
(where all the right-side boxes are)...

LINK: http://bit.ly/iRWAVN

Right now, the menu shows a text-made arrow to show that
there are sub-categories... but i would like the menu
to be fully-expanded all the time...

Please let me know how this can be accomplished...!
Many thanx.. :D

yay for fixing your arrows to show.

admin/configuration/layout settings

there is a setting to show categories on main page all the time

and a setting to show subcategories all the time but it only shows them when the main category is open. I can't remember how to set them to show all the time.

I don't have a drop down menu but when I did have the categories showing at the top I did not have the sidebox showing, now I have key cats at the top with the sidebox on the side

Hi and thanx again Dark Angel...!

Quoted:
"I can't remember how to set them to show all the time."

--> This is exactly what i need as all else is working perfectly...
How to have the subcategories all the time...? (but unfortunately you can't remember...?#?)

Any other suggestions or anyone else on this forum who might be able to assist...?
As it seems like Dark Angel is the only person who's assisting at this time - Kudos DA!!

LINK: http://bit.ly/iRWAVN

Regards...

Inspire:

Hi and thanx again Dark Angel...!

Quoted:
"I can't remember how to set them to show all the time."

--> This is exactly what i need as all else is working perfectly...
How to have the subcategories all the time...? (but unfortunately you can't remember...?#?)

Any other suggestions or anyone else on this forum who might be able to assist...?
As it seems like Dark Angel is the only person who's assisting at this time - Kudos DA!!

LINK: http://bit.ly/iRWAVN

Regards...

I bet you would get more help if you broke this section off and created a new topic just for it, since it really has nothing to do with template but actual store software

Hi again...

I have taken your advice and have gotten closer by installing 'part' of an ADD-ON module
to display all cat's and sub-cat's called "categories dressing 2.7.3"

I have started a new post there to tweak my menu a bit...

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1036700#post1036700

Thanx again DA...!!

Inspire:

Hi again...

I have taken your advice and have gotten closer by installing 'part' of an ADD-ON module
to display all cat's and sub-cat's called "categories dressing 2.7.3"

I have started a new post there to tweak my menu a bit...

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1036700#post1036700

Thanx again DA...!!

you are welcome and hope that partial mod works for you with little headaches

Hey DA...

Just a note in case anyone else happens on this post etc...

I had install the full mod but got all working just the way we want it...!!

Thread Update is here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1036794#post1036794

Onwards... :flex:

lol...goes to show you how I am lost today... I am so not to be let loose on the world today...thanks for letting us know and good luck

Hey all, got my store all up and running and have pretty much completed editing the template, All I want to do is make the text in the navigation bar have BOLD text so it looks a little cleaner.

www.minus-nine.co.uk

Can't find where I need to edit to achieve this any help is appreciated.

Hello...

Store is working great at: http://bit.ly/iRWAVN

Site Map Question:

• I have a page under 'Information' called 'About Us'
• How can i have this appear in the Site Map...?
  (link for sitemap is also under 'information')
• I have been able to remove the links i didn't need
  but cannot figure out how to add this page...

Many thanx as usual... :-)
Regards...

Wired64:

Hey all, got my store all up and running and have pretty much completed editing the template, All I want to do is make the text in the navigation bar have BOLD text so it looks a little cleaner.

www.minus-nine.co.uk

Can't find where I need to edit to achieve this any help is appreciated.

I think it is here in the stylesheet_header_menu.css file......just add font-weight: bold; just before the }

to each of these:

div#dropMenu {
width:70em;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;
z-index:1000;
position:relative;
}

div#dropMenu ul {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

div#dropMenu li {
position:relative;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
float:left;
line-height:1em;
width:16.667%;
*width:16.649%;
}

div#dropMenu ul.level1 {
width:70em;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;
background:#4f4f4f; /*background color of top menu when NOT selected. */
z-index:1000;
float:left;
}

div#dropMenu li a {
display: block;
/* Hides from IE5-mac */
height: 1%;
/* End hide from IE5-mac */
padding: .6em 0;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform:uppercase;
color:#ffffff;
text-align:center;
border-right:1px solid #ffffff;
}

Thanks DarkAngel the above post was spot on.

Hi, have some sites building on Apple Zen.

Issue: we want to have right column appear only on product page. Turn off for homepage, categories listing page, etc.

I have the code set for most of this:

Right Col on for product:
http://www.findmyhomecomingdress.com/hannah-s-short/hannahs-27644-homecoming-gown

Right Col off for category listing, homepage:
http://www.findmyhomecomingdress.com/hannah-s-short

Problem: the grey background still shows where right col would be, and center box does not move over to right.

Solution?

We know about the stylesheet fix to make a one column site, but with this on, it moves the product right column down below the product and to the left.

Thanks

sph

SPH:

Hi, have some sites building on Apple Zen.

Issue: we want to have right column appear only on product page. Turn off for homepage, categories listing page, etc.

I have the code set for most of this:

Right Col on for product:
http://www.findmyhomecomingdress.com/hannah-s-short/hannahs-27644-homecoming-gown

Right Col off for category listing, homepage:
http://www.findmyhomecomingdress.com/hannah-s-short

Problem: the grey background still shows where right col would be, and center box does not move over to right.

Solution?

We know about the stylesheet fix to make a one column site, but with this on, it moves the product right column down below the product and to the left.

Thanks

sph

not sure with this theme since it is set up for those columns to show...and removing the grey from there would only leave a big blank spot....it would not make the page go wider cause the block panel would still be there for the rest of the shop.

maybe a different theme would be more lenient? or if the wide space to the right is not a bother try removing the color ref for the blocks there...mebbe

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've already tested with success on another template. AppleZen is a different animal though.

Whatever template I use, I'm probably going to move the category column to the right col, to get the product up higher for search engines to read. And drop the left col altogether. I like the seo theory of AppleZen template.

it is a very good template although a bit tuff to get it to do what we want...lol but keep trying and it might work.

Think we may use applezen template, mostly because of the built-in dropdown menu and it's seo optimization. The seo seems paramount now, getting the product name & description up higher as google reads.

Problem: In IE6, IE7 and even some IE8 browsers, the "Shopping Cart" at end of menu drops down under the Home menu.

I've enabled (I think) the additions to htaccess.

Did quick search of thread, but no solution that worked so far.

Main site that currently wraps in some browsers:
http://www.prommart.com/

A test site that no longer wraps (insofar as I can determine), but I took out the Information menu:
http://www.prom-mart.com/

I did widen the sites, as per a very early post.

Any solution short of taking items out of menu appreciated. I've seen several applezen sites with full menu that do not wrap in browser shots.

SPH:

Any solution short of taking items out of menu appreciated. I've seen several applezen sites with full menu that do not wrap in browser shots.

do you mean the drop down part or the main navigation part

I mean the main navigation part, the Shopping Cart moves under Home.

You can see it by pasting my site

http://www.prommart.com/

in to the online browser view I use and selecting IE 6 & IE7:

http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php

When I take out one of the navigation cells, it should look okay (although it does show the pink expages nav I'm not using):

http://www.prom-mart.com/