Apple Zen Support Thread

jonisolis:

Dear Jade,

Thanks for all the help.

OK I tried that, but the tagline and the logo outer wrapper are still too long. I really think I need to hire you to fix this and put the drop shadow behind the whole thing.
http://www.horse-logos.com/

May I offer an alternative solution? I found getting the text to behave well in the header difficult, so I made a second background image for the logoWrapperOuter div. you don't get to zoom in/out but it behaves predictably. You will have to set your tagline text to empty.

Here is a snippet of what I did in stylesheet.css:

#logoWrapperOuter {
margin:0 auto;
width:100%;
height: 75px; /* was 5em - em's let you size the div /
overflow:hidden;
/ background:url(../images/header-bg.gif) repeat-x; */
background-color:#AB2222;
background-image:url(../images/royal-info.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: top right;
}

in use on my site:

http://royalindustriesinc.com/store

nrg77:

Hi Jade,

I am having two problems.

#1: I can't get the dropdown menu to function on IE6 but all other browsers work (FF, Opera, IE7.)

#2: In IE6 & IE7 there is a line/gap between the navMainWrapper and logoWrapperOuter and I can't seem to fix it. If you change the colors of the background and the navMainWrapper, you will know what I mean.

Thank you so much...

1. Did you add the code in the additions_to_.htaccess to your .htaccess file?

2. Can I see a link please?

guillaume14:

Hi all !

I am new to Zen Cart and i love this template :smile:

.. but (there is always a but) i don't manage to get the "Narrow" version of the template to work. I have made the modifications in the stylesheet.css file as described but it doesn't work: i still have a right and a left column even with an unmodified Zen Cart v1.37 installation ... (see my Attachment).

can someone help plz ? (i have attached a copy of my css file too).

Thanks a lot
Guillaume

Hi Guillaume,

First of all, from the stylesheet you attached, none of my described changes for the "Narrow" header seem to have been done? You seem to have uploaded my original stylesheet.

Also, you say "i still have a right and a left column even with an unmodified Zen Cart v1.37 installation"; my narrow version doesn't get rid of a right or left column, it simply makes the header part of the site the same width as the content, instead of going all the way across the page. Here is the screenshot of the narrow header version:
http://www.zencart137.jadetrue.com/images/narrow_header.gif

If that is what you are looking to do, the attached file sheet will do that. If you're looking to do something else, let me know.

jettrue:

1. Did you add the code in the additions_to_.htaccess to your .htaccess file?

2. Can I see a link please?

What code was I suppose to add in the .htaccess file? After spending days tweaking it, I had to throw it out and start over with new installed zen cart and your template. Now the menu works for IE6 so far without tweaking anything. But there is a slight "glitch" I see on the "categories" dropdown menu button, if you hover over it, it shows a weird little bar and it cuts off as if it was trying to give a dropdown but I know there is none there.

I know all of this is much easier if you could see it but I am it is on my localhost and therefore I do not know how to show you.

Thanks.

Here I have added an image for clearer picture of the problem.

http://www.fmcomputers.com/error.jpg

nrg77:

What code was I suppose to add in the .htaccess file? After spending days tweaking it, I had to throw it out and start over with new installed zen cart and your template. Now the menu works for IE6 so far without tweaking anything. But there is a slight "glitch" I see on the "categories" dropdown menu button, if you hover over it, it shows a weird little bar and it cuts off as if it was trying to give a dropdown but I know there is none there.

I know all of this is much easier if you could see it but I am it is on my localhost and therefore I do not know how to show you.

Thanks.

In the download, open up additions_to_.htaccess, and follow the instructions there, and add all of it to your site's .htaccess file.

jettrue:

In the download, open up additions_to_.htaccess, and follow the instructions there, and add all of it to your site's .htaccess file.

Thanks for the reply Jade,

However, I don't quite understand what to do even after reading the text file you mentioned. Would you mind to show me a file that is correctly modified?

Thanks again.

nrg77:

Thanks for the reply Jade,

However, I don't quite understand what to do even after reading the text file you mentioned. Would you mind to show me a file that is correctly modified?

Thanks again.

Copy the entire addititions_to_.htaccess files. Paste that into your .htaccess file. (should be in your site's root folder) change yoursite.com to your actual web site address. Save the file. That's all.

I am LOVING this template, its beautiful! Thank you for taking the time to put it together and for having this wonderful thread. It has helped a lot!!

Now it is my turn to ask for help. If you go to my store, https://www.jewelsbyjewls.com/store you'll see what I've done so far (I hope it is OK to do the things I've done - colors etc). I've noticed all of the sudden that I am getting additional HOME words on the gray bar below the navigation bar and down at the bottom of the page below the new products. I have not really done much as far as changing the coding. I did shut off the EZPages and the Categories and wondering if that has something to do with it??

Would someone be willing to look at my link above and tell me what I might have done?

Thanks!
Julie

jewelsbyjewls:

I am LOVING this template, its beautiful! Thank you for taking the time to put it together and for having this wonderful thread. It has helped a lot!!

Now it is my turn to ask for help. If you go to my store, https://www.jewelsbyjewls.com/store you'll see what I've done so far (I hope it is OK to do the things I've done - colors etc). I've noticed all of the sudden that I am getting additional HOME words on the gray bar below the navigation bar and down at the bottom of the page below the new products. I have not really done much as far as changing the coding. I did shut off the EZPages and the Categories and wondering if that has something to do with it??

Would someone be willing to look at my link above and tell me what I might have done?

Thanks!
Julie

Hi!

They may have been there before, or perhaps if you changed templates, its showing up, because the two things you mention are stock zen cart settings. The top one is called the breadcrumb links, and you can get rid of the "HOME" on the home page (but keep breadcrumbs on other pages for navigation purposes), by going to "Configuration", "Layout Settings", and changing "Define Breadcrumb Status" to "2".

The bottom one is also the stock "HOME" in the footer that is in all zen cart installs. It should however be centered, and that's when I noticed an error in your css.

#navMainLinks {color:white;}
	float:left;
	position:relative;
	list-style-type:none;
	text-align:left;
	font-size:1.2em;
	}

You need to remove the } after color:white;

Now, if you want to get rid of that home link, you can add:

display:none;

to

#navSupp ul

Jade, thank you so much for your help!

Julie

ok one last question, and then I think I am done. If you look at the site I'm working on now (my dad's fly rod site) https://www.ausableflyrods.com and you look at the navigation bar at the top, I removed the HOME section. Is there a way to:

1. totally remove the items under the HOME tab

2. continue the white spacer bar

If I add HOME back to the navigation bar, I get home there (in the dark gray), directly below that in the green, and way up above the logo. I'm not sure how to make them independently disappear.

IF I could get the HOME to stay in the navigation bar, and disappear below it and up above the logo that would be best.

Thanks!
Julie

Hi,

Using for example cellspacing="6" cellpadding="6" in Ez-pages with HTML_editor does not have any effect with the spacing of table-cells. The spacing stays zero.

Could there be some code in default.css causing this?

grmx

Hey jade lil question

http://winkel.smileysmart-grow.nl

You see the black background next to the contect, How can I add images to that background, several images planted vertically.

hi dudes, i have installed apple_zen and not see the right box menu. why? :frusty:
(zen cart 1.3.7) tnx.

zioo:

hi dudes, i have installed apple_zen and not see the right box menu. why? :frusty:
(zen cart 1.3.7) tnx.

You need to set what you want to see in the Layout Boxes Controller under the admin of the Zen-Cart program.

ADMIN>TOOLS>Layout Boxes Controller

jewelsbyjewls:

ok one last question, and then I think I am done. If you look at the site I'm working on now (my dad's fly rod site) https://www.ausableflyrods.com and you look at the navigation bar at the top, I removed the HOME section. Is there a way to:

1. totally remove the items under the HOME tab

2. continue the white spacer bar

If I add HOME back to the navigation bar, I get home there (in the dark gray), directly below that in the green, and way up above the logo. I'm not sure how to make them independently disappear.

IF I could get the HOME to stay in the navigation bar, and disappear below it and up above the logo that would be best.

Thanks!
Julie

Well, removing the word "Home" from your language file is not a good way to go about it, because as you see it removes it from everywhere. I assume that is what you did.

I'm assuming that you want the word "HOME" back in the drop down menu bar, but you don't want it in the breadcrumbs (below the navigation bar), or at the top of the page. First, add home back to the language file.

To remove it from the top of the page, you can just add display:none;
to #navMainWrapper in your stylesheet.

For the breadcrumbs... do you want to remove them altogether, or simply remove the "Home" link? If you want to remove the breadcrumb altogether, just add display:none to #navBreadCrumb.

I don't know what you mean by "continue the white spacer bar".

mrtorrez:

Hi,

Using for example cellspacing="6" cellpadding="6" in Ez-pages with HTML_editor does not have any effect with the spacing of table-cells. The spacing stays zero.

Could there be some code in default.css causing this?

grmx

There are no tables in the ezpages output, only tables I guess if you are adding them when creating the ezpage. Could I see the page with the issue? I wouldn't add tables there, probably, but find a way to do what I needed to do with divs and css.

axip:

Hey jade lil question

http://winkel.smileysmart-grow.nl

You see the black background next to the contect, How can I add images to that background, several images planted vertically.

It looks like your site is down. Let me know if you still need help with this.

Ok another question. I noticed under INFORMATION, it lists Shipping, Privacy, Conditions of Use, About Us, Gift Certificates, Discount Coupons and Unsub Newsletter.

My question is, in the About Us, it indicates the text to change is on the define page not found page. Is there anyway I can change that directly to About Us? I also need to add more pages, but don't know where to name them specifcally or how to place them so they show up under information.

I also just noticed that under MY ACCOUNT, the LOGIN area is missing...anyone know how to fix that?

Again the site I am working with is https://www.ausableflyrods.com

Thanks!
Julie