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2 Mar 2009, 9:01 PM
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Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

ladybugmom:

I wondered if someone knows where to find this space.

I have moved the nav line under the header. Next I switched the search box to the right side. My problem is this, on the left side of the nav bar there is about a half inch space between the left edge and my first home-link.

I have tried everything I can think of and wondered if anyone would know where to find the area to change.

It is somewhere between the navmain wrapper and the navmain. Any Ideas?

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I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but you can add margin:0 to

h3.leftBoxHeading, h3.rightBoxHeading {
font-size:1.1em;
font-weight:normal;
height:1.5em;
padding:.2em 0 0 0;
}

Oh wait, I see what you mean, you can add padding:0 and margin:0 to this:

#navMain ul {
float:left;
list-style:none;
}

2 Mar 2009, 9:05 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

michellepchy:

Hello again,

I hate to be a pain but I followed the previous instructions and managed to change all the colours I wanted to except for the background colours of the sideboxes. When I removed the image and put in my colour code the whole page turned that colour whereas I would like to have the middle white still.

https://www.4fun4play.co.uk

Its not much but I am getting there.

Any help you could give would be great.

You need to leave this section alone:
}
#contentMainWrapper {
background:url("../images/sidebox.gif") 100% 0 repeat-y; /* This is the right column background "faked" with an image. */
background-color:#fff; /*background color for the main "content" of the site /
}
#contentMainWrapperb {
background: url("../images/sidebox.gif") 0 0 repeat-y; /
This is the left column background "faked" with an image. */
}

and then upload pink versions of sidebox.gif. :smile:

2 Mar 2009, 9:14 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

jjoslyn:

Hello;

I have my site http://centeredchef.com/cconlineorder working fine using the cherry zen template. One thing I'd like to change is making the sideboxes and center column always extend to 100% of the height of the browser. I've tried suggestions made in the general forum with no luck. Is this possible with this template?

Thanks in advance.

That's not easily accomplished on any site, and it never is cross-browser friendly. You could make a body background image that is white in the middle. But you'll loose the variable width functionality of this template. IMO, it's not worth it.

2 Mar 2009, 9:21 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

jettrue:

You need to leave this section alone:
}
#contentMainWrapper {
background:url("../images/sidebox.gif") 100% 0 repeat-y; /* This is the right column background "faked" with an image. */
background-color:#fff; /*background color for the main "content" of the site /
}
#contentMainWrapperb {
background: url("../images/sidebox.gif") 0 0 repeat-y; /
This is the left column background "faked" with an image. */
}

and then upload pink versions of sidebox.gif. :smile:

Thank you for replying. Does this have to be done with an image as i do not know how to create the image and would prefer to use a code instead if thats possible.

2 Mar 2009, 9:25 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

jettrue:

That's not easily accomplished on any site, and it never is cross-browser friendly. You could make a body background image that is white in the middle. But you'll loose the variable width functionality of this template. IMO, it's not worth it.

Thanks for looking into it, I appreciate your time! Thanks again for the template.

2 Mar 2009, 11:48 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

Dear Jettrue, thank's for the great template. :smile:

I have a question. How to add one or two additional menu on the header menu?:cool:

Thank's for attention...

3 Mar 2009, 1:49 AM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

jettrue:

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but you can add margin:0 to

h3.leftBoxHeading, h3.rightBoxHeading {
font-size:1.1em;
font-weight:normal;
height:1.5em;
padding:.2em 0 0 0;
}

Oh wait, I see what you mean, you can add padding:0 and margin:0 to this:

#navMain ul {
float:left;
list-style:none;
}

It worked like a charm. Thank you for your help. I really love this template and really thank you for sharing it and your time.

LadyBugMom:clap:

3 Mar 2009, 4:36 AM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

jettrue:

The template changes sizes, so you'll never be able to have the exact width. Upload a smaller logo, then give #logoWrapper the same background color that your logo has. And remove the padding-left from #logo.

Thanks Jade...that worked great!

My site is starting to look pretty now. I still can't get a divide line between the header and the body of the site.

I've followed your instructions for the EzPages bar, but it's not showing up on my site. Something is also wrong with the search bottom. There's a space above the red bar at the top and if I scroll up the bar will line up with the search bar. I shouldn't have to do that though. Really don't think the space at the top of my screen should be there at all. It's like the whole site is shifted down on the page too much.

If you get the time, could you please take a look...maybe you know of an easy fix.
http://www.paradiseembroiderydesigns.com
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3 Mar 2009, 5:45 AM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

Thanks to Jade for a great looking template, even bigger thanks for including precise and easy to follow modding instructions for the CSS etc. The simplest to follow Ive found.
Ive just done the basics like colour changes, column width changes etc but I plan on delving deeper into the customisation of this template, nothing short of excellent.

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3 Mar 2009, 1:28 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

michellepchy:

Thank you for replying. Does this have to be done with an image as i do not know how to create the image and would prefer to use a code instead if thats possible.
It's not possible, otherwise I would have done it that way to. :smile:

Open up the sidebox.gif that I provided in any image editing software, it can even be "paint", replace the color I put in the file with the color you want.

3 Mar 2009, 1:37 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

Micki:

Thanks Jade...that worked great!

My site is starting to look pretty now. I still can't get a divide line between the header and the body of the site.

I've followed your instructions for the EzPages bar, but it's not showing up on my site. Something is also wrong with the search bottom. There's a space above the red bar at the top and if I scroll up the bar will line up with the search bar. I shouldn't have to do that though. Really don't think the space at the top of my screen should be there at all. It's like the whole site is shifted down on the page too much.

If you get the time, could you please take a look...maybe you know of an easy fix.
http://www.paradiseembroiderydesigns.com
Thanks,

You've got these weird symbols at the top of your site (I can see it in firefox and camino)


Which tells me you have an issue with some file you've uploaded. I would ask in the general forum, I think it's a common issue that is easily fixed.

As for the search_header.php, you need to go to "Tools", "Layout Boxes Controller", and turn off the right sidebox for 'search_header.php'. As described in the readme.txt, only the single column status should be set to "ON".

What do you mean by 'I still can't get a divide line between the header and the body of the site.'

3 Mar 2009, 1:39 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

larocirai:

Dear Jettrue, thank's for the great template. :smile:

I have a question. How to add one or two additional menu on the header menu?:cool:

Thank's for attention...

Open up includes/templates/cherry_zen/common/tpl_header.php

Be sure to make #navMain a little bit wider if needed in the stylesheet.css. But too much wider and you'll break the layout. I'd only add one additional item there.

3 Mar 2009, 4:55 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

jettrue:

You've got these weird symbols at the top of your site (I can see it in firefox and camino)


Which tells me you have an issue with some file you've uploaded. I would ask in the general forum, I think it's a common issue that is easily fixed.

As for the search_header.php, you need to go to "Tools", "Layout Boxes Controller", and turn off the right sidebox for 'search_header.php'. As described in the readme.txt, only the single column status should be set to "ON".

What do you mean by 'I still can't get a divide line between the header and the body of the site.'

Thanks Jade:

I will take your advice and post in the generak forum to see if somebody can help direct me on how to fix the top of my site.

If I choose to have my categories read in tabs instead of the sidebox, I get a nice dark green bar that divides the header from the rest of the site below the header. The appearance with the dark green bar makes the site look much nicer. Only problem is that I don't want my categories reading in tabs there. Thought I could activate the Ez Bar to solve this problem, but I can't get that to work. I'm thinking that I could take the image of my header and add a dark green bar to the image, save and re-upload. My original thought was to use your Ez Bar and if it was possible to change the colour from grey to green.

Sorry I am being such a pain, but I love your template and really want it to work for my site.

3 Mar 2009, 6:17 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

jettrue:

It's not possible, otherwise I would have done it that way to. :smile:

Open up the sidebox.gif that I provided in any image editing software, it can even be "paint", replace the color I put in the file with the color you want.

Thank you I have figured out how to change it in paint to match my html code I wanted. Its looking a lot better now.:clap:

3 Mar 2009, 6:56 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

Micki:

Thanks Jade:

I will take your advice and post in the generak forum to see if somebody can help direct me on how to fix the top of my site.

If I choose to have my categories read in tabs instead of the sidebox, I get a nice dark green bar that divides the header from the rest of the site below the header. The appearance with the dark green bar makes the site look much nicer. Only problem is that I don't want my categories reading in tabs there. Thought I could activate the Ez Bar to solve this problem, but I can't get that to work. I'm thinking that I could take the image of my header and add a dark green bar to the image, save and re-upload. My original thought was to use your Ez Bar and if it was possible to change the colour from grey to green.

Sorry I am being such a pain, but I love your template and really want it to work for my site.

#logoWrapper {border-bottom:15px solid #000000}

change to the height and color you want.

3 Mar 2009, 10:41 PM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

Installed and started working on customising this.

Everything looks great graphically, however the darn css has be conflounded.

My monitor res is set to 1280 x 1024 and I have managed to fudge the css to accommodate the sizes I need it to be, in my case 99% width always.

With the default settings I had a scroll bar accross the base of the site, setting to 99% removed this.

I then had to add a top margin above the category title because for some reason I had a gap of 12 px.

So, with the above res it looks perfect, however if I set my resolution to the norm and more common 1024x768 the content part of the site flows into the right column.

Can you please explain how exactly this css works for this site, as I am confused.

4 Mar 2009, 12:41 AM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

spottedhaggis:

Installed and started working on customising this.

Everything looks great graphically, however the darn css has be conflounded.

My monitor res is set to 1280 x 1024 and I have managed to fudge the css to accommodate the sizes I need it to be, in my case 99% width always.

With the default settings I had a scroll bar accross the base of the site, setting to 99% removed this.

I then had to add a top margin above the category title because for some reason I had a gap of 12 px.

So, with the above res it looks perfect, however if I set my resolution to the norm and more common 1024x768 the content part of the site flows into the right column.

Can you please explain how exactly this css works for this site, as I am confused.

Conflounded. Nice new word.

My advice to you, is to put it back to the original css, sounds like you've conflounded it.

Width section should look like this:

/* site and main content width section */
	
html>body {
	width: auto;
}
#nw {
	width:80%; /* main site width; if you'd prefer a fixed width site, enter the width in px here. */
	max-width:1300px; /* prevents the main content from getting wider than 1300px in sites other than IE */
	min-width:1000px; /* this prevents the main content from getting smaller than 1000px in browsers OTHER THAN IE. You can make this as small as 800px, BUT any smaller than that, and the top header menu will break into two lines. Also, if you make this width 800px, you will need to make sure your product image on the product info page is no wider than 190px */
}
/* IE only. Controls Width of Site and Main Content*/
* html #nw {
 width:expression((d=document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat" ? document.documentElement : document.body) && (d.clientWidth > 1300? "1300px" : d.clientWidth > 1048? "80%" : d.clientWidth < 1048? "1000px" : "80%")); /* this prevents the site from getting smaller than 1000px or wider than 1300px in IE */
}
/* end IE only */
/* end site and main content width section */

Then try replacing ALL instances in the section above (even the IE section) of 1000px to something smaller, like 950px or less (till the issue goes away), and ALL instances of 1300px to something smaller, like 1250px or less.

Also, could I see a link?

Also, does your issue happen with my test site, http://www.cherryzen.sagefish.com ?

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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

Hi

Glad you like my made up word, kinda describes anything you like, thats problematic anyway.

ok, I see the default setting offers a fairly large margin on both sides, I would like a much smaller one, around 5-10px max width either side.

I thought I had it cracked but then I changed my resolution and found it busted rather than cracked.

Here it is as it stands now

http://www.spottedhaggis.com/macro

This is pretty much how I want it to look at any resolution, now if your viewing it at a typical 1024 then it will look awfull.
Here is an image of what it looks like on my screen and resolution.

If there was an easier way to fix what I have now that would be great, took me ages, lol.

Thanks

4 Mar 2009, 2:00 AM
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Re: Cherry Zen Template Support Thread

Ive no idea if this is template related or not but the onlysideboxes I can get to appear are "Categories" and "Information". Any other sideboxes just wont appear.

4 Mar 2009, 2:23 AM
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Ive no idea if this is template related or not but the onlysideboxes I can get to appear are "Categories" and "Information". Any other sideboxes just wont appear.

Correction, I cant get "Tell A Friend" to appear on the left.