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15 Nov 2007, 12:22 AM
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Help with making my Zen cart look like my website

I am stuck on making my Zen cart look like my website. My website is https://www.studiofrenzy.com and i want the logo on top with the links and picture below. I would like that to look the same on my https://www.studiofrenzy.com/ZenCart
Can someone please help me with that.
THANKS!!!

15 Nov 2007, 4:07 AM
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Re: Help with making my Zen cart look like my website

Hello!

I like the background on your website.

I'm pretty new to CSS (goodbye, tables!), but I have a couple observations:

#1 -- your right column is still turned on in the admin. you can turn it off in configuration > layout settings > column right status global > and set it to zero.

#2 -- you can reposition the elements on your page with the CSS, located in includes/templates/classic OR your_template/css/stylesheet.css

I mostly use relative positioning (which I think is the correct way to do it. What's really cool is that you can use negative positioning. Here we go:

#logo
{
position: relative;
top: -50px;
left: 100px;
}

#navMainWrapper
{
position: relative;
top: 200px;
left: 300px;
}

Good luck.

15 Nov 2007, 4:42 AM
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Re: Help with making my Zen cart look like my website

NEVER make your changes in the classic or template_default folders. Your changes will be overwritten with the next upgrade/update and you'll have to start over. Use the override system and create your own custom template folders and save the edited files in there.

15 Nov 2007, 4:56 AM
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Re: Help with making my Zen cart look like my website

Thanks for the info. I still dont know how to change the heading text to make it just like my website. Plus, i dont know how to add my pictures and to link them.
Thanks!

15 Nov 2007, 5:24 AM
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Re: Help with making my Zen cart look like my website

You've made a pretty good start on your Zen Cart.

Go to http://(sorry, site offline)/ and look at the Candied Apple template. I think that's got some of the elements you're looking for. You could download it (it's free) to see how it's done.

I'm not sure what you mean by adding your pictures and linking them.

15 Nov 2007, 9:33 AM
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Re: Help with making my Zen cart look like my website

afo:

NEVER make your changes in the classic or template_default folders. Your changes will be overwritten with the next upgrade/update and you'll have to start over. Use the override system and create your own custom template folders and save the edited files in there.

Are updates forced/automatic? I mean, what If I want to only manually upgrade? Just wondering.

15 Nov 2007, 9:50 AM
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Re: Help with making my Zen cart look like my website

Updates are not normally forced or automatic. Though occasional stories emerge of problems being caused by over zealous hosts upgrading their clients carts (not from any of the Zen Cart-certified hosts so far as I know).

It can be automatic using Fantastico, but I've only heard bad stories about that. Maybe the good ones don't get told.

It may also be forced for some users, as PHP 4 reaches the end of its life in less than two months time, so decent hosts will be (or already have) upgraded to PHP 5 and older versions of Zen Cart written in the PHP4 era will have to be upgraded.

But normally, upgrades are manual and by choice. However, afo's point is still valid as default classic and template_default files will be overwritten if you upgrade in the normal way by copying all the files across. Otherwise you would need to move files individually - an unnecessary and error-prone approach.

15 Nov 2007, 2:32 PM
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Re: Help with making my Zen cart look like my website

kuroi:

But normally, upgrades are manual and by choice. However, afo's point is still valid as default classic and template_default files will be overwritten if you upgrade in the normal way by copying all the files across. Otherwise you would need to move files individually - an unnecessary and error-prone approach.

Not to mention time consuming. The easiest way to ensure that your changes are retained is to create a custom template. It takes only a few seconds to create the new folder and copy the file into it before making your changes. It's a few seconds well spent.