Plz help me! Acadame Template

Dear Zenners,

I've installed Zen Cart 1.3.8a and partially finished modifying my web. I'm using Red Passion templates. I need your help to fix some of the problem as attached. TQ!!

These problems are often difficult to impossible to resolve just by looking at a jpg. The involve the interplay between your XHTML and your CSS, neither of which can be seen from a static picture.

The line is could be due to you having the right hand column still enabled but more likely is due to a background image being applied that simply has that line in it. Can't say how the text can be altered for the reasons stated above.

Give us a link to the site and these questions could be answered easily and definitively.

sorri! this is my site url

http://www.alaminkids.com/shop

OK. You site has a number of problems. You seem to be on a very slow server and your front page images are over 1MB in size. As a result , it took several minutes for the home page to load. These images files should be a tiny, tiny fraction of what they are currently. Even as full-size pictures, the file sizes should probably be no more than 20-30k.

You have a number of CSS errors. For example on about line 15 of your stylesheet there is a missing semi-colon at the end. This means that the following line, which reduces your font size site wide, is ignored, probably explaining text that is larger than you want. There are a number of similar errors throughout the stylesheet.

And, as suspected, the line that you don't want is built into a background image. Specifically mainwrapper_tile.jpg

Thanks Kuroi. However, i've just changed my template to Academe 1.2. I've several probs that need your help

1. at my main page, the 'new arrival' header is not at the same height with the left column. how do i fix it?

2. i want to change my product listing from this

http://alaminkids.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_71

to something similar as your template for monkeyshine

http://www.monkeyshine.co.uk/baby-and-toddler-toys-14/learning-moving-16/

3. my product info page is messy (http://alaminkids.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_71&products_id=198). how do i change it into

http://www.monkeyshine.co.uk/baby-and-toddler-toys-14/soft-toys-23/activity-snuggle-412.html

4. some of my products has price attributes. but, it seems that there are something missing coz it does not show size (RMXXX). instead it shows size attributes_price_delimiter_prefix and attributes_price_delimiter_suffix. i've check the php and it has defined the prefix with '(' and suffix as ')'. what else is missing?
   http://alaminkids.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_73&products_id=220

TQ

1. There is one mod you need: Image Handler 2

2. Another one: Column Layout Grid

3. You can look at the html code on that site to learn how they do that. It's not like you can edit 1-2 lines and get the exact look and feel on that site, so it's hard to show step by step how to achieve that layout.

Thanks Yellow. Will try it first.

First fix your pictures. I read this whole thread, explored MonkeyShines quite a bit and still had time to spare before your page finished loading. Wow. That's intense, and our company has a FAST connection.

wardah15:

Thanks Yellow. Will try it first.

That's why I suggested Image Handler 2

I was trying to agree from another perspective. Sorry. According to 3 different people I'm not good at cumoonicatin' (sic) today.

yellow1912:

That's why I suggested Image Handler 2

No, I fully understand you. Just want to tell wardah15 why I suggested that mod. Dont worry too much, it will make you age faster :p

IH2 won't entirely fix this. The site won't resize the small & medium until they are re-uploaded will they? Or does it resize them when called? (I use it, but I installed it before I added pictures).

yellow1912:

No, I fully understand you. Just want to tell wardah15 why I suggested that mod. Dont worry too much, it will make you age faster :p

As far as I recall, it will do that automatically. I installed the mod AFTER I uploaded all the images and used the store for a while.

wardah15:

i've just changed my template to Academe 1.2. I've several probs that need your helpOK

wardah15:

1. at my main page, the 'new arrival' header is not at the same height with the left column. how do i fix it?That's because you have a top margin of 1.1em on your .centerBoxWrapper which is pushing it down. Remove that and everything will come neatly into line.

wardah15:

2. i want to change my product listing to something similar as your template for monkeyshineThis is a mixtures of the column layout grid as suggested by yellow 1912 and then a re-writing of the template to include the data that I wanted and some heavy styling using CSS.

wardah15:

3. my product info page is messy. how do i change it ...I re-wrote the product_info template too.

wardah15:

4. some of my products has price attributes. but, it seems that there are something missing coz it does not show size (RMXXX). instead it shows size attributes_price_delimiter_prefix and attributes_price_delimiter_suffix. i've check the php and it has defined the prefix with '(' and suffix as ')'. what else is missing?
   http://alaminkids.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_73&products_id=220It should be defined for each product type. Is it defined for the specific product type that you are using? Might you have over-ridden the file where it is defined?

LOL. I've answered all your questions and you site still hasn't finished loading! Unless you deal with that, all the rest will be completely irrelevant.

Oh and a quick warning about using Image Handler ... It is absolutely the right thing to do, but if you feed it image that are too large, one of the PHP image libraries that it calls will crash. So you still have to optimise your images for the largest size before you start using it.

And your site still hasn't finished loading!