ZJ Silver Support Thread

Hello all,
I have released the first revision of ZJ Silver theme. (ZJ = ZenCart & jQuery).
It can be downloaded in the themes download section here,
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_53&products_id=1028

It has lots of jQuery magic & i'd appreciate any feedback you can give.

It has collapsible side boxes and center boxes, removable side boxes and center boxes, resortable side boxes and all should be remembered on page reload by cookie settings.

When side boxes are removed by the user, a 'You Have Hidden Items' message is displayed.

It also has light box effects for pages like the shipping estimator and cart help pages as well as product images.

All additional product images display in a carousel and also have a light box effect with next/previous buttons.

Please try it out and let me know what you think as well as any other additions you would like to see added.
I have tested it on Windows, Mac & Linux but only one one server, so I'd like to know if all is working as expected on other server configurations.

Thanks, Anthony.

Okay. Here's your 1st question, as somebody's gotta be first, right? It's a real easy question. Do you have a server that this template is installed on so that people can see a demo?

http://(sorry, site offline)/138/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=23&template_dir=zj_silver

The link above should take you to another excellent site where a bunch of templates can be tried out. Good to see it working there.
I don't think I can post links to my testing server here, so please have a look at that site for a demo,
Thanks, Ant.

Thanks for the post, Ant. I should have looked there, since it was already in the downloads section, I should have known it would be there, too.
That has some REAL nice features.

Thanks Get Em Fast,
That wasn't my post, I did post a link to my demo site, but I guess external links are not allowed here? Anyway, that link brings you to a demo of the theme in action, hopefully you can see what is included and how easy the jQuery components would work with any other templates. That shows the basic jQuery additions, I will do a few more over the next few weeks, so any other feedback is appreciated.
If you have a test server to play with, please try out the template from the downloads secction and post your feedback here or on my blog, I will do my best to provide any support/customisation requests required.
Ant.

I see that there has been over 100 downloads of the template without any questions...is that good or bad here, does that mean that nobody is interested in adding jquery to zencart or you are happy with the download and don't need any help or is it just crap compared to what's currently available?
if you wouldn't use it, i'd love to know why or if you are interested in using it, what templates would you like to see the jQuery stuff added to?
Thanks, Ant.

Anthony,

I just started testing out your template with jQuery. So far everything works great. Thanks for providing. I will let you know if I have any issues or questions.
-Clark

Thanks Clark,
Let me know how the testing goes, I have a few other templates almost ready but I don't want to release them until I know the functionality works well on most server configurations, browsers and operating systems.
Ant.

Anthony,

Is there a simple way of disabling the sidebar features (collapse and movability)?
-Clark

Nevermind, I figured it out. It was in the "tpl_box_default_left(right).php"

-Clark

Hi Clark, why do you want to remove these features?
I will be adding a switch in the admin to turn on, off and change the effects of these features soon.
Ant.

clarkjarvis:

Nevermind, I figured it out. It was in the "tpl_box_default_left(right).php"

-Clark

The features are nice, but for the site i'm working on right now, I wanted to have the sideboxes static (Trying to Keep It Simple). Also the collapse feature was not working correctly with a hacked up sidebox that I have. This is because the sidebox is not created properly (it was nothing to do with the collapse feature itself) I'm currently working on fixing the sidebox.
-Clark

No worries Clark.
If you need a stripped down version without the features, feel free to give me a shout & I'll zip it up for you.

clarkjarvis:

The features are nice, but for the site i'm working on right now, I wanted to have the sideboxes static (Trying to Keep It Simple). Also the collapse feature was not working correctly with a hacked up sidebox that I have. This is because the sidebox is not created properly (it was nothing to do with the collapse feature itself) I'm currently working on fixing the sidebox.
-Clark

Love this but can't get the lightbox to work with Image Hander.

Any idea how to make this work?

alray10:

Love this but can't get the lightbox to work with Image Hander.

Any idea how to make this work?

I presume you mean on the product_info pages? If so, it should be easy enough, I'll have a look later and post a solution for you.

yes the product_info pages, what seems to be the problem is its pointing to /images/large/5006020804f_LRG.jpg but it needs to be /images/5006020804f.jpg, I been trying to find where to change it but getting no where,
I will try to leave it there for a while so you can see http://bgwatches.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1
but I am working on the site at the moment so it may change.
Thanks for the help.

It will be another few hours before I can take a proper look, so I will post a fix then. I see you also need it for the extra product images, I'll post a fix for that as well.

alray10:

yes the product_info pages, what seems to be the problem is its pointing to /images/large/5006020804f_LRG.jpg but it needs to be /images/5006020804f.jpg, I been trying to find where to change it but getting no where,
I will try to leave it there for a while so you can see http://bgwatches.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1
but I am working on the site at the moment so it may change.
Thanks for the help.

Hi Alray10,
I just had a quick look and ImageHandler seems to work perfectly with the template without any modifications.
What issues are you having?

alray10:

yes the product_info pages, what seems to be the problem is its pointing to /images/large/5006020804f_LRG.jpg but it needs to be /images/5006020804f.jpg, I been trying to find where to change it but getting no where,
I will try to leave it there for a while so you can see http://bgwatches.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1
but I am working on the site at the moment so it may change.
Thanks for the help.

alray, what is your small image size set to in Admin>Configuration>Images? IH will ONLY zoom on the small image, using the product info image settings for the zoomed image.

Try setting your small images to 100 X 100, and your product info image sizes to 250 X 250. See if it will zoom in on 'em then.

Hope this helps.

Also, my apologies to Ant. I wasn't trying to change the thread topic, just resolve this issue, because I really don't think it's anything wrong with the template. I think it's just the image sizing that's the issue, as 90% of the time when IH shows the images, but won't zoom, that's the problem.