changing home page header icon
 

how do i get rid of the XCART image at the top of my cart? i want it to be the image of my choice not a shopping cart etc.

Re: changing home page header icon
 

First back up head.tpl.

Open head.tpl in your skin directory (probably skin1).

Find this line at the top on line 4.

<td class="HeadLogo"><a href="{$http_location}/"><img src="{$ImagesDir}/xlogo.gif" width="244" height="67" alt="" /></a></td>

Change xlogo.gif to whatever you have your logo named. Save the file.

Upload head.tpl to your skin directory and you logo to skinDir/images

Re: changing home page header icon
 

Thanks Ashley

Re: changing home page header icon
 

I tried putting a different gif in the place of xlogo.gif and also logo_gold.gif because this looked more like what was showing by looking at thumbnails of all the images. I did not change the name of the file in head.tpl because i used the same name for the new gif. This did not work.

Re: changing home page header icon
 

finally figured out what i was doing wrong. it is the skin1 folder that is used by the cart. i had put the new images in skin1_original. i did not understand that this is just a repositiry for original unchanged files. it is this sort of basic information that would be grat to have in a "manual".

Re: changing home page header icon
 

Have you read the manual?

http://www.x-cart.com/manuals.html

Re: changing home page header icon
 

Ashley,

Changing the logo in head.tpl is the first thing I've tried to do (after entering basic company info) in my newly purchased x-cart store (which was installed by Qualiteam).

I'm having trouble. lol

I've uploaded the logo gif i want to use via FTP to xcart/skin1_original/images. Then (after I uploaded a patch to allow me to change templates) I changed the image source in the line you described above in the "edit file" window inside my control panel. Then I saved it.

Nothing changed on the front end. Infact, I've checked the properties of the x-cart logo that's still in the header of my storefront and it still shows xlogo.gif

I've also tried finding help in the XCart manual to no avail.

Re: changing home page header icon
 

Wrong spot - it goes in skin1/images, not skin1_original. the original folder is a backup.

Re: changing home page header icon
 

I tried that also... I don't see a folder for images under xcart/skin1

Here is a screen shot of what I see in my FTP.

http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=37134421.jpg

Regardless of where I'm putting the image, shouldn't my store front show the new logo when I check the page source since I changed the template? I must be doing something wrong there as well.

Thanks for any help.

Re: changing home page header icon
 

everything for 4.2 is in the customer folder. so you will ahve to change customer/head.tpl