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[DezineJunkie]

Where in the css is the bar on front page
that contains the head Best sellers and it has a rulled bar/line behind it. It sits center of the page and contains product?

Where in css is the bar that contains Advanced Search?
Where is the font only in the vert cat menu boxes in the headers ie: Categories
I cant seem to find the correct one to change color of font in header only.

How do i get rid of x-cart logos and international phone numbers?

On rectangle_top.tpl changing with to 900px it seems to sit flush left on page.
How do i center it, i see nothing in the css indicated FL or RT or CT

and finnally where is the footer bar in the css? to change the yellow orange color and the orange rules?

thanks for the help- grrrrrr

[balinor]

I strongly suggest you use Firefox with the Firebug add-on...will answer all of these questions for you

[roc]

FireFox is a great tool to help you mod the text colors and areas of the the x-cart skin.

What I did was simply highlighted the are on the page I wanted to modify, right-clicked and selected "View Selection Source". That usually tells you the *.tpl file or value in the skin1_c.css template to modify.

I hope this helps.

[spencoid]

this is the sort of information that should be in a manual about using xcart. it would have saved me hours just in the little time i have been trying to understand this program.

[balinor]

Well, to be fair, the manual is about how X-Cart works, not how to use web development tools. Some inherent knowledge of how to design a web site (html/css) is necessary in order to use X-Cart to its fullest potential.

[spencoid]

but the variables in xcart are scattered all over the place and the tools they provide are only good to access a percentage of the variables one would reasonably want to edit. there is incomplete use of CSS. it seems that some values are in the CSS (of which there seem to be only 2 and these are strictly sequential, not cascading in any way)and others are hidden, who knows where, hard coded in various tpls ???

if there were more logic to the layout of the cart system, it would be possible to modify it with the limited knowledge of HTML CSS and PHP that i have.

i have tried to find the location of the color values on the products page. i am using a color picker and Dreamweaver to search the whole site for the HEX value of the colors i want to change and have only been able to find some of them.

what are some other places where the color values might be hidden??????????????

[balinor]

I rarely work with the default X-cart install anymore, but to my knowledge the CSS file controls all of the colors in the site, there should be no hard-coded colors in there. Webmaster mode will tell you exactly which template is which, and then you can go into the template to find out what styles are being called. Firebug is a nice tool to use on any site to get right to the CSS in question, but not needed to edit the X-Cart templates. You won't find any HEX colors in the templates, it is all in the CSS. It is just a matter of finding out what class each item is calling, which is why I suggested Firebug.