More buttons, graphics, icons, colors?

g0t0pless · #1 11-29-2003, 09:39 PM

Yeah, I'm no artist, nor do I have time, to change a bunch of stuff all at once on my cart.

I was wondering if anyone had a site, or knew of a site where you could get FREE stuff for your cart?

An example of what I mean is how there are tons of templates and buttons for the YaBB available on their forums that were created by the forum members.

adpboss · #2 11-30-2003, 05:55 AM

As X-cart is commercial software, there is (to my knowledge) nothing free with regards to buttons and templates.

Make your own or hire someone. That's the path 99.9% of us end up going.

Good Luck!

Kanyon71 · #3 11-30-2003, 06:27 AM

Buttons are the easy part just do a search on like google for them search for like free button images also search for like free clipart and you will find tons of places that have both of them. There are also tools out to create them for you from predefined templates then you just plug in what you the button to say. As for Templates for X-Cart I personally don't think thats such a great idea as the look of the cart should fit into the theme of what you're selling or the color scheme you chose to use. Hope this was some help.

g0t0pless · #4 12-02-2003, 10:39 PM

How the heck do you change the colors of the individual components? I'd like to get rid of the baby blue borders and make em a different color.

Kanyon71 · #5 12-03-2003, 07:01 AM

All of the colors are in the css file in the skin1 directory. You make all the changes in there.

g0t0pless · #6 12-03-2003, 09:37 AM

Is there a list of the various settings?

I see where the colors are now, but can someone point me to a list of the various settings?

I seem to remeber the old webmastger mode allowing you to click on the componnent you wanted to change, and it would highlight in the list, so you know exactly what setting changed that item.

For example, you'd click on the x-cart logo, and it would highlight the place to change it in the webmaster window.

adpboss · #7 12-03-2003, 09:53 AM

Not sure which settings in particular you are referring to.

If you can read html and understand style sheets this is all quite straightforward.

g0t0pless · #8 12-03-2003, 03:35 PM

Well, I just want to know what each setting does.

I was just looking at your site, and I see you modded your tables to get rid of the border, and you added a graphic to the header of each table. How did you do that?

adpboss · #9 12-03-2003, 03:42 PM

Basically you are asking how to change the site layout.

There are a number of tpl files that need to be changed. Use the webmaster mode to find out which is which.

You should search these forums for Dreamweaver or Front Page and use a graphical editor to make these changes. That would be easiest. It is not settings so much as changing code.

I'm not trying to make it sound intimidating. It is not. If you understand basic html and tables, making changes should be a cinch. If you don't have a background in some code level html, then I would suggest looking for tutorials on the net. There are literally hundreds of good tutorials.

g0t0pless · #10 12-03-2003, 04:37 PM

That's the thing, I have Frontpage, and I am pretty good with it. But, how do you edit the .tpl files with it? Can Frontpage even load the files? If so, 1/2 the stuff is gonna be missing. I just don't get it.