edit front page

swifty · #1 02-06-2008, 09:28 AM

hi, i'm a newbie to xCart so my questions are going to sound simple.

how do i change the home page, is there a file with the html in it?

when i use "webmaster mode" i don't know how to save the changes i've made.

i'm used to cube and zen where i can find the right file and do all my html changes in it, then just upload it to the server, but i can't find the file in xCart.

please help, thank in advance.
-swif

balinor · #2 02-06-2008, 09:46 AM

Welcome to the X-Cart forums! Please start by reading the following thread, which will help you get started and hopefully make your experience here a positive one:

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=23970

Please note that this link is not an answer to your question, but we need you to update your signature with your exact X-Cart version so that we can answer your question correctly. Thanks!

swifty · #3 02-06-2008, 11:21 AM

thank you for that, it helped.

i have more questions, but i will search for the answers first.

thanks again.

swifty · #4 02-06-2008, 02:49 PM

there is text below the "bread crumbs" on the home page how can i remove it or at least change it.

thanks again.

balinor · #5 02-06-2008, 02:55 PM

Hi swifty, as the link I posted mentions, you can either edit the text via webmaster mode or the languages area. You can also use webmaster mode to find out which template is which so that you can actually go into them to see how things are set up.

swifty · #6 02-06-2008, 03:23 PM

i looked for it in languages, but i coulen't find it, that dosen't mean it's not there though and when i tried "webmaster" mode i gets a little confusing.

when i pass the curser over the customer/home_main.tpl in the xCart debugging console the area that i wanted to edit gets framed, but the text i'm refering to isn't a part of he code i added when i was in the language area.

the text says welcome back when i'm logged in.

balinor · #7 02-06-2008, 04:01 PM

That is indeed a language variable, but it isn't in home_main, it is in welcome.tpl. So go in to the languages area, type 'welcome' in the filter box and you'll see the variables come up that have 'welcome' in them. Edit the one you want to change.

swifty · #8 02-07-2008, 08:35 AM

ok, i'm getting the hang of this.

i've been trying to change the font color, size, style etc, but all i can do is ad the <i></i> other than that it's no go.

i tried to add tha css style at the top like the txt_welcome that didn't work so i added the style to the skin1.css i must be missing just the smallest thing, but i don't know what it is.

thanks for all your help, i was just thrown into this and xCart is complicated to me, but i'm learning it.

balinor · #9 02-07-2008, 09:25 AM

Do you know CSS/HTML? IF so, you simply need to add a class to the element:

<div class="classname">item you want to format</div>

Then add the .classname class to skin1.css and format it with CSS. Make sense?

swifty · #10 02-07-2008, 02:16 PM

i still can't get this to work, but in trying i've learned a lot.

here's a link to the shop i'm working on http://aftermarketparts.com i would like to remove/edit the text under the bread crumb infact i would like to remove the bread crumb from the home page, but i think i was a post on that so i'll go look for it.

thanks agian.
-swif