A few quick simple questions?? Maybe Hard?

ArlyDude · #1 11-06-2002, 12:55 PM

Hello, can someone please answer a few of my questions here.
Webpage: http://www.digitaladdition.net/xcart/customer/home.php

Screenshot of what I want the page to look like :
http://www.digitaladdition.net/images/screenshot2.jpg

#1. On my "Category" List, i want to change the word Categories to something else, How can this be done? I cannot seem to find the template.

#2. How can I add >> before each category listing as shown in screenshot 1 picture. I do not want these to be part of the hyperlink however.

#3. On my mouseover, instead of an underline, I want it to just change color, I believe this change must occur in the css file.

#4. On each of the different headings...ie Categories, View Cart etc, I want to create a background image of red with black lines behind it, how can i accomplish this? I have the background file, But I can't seem to get it to show.

#5. I want to change the default This is a demo message, I can't seem to find that either. Can someone please tell me where that is located?

Thanks a bunch!! That's all the qustions I have for now! Feel free to message me on AOL: ArlyDude ICQ: 25635088 or Yahoo: arly_dude18

Thanks again!

syddos · #2 11-06-2002, 03:33 PM

Hi,

Q.1 & Q.5.

Language menu in admin/languages
Select Lables and enter "Categorie" in the filter search.
Select Text and enter "Welcome to" in the filter search. If the text is not there, check customer/main/welcome.tpl

Note: You will find several Text and Email entries that require changes, due to grammar errors. For a list check http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=316

Q.2
I would suggest placing ">>" at the end of the Font class="whatever"> >> {"your Categories List control"} </FONT>

Q.3.
Edit the Admin/skin1.css file.
Change the current entry to read

Quote:

A {
COLOR: #081589; TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}
A:hover {
COLOR: #DD0000;
}

Note
"TEXT-DECORATION: none" removes the underline.
"COLOR: #DD0000; is the onmouseOver colour

Q.4.
Sorry graphics is not in my skill set.

Regards,

shan · #3 11-06-2002, 03:39 PM

on Q4 do you mean the headings of the menus ? ie Shopping cart, members, hot items or the actual listings ie processors, motherboards etc ?

ArlyDude · #4 11-06-2002, 04:11 PM

Check out how the red header cells differ on the screenshot to the way my cart is now. I need a red and black lined imaged for the background of where i just have the dard red color.

ArlyDude · #5 11-06-2002, 04:17 PM

Hello, me again! Ok, easy question here!! If you notice in my categories listing, the font is about size 10, 11, or 12, i'm not exactly sure, I want to make it smaller, where is the template to make me alter that text size and what line is it on? Thanks!

ArlyDude · #6 11-06-2002, 04:18 PM

Hello, me again! Ok, easy question here!! If you notice in my categories listing, the font is about size 10, 11, or 12, i'm not exactly sure, I want to make it smaller, where is the template to make me alter that text size and what line is it on? Thanks!

syddos · #7 11-06-2002, 04:29 PM

In your screenshot, middle column, the dialog with the Red and Red/black stripes graphic header, is this what you want on your site?

If so this section is known as the "dialog.tpl", every topic that displays in xcart, will appear inside the "dialog.tpl", apart from the "Static Elements" (shopping cart, login etc) The dialog can have any type of graphic heading you can design, or you could remove it. When you refered to the "Header" even I thought you were describing the Top /header Section (your logo area) and not the header section of the dialog.tpl box.

If this is correct please post to shan and let him know it's "dialog.tpl" header.

If you check my first reply to your post, you will find the answer in the skin1.css file. First check the [b]class = "whatever name" in the template, then locate the same name in the skin1.css file and change the number.px size to a LOWER VALUE. i.e 12.px change to 10.px

Quote:

I think the above is the css class name to change the FONT SIZE, COLOUR etc.

Regards

shan · #8 11-06-2002, 04:33 PM

all the text sizes are stored in the style sheet skin1.css

Its a bit of a pain to find which bit is which.

The colour of the header cells is created by the MenuTitleLine class in the style sheet.

you may want to try .CategoriesList or .TableLeftElements for the menu items.

you can set the MenuTitleLine to use a background image rather then a color in the css file by doing something like this

Quote:

.MenuTitleLine { background-attachment: fixed; background-image: url({$ImagesDir}/your_bground_pic.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center top}

ive not tried that in xcart but took that from another site i did.

Its either that or you do what i did and edit each menu template and add tables to tidy things up and just set the background of the header cell