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MagicExpress, do you know how to work with tables in HTML? If so, you can handle this on your own. Look in: skins/Killer/styleSheets/styles.css Look for: .tblList { border: 1px solid #BFCCC7; } .tdListTitle { background-color: #BFCCC7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: #0E51A3; border-bottom: 1px solid #BFCCC7; } .tdEven { background-color: #FFFFFF; } .tblList is the class for the table that shows rows of products in a category. .tdListTitle is the class that defines what the title bar at the top of your product list looks like. .tdEven and .tdOdd are the classes thatdefine each row containing a product - usually set to alternate the background color in every other row. If you are familiar with tables, and with styles, you can add padding to the table or to individual cells to acheive the look you want . . . A few lines down from there you'll see a similar table and cells defined for the shopping cart, for when it contains multiple items.

Or just press the downloads button at the top of this page and look for documentation and tutorials: Downloads -> CubeCart 3 Hacks & Modifications -> Tutorials & Documentation -> A Visual Guide to Customizing Your CubeCartâ„¢ Header 167 downloads in the past ten days :dizzy:

I hate to be a "damp rag" but dang - Brooky is busy working at the code and providing support . . . He wrote so to you evidently jerseyjoe . . . and you want to get a group to flood him with PMs? Yeah, sometimes splitting a section is called for, but how many of the good, active "helper" folk are going to take time to browse 20 freakin' forums here? I guess you'll have to count me as one who believes "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Just because all issues aren't solved each time someone posts? It could be that no one really knows the answer, or that the answer has been given umpteen times this month and folk are tired of responding "do a search." Seems obvious that hacks and mods would benefit from being split, since there is often confusion over which version of CC everyone is referring to. But all the other stuff? Gimme a break! A better plan would be that if you've worked out a solution to a problem due to the help of the good people of the forum, pay everyone back by writing up a logical, useful tutorial and post it in downloads, so that people who are looking for documentation can find it. Seems to me that makes more sense than splintering the forum into so many sections you'll be lucky to get a competent visitor in each section more than once or twice a day :)

In styleSheets/layout.css, find this: .boxContent { border-top: 3px solid #CFE3F5; border-right: 1px solid #cccccc; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding: 3px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 75%; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 5px; } change: border-top: 3px solid #CFE3F5; to this: border-top: 3px solid #cccccc;

Hi Vrakas No need to feel sorry, we are all entitled to our opinions. I edited up a couple of images for a "secure online shopping" statement, and I preferred that one because it adds some color. The red and gray gets a little old to me especially after editing on it so much. Here is the other I was working on, but didn't finish, because I liked the color of the one that's there :

IPN working now, this store will prolly open ahead of schedule! Thanx to Sir William and to everyone who posted their experiences with setting up IPN in his thread <thumbs up> :(

No problem here with IE 6 Now, this may seem a little pedantic, but bear with me. I think the problem is with your browser settings. In IE go to tools, and in the general settings delete all cookies. Then, dump the cache by deleting the files. Then go to some advanced settings and increase your browser's cache, if you have the disk space. Henceforth, if you don't have any program doing "cleanup" in your temp internet files, you should dump the cache on a regular basis to keep everything running fresh. It may be as simple as that. It would not be uncommon for some of your visitors to have the same problem, if their browser cache is too small to handle all the elements of your site. Some may have older browsers, others may simple not be dedicating enough space to the cache. The default settings are usually not enough for some sites in my experience. Right now I have my cache set at 31911 MB in IE.

Or use shipping by weight. You set the cost per weight in the shipping by weight module, and you set a weight for each item.

This is probably not a script issue anyway, but a browser issue. Try increasing your cache size, and cleaning it out regularly - will help you with other sites besides your own, too :(

A very good and simple solution. By tweaking a few other files, you can display a group of randoms in the center column! Sounds like grounds for a new free tutorial in the minor mods section @ Sir William, what'd really be cool would be to have a row of three, and a script that says when and if the three all displayed the same image simultaneously, a large JACKPOT sign will flash :)

You're on the right track, but actually, the viewCat.inc.php just pulls the info from database, it is the viewCat.tpl in your skin that "gives you the 'tabled' view of the products" viewCat.tpl is found in skins/{your_skin}/styleTemplates/content/viewCat.tpl

I think the skin is done, and all that's left on the store is to fix the PayPal IPN and find out why the currency change doesn't work properly. Have a look, offer your opinions, point out if I've missed anything else besides those two items. Oh, and the site docs are not done yet, either . . . just the skin http://cc3.biz/

He was just chuckling about the use of deprecated tags . . . instead of styles, like style="border: none;" Worth a chuckle, but if you have to explain the joke . . . it ain't gonna sound funny :)

Thank you Vrakas and Sir William. It's all finally clear to the muddle-headed old man here :(

@ Sir William, why do you files in both places? Even after all this excellent discussion, for some reason the issue is not entirely clear to me. Would I be ok putting all my downloads in: home/username/public_html/cc3/downloads/filename.zip and adding an index file as you suggested, or should I do something more, or something different?

Sounds like an ad for FireFox. Truth is, all browsers have their quirks. Makes it difficult for coding a site. Not as bad as a few years back, but still difficult. Firefox puts 5px padding on an HTML body by default, as opposed to all other browsers. Firefox and other Mozillas do not like "fixed" and/or "no-repeat" applied to backgrounds of lower-level elements, especially when CSS shorthand is used for specifying background properties. The initial rivalry between IE and Netscape has caused some divergence in displays that persist today in all versions of IE and Mozillas, and I doubt that any of them "follow CSS rules completely" unles the W3C has now created a fresh new browser of its own . . . But I'm not an expert, this is just a sneaky suspicion ;)

Graphics look good. Rather thn resizing, see if this will cure your ills: In layout.css: .boxTitleLeft, .boxTitleRight { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 70%; color: #09347C; background-image: url(../styleImages/backgrounds/boxTitleBg.gif); width: 155px; height: 15px; padding-left: 5px; padding-top: 1px; } Add to "padding:top" try making it 5px. Adjust the number to get it to look just right. Let me know if this doesn't work ;)

Clients, customers . . . The folk browsing the web want a page to look good in their own browser, and give no thought to what it will look like in any other browsers They don't want to have to scroll horizontally, for sure . . . They very best "full screen" designs, with good cross-browser compatibility, and features that look well from the small to the largest resolutions - and pages that load quickly - will be the most popular IMO. Still difficult to design something like that.

I like fixed width because it is easier to code and control, especially when solving cross-browser display issues . . . Full screen pages can be cool, but they're definitely difficult to design in a way that always looks good regardless of screen resolution and browser variety ;)

Vrakas & Tom, thanks to both of you guys for the support and encouragement. But now I will have to work harder to get my store finished and open for business! Tom, sending a PM :D

File Name :: Latest Products & Subcategory Display Fix Author :: markscarts Category :: Tutorials & Documentation Description :: You can correct a screwy display in your Latest Products section, or in your Subcategories sections by simply specifying a height value for those elements. This 5-page PDF tutorial tells how and why, and also offers a few extra tips on customizing your Subcategory display through CSS. Updated Tue, Nov 22 2005 6:09 am View File

The changes you make to welcome page are saved in the file your_store/language/en/home.inc.php If you have that file on your PC somewhere, your edits are still there. If not, at least you'll know for next time to save that file when upgrading auto through Fantastico :o

A great big WELCOME to the forum! to you, byDiane :o

And, the big PITA for me, when others edit files with certain programs, they don't display correctly in Notepad afterwards :o

Subcategories Alignment tvnl is right -add a static height value in the stylesheet which will be a value equal to or greater than the largest height image you have displaying and the most lines of text in the element. Then all will display correctly. Latest Products Alignment This cropped up again today in PMs about my full-screen stock skins. The dialog ensues, where I add a value not to an includes file which will be overwritten with every update to CC3, but to a skin template file: Idara wrote: Hi Mark Thanks for your reply, yes u r right no problem with clasic skin, it shows 4 product in a row, but still there r some errors in display , the gap between two rows (when the product name is in 2 line) both in IE & FF. you can see my Test store with clasic skin Legend skin still showing 3 products in FF, fine in IE with 4 products. The gap between two product line is fine even if the product name is in 1 or 2 line the gap is maintaining in FF but not in IE. you can see My Test store with Legend skin latest product setting in Legend & Clasic skin still need modifications. looking forward for the update. Kind reagrds Mark wrote back: