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Robsta

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  1. I am very surprised that you have not noticed that your categories point to the root of the domain, ie they are un-usable. ie http://farnorthglass.com/?act=viewCat&catId=2 when your store path is http://farnorthglass.com/store/

    The store design is nice, but a little too plain in my opinion. Perhaps it would be good to have a slight pattern in the header to break up the amount of black you have?

    Additional amusement: you have a domain name, farnorthglass.com, yet you have a yahoo address as a contact address! :( very funny. Why oh why???????

  2. The product names dont stand out in white, but I want white in the sidebar.. Can I assign a different style to this text?

    Along that same line, how would I do this same trick for any text, where are all the

    "This text"= "This style"

    if you know what I mean?

    To answer your questions...

    1, look in layout.css for .boxTitleLeft and .boxTitleRight. Make the changes there for the side box title colours.

    2, To make certain text a certain colour, use a class in the HTML... class="mystyle" and in the CSS files use .mystyle{}. If you wanted to add it to a band of text, use <span class="mystyle">styled text</span>.

    3. To change the table row product text colours... look in style.css for .tdEven and .tdOdd, as well as .tdcartEven and .tdcartOdd. To change the hyperlink only, add, for example, .tdEven a {} and .tdEven a:hover {} with your new style information.

    Have fun!

  3. You will not see the TPL file as WYSIWYG, only the text ;)

    So any layout editing to be done is completely CSS coding ?? ;)

    Not so sure I can handle this now . . . I know some CSS stuff, but certainly not enough to be able to customize my store the way I would want it. Kind of sucks that one cannot edit in a WYSIWYG design view.

    TOM

    There are workarounds, but it's not easy or straightforward. Skin developing is not for the faint hearted as there are so many things to take into account.

    You can use the WYSIWYG editor on the global templates IF you ensure the path to the stylesheet is valid. Skins use a skin variable in the path so it's easier to install a new skin. Hardcoding the path to the stylesheet allows the global templates to be viewable in the editor with the styling required. However this only applies to the global templates. If you want the other templates to also be editable this way, you must add a stylesheet reference to each template while you're developing, and remove it afterwards. You can only edit the templates individually, and not as part of the whole skin.

    This is a theoretical solution to be able to use a WYSIWYG editor. I have not tried it, but it should work.

    However, when you use the template files in the skin, you may have file path issues if you are calling images etc from within the templates. Within the template files all paths must be referenced as if they are located in the root of the store, even though they are not. However image references in the styleheet must be made from the relative stylesheet location within the skin where they are stored. For this reason, you should check all image paths are correct when you come to use the skin. This is why as many image references are added to the stylesheet as possible, taking them out of the skin templates.

  4. It looks nice. Maybe do something better with the 'login / register' session box so it's not split in the middle.

    Not sure about the bright pink text on grey background on some of the products. It glares a little, not nice on the eyes and not easy reading.

    Also you should do a little more with the meta descriptions and keywords.

    The 'by 10/10 Events' text of the background image on the bottom it a little too close to the 'Add to basket' button in the product details.

    I like the design though. Well done. :)

  5. I can't find any link or document, the installation manual describe only how to install on the host.

    Can someone explain to a newbie like me how to install on local machine?

    You'll need to install a local web server, IIS perhaps, which is bundled with most current MS operating systems under Windows Components in Add/Remove.

    Then install PHP, download it from php.net.

    Then install mySQL, download it from mysql.com.

    Perhaps also 'phpmyadmin' to give easy access to the databases. Download it from phpmyadmin.net

    hmmm don't think I've missed anything.

    With a bit of tinkering etc, you should be there. Good luck.

  6. I've changed a test store to US config, and reproduced the message, but not able to get it to work with fiddling with the UPS options.

    I've changed the State settings to Georgia, and country to United States. Logged in as a US based customer in my test store. I've entered your "Store Post/Zip Code" into the UPS module, used CP for the packaging, and enabled all the shipping options.

    Not a lot of country specific information in there. What else does it check for?

    Maybe there is someone more familiar with UPS who can help.

  7. Re 2: The horizontal line immediately above "welcome to cube cart," and the "grayish" horizontal line just below "please rember..."
    Look in layout.css for '.boxContent' border styles ... spot the odd one out :D

    New question # 3....Where can I edit the test, "welcome to cube cart, congratulations, etc?"
    Look in '/languages/en/lang.inc.php'. This contains all the cart display text. :D
  8. 1. How can I remove that index.php from my landing page URL, please, if it's possible?
    Why, and for what purpose? The index.php is the main file for CC.

    2. I have 2 horizontal, 1 pixel-wide lines that I cant find to change that color to the pale yellow?
    Which lines are you referring to?

    3. Drat! One more...."welcome and guest" are not bold enough, imho. Where can I chage that, please?
    Look in styles.css for '.txtSession' or '.txtSessionGrey'.
  9. the "buy" and "more" buttons...What's the point of having both of them if they go to the same place? Am I missingn something here?
    No, you are not missing something - in fact you've picked up on something that I never noticed and neither has any one else. It certainly is irregular. When the Buy button is clicked, you not only are taken to the same page as if you had clicked More, but nothing is put in the shopping cart. I'll have to post a question in a tech support forum. Good catch. Thanks

    It does this because there are options on the product page. If there were no options, then it would added it to the cart. ;)
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