Categories/Products - How many characters in title

[Nfocus]

I have the feeling that the solution to my problem is ridiculously simple. I just can't seem to figure it out though. So thanks is advance for any advice someone might have for this newbie :blink: :D!

 

Many of the titles for my categories are fairly lengthy. For example, one is: "Binoculars & Spotting Scopes". I've noticed that, when viewing the page, the menu looks like a bunch of crowded text, rather than distinct categories. To remedy this, I tried to change the color of every other heading (so binoculars & spotting scopes would be black, the next category would be red, then back to black, if that makes sense).

 

To accomplish this, I tried using this html: <font size="red">category title</font>.

 

However, it seemed that caused there to be too many characters in the title, and it would get truncated. For example, the text would be red, but would read "Binoculars an" (leaving out "d Spotting Scopes").

 

How can I remedy this problem? Is there a way to allow the category title to have more characters? I checked under "configuration" and then "Maximum Values"...I didn't see anything that would help there, though I am quite sure I could have overlooked something.

 

If there is a better way to bring some clarity to my online catalog, I would welcome those suggestions too! Thanks!

 

Here is the link to my (still under construction!) page: www.northernfocus.com

 

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!

 

Erin

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I think i get your problem!

Your category links are wrapping to the next line so some take up two lines and dont look pretty.

 

One thing you could do is expand the size of the left column box, unfortunately if you just want to expand the left column you will have to alter every file.

 

In most files you will find this line

<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

 

as you can see its calling the box width.

 

This can be found in includes/application_top.php just change this line

define('BOX_WIDTH', 125); // how wide the boxes should be in pixels (default: 125)

To whatever you want the width to be, change the 125 to say 200.

 

If you just change the above both left and right columns will change width.

 

You could go through the main files and change

<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

 

to something like

 

<td width="B" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

 

Bit more work, but you have more control. Or you could even add BOX_WIDTH2 to application top, but that might confuse you a bit :D