Need a few answers to the look of my front page

[Kjolebutikken]

Hi,

I have three questions regarding my frontpage:

 

1. How can I get the products in the table "new products in december" to show 4 or five in each row? Where can i adjust the settings for the table?

 

2. How can I get more space (one line is sufficient) between the boxheader for "new products for december" and the products listed there?

 

3. How can I adjust the width of the border behind the boxes in left side menu? It became too wide after I increased the size of the pictures, and among these, also the picture in the specials box. have tried to change boxwidth in application_top.php. That did not work. It only changed the size of the box, not the border underneath.

 

Here is how it looks now:

 

http://www.kjolebutikken.com/oscdemo1/index.php

 

All answers much appreciated as I have been working hard with this for awhile now:-)

 

Best regards

Kjolebutikken

[mtechama]

1. in your catalog/admin under your configuration tab click on Maximum Values and New Products Module the defualt is 6 change that to 9 or so

[Wendy James]

4 or 5 images across would not fit in the space you have at the size the images are now.

 

To edit that box and have it not effect other boxes (most changes as for spacing and so on is controlled in the /includes/classes/boxes.php or your stylesheet) you can edit the includes/modules/new_products.php either directly changing stuff on that file or setting up a new class, etc.

 

Hope that helped

[Kjolebutikken]

4 or 5 images across would not fit in the space you have at the size the images are now.

 

To edit that box and have it not effect other boxes (most changes as for spacing and so on is controlled in the /includes/classes/boxes.php or your stylesheet) you can edit the includes/modules/new_products.php either directly changing stuff on that file or setting up a new class, etc.

 

Hope that helped

 

Thank you both for your answers.

 

I tried to change the value in "new peoducts module" in admin, but this only sets the number of products to show and adds them in rows downwards, it does unfortunately not add number of products across in one row (ex. 4 in one row), which I wanted. But I see that I will have ti reduce the size of my images to get more in one row. Still would like to try at least 4 in one row. But did not figure out how yet. So if there are more suggestions????:-)

 

I did however find out how to increase the space between the boxheader and the table of products listed below. I changed the value from 0 to 10 in this code in /includes/classes/boxes.php:

 

class contentBox extends tableBox {

function contentBox($contents) {

$info_box_contents = array();

$info_box_contents[] = array('text' => $this->contentBoxContents($contents));

$this->table_cellpadding = '10';

$this->table_parameters = 'class="infoBox"';

$this->tableBox($info_box_contents, true);

}

 

Did also check in includes/modules/new_products.php and stylesheet, but as I don't really know php much, I did'nt really know what I was looking for:-) To mee it seems like stylesheet only is color and font type and size, so I didn't find anything to change there.

 

Well, thank you so much for your input both of you. If you or anyone else should have any more answers for me I would be very grateful, as I still have some questions with no answer:-)

 

Thanks

Kjolebutikken:-)

[Kjolebutikken]

Regarding my problem with the width of the left menuborder getting wider with increased images. Just discovered that its not only the border, but the whole page below the logoheader has increased in witdh in the right direction. If I could solve this without reducing imagesize that would be the best for me.

 

Thanks

Kjolebutikken:-)

[Kjolebutikken]

Regarding my problem with the width of the left menuborder getting wider with increased images. Just discovered that its not only the border, but the whole page below the logoheader has increased in witdh in the right direction. If I could solve this without reducing imagesize that would be the best for me.

 

Thanks

Kjolebutikken:-)

 

I finally found the solution to one of my problems described above. here it is, for others having the same problem:

 

Problem:

When increasing the size of the pictures in product table "new products" on the frontpage, my page became wider in the right direction, because the image in the specials box in my left side menu also increased, naturally. To fix this I did as follows:

 

Solution:

I had set the domensions for my pictures in admin and I had the largest value for image width. This was the problem. I switched the values for width and height, and then the page "schrinked" in the left direction again. Adjusted the values until it all had fallen back to "normal".

 

Thats it!