Broken images and eliminating excess options

[AZJennifer]

Hi everyone!

 

I am *really* new to this and I am just feeling my way through it. Forgive me if this has been asked already but the language is so unfamiliar to me, that even if it had been asked, I don't know that I would have recognized the answer because I don't know the proper terminology.

 

If anyone is willing to help a newbie, I'd be very much appreciative.

 

My first question is this. When on my site, when someone clicks one of the categories under the category box on the left, a broken image shows up on the right. I don't know how else to describe it so I took a screen shot. The blue arrow is where a person clicks that produces the problem I marked with the red arrow. (I changed the default text in the original index.php of "Let's see what we have here" to "Search Results.") I tried checking the image properties but it just shows a directory (ie it just says http://myurl.com/store/images, not an actual image address and extension so I can't even upload an image with the same url to fill it in.

 

My other question involves all the excess boxes down either side. The ones circled in red are what I want to get rid of. Can someone walk me through how?

 

Finally, if it's not too ambitious, I'd love to move around the remaining "boxes" (not sure what else to call them) specifically move "quickfind" and "information" to the place that the deleted boxes will have been so as to visually balance the page out.

 

I hope I worded my questions articulately enough. I'm self taught (and poorly at that) and after days of searching on my own, I'm lost.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Guest]

Hi everyone!

 

I am *really* new to this and I am just feeling my way through it. Forgive me if this has been asked already but the language is so unfamiliar to me, that even if it had been asked, I don't know that I would have recognized the answer because I don't know the proper terminology.

 

If anyone is willing to help a newbie, I'd be very much appreciative.

 

My first question is this. When on my site, when someone clicks one of the categories under the category box on the left, a broken image shows up on the right. I don't know how else to describe it so I took a screen shot. The blue arrow is where a person clicks that produces the problem I marked with the red arrow. (I changed the default text in the original index.php of "Let's see what we have here" to "Search Results.") I tried checking the image properties but it just shows a directory (ie it just says http://myurl.com/store/images, not an actual image address and extension so I can't even upload an image with the same url to fill it in.

 

My other question involves all the excess boxes down either side. The ones circled in red are what I want to get rid of. Can someone walk me through how?

 

Finally, if it's not too ambitious, I'd love to move around the remaining "boxes" (not sure what else to call them) specifically move "quickfind" and "information" to the place that the deleted boxes will have been so as to visually balance the page out.

 

I hope I worded my questions articulately enough. I'm self taught (and poorly at that) and after days of searching on my own, I'm lost.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

Hi, I had the same problem on my site and like you I'm a newbie but I was able to find a way around that image, loggin to your OsC admin panel and go to Administration/my store/images. in images click on "heading image width" click edit and set the number in the edit box to (1) do the same with "heading Image hight" that should solve the broken image problem.

 

to get rid of the unwanted boxes, I found an easy way to do that with fooling around too much with code.

 

goto Catalog/includes/column_right.php

 

look for:

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'reviews.php');

 

if (substr(basename($PHP_SELF), 0, 8) != 'checkout') {

include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'languages.php');

include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'currencies.php');

}

?>

 

and replace with:

 

//require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'reviews.php');

 

if (substr(basename($PHP_SELF), 0, 8) != 'checkout') {

//include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'languages.php');

//include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'currencies.php');

}

?>

 

and this should take care of that problem.

 

Godd luck......Chad :thumbsup:

remember to back up any file you gonna edit just incase

[AZJennifer]

Hi, I had the same problem on my site and like you I'm a newbie but I was able to find a way around that image, loggin to your OsC admin panel and go to Administration/my store/images. in images click on "heading image width" click edit and set the number in the edit box to (1) do the same with "heading Image hight" that should solve the broken image problem.

 

to get rid of the unwanted boxes, I found an easy way to do that with fooling around too much with code.

 

goto Catalog/includes/column_right.php

 

look for:

require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'reviews.php');

 

if (substr(basename($PHP_SELF), 0, 8) != 'checkout') {

include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'languages.php');

include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'currencies.php');

}

?>

 

and replace with:

 

//require(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'reviews.php');

 

if (substr(basename($PHP_SELF), 0, 8) != 'checkout') {

//include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'languages.php');

//include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'currencies.php');

}

?>

 

and this should take care of that problem.

 

Godd luck......Chad :thumbsup:

remember to back up any file you gonna edit just incase

 

Thank you thank you thank you!!!! Your instructions were perfect and put an end to several days of headache! Thank you!