how do i: 1)upload my banner-logo 2) make my site live

[coldfeet]

help please.

[jpweber]

Chris, you must upload your banner logo to your (catalog)/images folder.

 

Then you must open up your (catalog)/includes/header.php file with a PHP editor. On or around line 57, you will see this:

 

<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'oscommerce.gif', 'osCommerce') . '</a>'; ?></td>

 

Change the picture and the alt description to match your banner, for example:

 

<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'banner.jpg', 'Your Company Name') . '</a>'; ?></td>

 

 

As far as your site being "live", well, it's "live" if you can go to a web browser and open it up on the web! Getting it noticed in search engines, however, is an entirely new subject called "SEO" (Search Engine Optimization).

 

Good luck.

[trophy]

My image has gone awol since I have tried to change it.

I have done all of the above to the T and my banner does not show.

"you must upload your banner logo to your (catalog)/images folder."

Well I cant see a catalog I do have an admin folder is that the same as catalog?.

My site is http://www.hobbiesplus.co.nz/

I sure would appreciate some help I have spent all day yes all day on this problem.

I am also running basic design, don't know if that makes any difference.

Gill A

[germ]

The broken image in your code says the image it wants is /images/HPlodsbanner.gif

 

Remember how I told you in your other post about <right-click> & choose "Properties"?

:unsure:

 

It needs to go here:

 

Click me

 

But as you can see, it isn't found there.

[trophy]

Gee how are you able to get all that info from my site.

I do have the pic there

HPlodsbanner.jpg 16-Mar-2007 18:58 37k

Now I have noticed that you had gif, then the penny dropped.

I have now loaded the pic as a gif file to the images folder and you guessed it, it works.

Thank you, thank you that is awesome.

Gill A

[Maroco]

Chris, you must upload your banner logo to your (catalog)/images folder.

 

Then you must open up your (catalog)/includes/header.php file with a PHP editor. On or around line 57, you will see this:

 

<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'oscommerce.gif', 'osCommerce') . '</a>'; ?></td>

 

I don't have this option in that file. The closest is this....

 

<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'store_logo.png', STORE_NAME) . '</a>'; ?></td>

 

So, can anyone tell me where I've gone wrong.

 

Cheers

[America-Warehouse.com]

I don't have this option in that file. The closest is this....

 

<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'store_logo.png', STORE_NAME) . '</a>'; ?></td>

 

So, can anyone tell me where I've gone wrong.

 

Cheers

 

 

I may be wrong or right

 

*.png doesn't work with oscommerce ?

 

need to be *.gif

 

Let all of us know

 

America-Warehouse.com

[America-Warehouse.com]

I don't have this option in that file. The closest is this....

 

<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'store_logo.png', STORE_NAME) . '</a>'; ?></td>

 

So, can anyone tell me where I've gone wrong.

 

Cheers

 

or

 

 

'store_logo.png', STORE_NAME)

 

suppose to be this

 

'store_logo.png', 'STORE_NAME') ??

 

America-Warehouse.com

[Maroco]

or

'store_logo.png', STORE_NAME)

 

suppose to be this

 

'store_logo.png', 'STORE_NAME') ??

 

America-Warehouse.com

 

 

If I replace 'store_logo.png' with a .gif filename, the standard osCommerce banner just disappears and the web address is displayed in text in it's place which I assume is the 'STORE_NAME'

 

if I remove 'STORE_NAME' also, I am left with a blank white space.

 

I cannot get it to reference my image, even though it is uploaded correctly and I changed the code correctly as far as I could tell.

 

When searching for the answer, I only get people referencing what is already outlined in this thread, and that is that the filename is different to mine. I don't know why I have the .png and store name thing. Problem is you can search and search, spend several hours on a minor issue, give yourself a headache and not get anywhere. I appreciate your help.

[germ]

The image can be .png, .gif, .jpg, anything a browser can display.

 

Matt, you'll have to post your URL (or PM it to me) so I can look at the HTML source in order to help you.

[♥geoffreywalton]

Just change

 

store_logo.png

 

to

 

HPlodsbanner.jpg

 

remember it is case sensitive

 

STORE_NAME is set in your admin area

 

 

Configuration >> My Store >> Store Name

[germ]

That was the image Gill was working with, not Matt...

 

It's a convoluted thread...

:blush:

[Maroco]

Yes, convoluted. Sorry for bumping an old thread, it was the closest query to my problem so I added to it rather than creating a new thread.

 

I have found the problem. The oscommerce.gif was in catalog/images/banner so I uploaded my banner to there. The file it was referencing was the .png, which was in the catalog/images folder so I uploaded the banner to there and it worked.