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[Guest]

Absolutely nothing on that file matches my stylesheet.css

 

All I want to do is change the color of the top header borders on all the boxes from dark grey to purple. I know the color code I want to use.

 

I tried making some changes in header colors on the stylessheet.css and saving just to see what would change and absolutely nothing changed!

 

http://chic-perfumefragrance.com/store/

 

Where am I supposed to go or what am I looking for to change that.

[Guest]

you need to edit the stylesheet.css It's where you installed osc (ie in the store folder). To change the colors you need to modify the following css classes

 

TR.footer

TD.footer

TD.infoBoxHeading

TR.headerNavigation

TD.headerNavigation

 

You need to create the corner images for the boxes.

these are in

images/infobox/corner_left.gif

images/infobox/corner_right_left.gif

 

There are also others, but start with these. Check for the background color in the stylesheet first. And check the contributions under the templates/themes category

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions/category,8

[Guest]

The only one I could find was infoBoxHeading. I changed the background color code from C9C9C9 to 660099 and nothing happened. There are no TR. or TD. anywhere or any of the others on my css sheet. Not sure why I need to create corner images if I just want to change the background color. What is a corner image? Just a small box of the color I want? There are no corner images in my image files to replace like I did with my header.

 

You can't see what you are going to get before you upload the contributions so how would I even know if they are what I want or not?

 

 

 

you need to edit the stylesheet.css It's where you installed osc (ie in the store folder). To change the colors you need to modify the following css classes

 

TR.footer

TD.footer

TD.infoBoxHeading

TR.headerNavigation

TD.headerNavigation

 

You need to create the corner images for the boxes.

these are in

images/infobox/corner_left.gif

images/infobox/corner_right_left.gif

 

There are also others, but start with these. Check for the background color in the stylesheet first. And check the contributions under the templates/themes category

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions/category,8

[Guest]

The only one I could find was infoBoxHeading. I changed the background color code from C9C9C9 to 660099 and nothing happened. There are no TR. or TD. anywhere or any of the others on my css sheet. Not sure why I need to create corner images if I just want to change the background color. What is a corner image? Just a small box of the color I want? There are no corner images in my image files to replace like I did with my header.

 

I see so how comes when I download the stylesheet.css from your site I see all of them as I mentioned? Are you looking at the right place?

 

Here is how the file contents begins:

/*
 $Id: stylesheet.css,v 1.56 2003/06/30 20:04:02 hpdl Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/

.boxText { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; }
.errorBox { font-family : Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size : 10px; background: #ffb3b5; font-weight: bold; }
.stockWarning { font-family : Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size : 10px; color: #cc0033; }
.productsNotifications { background: #f2fff7; }
.orderEdit { font-family : Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size : 10px; color: #70d250; text-decoration: underline; }

BODY {
 background: #ffffff;
 color: #000000;
 margin: 0px;
}
..............

and don't take my word for it, try it yourself

http://chic-perfumefragrance.com/store/stylesheet.css

 

 

You can't see what you are going to get before you upload the contributions so how would I even know if they are what I want or not?

You don't want to upload a contribution unless you created a new module or an update for an existing one and you want to contribute to the oscommerce community.

 

You want to download a contribution and see what it does. So you use the search or you select one of the contributions and in the contribution page you see the various authors along with the date. There is a small icon on the right hand side of the date for each version. That icon performs the download you want. And then you can read the instructions/description.

here is an example of a different template

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4771

click the little icon next to the date field to download it.

[Guest]

I wasn't dowloading the stylesheet.css I was trying to edit from the Voda Cpanel File Manager. I guess I have to download it through OScommerce File Manager like with the index.php, make changes and then upload it again. I will try that.

 

At this point I am totaly confused about the contributions. I thought they were updates/upgrades to my existing OScommerce program/web site. I guess not. I wanted to upload the Header tags contribution so I could set the Title, Header, Keywords, etc for my site. How do I set that information for my site for SEO?

 

I see so how comes when I download the stylesheet.css from your site I see all of them as I mentioned? Are you looking at the right place?

 

Here is how the file contents begins:

/*
 $Id: stylesheet.css,v 1.56 2003/06/30 20:04:02 hpdl Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/

.boxText { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; }
.errorBox { font-family : Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size : 10px; background: #ffb3b5; font-weight: bold; }
.stockWarning { font-family : Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size : 10px; color: #cc0033; }
.productsNotifications { background: #f2fff7; }
.orderEdit { font-family : Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size : 10px; color: #70d250; text-decoration: underline; }

BODY {
 background: #ffffff;
 color: #000000;
 margin: 0px;
}
..............

and don't take my word for it, try it yourself

http://chic-perfumefragrance.com/store/stylesheet.css

You don't want to upload a contribution unless you created a new module or an update for an existing one and you want to contribute to the oscommerce community.

 

You want to download a contribution and see what it does. So you use the search or you select one of the contributions and in the contribution page you see the various authors along with the date. There is a small icon on the right hand side of the date for each version. That icon performs the download you want. And then you can read the instructions/description.

here is an example of a different template

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4771

click the little icon next to the date field to download it.

[Guest]

I wasn't dowloading the stylesheet.css I was trying to edit from the Voda Cpanel File Manager. I guess I have to download it through OScommerce File Manager like with the index.php, make changes and then upload it again. I will try that.

 

At this point I am totaly confused about the contributions. I thought they were updates/upgrades to my existing OScommerce program/web site. I guess not. I wanted to upload the Header tags contribution so I could set the Title, Header, Keywords, etc for my site. How do I set that information for my site for SEO?

you should use a regular editor to edit the files as some versions of the osc file manager had problems. And use an ftp tool to download/upload files to your store.

 

If you don't have an editor there are quite few that are open source and free to use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

 

As of the various contributions, typically each one of them has a support forum thread which you can ask for help there. For the header tags you should be able to process the keywords from the osc admin when you edit a category or product