Admin1986 Posted August 3, 2010 Posted August 3, 2010 Hello, On the left of my website shows products and it displays categories products but the name is separated in two rows, i.e: * Computer connections is displayed as: * Computer Connections How can I make that the name shows only in a row? Thank you, and sorry for my bad english.
Admin1986 Posted August 4, 2010 Author Posted August 4, 2010 Hello, On the left of my website shows products and it displays categories products but the name is separated in two rows, i.e: * Computer connections is displayed as: * Computer Connections How can I make that the name shows only in a row? Thank you, and sorry for my bad english. Anyone knows if it's possible?wehre shall I go to expand categories? Thanks.
artful Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 Anyone knows if it's possible?wehre shall I go to expand categories? Thanks. Hello, You need to go into catalog/includes/application_top and increase the width of your left column which is not wide enough to show the full title. And your English is just fine! Barbara
Admin1986 Posted August 4, 2010 Author Posted August 4, 2010 Hello, You need to go into catalog/includes/application_top and increase the width of your left column which is not wide enough to show the full title. And your English is just fine! Barbara Thank you very much, but when I click on catalog it displays the options: categories/products, attributes, manufacturers, comments, offers, soon. There aren't any option of includes nor application_top, I don't know where I could expand the categories titles of my left column :(
Admin1986 Posted August 4, 2010 Author Posted August 4, 2010 Thank you very much, but when I click on catalog it displays the options: categories/products, attributes, manufacturers, comments, offers, soon. There aren't any option of includes nor application_top, I don't know where I could expand the categories titles of my left column :( Anyone can help me please? Where's that option for expand category title on left column of website? Thanks.
Admin1986 Posted August 5, 2010 Author Posted August 5, 2010 Anyone can help me please? Where's that option for expand category title on left column of website? Thanks. I think I could modify the length of categories titles of left column in configuration/maximum values? but I haven't found the correct option. Please, anyone could help me with this? Thank you.
knifeman Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 I think I could modify the length of categories titles of left column in configuration/maximum values? but I haven't found the correct option. Please, anyone could help me with this? Thank you. includes/application_top is a file located on your server. There is a line of code that sets the width of column left. I forget which line at the moment, but either of us could do a search on google to find it. Once the column is set wider, the category names will not wrap. However, I saw a site the other day that had this same problem. They made their column wider and it looked pretty bizarre. I guess it depends upon how wide you make them and what other style modifications you have made. Tim
Admin1986 Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 Let us see the page please. It's http://www.electriclumen.com but I haven't made any change yet.
Admin1986 Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 includes/application_top is a file located on your server. There is a line of code that sets the width of column left. I forget which line at the moment, but either of us could do a search on google to find it. Once the column is set wider, the category names will not wrap. However, I saw a site the other day that had this same problem. They made their column wider and it looked pretty bizarre. I guess it depends upon how wide you make them and what other style modifications you have made. Tim I've found what u say in : tools/files/includes/application_top , but now I don't know what to modify in all that information. I keep trying it in order to see the differences, maybe I don't like a wider column.
artful Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 I've found what u say in : tools/files/includes/application_top , but now I don't know what to modify in all that information. I keep trying it in order to see the differences, maybe I don't like a wider column. It is around line 60 in catalog/includes/application_top.php and looks like this: // customization for the design layout define('BOX_WIDTH', 125); // how wide the boxes should be in pixels (default: 125) ************ You replace the 125 with sya 130 or more till you hit the size for your categories. Only other solutions are either reduce the font size for categories or make the name more concise! Barbara
Admin1986 Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 It is around line 60 in catalog/includes/application_top.php and looks like this: // customization for the design layout define('BOX_WIDTH', 125); // how wide the boxes should be in pixels (default: 125) ************ You replace the 125 with sya 130 or more till you hit the size for your categories. Only other solutions are either reduce the font size for categories or make the name more concise! Barbara I've just changed default:125 for default:200 but it doesn't make any change :( I can't make names more concise. Thank you!
knifeman Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 I've just changed default:125 for default:200 but it doesn't make any change :( I can't make names more concise. Thank you! Your columns are quite wide now. Perhaps you need to refresh your browser to see the changes. Tim
Admin1986 Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 Your columns are quite wide now. Perhaps you need to refresh your browser to see the changes. Tim As you can see on the link below there are categories separated in 2 rows because it's too long. I've changed default:125 for default:150 but it doesn't work :( http://www.electriclumen.com/index.php?cPath=1_4_31_42 Thank you! Esther.
knifeman Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 As you can see on the link below there are categories separated in 2 rows because it's too long. I've changed default:125 for default:150 but it doesn't work :( http://www.electriclumen.com/index.php?cPath=1_4_31_42 Thank you! Esther. Your columns are quite wide now. Perhaps you need to refresh your browser to see the changes. Also, your sub cats are indented to the right. If you make the column any wider, you will have no middle part left. Tim
Admin1986 Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 Your columns are quite wide now. Perhaps you need to refresh your browser to see the changes. Also, your sub cats are indented to the right. If you make the column any wider, you will have no middle part left. Tim Sorry, I meant subcategories.I think I won't make anything else about it, when u read and see my categories and sub cats do u think they are right?or it's too ugly? Thanks for ur opinion and solutions. Esther.
knifeman Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Sorry, I meant subcategories.I think I won't make anything else about it, when u read and see my categories and sub cats do u think they are right?or it's too ugly? Thanks for ur opinion and solutions. Esther. My opinion? I think the names wrapping to a second line looks better than the middle table being smashed. Your left and right columns have taken away from the main part of your site. Your subcats are indented way more than I have seen on other sites. Do you have some sort of add on for your category box? Decreasing the indent would give you more room for the text instead of all the blank space on the left of sub cat names. FYI, the site loads extremely slow here. Tim
Admin1986 Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 My opinion? I think the names wrapping to a second line looks better than the middle table being smashed. Your left and right columns have taken away from the main part of your site. Your subcats are indented way more than I have seen on other sites. Do you have some sort of add on for your category box? Decreasing the indent would give you more room for the text instead of all the blank space on the left of sub cat names. FYI, the site loads extremely slow here. Tim Yes, I don't know why itloads too slow because all images are in .jpg format, I think it's a bad point for my website but I don't why could I solve it. Thank you for all. Esther.
knifeman Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Yes, I don't know why itloads too slow because all images are in .jpg format, I think it's a bad point for my website but I don't why could I solve it. Thank you for all. Esther. This site will check your load time and give recommendations: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
artful Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 My opinion? I think the names wrapping to a second line looks better than the middle table being smashed. Your left and right columns have taken away from the main part of your site. Your subcats are indented way more than I have seen on other sites. Do you have some sort of add on for your category box? Decreasing the indent would give you more room for the text instead of all the blank space on the left of sub cat names. FYI, the site loads extremely slow here. Tim Hi again, In your Admin, Configuration, My Store put Show Category counts to False and you will gain space as well and at the same time the program will not waste bandwidth counting the number of categories. Your big problem is having so many sub-sub categories that it extends the box too much. Also you may not see your changes because the page does not refresh so either clear your cache (if using one) or try hitting the F5 key on the top of your keyboard to see your changes. Barbara
Admin1986 Posted August 7, 2010 Author Posted August 7, 2010 This site will check your load time and give recommendations: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ Hi, I used that site u recommended to me and it said: "The size of this web page (3111086 bytes) has exceeded the maximum size of 3000000 bytes." But everyday I'm uploading more pictures on my website so numer of bytes will icnrease considerably. I can't believe other websites which have a lot of pictures don't have the same problem.
Admin1986 Posted August 7, 2010 Author Posted August 7, 2010 Hi again, In your Admin, Configuration, My Store put Show Category counts to False and you will gain space as well and at the same time the program will not waste bandwidth counting the number of categories. Your big problem is having so many sub-sub categories that it extends the box too much. Also you may not see your changes because the page does not refresh so either clear your cache (if using one) or try hitting the F5 key on the top of your keyboard to see your changes. Barbara I've just done what u said and I think it loads as slow as before:(
Admin1986 Posted August 7, 2010 Author Posted August 7, 2010 I've just done what u said and I think it loads as slow as before:( Barbara I was wrong, it loads a bit faster than before but it still takes a little. Thank you!!!! Esther.
artful Posted August 7, 2010 Posted August 7, 2010 Barbara I was wrong, it loads a bit faster than before but it still takes a little. Thank you!!!! Esther. Hello Esther, When using pictures try to keep the size around 50-100 ko (generally a format of 500x300+ pixels). The image sizes can really slow down the site, even though on the front page they do not look big (as they are thumbnailed). See what your actual sizes are, you may find some as big as 1200 x 3000 pixels which if you have thousands of them will kill your site! Barbara
Admin1986 Posted August 7, 2010 Author Posted August 7, 2010 Hello Esther, When using pictures try to keep the size around 50-100 ko (generally a format of 500x300+ pixels). The image sizes can really slow down the site, even though on the front page they do not look big (as they are thumbnailed). See what your actual sizes are, you may find some as big as 1200 x 3000 pixels which if you have thousands of them will kill your site! Barbara When I prepare pictures with Photoshop CS3 I do them in 90x90 pixels,I think it's what you mean. Perhaps some of pictures are in .gif but they have same Kb as .jpg images.
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