beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I downloaded and installed oscommerce 3 1/2 weeks ago after reading something about get my own store and be selling online in just a few hours..What a crock!! After reading this forum, the wiki site and the oscdocs site for days on end I just got my logo on the header 2 days ago..I'd like to make a few other changes like get rid of the little pizza boxes on the corners of all my info boxes etc, change background colors in those without having to go edit 100's of files.. I don't know why it wasn't designed to when I change my default page that it carries through the whole store..Figuring the lost sales I probably had in this time it would have been cheaper to buy a custom designed store!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodles Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 I agree.....It is very hard to use..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajeh Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 It really depends on what kinds of changes you make. Were you to change a couple boxes or load a few add-ons the whole look of your site can change very quickly. I loaded my first site and had it ready to sell stuff the first day ... It did not look the way I wanted it to, but it was ready to use out of the box. Empty the old data, add some new ... *poof* Then, I needed to change the look of it so it looked good. There are a zillion ways to accomplish this. It really depends on what you are trying to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 if you spend a little time reading the docs, and testing with the various documents, contribution, modifications, volumes of information available in the forums, then you will be able to study and learn. we all started at ground zero - if you install OSC 'right out of the box' you will find it works, but it may not satisfy your color desires, or images or other criteria. so you learn that the colors are handled in stylesheet.css files, and that when you make a change in the stylesheet, you have to clear your browser cache to see the change. you look at the html code and php code and learn that for every page in the catalog folder, there is a corresponding file in the includes/languages/xxxx/ folders (where xxxx is the language name) and those files contain the text that appears on each page and then you look at the header.php and footer.php to see how the contents of the header and footer files appear on each page. and then you look at various contributions that add new features to OSC. it takes time, it takes patience, it takes some committment to learning about what you are working with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 That's the problem..I have the little pizza boxes at each corner of my info boxes..The documentation I read tells me to go to: catalogimagesinfoboxthema6 and change it..I go to it and there's nothing to change.. A few gif files but if I delete them I still get the pizza boxes..I deleted all the links to those on my default page so why didn't it delete them from all my pages..They have to make this a little easier to work with!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 so you are using the thema contribution and the images for the selected thema in the admin is not showing up its graphics? what is your url? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 did you change the link to the stylesheet for thema in the required files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajeh Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Remember to hit Shift Refresh to see your changes. I have to look at Ian's Load 5 to see where the icons are but they can be replaced with invisible image or images to match your color scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 I've visited a lot of the Live site demo's and they have a nice default page w/custom headers etc..And they carry through their whole site..I can get my default page set up ok but if I click to go to another page it is still the plain old oscommerce format..They need a page i can set this all up w/out having to go change 100's of files!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 to a certain degree you can do that by using the main stylesheet.css file in the catalog folder and change the header background, infobox colors, etc. that is really all the thema contribution is doing but using separate stylehseets for each color thema Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 My URL is: http://www.beachboysdiscounttools.com/cata...log/default.php But all your gonna see except for my logo on the other pages is a standard oscommerce page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 hmmm ok, so I can see you are linking to the thema stylesheet: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/classes/thema/6/stylesheet.css"> and i can see that the link to the thema images are there: <td height="14" class="infoBoxHeading"><img src="images/infobox/thema/6/corner_left.gif" border="0" alt=""></td> and if I click on a product listing I see: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/classes/thema/1/stylesheet.css"> <td height="14" class="infoBoxHeading"><img src="images/infobox/thema/1/corner_left.gif" border="0" alt="" width="8" height="19"></td> so it appears thema 1 is working, but thema 6 is not for some reason... let me think.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 Thanks..I changed from thema 6 to thema 1 hoping to get rid of the pizza boxes at the corners of my info boxes..No luck.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 on your default.php page I am still seeing <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/classes/thema/6/stylesheet.css"> <td height="14" class="infoBoxHeading"><img src="images/infobox/thema/6/corner_left.gif" border="0" alt=""></td> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 So what's the fix?? BTW Thanks for you help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 i dont use thema anymore so I am a bit rusty with it... the first thing I would do is to open the product_info.php and default.php pages and look at the stylesheet link in the <head> section and make certain they match exactly in both files (the one in product_info.php is the one that seems to be working) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 I don't care to use thema either as I want to do my own design but I'm still having trouble figuring out which file to edit and how so it will reflect through my whole site..For example I was told to go to the language/english page to change the text on my default page..I did that and nothing changed..I had to do that on the default.php page.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 some of the text is in english.php, other text is in english/default.php use the main stylesheet.css in catalog to control colors, text size, color, backgrounds, etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 OK..Thanks, Now All I need to figure out is how to get rid of those pizza boxes on the corners of the info boxes and how to add an image to my header next to my logo that will show through the whole site.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 i dont understand why on the default.php page it shows <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/classes/thema/6/stylesheet.css"> and on the product info page it shows thema/1/ that is the first mystery to clear up as far as putting an image in the header.php file, that is simple for the image you are showing in the header now are you using an <img src statement or a php echo statement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 in the images/infobox/thema/6/ folder, are the graphics files there and do the have the correct persmission set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 My logo that shows in the header and the rest of the pages I just renamed to oscommerce.gif deleted the original and uploaded it. It works great..I haven't checked the permissions on the thema files.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 In the thema 6 file there are 3 or 4 .gif files that are the corners of the boxes that have the pizza boxes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 just for the hell of it, move those files out of the folder and copy the files from the images/infobox/thema/1/ into the thema/6/ folder and see what happens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboy Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 OK..Will try that in the morning..Right now I'm so burnt out on this I need a break..All I wan't to do is list my products and start selling!! Didn't know I was gonna have to be a programming genius to do it!!LOL Thanks for the help and hope your here again tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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