56 themes or templates?

[jdawes]

Squirrelcart is template based, and was designed to be very customizable. If you know HTML, you can customize just about everything in it! There are currently 56 templates for you to modify, if you wish.

When i read that initially, I figured that meant there would be 56 full sets of themes to choose from, which would be very impressive, however it appears there are 3, which seems more realistic. Is a theme different to a template? I'm confused I guess.

[Jamie]

As we are referring to it, a "Theme" is a collection of templates, with a name, that will change the look of your site. A template is a single file that controls 1 aspect of the cart's look and feel.

Thanks,
Jamie

[tanagramgd]

Is there more documentation on this topic somewhere?

[Jamie]

Hi,

The only documentation on this is in the install doc, and above the records in the Theme table in the admin interface.

Thanks,
Jamie

[tanagramgd]

This really needs to be documented better. Some simple what controls what would be great! Can you point me to any documentation? I could spend days trying to chase down what does what .

I'm going for a very specific look here.

[Jamie]

I agree, we definitely need more documentation. We will be working on that soon.

You can change the look quite a bit by changing the following:

window.php - controls the look of the boxes surrounding the navigation on the left

store.css - main stylesheet for the cart. You may find this post useful:
http://www.squirrelcart.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32&highlight=categoryexpanded

images - You can change the images the cart uses by choosing "Themes > 'YourCustomTheme' Images" where YourCustomTheme is the theme you made for customization in the Themes table.

The rest of the template files are named according to what they control. If you have any specific questions about modifying a certain aspect of the cart, please ask, and we can help you.

Thanks,
Jamie

[tanagramgd]

How do you change the bread crumb typeface?
Can I change the overall typface to verdana?

How do I control the Description typeface. I want it to be 11 pt verdana.

"show_category_typeface.php"
<div class="category_description">
<table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td><?=$Description?>
</td>

[tanagramgd]

why is there so much space underneath "product catalog" and "account options"?

[Jamie]

Hi,

Please make sure you have read the install docs, and have created a custom theme. You should not modify a template in the default squirrelcart theme folder. If you have a template you wish to modify, put a copy of the template file in your custom theme folder, and modify it there. With that said, here are some answers:


How do you change the bread crumb typeface?
In store.css, modify this style:

.bread_crumb_link { font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica; font-size: 9px }
- just replace the font-family property values with whatever you wish to use.


Can I change the overall typface to verdana?

Yes. This can be done in store.css. You can get most of them by changing these 2 styles:

BODY { background-color: #FFFFC0; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 8px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; }
TD { font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; }

The category description is being displayed in a &lt;div&gt; tag with the class set to "category_description". We do not have a style defined for that, but if you wish to change the font, add a style to store.css called category_description with the desired properties, like so:

.category_description { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt }

Thanks!
Jamie

[tonyk777]

Jamie has there been any further development regarding faq sheets for template manipulation?

tonyK


I agree, we definitely need more documentation. We will be working on that soon.

You can change the look quite a bit by changing the following:

window.php - controls the look of the boxes surrounding the navigation on the left

store.css - main stylesheet for the cart. You may find this post useful:
http://www.squirrelcart.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32&highlight=categoryexpanded

images - You can change the images the cart uses by choosing "Themes &gt; 'YourCustomTheme' Images" where YourCustomTheme is the theme you made for customization in the Themes table.

The rest of the template files are named according to what they control. If you have any specific questions about modifying a certain aspect of the cart, please ask, and we can help you.

Thanks,
Jamie

[flytier101]

Jamie,
I am looking for the following post in your response, going to an error page

http://www.squirrelcart.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32&highlight=categoryexpanded

I am to trying to get a specific look and starting with manipulating and starting with window.php I see all the images that surround that box, where is the word "Products" found the "Search" code? Maybe im just blind,
Larry

[Rich]

That link points to our old forums which are no longer in use. We moved and upgraded the forums to LDEV.COM back in February 2003.

All of the old posts were imported, but we no longer have a method to cross-reference the old URLs. I searched for category expanded as mentioned in that URL, and came up with this:

http://www.ldev.com/forums/showthread.php?p=68#post68I'm not sure if that's the exact post you're looking for, but I would guess that it is. There were a few others that turned up as well. Try the same search that I mentioned above for the other results.

[cobra]

How can I change the words New products on the left nav to maybe sale items and also in the middle of the page uner best sellers.

George

[ryantknox]

I believe that New Products is a category. You can control it's display in the navigation menu or you should be able to rename it through squirrelcart--> edit category--> New Products