Apple Zen Support Thread

mygalaxy:

I went ahead and applied all of the fixes srturner47 posted. I actually still have issues with 'shopping cart' dropping down to the next line when the text size goes up one level in IE6, but that's not related to my core issue.

It seems that your test site as well as srturner47's and many others have the drop down menus working just fine in IE6. My menus only work properly after clicking on a main category link (home, products, info ... doesn't matter which one) and the page refreshes.

I've applied the exact same text from your .htaccess file and inserted 'allthingssaid.com/shopping'. Does it make a difference that my zen cart is located in a subfolder of the root directory? Everything is in the '/shopping' folder.

If you don't have any other suggestions, I may try implementing the CSS Dropdown Header separately and doing a file by file comparison. Otherwise, I'm open to anything and await your apple_zen update.

Try deleting your stylesheet_original.css from the server, as well as stylesheet_header_menu_original.css. Any css file that is uploaded, will express itself on a zen cart. That might help. :smile:

jettrue:

Try deleting your stylesheet_original.css from the server, as well as stylesheet_header_menu_original.css. Any css file that is uploaded, will express itself on a zen cart. That might help. :smile:

I've removed both files and I also went through the CSS Dropdown Header separately to see if anything was missing. Could it have something to do with some sort of javascript not reading properly in IE6? What exactly makes the dropdown menus function? Maybe I can compare the necessary files to yours.

I haven't found any other apple_zen sites that have the same issue. All menus seem to be working for everyone else on first load in IE6.

Again, I appreciate all your time and help!

Can you tell me where the green color at the top of the page comes from?: http://www.doodlebuckets.com/store/
Where the Home and Login text at the top of the page is...

Thanks! Amy

Can you tell me how to change the color of the bar at the top of the page where the Home and Login text is? Thanks! Amy

Doodlebuckets:

Can you tell me how to change the color of the bar at the top of the page where the Home and Login text is? Thanks! Amy

Very first thing in the stylesheet:
#navMainWrapper {
background:#D5E88F;
}

jettrue:

Very first thing in the stylesheet:
#navMainWrapper {
background:#D5E88F;
}

Well, I am working on this site http://www.giftsofcharacter.com/catalog/ and I am using the red template and the stylesheet show the red color but it's not showing up on the page. What am I doing wrong?

Doodlebuckets:

Well, I am working on this site http://www.giftsofcharacter.com/catalog/ and I am using the red template and the stylesheet show the red color but it's not showing up on the page. What am I doing wrong?

The stylesheet that is online on that site is not red, it is white:

#navMainWrapper {
background:#ffffff;
}

jettrue:

The stylesheet that is online on that site is not red, it is white:

#navMainWrapper {
background:#ffffff;
}

Yes, I deleted all the other colors and it worked with the red at the top but we decided we liked white better after all! Fickle, I know :o) Thanks for the reply.
Amy

Hello,

first I love that template ! Thanks allot.

But I have one problem when I´m going normally to my site url or click on home the sideboxes are normal shown on the site. But when I click on a products page the sideboxes are going under the product and not left or right of it.

I hope you can help me.

I can't seem to find what the issue might be. I thought perhaps it was unique to my site, so I installed a fresh ZC with the same template. Same problem. You can see it here: https://www.allthingssaid.com/test

I noticed the fresh install didn't contain a .htaccess file in the root ZC folder. I added the 'additions_to_.htaccess' (renaming to '.htaccess') and changed the domain settings within. Not sure what else to do. I've contacted the host (camelot-hosting.com) in hopes that the issue is server-side.

Any other suggestions are much appreciated. :smile:

It was the pesky 'www' in the config file. The original ZC install leaves them out by default. :blink:

Can't believe IE6 is the only browser that would be that picky. After all this, I feel like a ZC/Apple Zen pro. Thanks for all the time spent helping out!

Hello Jade et al!

First, thanks for a great template. It helped me in a pinch. And I've seen many interesting modifications of it. Popular contribution! /butter

After getting a site (re)launched, I've run into a problem and after an hour here and with Google I'm not sure I am even on the right path to a solution to my trouble. Oh, "What is it?", you ask.

[IMG]http://paperhaus.com/hospital/icu/dropmenu.gif[/IMG]

Well, my trouble is that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 ( IE6 & IE7 ) lose track of the drop menu as the mouse travels south into the header, breadcrumb and main content. IOW, the submenu choices get "z-indexed" behind some other content even though the only z-indexing in my CSS is for the dropmenu. So, I surmise that z-index is not the trouble/answer as I've learned in the last hour that IE6 and IE7 are a nuisance to begin with such a menu.

Now, you may not have an inkling as to what the trouble is as I have moved the drop menu to the top of the page. So, whatever question(s) I have to answer, I'll provide the info be it what zen or apple zen files I've hacked and post any necessary code.

Sure hope you or anybody else can point me in a fruitful direction.

Thank you!

P.S. Now that I've finally jumped into the deep end I hope to continue learning more so that I can answer somebody's questions one of these days.

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Hi again... :blink:

so the redirect works now, but for some reason it's looking for the .csshover file on my local directory from when I tested the site on my offline server, on both sites (with or without the www.) How would i go about changing this? I'm sure it's probably something easy, as always! :smile:

thanks again.
Tiff

Hi

I am currently using apple zen template for v1.3.7, and thinking to upgrade my zencart to v1.3.8a. Please bear with my ignorance as I have never done an upgrade before this. I noticed that there are many differences on the files under this folder includes/templates/template_default/...

My question is, do i have to compare that file from v1.3.8a with those in apple zen package files of similar filenames?

eg. includes/templates/apple_zen/common/tpl_main_page.php and
includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php

do i have to compare these two files and merge the differences? i found out that the difference is just too many for me to handle..

any guidance or advice?

thanks a lot!!!

natalia

nataliajoe:

Hi

I am currently using apple zen template for v1.3.7, and thinking to upgrade my zencart to v1.3.8a. Please bear with my ignorance as I have never done an upgrade before this. I noticed that there are many differences on the files under this folder includes/templates/template_default/...

My question is, do i have to compare that file from v1.3.8a with those in apple zen package files of similar filenames?

eg. includes/templates/apple_zen/common/tpl_main_page.php and
includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php

do i have to compare these two files and merge the differences? i found out that the difference is just too many for me to handle..

any guidance or advice?

thanks a lot!!!

natalia

This template will work in 1.3.8, however, there are some changes that need to be made. I'll probably update the template in the download section this weekend... its way overdue. :smile:

Barin:

Hello,

first I love that template ! Thanks allot.

But I have one problem when I´m going normally to my site url or click on home the sideboxes are normal shown on the site. But when I click on a products page the sideboxes are going under the product and not left or right of it.

I hope you can help me.

Can I have a link to the site please?

If the sideboxes are breaking up like that, it means that you either have an extra </div> somewhere, or you are missing a </div> somewhere.

misticloudz:

Hi again... :blink:

so the redirect works now, but for some reason it's looking for the .csshover file on my local directory from when I tested the site on my offline server, on both sites (with or without the www.) How would i go about changing this? I'm sure it's probably something easy, as always! :smile:

thanks again.
Tiff

It is doing that, because that is what you told it to do. :cool:

In includes/templates/apple_zen/css/stylesheet_header_menu.css you have this:

body {  
	behavior:  url(file:///C|/wamp/www/Copy%20of%20tiffstrinketsoffline/includes/templates/apple_zen/css/includes/csshover.htc);
	}

change it to this:

body {  
	behavior: url(includes/csshover.htc);
	}

And make sure you put csshover.htc Here:

/includes/csshover.htc
**
NOT here:
**/includes/templates/apple_zen/css/includes/csshover.htc

mr smith:

Hello Jade et al!

First, thanks for a great template. It helped me in a pinch. And I've seen many interesting modifications of it. Popular contribution! /butter

After getting a site (re)launched, I've run into a problem and after an hour here and with Google I'm not sure I am even on the right path to a solution to my trouble. Oh, "What is it?", you ask.

Well, my trouble is that Internet Explorer 6 and 7 ( IE6 & IE7 ) lose track of the drop menu as the mouse travels south into the header, breadcrumb and main content. IOW, the submenu choices get "z-indexed" behind some other content even though the only z-indexing in my CSS is for the dropmenu. So, I surmise that z-index is not the trouble/answer as I've learned in the last hour that IE6 and IE7 are a nuisance to begin with such a menu.

Now, you may not have an inkling as to what the trouble is as I have moved the drop menu to the top of the page. So, whatever question(s) I have to answer, I'll provide the info be it what zen or apple zen files I've hacked and post any necessary code.

Sure hope you or anybody else can point me in a fruitful direction.

Thank you!

P.S. Now that I've finally jumped into the deep end I hope to continue learning more so that I can answer somebody's questions one of these days.

Hmm... interesting. I wonder, does the issue still occur if the drop down menu color is not WHITE when it drops down? I'm wondering if it is a white on white issue with IE, and somehow its making the menu transparent, so it "looks" like its an indexing issue, when really its a color issue? Anyhoo, try another color and let me know.

Also, I'll be posting an apple zen update, with many changes to stylesheet_header_menu.css (if you want to get the changes now, you can get the stylesheet_header_menu.css code from my test site (https://www.zencart137.jadetrue.com), which addresses many IE menu issues.

jettrue:

It is doing that, because that is what you told it to do. :cool:

i knew it ws something stupidly simple like that... :blink: i think i was looking in the stylesheet.css instead of in the header menu stylesheet or something like that....
but yay, it's fixed! thank you so much. the page loads perfectly now. :hug: