arghhh...Cart summary and quick search bar layout question

[TheInkDepot]

Hi all

I cant seem to find where to change the backgroud colour and text colour of the standard shopping cart summary, need to change background from black to white and text from white to black etc...I also need to change the overall layout of the standard quick search bar as its kicked my tables out of wack

Please helllllllllp....V8 is killing me!

Will be plenty more questions coz I've only just opened the box lol

Many thanks

Neil

[Simon Williams]

I changed mine in the 'design | themes | advanced theme configuration | colour scheme' menu.

[TheInkDepot]

Thanx for the reply Simon

All i'm trying to do is add the ShoppingCartSummary Variable with the Show Shooping cart Summary In A Line layout and its just not having it...stays in a black box with white text...any ideas on the correct way I should be doing this coz it must be me doing something wrong...its a custom design I did in Dreamweaver...

Many thanx

Neil

[Simon Williams]

It seems as though the simplest task in V8 is quite a laborious and tough one.

I too am new to Actinic and it's nothing like any other design package I've come across. I've been using web authoring tools for 8 years, and I must say, this one is really tough. It's just not intuitive at all.

I’m afraid Dreamweaver and integration into Actinic is something I haven’t dabbled much in as yet, but I do check my layouts sometimes for in-accuracies that Actinic seems to through up from time to time.

I’m afraid I can’t be more help than that.

Sorry.

[wjcampbe]

Neil said

I cant seem to find where to change the backgroud colour and text colour

If (and it's 99% sure the answer is yes) you are using a css based theme - then many of the colour elements are controlled in the css file. Look in the layout code for class= attributes - then check the Actinic Stylesheet (that's reached by selecting that exact description in the design tab dropdown - top left) for the background and color settings in that class definition.

[TheInkDepot]

Thanks for the replies Bill and Simon

I 'thought' that once you had inserted a variable you then attached the layout to it...sounds simple enough but doesnt seem to work like that

Neil

[cdicken]

Neil

If you are using the Dreamweaver integration then you need to do the following to insert a shopping cart summary in a line:

1. In DW put your cursor where you want to the shopping cart summary to appear
2. Go to 'Actinic | Insert Actinic Content'
3. Select 'ShoppingCartSummary' from the list.
4. Select 'Use Fixed Layout'
5. From the drop down list select 'Shopping Cart Summary In A line'
6. Click the 'Insert and Close' button.

Or if you want to change the background of the standard shopping cart summary to white and the text to black...

1. Go to 'Design | Library | Layouts' and open the 'Shopping Cart Summary' group
2. Double click on the 'Standard Shopping Cart Summary'
3. Change the line

   <td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="TextColor">

   to

   <td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="BGColor">

4. Change the line

   <span class="actxxsmall" style="BGColor">

   to

   <span class="actxxsmall" style="TextColor">

5. (Use the 'Insert Variable' button to insert the variables/

[TheInkDepot]

Hi Chris

Great...thanks for that ;-) the only problem is that 'Shopping Cart Summary In A line' doesnt appear in the drop down list...there's only 'in a box' 'no box'...is there a way I can get it into the list?

Many thanx

Neil

[TheInkDepot]

Worked out how to get 'in line' back into the selection

Have added the 'CartText' & CheckOut' variables but they're not working as links....any ideas?

Many thanks

Neil

[Nadeem]

Hi Neil,

What have you put for the Cart Text link variable? Is it like the following?

<actinic:variable name="NavigationIcon" value="View Cart Text Link" />

Kind Regards

[TheInkDepot]

Hi Needam

The code for my 'View Cart' and 'Check Out' links under the ShoppingCart Summary looks like this:

<td width="50%" height="28" align="center" valign="middle"><actinic:variable formatting="font(Name|Tahoma|Size|12|Color|ffcc00),bold" name="CartText" /></td>
                            <td width="50%" height="28" align="center" valign="middle"><actinic:variable formatting="font(Name|Tahoma|Size|12|Color|ffcc00),bold" name="CheckOutText" /></td>

Would appreciate any help you can off in terms of advice

Neil

[cdicken]

These aren't links - they are just text.

To make them links you need to change the code to:

<a href="<actinic:variable name="CartLinkText" />" target="_self"><actinic:variable name="CartText" /></a>

and

<a href="<actinic:variable name="OrderLinkText" />" target="_self"><actinic:variable name="CheckoutText" /></a>

[TheInkDepot]

Thanks Chris

Is that the same process for adding Navigation links i.e to 'About Us' ect?

Neil

[cdicken]

Do you mean links to the brochure pages? There's no variable for those. If you want individual links, you have to add them manually. If you want a list of all the brochure pages in Actinic, then copy and paste the following code in:

<actinic:variable name="BrochurePageList" />

[TheInkDepot]

Yes Chris...I've coded the links to the brochure pages in DW but when I test the site in V8 the links show the old site (which is still live) ...should I upload the new site to a test area on the server to be able to see the lniks working correctly?

Neil