Best Sellers List

[CraftyJoy]

What sort of help do you need, where are you getting into difficulties?

I will try and help but it is probably a fluke it worked with my experience!

Joy

[Taz]

Hi

am trying to edit the act_primary and a few others to enable it to pick up a html file and place it into one of the section boxes. Seemed or sounded easy enough but mine just doesnt want to know...

any hints would be appreciated

[Taz]

Amazingly i have got it to appear on the left hand side but it wont appear on the right. Any ideas why?

[CraftyJoy]

I created a table in frontpage and saved it as bestsellers.htm within actinic site 1 folder.

Then go to design|site defaults then in the properties section on the line RIGHTBARTXT enter bestsellers.htm in the value column, tick file name and use file content.

I think that was it, anyway it worked for me.

Joy

[Taz]

I have done this wonderfully on the left hand side, but it completly refuses to work on the right hand side section. Any ideas as it is now starting to drive me MAD

[wjcampbe]

To create an additional table on the right side, edit your primary template and paste this code

      <table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <tr> 
          <td height="22" bgcolor="NETQUOTEVAR:PALCOLOR1CSS" class="actsmallheading" background="tab_pal2.gif"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;CUSTOMVAR:RIGHTBARTITLE2</b></td>
        </tr>
        <tr valign="top"> 
          <td class="thinred2">
             <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" class="actxxsmall">
               <tr> 
                <td valign="top"><br>CUSTOMVAR:RIGHTBARTEXT2<br><br></td>
               </tr>
             </table>
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      <br>

then create the customvars (I called them rightbartitle2 and rightbartext2 - if you use different names then change the code) add them to your site defaults and type in values.
hth

[Taz]

Thank you so much! I had to delete the old right title and put your one in instead and then make a few minor tweaks and hey presto i have something appear. All i got to do now is make the big red crosses dissapear!! I'm getting there

Once again thanks for the help

[wjcampbe]

The big red crosses usually indicate that actinic is not finding the image file where it expects it to be. If the file is not *inside* your site1 directory then it will not show in a local preview - and if it's not *inside* site1 AND you don't add each image file to the list of extra files actinic has to upload, it won't show on the website either - (unless you are using relative pathing and have manually ftp'd the files into the correct relative location... too complex isn't it).

[Taz]

Complex! Ow yes it can be, and just when you think you are making headway something new pops it ugly head around the corner.....

How about this Bill.... two more points for you as you seem to be a real expert on this.....

How do you edit the centre section of the site? have now mastered how to edit the two sections either side of the website, well sort of :-) but still struggling to work out the centre section and also how to add the credit card images to the cart section on the top right hand corner....

[CraftyJoy]

Bill,

Watching this with interest for obvious reasons.

I got the best sellers to work OK eventually but have now been trying to insert a table into a fragment with the code

!!<<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10">
<tr>

<td><div align="center"><img src="pigs.jpg" width="150" height="98"></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><img src="donkey.jpg" width="150" height="124"></div></td>
<td><div align="center"><img src="sheep.jpg" width="99" height="124"></div></td>


<tr>

</table>>!! as supplied by Jont

as text only in the fragment. I have saved the images in the site 1 folder and in the preview html folder but get either the red cross or the 3 small grey symbols in the corner where the image should be. What am i doing wrong?

Thanks

Joy

[wjcampbe]

Ah yes, the other problem - if the image is too big for the space you're trying to fit it into. Sometimes you have to use a product such as Irfanview to resize the image to fit inside the table cell you have created - it's a bit like trying to stuff a mattress into a pillowcase.

In your case you are trying to stuff three 150 wide pics into a 300 wide cell. Try this

!!<<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10">
<tr> 
<td><div align="center"><img src="pigs.jpg" width="150" height="98"></div></td>
</tr><tr>
<td><div align="center"><img src="donkey.jpg" width="150" height="124"></div></td>
</tr><tr>
<td><div align="center"><img src="sheep.jpg" width="99" height="124"></div></td>
<tr> 
</table>>!!

rgds

[wjcampbe]

@Taz - it depends what you want to show in the center. This is usually where the section links and product content show up once you add them.

I posted the code for the card links in this thread (includes a reference to my images - you will need to edit those.

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=15110

[NormanRouxel]

Joy:

Your code is fine. However you'll need to add these images into Advanced / Additional files so that Actinic knows you want them uploaded to your website. Use the Site1 ones.

[CraftyJoy]

Oh yes the penny has dropped now, I remember doing that last time, I think I will have to make a check list for myself as so much time is wasted fiddling about.
I was going to refresh the whole web which takes approx 4 - 5 hours because not got the luxuary of broadband (too far from exchange - sob sob)
Many thanks

Joy