HELP - Changes to Home page in Best Seller theme

[Ben Colman]

I am a novice and not familiar with coding and programming. I've requested Actinic themselves help me on this but have had no response at all.

Anyone else able to comment on any of the below I'd be grateful.

I need what I believe is some relatively simple help as follows:

All requests relate to the site www.enchanted-wood.co.uk

1) on the home page, I would like to change the word 'Products'. Which template is this located in?

2) on the home page, I would like to simply remove the word 'DEPARTMENTS' altogether as it is confusing, but leave the list of products beneath it. Where is the template for this and what should I change on it? (possibly the same template as 1) above?)

3) on the home page, how do I move the 'INFO PAGES' button to below all the others on the LHS?

4) How can I add a new 'CONTACT US' button below the 'INFO PAGES' button in 3) above and on clicking get it to route to the top of the current 'INFO PAGES' page where all the contact details are?

5) on the brochure pages, how can I change the default quantity in the product descriptions from 1 to 0 (zero)?

6) how do I change the font size for all the product / brochure pages from 8pt to 10pt? Can I also select a different font if I want?

I appreciate these maybe a lot of changes, but please let me know what you can help with.

Ben

[gillian]

change word products

Hi,

I've just signed on for the night I'll answer question number 1) for the time being then try my best to work through your other questions.

The text for the Products link is set in Design | Options | Brochure | Link to Catalog

The buttons for this link are called shop1.gif and shop2.gif.

If your navigation links are buttons you will have to design your own buttons with the text you want.

Hope this helps.

Gillian

[gillian]

templates

Here goes for question 2).

The home page and brochure pages are generated using the template Act_BrochurePrimary.html.

The catalog pages are generated by Act_Primary.html.

I'm not too sure where the "Departments" heading is being generated but I would try Act_BrochurePrimary.html the graphic being displayed is called departments.gif and is in your acalatog folder.

Gillian

[gillian]

text size

Next for question 6). It's fairly straight forward.

If you want to change the font size you do this in the style sheet, it is in your Site1 directory (or equivalent) and it is called actinic.css. This way it will change the text throughout your site.

Look for this section

.actxxsmall{font-size:xx-small;color:NETQUOTEVAR:FGCOLORCSS;}
.actxsmall{font-size:x-small;color:NETQUOTEVAR:FGCOLORCSS;}
.actsmall{font-size:small;color:NETQUOTEVAR:FGCOLORCSS;} ......

What I did was find the setting my templates were using then adjust it to what I needed.

e.g template was using .actxsmall I wanted it to appear smaller so I changed the line in the style sheet to read:
.actxsmall{font-size:xx-small;color:NETQUOTEVAR:FGCOLORCSS;}

You can specify font-size as a number - height in pixels.

Hope this is clear.

Gillian

[gillian]

default quantity

The way to change this is, go to "Design | Text", click on "Go to" and put in the following value

Phase -1
ID: 2173

Replace

%s<INPUT TYPE=text NAME="%s" SIZE="4" VALUE="%d">

with

%s<INPUT TYPE=text NAME="%s" SIZE="4" VALUE="0" DUMMY="%d">

This will set all quantity boxes to be zero.

An alternative is to have a single add-to-cart button. Which is set in:

Design | Options | Shop Defaults

Look for "Shopping Mode" and tick the "Single Add to Cart Button Per Page"

Gillian

[gillian]

adding and moving buttons

I'm not so clear on 3) and 4) but hopefully some of the following information will help.

Usually the menus are set using a NETQUOTEVAR e.g look for NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERGUIDE in brochure pages or NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERGUIDE in catalog pages. The only way to change the order is to code the NETQUOTEVAR's separately. There is a list of all NETQUOTEVAR's in the Advanced User Guide. You will need to edit the template code to do this. You can do this using Advanced | Template Manager.

The same applies when adding a "Contact Us" button. The images for this button are mail1.gif and mail2.gif - mail1.gif being the mouseover image. You would need to add code to the template to display this button with a link to acatalog/More_Info.html.

Hope some of this information is helpful.

Sorry I've had to do this in lots of posts, but I'm constantly being interupted by my kids!

Gillian