Positioning of product title (short description)

[TraceyHand]

Is there a way to get the short description/product title to span the width of the image AND the description.

see http://budget-bumps.co.uk/acatalog/Black_Trousers.html

What I really want is for the tital to be ABOVE the image and description so that I can use longer short descriptions without it spanning out over more than one line (which looks messy)

Which template to I need to edit, and idiot's guide to wha I need to do in it!!?

Many thanks
Tracey

[jont]

Hi Tracey,

it is probably going to be the Act_productLine.html template - if you attach a copy of this thread as a .txt file someone should be able to change the table layout for you .. you are looking for a new cell spanning the 2 existing columns and the NQV moving into the new cell.

Best for someone to be working from your Act_ProductLine in case there are other alterations in there

[TraceyHand]

righto...thanks Jont!
I've attached my Act_ProductLine as a txt file...
It's all jibberish to me but I do see what you mean about what needs doing..
If anyone can help, it'd be great. It'd look a lot better than how it does now and would enable me to use more details in the short description (handy for carts and customer emails!!)
Thanks!

[jont]

Take a backup of the original template first and see if the attached is of use ... the product title spans the image and description areas - this is aligned left but you can easily change to "center" if required.

HTH

[TraceyHand]

ooh..that's much better Jont!! Thank you!
Any idea how I'd adjust that to work with the "layout for new products ", please?
It uses a small image and I can't quite work out where it should go (dim me!)
Thanks!

[jont]

try the attached

[TraceyHand]

ahh...can reply now! (wasn't working before!)
Worked a treat thanks.. looks better centered (and worked out how to do it myself!!)
Bit of a weird thing though , I changed both templates (through template manager, they are the only 2 templates I use for product layouts (I think!)) and did an upload... but only one page changed.. (the one I was offline previewing on) not throughout the site..
any idea why that would be?
Will try an upload again later when kids have gone to bed!

[TraceyHand]

ok..and another thing... I have a lot of white space above the main product description (where the short description used to be!)
Is there a way to eliminate this at all? It looks like something is missing!
Cheers
Tracey

[jont]

Try adding a valign="top" in the following line:

<td colspan="2" align="LEFT"><span class="actxsmall">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF <br>

adding it in as follows:

<td colspan="2" align="LEFT" valign="top"><span class="actxsmall">NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREF <br>

that will allign that cell to the top

Looking at the source code on the linked page above you also have a <br> tag in there which looks like it is coming from the product description

[TraceyHand]

Thank you again jont..that's much better. Not sure about the other <br> tag.. but just aligning the description to the top is much much better and the layout now, with the short description along both image and description cells, means that I can add the word "maternity" into the product name and it all looks so much better!
Your help is very much appreciated! Many thanks again
Tracey

[rally team]

Hi

Sorry to Hi jack the post, but its quite an old one.
I have followed the first part and my layout looks much better.
But I have some small questions....

1. The font on the title is a little small, how do I grow it to a bigger size?

2. There is a big space above the long description, how do I get it to the top, say level with the top of the image. Also can I squeeze it up a bit?

Take a look at my pages, many thanks

http://www.wmmotorsport.com/acatalog/p205-fnt-susp.html




David
West Midlands Motorsport
www.wmotorsport.com (parts)
www.wmms.co.uk (news)

[jont]

Hi David.

1. in the Act_ProductLine.html look for the following line:

<span class="actsmall"><b>NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME</b></span>

change the "actsmall" to a larger size from the actinic.css ... this would typically be actregular

2. above the NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTDESCRIPTION you have 2 <br> tags in there ... delete these to move the product text up 2 lines

HTH

[rally team]

Hi

Many thanks, u are a star...

On piont 2 I am unable to find them <br> tags, but "hey ho" it looks good to me any way.

Just need to get more images up, off to the store room we go.......
David