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bagman74
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - December 06 2006 : 21:48:44
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Okay, I purchased a VPASP Skin from a company that advertise on these forums. My client wanted to change the colors of the graphics. In doing so, the background color of the left side navigation changed from white to black. This means that I had to change the default font color from black to white. However, the background of the body/content area of the site is white as well. Now, the majority of the text does not show up. I know that there has to be a better way to change the default color of the text for certain areas (i.e. body/content area, cdescription, extended description,...) of the page rather than go into every product (730+ products), every content page (30+ content pages) and every category (110+ categories) to make the change to the font color. Anyone have some thoughts to this dilemma? The site is on a developmental server at www.rceweb.com/acs/default.asp. Thanks in advance.
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - December 07 2006 : 05:15:29
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in general it's best not to use colors/fonts within the descriptions/data, and instead use the generic style/colors files/settings and product/category template files.
I personally don't like using the html-edit function for extended descriptions, and prefer using the text-boxes instead, that way I can check the html won't conflict with the higher-level styles.
I think putting the font stuff inside the templates (ie wrapped around each template-field as appropriate) intead of the product/category data is the key to the easiest way to tweak things.
you can then combine the top-level styles together in a simpler way.
for example, say you've got a style called "productdescription" then you could change your template file to have something like:
$<span class="productdescription>[extendeddesc]</span>
and then you can either change your template, or change the definition of the style.
from what I can remember the templates for-sale around here assume the same kind of logic that normal vpasp displays do, ie that you'd normally use the colors/styles/templates to format things, and only use explicit fonts/styles in the data for very specific things and only rarely.
Simon Barnaby
Developer
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www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons |
Edited by - devshb on December 07 2006 05:21:28 |
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ironhawker
VP-CART Super User
USA
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Posted - December 08 2006 : 23:45:45
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You can assign classes to things showing up in your dev site, which I just visited that are defaulting to standard windows colors. the /stylesheets/shop.css file will store them for you and then you can have them called from various controls in the subs or shop$colors.asp depending on what they are.
Also you can assign an image (either custom or vpasp) for something like the click to see more and assign it from the virtual admin or a sub.
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Randy "RC" Corn
Institute of Higher Learning
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bagman74
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - December 18 2006 : 14:21:01
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| Thanks for the response. The class thing did the trick. Thanks again. |
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