Top and Bottom Lines

[pureliving]

Dear sir or madam,

 

I understand you are a kind person who can offer advice for some individuals, and i hoped that you may please assist me, that is i wondered how is it in oscommerce can i remove or replace the two lines at the top and bottom of the websites homepage template, i understand how i can replace all images, and change all colours, including the colour of the lines, but i do not know, or wish for the lines to be as they are, and i wanted to know how can i replace them with something more extravagant.

 

Would you be able to please be of assistance for me.

 

Thankyou sincerely, Tammy.

[germ]

Can you post a link to your site?

:unsure:

 

"Lines" can be images, or done in other ways.

 

Without looking at your site and examining the HTML source, I don't think anyone can give you a definite answer.

 

If you post a link, I'll try to help...

:blush:

[pureliving]

Dear Jim,

 

I am sorry but i can not provide you a link, as i am not yet trading, and wish not to disclose it to anyone yet.

 

What i can tell you though, is that the website is the original oscommerce template M2.2, so you will already be aware that in oscommerce websites, when installed a thin line is upon the header below the image place, and one at the footer above the banner rotation part.

 

Is this helpful enough, i hope it is.

Please kindly advice me.

Tammy.

[germ]

You know what they say, "One picture is worth a thousand words".

 

Without the picture (link), we may have to go the "thousand word" route.

 

I'll try.

 

And it probably won't take quite that many words....

;)

 

Do these "lines" you have a "problem" with currently have text and/or hyperlinks ("clickable" links) in them?

:unsure:

[pureliving]

The lines do have writing and links within them, the top as this:

 

Top » Catalog My Account | Cart Contents | Checkout

 

 

And the bottom as this:

 

Monday 03 September, 2007 6563 products available 11565 requests since Saturday 03 August, 2007

[pureliving]

I forgot to also mention, that within the stylesheet there is a section only for changing the colour of the lines, which i have done, i have also tried adding a image in place of the colour, but it does not seems to work.

 

The code in the stylesheet is:

 

HEADER STRIP BACKGROUND COLOUR >

 

 

TD.headerNavigation {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

font-size: 10px;

background: #f3d7b1;

color: #ffffff;

font-weight : bold;

}

 

 

 

FOOTER STRIP BACKGROUND COLOUR >

 

TD.footer {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

font-size: 10px;

background: #bbc3d3;

color: #ffffff;

font-weight: bold;

}

 

 

Where it states background then colour, instead i tried typing:

 

background-image: url(../images/ect, etc);

 

But this did not work at all.

 

so i now am not sure how to either take them out, or replace them with a more elegant image line.

[germ]

Since you've been able to change the color, another avenue is to correctly add an image as a background.

 

I think the correct syntax for a background image might be:

 

TD.headerNavigation {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

font-size: 10px;

background: #f3d7b1;

background-image:

url('images/PUT_YOUR_IMAGE_NAME_HERE')

color: #ffffff;

font-weight : bold;

}

 

 

TD.footer {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

font-size: 10px;

background: #bbc3d3;

background-image:

url('images/PUT_YOUR_IMAGE_NAME_HERE')

color: #ffffff;

font-weight: bold;

}

These examples go on the assumption the background image is located in your "/images" folder on the server.

 

On a UNIX server, file names are "case sensitive" so they must match exactly!!!

 

Does that help any at all?

:unsure:

[pureliving]

It seems that does not work either, as i stated previously it will not change at all, do you know if there is any code any where else, that inputs the lines, maybe the lines are input by another file, then only coloured by the stylesheet.

 

Do you know at all another way this can be done.

 

Thankyou in advance.

[germ]

Without a link to see what's going on, I'm out of ideas.

:blush: