Not a scooby doo.....

[Bifford]

Hi folks.

My site is at http://www.fayretimesfestival.co.uk/

I am totally new to VM. Currently I am well and truly flumoxed by a number of things.

I can not, for the life of me, get the text to appear next to the images on the initial list of items pages. All text appears below and to the right of the image rather than to the right of it.

When I have added items to the cart it should have selected the shipping and payment automatically as there is only "no shipping" (they are tickets) and paypal for both.

Also, this shopping cart page looks god awful. But I have NO clue how to alter and change that to look nice. I can't find anything helpful in the wiki or forum.

Also, despite a thread in this sub-forum saying there are free templates I can safely say there are not.

I don't understand all the template override stuff and what it does.

Also, user registration appears not to work? I do a test registration then when I go to log in it says "Login denied! Your account has either been blocked or you have not activated it yet." when I have just activated it.

Basically I've no idea on any of the above and all help is much appreciated!

Sam

[Bifford]

<div class="product floatleft width100 ">
    <div class="spacer">
            <div class="width30 floatleft center"></div>
            <div class="width70 floatright"></div>
    <div class="clear"></div>
</div>


Right, well that's the errant code for the image/text line up found.

Changing the 30 to 25 does the trick there.

Now I just need to find the file that is in and change it......

[jenkinhill]

Free template with VM theme? Yes, there a few - eg go to  http://www.linelab.org/download?start=18 and part way down the page is Shoplab - Free Joomla 2.5 template VM2 Theme

There are plenty of low cost templates & VM themes available now, the benefit of using a pre-built template is that it is a great timesaver for those whose php/HTML/css skills are limited or  have limited understanding of templating and template overrides for Joomla.

The file you are looking for is joomla_root/components/com_virtuemart/views/category/tmpl/default.php - make a copy of that, make your edits and then save it as a template override by saving it in joomla_root/templates/(your-joomla-template)/html/com_virtuemart/category/   Then in VM configuration set up the categories to use that override.

For overrides see http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/overrides  and  http://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/wiki/Hints_for_the_use_of_the_template_system

[Bifford]

Free template with VM theme? Yes, there a few - eg go to  http://www.linelab.org/download?start=18 and part way down the page is Shoplab - Free Joomla 2.5 template VM2 Theme

Ah, I'd seen the others but missed that one as it was hidden.

I've downloaded and installed it but NOT allocated it to any pages - if I do so it over-rides the entire sites look so the shop is top level.
When I set the Configuration / Templates to:
Select the default template for your Shop: Shoplab
Category Template : Shoplab

I get an error at the top of my site saying "The chosen template couldnt found on the filesystem: Shoplab", which is unusual as the template is there....
If I only select one or the other of those two items as Shoplab nothing happens. So far the Shoplab template does not get used unless it is set to pages from within the main Extensions/template area as mentioned above.

There are plenty of low cost templates & VM themes available now, the benefit of using a pre-built template is that it is a great timesaver for those whose php/HTML/css skills are limited or  have limited understanding of templating and template overrides for Joomla.

I'm self-teaching myself css with books and the developer plugins for firefox and chrome (chrome's is much better and easier to use!) so I am getting there

The file you are looking for is joomla_root/components/com_virtuemart/views/category/tmpl/default.php - make a copy of that, make your edits and then save it as a template override by saving it in joomla_root/templates/(your-joomla-template)/html/com_virtuemart/category/   Then in VM configuration set up the categories to use that override.

For overrides see http://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/overrides  and  http://dev.virtuemart.net/projects/virtuemart/wiki/Hints_for_the_use_of_the_template_system

Thank you for the file location, and the first URL...the second URL's page I just find confusing and hideous to read due to the font and mass of information!

Hopefully you can help with the integration of shoplab! Thanks for your help so far.

Sam.

[jenkinhill]

See http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=109955.msg368389#msg368389