Feedback French soaps online shop

Ah, I am seeing improvements.

The search bar is for people and is not essential if they can readily find via the categorical nesting what you offer. What people cannot see engines might still see. You do not really want or need for engines to "search" for everything imaginable, that tends to generate even massive surges in database activity, engines can get everywhere they need to go by following links among categorical nesting to products. Under products they will see descriptions, as well as keyword terms. (Would you want an engine to catalog everything in the Library of Congress, or additionally to swamp even a Cray computer with pointless searches that would not actually find any additional items? Scale that down, the answer is the same.)

Yup, there are Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moments. In recent months (not just 2, but 24+) there has been no compelling reason to start de novo with any 1.4.9.x OC, let alone to sell it as new, since the entire span of 1.5.0.0 through 1.5.5.1 has meanwhile become available, now even through 1.5.6.1. However, all of your work put into 1.4.9 is essentially safe during an upgrade.

While your existing shop happily runs independently, you can freely set up a newer or newest version of OC to see the differences before upgrading, and, yes, upgrading would probably be a good idea. The transition will span significant changes in both core and database. The installer can do a clean install, or given an existing store can do an upgrade. In readiness, CLONE the existing store into the clone's own new directory, adjust its .htaccess and config.php pair to match, BACK UP the database BOTH in admin System / Backup AND in host control panel's phpMyAdmin Export (never mix the two means' .sql files), set up a differently named hollow database for the clone, use phpMyAdmin Import to populate that new database, and then run the upgrade, using whatever updated install/upgrade script has become available for the new version. You can test the upgraded clone to see that it's what you want to use, go on to change the shops' directory names, and then there is suddenly a new shop in the existing one's position on disc.

Think the shop looks better now

On the menu Discount/Sales is on a separate line

You could shorten "Hand towels & Tea towels" to "Hand & Tea towels" to make it fit into the line above

Thank you Butte and thank you dmsims for your time and your feedback.
I've improved the shop thank to you guys.

@butte : the search bar is now removed. I just added the property "display:none;" on the first line under <div_search> and it worked perfectly.
Now I'm working on the upgrade, but it will take some time. I don't want to screw up everything, so I'm going step by step, as I did since the beginning. But many thanks for the tools you gave me.

@dmsims : thank for the tip, now it's changed in "Hand & tea towels" but the text is not in the center of the bar (check out the left side, there's a blank box. How can I proceed ?

The box on the left is caused by

#header .div4 .wrapper {
float: right;
}

If you remove the float the box will go but you may want to add some padding

In upgrading, this approach circumvents the worst headaches: http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 20#p484263.

Thank you, butte.
I worked on graphics last days but I already made a complete back up both on admin panel and php.
I've made some searches, and I'm stuck in the "cloning" moment.
I've created a new directory for the clone, I put all the old store folders in the clone's new directory.
But how do I adjust its .htaccess and config.php pair to match ?
Do you recommend to upgrade to 1.5.x or directly to newest 1.5.6.1 ?
Thank you in advance !

In .htaccess the basedir /clone_directory/ and any paths differing even slightly from the original need to be changed. In config.php, likewise any paths in the http ".../.../..." addressing in the HTTP and HTTPS sections, and the /clone_directory/ in the machine paths in the DIR sections, need to be changed. Since you can use phpMyAdmin to make a copy of the database under a new name on the spot, that name also needs to go into both config.php files (plus any changes in credentials).

Ditto for each clone if more than one.

Since I've just made the decision for another purpose, I'll suggest 1.5.5.1 CE RC1 (or pending RC2) while some of the idiosyncrasies of 1.5.6.1 are still being worked out, but both 1.5.5.1 CE RCx and 1.5.6.1 if you want to try two clones. The essential reason is that you have a live shop that behaves itself.

See http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 80#p483185 for teddy bear and http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 82#p444959 for its teeth.