Post by CDP » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:32 am

Because I'd rather type "Powered by butte" instead of them.
Btw, how is LA sunshine ? :)

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Post by CDP » Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:04 am

Ps : I used the "puppy owner" joke. :)

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Post by butte » Fri Feb 21, 2014 12:09 pm

The credit images are primarily to let customers know which basic cards they can use, for example, many sellers don't take AE because of the rates, so folks carrying AE cards can see whether they're accepted. The worst that can possibly happen is that the icon police will arrive during dinner and cart you away. (If you recall WKRP, Johnny Fever worried about the phone cops.) It's warm, and is especially better than snow; I put in my snow years and remain unamused by lingering effects of minor frostbite over tire chains while we were down to -20. The tradeoff is that the Golden State is so in two regards, 1849 and dead grasslands.

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Post by CDP » Sat Feb 22, 2014 5:08 am

Ok, so I worked on almost all butte's remarks. I changed descriptions on the parts that butte corrected me, I cleared all the English mistakes I did, fixed the lemons olives, fixed enormous social buttons, fixed background, and everything.
But now I have a problem to center my banner picture. I downloaded Firefox and its Firebug plugin. I'm really sorry but I'm not able to find where is the information in my css stylesheet…

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Post by CDP » Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:03 am

I know it's not a support topic, but here is where I am

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I checked the answer in the forum, and here is what I found
martfoxhosting wrote:
yaik wrote:I used the search function and couldn't find it(maybe I didn't try hard enough), but I am trying to move the logo a little bit to the right. I go to the stylesheet in which it corresponds and to the div2 it corresponds and try to edit it from there, but no matter what I change in there, it doesn't move the logo one inch. Am I supposed to edit it somewhere else?

http://www.davidsuriel.com/shop

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Put this in your css file '/shop/catalog/view/theme/myTheme/stylesheet/stylesheet.css':

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.div2
{
text-align:center;
}

But I only see .div2 (whitout #header) in the html and not in the css stylesheet

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Post by dmsims » Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:52 am

This is the line in the css that causes it

#header .div2 {
float:left;
padding:25px 0 20px 25px

You need alter the last value (25px)

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Post by CDP » Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:31 am

Thank you dmsims ! It needed to be on 0px.
One less problem. Back to the others.

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Post by butte » Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:51 pm

You can separate the margin and padding lines into margin-top, margin-left, margin-right, margin-bottom, and likewise padding-, if you find the quad of numbers confusing. Sometimes float: is more a hindrance than a help, but you can tinker with that problem when you find it by truncating the line (float: ;) so that you have a silenced placeholder.

Not there but elsewhere that you'll come across it you'll need to keep an eye on "position: absolute|relative|fixed;" -- different browsers or versions respond differently (and you can guess which browser is forever goofy).

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Post by CDP » Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:15 pm

I totally get it butte, thanks. Now it's clear to me.
About the bottom credits, I was wondering, in a past post, if I could have troubles if I delete the bottom credits names.
I mean, they don't want to provide me support any more, just because I modified their css code to create my own theme.
That's why I though I can be in trouble with them about that.

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Post by butte » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:49 am

1/ catalog/view/theme/181_douceur_lila/ is now modified by you but just the .css? There is a bit of difference between design credit and "powered by" (which in itself is silly but became popular quite a while back -- it is actually powered by Linux, Apache, php, and mysql, plus the machine, otherwise it sits there).

2/ <!--Commenting silences// -->, as in:
<div class="div2"><!--Réalisée avec la solution <a href="http://www.votreboutique.ca" target="_blank">votreboutique.ca</a> de <a href="http://www.votresite.ca" target="_blank">votresite.ca</a><br /> // -->Comptoir de Provence © 2014</div>
which then renders as:
<div class="div2">Comptoir de Provence © 2014</div>
on-screen as
Comptoir de Provence © 2014

and likewise
Powered By votresite.ca Comptoir de Provence © 2014
reduces to
Comptoir de Provence © 2014

(and "By" should be "by" anyway).

But you'll probably find those driven in footer.tpl and language/[which]/common/footer.php (3 or 4 files in all).

3/ Neither of these,
catalog/view/theme/181_douceur_lila/stylesheet/stylesheet.css
catalog/view/theme/181_douceur_lila/stylesheet/desjardins.css
is showing a copyright notice, but you could putter through the .tpl to see if there is one somewhere among those. It would be their right to provide copyright notices and licensing, before and not after the fact, but if they didn't, then so be it.

For peace of mind you could ask a Canadian attorney -- a brief consultation could be free or at minor expense. You paid them, and probably not enough, nor under terms, to cover advertising them in perpetuity. If you want to take the "Buick" off your car, guess what; there aren't any emblem cops.

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Post by CDP » Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:14 pm

1/ Actualy just the .css because I can't add no module to my shop. None of them are compatible with their version. I even asked the technical support to install for me, and they weren't able to.

2/ Thanks for giving me the tools

3/ Funny because the contract I signed with us, includes a free 30 min consultation with a Canadian attorney. Time to play this card.

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Post by butte » Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:44 pm

That is funny. Take your time and round up your questions beforehand, :30 can go by fairly fast.

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Post by CDP » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:50 am

Thank you Daisy Ellen ! Good to hear some opinions !
You're right, my description must be improved, and this is what I'm working on ! As my shop is in both language, I obviously started to create in French, my native language. My descriptions are far more detailed in French than in English version.
If you see something else, feel free to say !

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Post by butte » Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:57 pm

You might try running the longer French through machine translators, try several, in order to see which might give good enough English that you can see that much, then fiddle with the English, then have someone whose native tongue is English edit it. Some of them are worse than others, particularly with some languages. Greek disintegrates both directions; Dutch acquires oddments both diirections, a few actually translate pretty well.

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Post by CDP » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:46 am

butte wrote:That is funny. Take your time and round up your questions beforehand, :30 can go by fairly fast.
I asked 2 questions :
One about the bottom credits, and one about comparative advertising on my shop.
The only thing I learnt with the lawyer is that I need to open an account to ask difficult questions like this one.
So I asked directly to my shop provider, and they had to tell me that they can't prevent me to remove the bottom credits.
So that's what I'm going to do !
Thank you for the tools, Butte.

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Post by CDP » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:54 am

Sorry for asking support in this topic but here I am, I can't find exactly what Butte said about credits :

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Post by butte » Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:59 pm

1/ That would better have been given as text than as image that cannot be swiped.

Either change
<div class="div2"><?php echo $text_powered_by; ?></div>
to
<!--<div class="div2"><?php echo $text_powered by; ?></div>// -->
or in language/ change wording of $text_powered_by ONLY to the RIGHT of the =, leaving the quotation marks and semicolon (whichever way yours sits, = ''; or = "";).

Leave this intact and operative: Comptoir de Provence © 2014

2/ Lawyers were already problematical when Shakespeare penned his ". . . all the lawyers" line. That probably took :30, to boot. The questions are not difficult. There are on-line legal question answerers who speak for free, who invite you to pay if you wish, and who charge whether you want to pay or not. The free ones are usually competent, they're licensed in their states or provinces. Opening an account was what the freebees were all about; a come-on style of bait-and-switch.

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Post by CDP » Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:55 pm

1/ Thanks ! It worked well. "Comptoir de Provence © 2014" wasn't in the code, so I thought that it should remain on the screen but disappeared with the rest, so I wrote it in the code, with my credit sentence.

2/ If I would have open an account, I can bet what you want that the final answer about my comparative advertising question would have been "maybe you can be sued, but maybe not", but with a load of cash less in my pocket.
But when you think about it, no lawyer will tell me black or white about comparative advertising…

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Post by butte » Mon Mar 03, 2014 4:50 am

You're right, had you paid you'd have gotten back a guess, after all, it was complicated, my goodness. Legislatures, and the People themselves without legislative help where initiatives are allowed, spell out laws. Both have the last word. Judges and appellate justices interpret those and spell out refinements. When appellate review has run its course, the Bench has the last word. Lawyers can give opinions till they are blue in the face but they do not have any last word beyond their invoices. It just happens that in virtually every case as to judgment one side's parties and lawyers lose, one side's parties and lawyers win, but, of course, lawyers on both sides win at the bank. They have no compelling reason to be right or to venture more than an educated guess or experienced opinion. See if there's a Canadian counterpart to Nolo Press . . .

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Post by CDP » Tue Mar 04, 2014 6:51 am

I wasn't able to find an equivalent to Nolo Press in Canada (especially in Quebec). The best would be to know personnaly a lawyer or going to free meetings that happens once a year (even less) in which you can ask every questions you want. So I'll have to wait to play my comparative advertising card…

I have an other question, do you think it's essential to have a search bar on the shop ? I mean, if I'm able to show clearly where items are, and where people have to go to find them, is it necessary to have a search bar ? In my case, it's right in the middle of the screen, and it bothers me.
Lets imagine that I suppress the bar, I created links from the search bar and description tags (ex: "100" that allows to filter all 100g soaps), will I loose the links ?

And last question (for today), Opencart French moderator told me it's a pity to create a new shop with my opencart version 1.4.9.
My open cart version is flanged, that means that I wasn't able to install some new modules, like a slider (even if this one was designed for 1.4.9), but apparently, my modified 1.4.9 version is improved for SEO.
Do you think I can work on a new version without publishing it ? Do I have to work on everything again ? (descriptions, pics, and everything).
I didn't know anything about opencart 2 months ago, and now I'm like "Why TF did they sold me this version" ?

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