February 27, 2009

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At this point you should have the Cherry Zen template loaded up on the server and are now ready to activate it. Login to your ZenCart admin panel and go to:

TOOLS > TEMPLATE SELECTION

If you look at IMAGE ONE to the right you should see the same thing now in your carts admin panel. It's here also that we can tell if the template we want to use is installed correctly by looking on the right hand side, we should see Cherry Zen listed under the Templates Installed portion of that block. If not, email me and we'll get it taken care of.

Barring any problems, what we want to do now is click on the  button so we can change the template and get away from that awful green thing that comes with ZenCart.

IMAGE TWO on the right shows you the drop down menu, select Cherry Zen and then mash the   button to apply the template to the site. IMAGE THREE shows the subsequent screen where you should now see the template name displayed in the light brownish tan bars, as well as in the block on the right.

Now let's take a look at the site. If you're still in the admin section, click on the ONLINE CATALOG link in the green navigation bar and it will open the site in a new window.

IMAGE FOUR shows us what the site looks like now, but oh no.... all of the sideboxes are gone now !!!!!! Whatever shall we do ???? Don't worry, you didn't do anything wrong, you just haven't done something yet and I am about to tell you how to do just that thing to get your sideboxes back.

Back in the ZenCart Admin panel, goto:

TOOLS > LAYOUT BOXES CONTROLLER

IMAGE FIVE shows you what you should see, that big pink area is a warning that something's not right and we need to fix it. To do that, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the   button. This will reset all of the sideboxes to their default settings which will also put them on the site so people can see them and get around the site. IMAGE SIX shows you the subsequent screen with all the boxes turned on in the admin panel after clicking the reset button.

IMAGE SEVEN to the right shows your site now, with the Cherry Zen template installed and properly setup there.

And there you have it, that's how to select a template from the ZenCart Admin and apply it to your site.

This is the same procedure for any template you load up to the site, you will need to do this if you want to change to another template.

If you think this is way out of your league and want help, feel free to email me, just don't throw anything or yell at me as I'm very fragile and might break. You can get a hold of me at: wulf@valhalla-computers.com

Now, scram, move onto the next tutorial and see what's in store for you there.

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