Custom Template Text Color

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Custom Template Text Color

Postby gourmetdelights » Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:07 pm

I realize this is a very simple, perhaps stupid question, but after an hour of searching, reading the ShopSite help, etc I came up empty.

I own http://www.gourmet-delights.com I hired someone to build me a custom template that is based on CropCircles.sst

I want to make a simple change without incurring another $250 minimum fee from them. I simply want to change the color of the black text (#000000) to white (#FFFFFF) on the left hand menu, leaving everything else the same. (I would not mind changing the <meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days"> to something like 3 days either but I assume these are all in the same file somewhere if I could just find it.)

I know most basic HTML, plus UNIX line commands and directory structure, but have not deciphered how the templates all link together.

I'm hoping someone can just give me the path to the file I'm looking for so I can make this one change.

Thank you.
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Re: Custom Template Text Color

Postby Jim » Thu Oct 04, 2012 2:55 pm

They hard coded the color style into the link
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<a href="http://gourmet-delights.com/store/index.html"><h2 style="color:#000000"><bf>Home</bf></h2></a>
Note the style="color:#000000" in the link. This may be coming from the link section of the page template that is assigned to the page. So you could edit that template and see if that is the case.

Something I notice is that they have all the link text in a <bf> ...</bf> tag. I can't find an html tag that is bf but you could use that you your advantage by adding a style to define what <bf> will display as. You could do this either to the template itself or the the global header (Preferences > Layout Settings) if you are using that. The code would be like this.
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<style type="text/css">
<!--
bf {
   color: #ffffff;
}
-->
</style>


If you put it in the template you could add it to the styles that are already being defined and then you would just put
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bf {
   color: #ffffff;
}
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Re: Custom Template Text Color

Postby gourmetdelights » Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:20 pm

Jim, THANK YOU!!! Such an easy fix. I did the following (in case anyone else is reading and wanting to know):

<style type="text/css">
<!--
bf {
color: #ffffff;
}
-->
</style>

in the global header (Preferences > Layout Settings). It WORKS!!

Thanks again.

P.S. I found the custom template (Merchandising > Custom Template) but there was nothing there that I felt comfortable modifying.
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