I've been trying unsuccessfully to delete the banner from the "Urban Blue" theme in CC SCC. I've printed out all the tips and tricks I can find here in the forums, and not one has worked for me. Yes, I'm a newbie, but pretty good at following step-by-step directions. If I can't delete that stupid hi-tech building photograph, then my customer wants the entire "shop home" page gone. I've searched for how to accomplish that, but I don't think its possible. Any suggestions?
I REALLY appreciate all help! Thanks in advance.

Hi cqr56

Two ways of changing this, wait for the cart designer which may well do the job, or edit the theme, which I would be wary of.

To edit / change the theme:

Take a copy of the file:

C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\My Documents\CoffeeCup Software\Shopping Cart\Themes\Standard Page Width (1024px)\Urban Blue.sct

Now the .sct are in fact just compressed files, so uncompress it. If you want to change this background to plain blue or something else, you will need to replace the following file:

Urban Blue.sct\files\related\images\styler\header_bg.png

once you made your changes you will need to recompress the file contents, choosing a new name.

You won't be able to just remove the Home Page as the image will be on every page.

Hope this helps a bit

Ian

Thanks so much Ian. This all sounds WAY over my head. I was hoping there was a way to go into my server files and simply find the banner html and 'delete' it. My client does NOT want to go live with the themes that are available. I thought, when I purchased CCSCC that there would be a "blank" option instead of being forced to use a theme. I'm scared to death that I won't be one of the "first 500" to purchase the new product. That will set back our launch by 6-8 weeks, which will really irritate the client. (and me, since I won't get paid till we launch). Poop!

Cindy

If you want to find the file on your server then it will be in \images and called header_bg.??? Though this isn't the way I would go about it, as you may replace / overwrite it when you update the shop.

Ian

I found that, but was kinda freaked out about deleting anything. I'm TRYING to wait for this new program to make my life alot easier!!

I'm sure the new program will be here soon, we've been waiting ages for it as well.

From all we've read it sounds brilliant..... We want the Pro version, ready for the Pro Shopping Cart...

On line 90 of the "styler.css" file look for background-image and change the (url...) to none. That will prevent the image from displaying. So line 90 will look like this:

#scs_staticcontent_home #scs_staticcontent { background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-position: left -45px;border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: hidden; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: hidden; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: hidden; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: hidden; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);padding-top: 32px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 590px;min-height: 260px; }

The downside is whenever you edit the shopping cart, your customized css file will be overwritten. After I've created a cart and adjusted the css to my liking, I keep a copy of the changed css files and upload those to my server after publishing the cart to the server.

Thanks for your reply Book Publisher. I'll definitely save that for my bag of tricks. :-)