Changing of Color Scheme

I assume you mean v3 if you're talking about AJAX too.  The approach to meet your requirements is set out in the v3 upgrade document which really is worth having a read of.

Every colour can be changed in ProductCart including all of the AJAX layer.   It's an absolutely core part of the software.  Not just colours but boxes, fonts, backgrounds, sizes, borders. spacing, padding, positioning, everything really.

You do this by modifying the CSS sheets which is the modern, standard way in internet design.  By changing the CSS colours, fonts, sizes etc once the changes will flow through the store whereever needed.

To change the colours look at:
pcheaderfooter.css     and      pcstorefront.css
in your ProductCart folder.

To change the AJAX text modify the following:
ei-tooltip.css

You will also find in the 'images' folder a number of images in the PNG format.  These are what make up the AJAX background and the colours can be fully modified in an image editor.  You can see this in action at my site where I have modified them extensively.

Once modified the CSS files and PNG files need loading to your appropriate server folders.

You can see this in action at my store, which deliberately looks very different to the usual 'white background / black text' web style.  Take a look at http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.com

None of these changes are made via web pages, they are all achieved just through CSS codes.  It will take a little effort but it's definitely worth it.

I hope this is helpful.  Feel free to ask any questions to help finalise this.

cheers
Mark


Edited by MarkCoyle - 18-August-2006 at 7:03pm

You can anything that can open text files to modify a css file.

Frontpage is perfectly fine for this too.

I use Frontpage too - I used to use it for the whole store but I have now moved it all into ProductCart.

The next version of Frontpage called 'Microsoft Expression - Web Design' has better visualised modification of CSS sheets and the early test version can be downloaded for free from Microsoft.

To be honest, I find Frontpage or Dreamweaver clutters the screen a bit for CSS sheets and I modify them in Wordpad now then FTP them.

cheers
Mark

Hi

I haven't removed brand, I just don't use it at present.

Reward points are there too if the item has them.

I don't think the example of colours you showed for the AJAX layer would be easy.   You need to work with the tags already set up in ei-tooltip.css or it will get pretty complicated.

However you can change the colours at an item level so there's a lot of flexibility.

The background to the text cannot be done in CSS and is achived my modifying the supplied relevant PNG files in the images directory with a picture editor.

cheers
Mark

I use PhotoImpact but any image editor would do.

To modify the PNG files you will need to zoom in on the view to something like 400% so you can paint over all the areas that are relevant to you.

cheers

Mark