How do you Remove Blue Columns???

[cxm322]

How do you go about completely removing the blue columns that go down the right and left side of MS2-MAX stores behind the boxes?

[michael_s]

Edit main_page.tpl.php. Find the left navigation and right navigation sections and delete them.

[cxm322]

OK.

I removed...

<!-- left_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_left.php'); ?>
<!-- left_navigation_eof //-->

and

<!-- right_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_right.php'); ?>
<!-- right_navigation_eof //-->

This does not remove the blue columns behind the boxes but rather the boxes themselves. The blue columns remain.

Also, I noticed a reference to both images/OSCMAX_bc_right.gif and images/OSCMAX_bc_right.gif. However, I have not even bothered to try anything with these files as when I went to those directories I found that no such GIFs exist under those names.

Any other solutions???

[michael_s]

Ah, I misread your problem... you just want to remove the image, not the actual columns...

Easy, remove the image 'images/OSCMAX_box_bg.jpg' from line 44:

<table background="images/OSCMAX_box_bg.jpg" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

[Anonymous]

OK. THat certainly did work but it caused alot of alignment problems.

SO, to those of you who want to remove the blue columns, here is what you have to do...

Keep in mind that the blue colums and the picture in the background of the main text area are all one picture file which is OSCMAX_box_bg.jpg

You cannot remove that picture file completely without messing up the alignments of alot of parts of your store. So instead, what you must do is change OSCMAX_box_bg.jpg to a transparent GIF file. The way I did it was I opened up OSCMAX_box_bg.jpg in MS Paint.

-I made the whole picture white.

-Then I saved it as GIF file.

-Then I opened the picture file I just made OSCMAX_box_bg.gif into another picture editor that allowed me to make the whole graphic transparaent.

-Then, I uploaded that new transparent OSCMAX_box_bg.gif file into my /catalo/images folder.

-Then I went into my /catalog/images/main_page.tpl.php file and changed the following code..

<table background="images/OSCMAX_box_bg.jpg" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

to...

<table background="images/OSCMAX_box_bg.gif" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">

as you can see, the only change in the code is the file extention of the graphic from .jpg to .gif.

That's it!!! The colunms and main text area background graphic is still there so you store is all aligned properly but you just can't see them so it looks like they are not there at all..which was exactly what I wanted.

[cxm322]

SOrry. That was me who posted th last post. Everytime I come to this forum I have to re-log in. This is the only forum it happens with. If I don;t log in, my posts are tagged as "guest".

[jpf]

Me too.

[michael_s]

cxm322, I can remove the images without any alignment problems, so you are doing something else. You can see a sample here:

http://aabox.com/1-5-5/catalog/index.php

The only thing I changed was to remove the image name from the tag. It causes no alignment problems anywhere in the site. I think you are making it more complex than it is.

The background image has nothing to do with the width or alignment of the column. It is a background only.

Regarding the login trouble, if you make your favorite/bookmark for http://oscdox.com and always return to that url, your cookie should work. The cookies are set for this domain only. If you go to http://www.oscdox.com, your cookie will not work and you will have to re-login.

Also, when you login, make sure you click the 'Remember me' checkbox, or the cookie will expire.

I always stay logged in and have not had to re-login in over 6 months....

[cxm322]

cxm322, I can remove the images without any alignment problems, so you are doing something else. You can see a sample here:

http://aabox.com/1-5-5/catalog/index.php

The only thing I changed was to remove the image name from the tag. It causes no alignment problems anywhere in the site. I think you are making it more complex than it is.

The background image has nothing to do with the width or alignment of the column. It is a background only.

Sorry, I did nothing else to cause the misalignment. When I remove the columns I geta misaligned store. But I have fixed the problem as outlined above. If anyone else has the same problem alignment problem when removing columns, see my solution above.

You just keep the columns there but basically make the invisible.

[michael_s]

Sorry, I did nothing else to cause the misalignment. When I remove the columns I geta misaligned store.

If you removed columns, you already did more than my suggestion. All you need to do is remove the background image. Simply removing the background images and leaving the columns in place makes all the rest of your work unneccessary.