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[puffdade]

Hi Guys

 

I been battling through my Presta shop installation and building my cart /site and really enjoying my new found skills the program once you get a grip is very good indeed and produces some very professional looking sites, and mine is already earning me money.

 

Half of the battle for me has been understanding the technical terms and words used within the program itself, tool tips in laymen's terms could solve that (maybe an idea for a future build)

 

but..........................

 

Every now and then I get a little lost and confused

 

My problem is two fold

 

First I need to add an area above the image slide and below the horizontal menu a kind of place holder for "what's on " "this week only" kind of announcements but I don't have a clue where to start.

 

my second is how can I add a background image to the entire top of the page a kind of faded out logo if that makes sense.

 

What I have done so far can be viewed here www.puffdade.com/shop

 

Thanks in advance guys

[NemoPS]

Hi there!

 

So, to add new content below the menu, but above the coilumns (if I understood your needs) you must add pieces of HTML to header.tpl, which you can find in the themes/default folder. That content should go right before this one

 

  <div id="columns" class="grid_9 alpha omega clearfix">

 

as for #2: you need to edit global.css (same theme folder, /css fubfolder) and add it to the body element, at about line 53

 

body{
font:normal 11px/14px Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
color:#222;
background:#fff url('url to your image here') center 0 no-repeat;
}

[puffdade]

Thanks Nemo I shall be having a tinker with that a little later

 

I take it there is no module I can just drop in there that can be edited from the back office

[NemoPS]

Unfortunately not. Not that I know at least, but it's easy to make one that changes the background

 

Moreover, if you want a module to hook above the column, you'll need to add another hook as shown in my tut here http://nemops.com/adding-hooks-to-prestashop-1-5/

[puffdade]

Now we are cooking on gas Nemo thank you very much