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Welcome to THE place to discuss the Advanced Store Customization Beta! For those not familiar with what this is, it's the ability to edit the HTML and CSS of your Zazzle store! For details on how to enable this feature, check out this Techblog post. Please keep in mind that this feature is in BETA testing...which means we currently cannot provide official support through our normal support channels. This discussion forum will serve as homebase for everyone trying out this feature...use it to help each other, share HTML/CSS tips & tricks, show off your creations, give us suggestions, etc. Now let's see what you guys cook up! -Ed
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Joined: 3/19/2007
Posts: 5,972
Location: Saint Louis
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Fantastic! I know you're going to see a lot of creativity in the galleries. Thank you all!
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Joined: 6/13/2008
Posts: 965
Location: North of there
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Joined: 3/5/2008
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Love it Ed!!! Been waiting for this for a long time.  Off to play. Jim
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Joined: 10/19/2007
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YEY!!! Thank you Zazzle 
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Groups: ProSeller
Joined: 5/3/2009
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Well, under this login I've just updated a gallery to the beta; I've been sandboxing it in another account all week. A neat thing at Ars Celtica is a totally customized "About" page. I've got some stuff stubbed in that creates a brand new custom page which would appear in the main nav menu; that's turned off right now, though. I'm also bringing in the header graphic from my own server. That's not serving any function right now, but I have a couple of thoughts on things to do with it. This gallery and my other one at the Retropolis Travel Bureau both use a sidebar that's rearranged. There's not a lot you can do inside the necessary content, but you can work above it and below it, as well as changing what version of the sidebar appears on different pages. Lots of neat stuff to do!
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Someone posts "I BROKE MY SHOP" in 3 ... 2 ....
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Joined: 3/5/2008
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Ars_Celtica, I've long loved your design and style. Envy might be a better word. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Joined: 5/3/2009
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I actually just did break something for a moment . I tried to tweak something on the fly.. and shouldn't have. Back to the sandbox! And rightwingswag, thanks!
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Joined: 3/5/2008
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OK, just added the image url for the background to test it out, and got nothing. The image exists (http://www.rightwingswag.com/images/bigflag.jpg) Here's my code: Code:
#mainShell {
width:100%;
background-color:#<z:color name="PageBackground" />;
padding-bottom:40px;
/* add main background image here, if desired:
background-image:url('http://www.rightwingswag.com/images/bigflag.jpg');
*/
}
Any thoughts? Is there a delay?
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Joined: 1/13/2009
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No quotes around the URL.
And you need to remove the comment markers */ /*
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Joined: 5/3/2009
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Wow, I just replied with the way to change the pane background instead of the page background.
Otherwise, what Threadpuppy said.
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Joined: 3/5/2008
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Oh for pete's sake. Duh on the commenting.
I'm getting some updating errors not related to the code right now, but I'm pretty sure the single quotes around the url are alright.
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Groups: Member
Joined: 6/11/2008
Posts: 634
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You may want to copy and paste the code from each of the editable windows into a text file in case you 'break' your store - perhaps you can reinsert the original code to fix.
The manual is a bit daunting - it should give examples of what can be done and how to do it - another learning curve for my overwhelmed brain cells. 
No quotes around the image file and path url
This is too much in one day - dog shirts and ability to mangle the appearance of my store front
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Joined: 5/3/2009
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I'm pretty sure that errors prevent the changes from being saved - but it's maybe safer to click "Validate" instead of "Validate and Save". You may need to close your img and br tags manually, depending on your editor. Unclosed tags can show up as other types of errors but they are very often the culprit. Examples: <br /> not <br>; <img.... /> not img...>
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Joined: 8/26/2008
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Location: Lake Norman Area
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I was going to play around with my galleries but decided to wait until this is out of Beta... Looking forward to that day!
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Groups: ProSeller
Joined: 3/5/2008
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My errors were timeout errors. I logged out and in and working now. And yes, the single quotes are fine. It was the comment marks. Rookie. Good point about saving your code. I've already done that out of habit, but it's a good tip! Personally I wouldn't mind if it were a little more simple than this, but it will definitely work. I think it's going to be daunting for most people, unlike just having an html header and footer, along with a head block for css and scripts. But it looks like it will ultimately be more powerful, with the ability to tweak different sub pages.
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Joined: 1/13/2009
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What I found very useful when I was using this before the release is that every page in your shop has a unique body class that you can exploit to change headers and colors and images for any specific page. So if you have a category of Irish designs you can turn everything green on those pages, for example.
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Groups: ProSeller
Joined: 10/19/2005
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Location: San Jose
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Hi, ThreadPuppy ... yes, that's a very useful tip. The classes for each page are named like "page_products", "page_about", "page_promote", etc.
All search results and product lines are instances of the same page (products), so they all have "page_products" in the body tag. If you want to distinguish among your product lines, there's another class that looks like "category_XXXXXXXXXX" where the X's are your product line id, which you can find in the url. So you can write custom CSS for particular product lines as well.
Have fun...
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Location: Lake Norman Area
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I like that idea of each page looking different!
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