In Shopping Cart Designer Pro there is a "Hide Text" check box on the Font tab of Header Properties. I don't know if the check box is available in the basic version of SCD but you can look. With regard to footer links, you can alter your cart's CSS file and use the "display: none;" property to hide the links.

After checking the "Hide Text" box the header went away. But after vertically resizing the empty Shop Logo box, the header returns. So one problem down!
I'll look for the CSS file and see if I can find the footer display and change the links attributes. Thanks!

Terry,

I would suggest you don't alter files manually at all for either the cart or the designer. Doing so will render the new version uneditable in the designer as it won't actually be inside the file the designer uses. Same for many of the CC programs that have special files. If you are having trouble with a specific setting such as right now the header area, it's best to talk it out here and do so inside the program so you can always edit it later. Hope that makes sense

Another tip on the Logo area, the resizing doesn't really work so hot, the sizing is fine but... if you resize it within the designer instead of in an image editor it loses quality. I found that out the hard way and had to ask about it already, so I'll pass that on to you. Edit the logo in an image editor to the size you would like it to be and then let it keep the original size in the designer and your logo will look much nicer quality wise

Yes, a customized CSS file would need to be uploaded each time changes were made to the shopping cart, otherwise any changes manually made to the styles file would be overwritten.

Perhaps CC can add the appropriate code to SCC that would allow users to create a custom.css file that wouldn't be overwritten when the cart is published. That is to say the generated HTML that SCC generates would contain a <link rel="stylesheet" href="custom.css"> tag. This would allow users to create a custom.css file to further refine a site since SCD Pro doesn't provide complete control over every aspect of a site's design.

I have yet to alter any of the files or file structure outside of the programs and have settled on not having the header I want for now. I am puzzled and don't seem to have a fix on this problem yet. It seems simple but I've been over the Designer a dozen time and can't figure it out.
Thanks for all the help and time!

Ok so I finally figured it out!!!
1. I originally used an image for the Header Background and nothing for the Shop Logo with the Hide Text box checked. My logo image is 800 x 150px and is the logo on my website. It is also the header background on my website, so of course I thought to place it as the Header Background.
2. SCD seems to have been built to have the image I used as the Header Background placed instead in the Shop Logo area as a means of defining and fixing the header height.
3. Using the SCD method works by placing the image (my logo) in the Shop Logo portion of the header and the header appropriately carries thru to the upload from SCC.
4. BUT, placing the image/logo in the Shop Logo area of the header does not allow the logo/image to be centered, which was what I wanted and is consistent with the rest of the site.
5. So I went back and placed my logo in the Header Background and a 10 x 150px image of the same background color in the Shop Logo area. I then had to position the Header Background using the horizontal positioning tab. And now it works well in all browsers. WOW!@#!@#!
http://liminalmoments.net/shop/
Now I just need to get rid of the footer text (too many redundant menu's) and menu item dividers but keep the copyright line.
Do I need to get the SCD Pro version to fix the footer issue?
Thanks again to all for suffering thru all this with me!

Hiya Terry,

Glad you got it finally, I was kind of wondering if you were putting things in the right places, but sounds like you got it figured out now. I only have mine in the logo area not the header area and I just use the last tab and adjust it how I want it which works pretty good too.

As for the menu on the bottom, I'm afraid that's static and we don't have access to removing it only changing the text itself and how it looks for the most part. Not sure if that menu shows up on the SCD Pro or not even, I'm in the middle of a huge upload and a couple other programs that I'm doing things on so I can't verify that for you at the moment, but if someone doesn't by tomorrow I'll see if I can find that out before I do my format.

GL on the rest too, it's a lot of fun once you get the hang of it all

SCD Pro does not provide a way for you to alter the footer links in the manner you desire. You would need to add a "display:none;" property to the styler.css file as I've mentioned previously. You would need to enter the following to the end of the styler.css file:



Keep in mind, however, that every time you make changes to your shopping cart and publish it to your site, the above would need to be added to the styler.css file.

This is a good example of why a custom.css file would be beneficial.

Come to think of it, the styler.css file would not be overwritten each time changes were made to the cart and published through SCC. The styler.css file would only be overwritten if you used the "Export Shop for Upload" feature and FTP'd the files to your server.

The style sheet file would change, obviously, if you alter or redesign the site using SCD. In that case, then, you would need to add the custom CSS back into the styler.css file.

Does that make sense or did I confuse you?

I'll change the display option in the styler.css file. Thanks for the tip. In Dreamweaver it looks like when I download the /shop/ folder and edit, it is actually modifying the file server-side. It makes complete sense. I transfer my website files between several computers and have to be extremely diligent not to overwrite my files on the server (learned the hard way!!)