Opencart give us a clue

hargi · 3 Jul 2011 at 21:09

Just installed opencart 1.5 and I'm impressed with it. Adding categories and products look simple enough to do.

On this site http://www.naturalselection.biz/index.php?route=common/home
(not my site)

I understand how to get things in to the black nav bar. But where does the 3 scolling banner type thing come from? I have looked in the admin console and turned what i thought was the banners off but nothing??

Where would I go to change this?
Is there a way of turning it off so thers just featured products on the home page?

Where should I be looking to mod the design?

suarve · 4 Jul 2011 at 16:48

iirc opencart uses modfules to display the top banner, so the template files for this won't be in the usual place. Have a look in

upload\catalog\view\theme\default\template\module\slideshow.tpl

Alternatively, you can manage the banners from the admin area: Extensions > Modules > Slideshow

To change this top area, edit the following template file - upload\catalog\view\theme\default\template\common\content_top.tpl

unwashed potato! · 5 Jul 2011 at 00:02

how'd you come across that site?

hargi · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:07

On here from you....
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19223557&postcount=8
When I was looking about to see what software to use

hargi · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:09

Think im getting into it now I have found the css sheet that I can alter.
Is there much point buying themes for it as most I can see is they have changed the colours all of which can be done in the css or am imissing something here?

suarve · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:27

hargi said:
Think im getting into it now I have found the css sheet that I can alter.
Is there much point buying themes for it as most I can see is they have changed the colours all of which can be done in the css or am imissing something here?

It's not as simple as just changing some css. Opencart uses a kind of custom MVC, so you'll you8 need to edit templates files and models/controllers to add extra functionality.