Ok, so I had to put aside my own site on the new cart to work on a site for a partner in another business.

>Since posting this question, there is another as well.

1. The top and side nav is all custom (simple stuff). No matter what the heck I do, I cant get the top nav to valign to the middle of the cell!!! Every time I declare "valign=middle" and update the code, the editor changes it to "valign=center" which wont work. I've tried inline css, calling css from an external file. Nothing seems to work at centering the text vertically. To make matters more confusing, in the preview of the editor it looks correct...but when I save the changes and refresh the site; no dice.

I was on the phone with netsol tech for a 1/2 hour and the only thing they could come up with is that the valign declaration isnt xhtml compliant. I checked and it is still valid. But again, I tried everything I can think of. I really dont want to start adding even more tables just to move the text 5 pixels.

See it here!


2. I created a custom page here: Custom page
It seems that the custom pages default to the index and dynamically replace the center content? The problem is that the breadcrumb at the top reads "home"? I dont want to turn off breadcrumbs, but this seems odd---especially given that the page has it's own "seo friendly" URL?

I have a feeling that the issues are going to start piling up. I really am enjoying working in the new system, but I was really hoping that it would have many fewer little issues.

Remember, this is the new cart.

PS The logo text is a dummy--it'll be much better at launch. Please ignore the footer too.



Any help is appreciated!

This CSS property in default.css is set so that all TDs default vertical alignment to top:

table.page-container td { vertical-align:top; } (line 40)

So, you can either create a CSS class for that table cell and override the CSS setting, or just use:

style="vertical-align:middle"
instead of
valign="middle"

This is a bug and I have now logged it.


Thank you

Thanks...I turned off bread crumbs for now.
Thanks for logging it


Back to the css for a minute though.
-Shouldnt an inline style supercede the default.css?
-If I declare a style in a custom.css file that is not named in the default, wouldnt that also supercede it?

Thanks!

- Correct, an inline style will supercede the CSS document, but valign="middle" is an HTML attribute so the stylesheet will still override it.

- yes, you can put a custom style in any CSS file and drop it into your theme's CSS directory and it will auto-apply

Thanks AndyT

Hey Martini,
With the new cart, is MC using the same old tired templates they've had for the last 1000 years? Have they improved the basic look at all?

Hey Bama.
There are a bunch of new templates and pre-fabbed product alignments that look good. Honestly, I didnt spend much time with the templates. I just grabbed one and started replacing files!

Any idea how to see these templates? They don't seem to show any on their features page.

Hey Bama,
There are about 50 templates in various "categories"--Im on limited time right now. When I have some free time, I'll post a couple of screen shots that might help. All in all, Id never recommend just using a stock template for anything other than a starting point. Some of the templates are just color variations.