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Yeah the search function is sweet. You guys should check out wade's forum (the creator of phpbay) if you ever get stuck with anything, he responds almost immediately)

phpbay.com/forums
 
trigatch4 said:
Turbolapp: modifying that stuff is usually just an issue of either replacing the graphic with your own and/or finding the element in your CSS file and trying different things to make it look good.

Of course, it helps if you know CSS... how to use padding, bold, margin, borders, floats, etc...

If you give me something specific to look at I'll try and help out. One easy trick people don't use enough is to look at your page in the browser and VIEW SOURCE to see what the browser is actually spitting out. A lot of times it will give you the info needed to know what to change/tweak/modify in your CSS based on the div/class/tables, etc...
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Where do you guys get the graphics for your sites?
 
Yup... Google Images.

If you use it enough you get pretty handy with finding exactly what you need relatively quickly. If you REALLY need something good looking for a header or something straight up official looking, iStockPhoto.com has some great stuff for like $1 a pop.

But nothing beats Google Images and a little Photoshop tweaking, cause its free.
 
that search mod is gold but can't seem to get it workin right with my theme...the theme doesn't have search.php... only a searchform.php which contains the following:

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">
<div>
<input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" id="searchbox" />
<input type="submit" id="searchbutton" value="" />
</div>
</form>


not sure where to put that code...i tried putting on this file but gives the results on top of the entire theme...any ideas?
 
stroz: the searchform.php is the code for how to display the actual search box. I would make a copy of your index.php code, rename it search.php and paste the exact same thing where the tutorial says to.

Basically, you're keeping the container of the website and replacing the content with the search code so it should work find going from index to search.

Let me know.
 
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Great tutorial! I love phpBay, but I have the worst time figuring out what themes look really good for Ebay sites. I'm going to try the Lima Orange one now and see if I can follow your instructions for changing everything. I am CSS challenged.
 
jennstall said:
Great tutorial! I love phpBay, but I have the worst time figuring out what themes look really good for Ebay sites. I'm going to try the Lima Orange one now and see if I can follow your instructions for changing everything. I am CSS challenged.
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Lima Orange is great,use it on my golf ball site. it's pretty good out of the bag, i don't remeber having to change any CSS, just the images...
 
I worked on the image stuff today and managed to get it figured out. But that was because it was't in CSS. Any advise in style.css (for this particular theme) where to change the main xxxx numbers? I get lost in there.
 
trigatch4 said:
Turbolapp: I'm taking a break from work and watching Pirates of the Carribean.. if you AIM me at trigatch4 I'll help you out real quick.
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Well I'm not going to disturb your break time but I'll definitely hit you up soon. Thanks!
 
I made one of these, ain't making much money yet with a poor conversion rate. Need some more traffic...
 
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