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  4. Menu is not staying centered

    in CSS

    Posted · Edited by wolfkin

    or to be more accurate i should say I never got it centered. I can't figure out why.

    here's the code for the menu

     

    and here's a portion of the CSS

        /* --- Main Menu - ala suckerish --- */
   #menu {
   background-color: #BA83A2;
   width:902px; /*-two more than the wrapper-*/
   text-align:center;
   }
   #menu ul {
   list-style: none;
   }
   #menu li {
   float: left;
   }
   #menu a {
   display: block;
   width: 5em;
   }

       /* child menu */
       #menu li ul {
       position: absolute;
       width: 5em;
       top: -999em;
       left: -999em;
       }        
       #menu li:hover ul, #menu li.hover ul {
       top: auto;
       left: auto;
       }

   /* --- Footer Menu --- */
   #footer ul {
   }
   #footer li {
   }
   #footer li a {
   }
   #footer li a:active, #footer li a:focus, #footer li a:hover {
   }

    is there any reason I'm missing why my menu looks like this: Webpage%20Title%20Here%20-%20Mozilla%20Firefox%2017062009%20100056%20PM.jpg

     

    It's not live so I can't give a link but it's small so I can upload it to sendspace if you think it might be something in the entire CSS file.

    





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  7. Image galleries!

    in CSS

    Posted

    Edit: You may like this one.

    you know I really like this gallery but I'm having a minor bug problem with it. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

     

    This is my attempt at replication - http://gloriouschurch.ca/test/index.html

    This is a working direct copy - http://gloriouschurch.ca/test/original.html

     

    The problem is with the button images. The pause and the previous images aren't showing up. I've narrowed the issue to something in the javascript. I'm trying to put all the images in an images folder and when I change the javascript from "stop.gif" to "../images/stop.gif" those two buttons stop showing up. They all still work but the images aren't there.

     

    http://gloriouschurch.ca/test/js/slidegallery.js - doesn't work

    http://gloriouschurch.ca/test/js/slidegallery-backup.js - does work

  8. Obscuring e-mail links

    in Beginners Web Design

    Posted

    So what's the good word on obscuring e-mail links. Is this something I should be doing or not bother? I remember reading way back when that spam bots would troll websites looking for e-mail links. On one hand noone likes SPAM and on the other hand all the site mail is getting directed to gmail account and gmail has a pretty solid spam filter.

  9. Please review my site

    in Peer-to-Peer Reviews

    Posted

    For the most part I like it. I can't really find anything major to critic. It seems to me that the company number would be more appropriate in the "About Us" section rather than the footer but I don't know if that's something you are obligated to have on every page or something.

     

    I'm wondering if maybe your Terms and Conditions page might be better served if it conformed to the rest of the site format and you create a printer-specific style sheet. Otherwise once you click into T&C you can't explore the rest of the site you have to go back.

     

    I guess on the subject of conformity your recipes page is a bit different in style from the rest of the site. .. actually upon further inspection it looks like an entirely different site.

     

    I haven't had time to look at the entire thing but take for instance - http://www.food-lover.com/aboutus.html - on this page you have greybox links all over the place. It's fine for galleries and I can see instances where it would be useful for webpages like maybe if you had a separate page for purchasing, but in this instance opening the BBQ link kinda messes with a navigation path. Basically you find yourself surfing in the greybox. It would work better on a dead end page like for instance T&C.

     

    but the colors are good and not gaudy. The logo IS pretty nice, and you get major points for validating strict. My site is almost ok on transitional but it's got a ways to go before I could get strict.

  11. multiple style sheets: bad idea?

    in CSS

    Posted

    thanks. You know next month I really should get a reference book. is there a thread with book recommendations?

     

     

    Nothing wrong with using multiple stylesheets. But what do you mean you 'avoid classes > ids'?

    i was referring to the sticky topic

     

    Classes: Beginners always write classes, then you will see a dozen paragraphs with identical class names. Again this is due to this HTML style of writing we learned first and how we had to write fonts into everything. CSS is not that way.

  13. multiple style sheets: bad idea?

    in CSS

    Posted

    right now I only have three style sheets default, accordion effect and slimbox. I'm wondering if there's any major reasons why I should avoid multiple sheets like I avoid classes > ids. it seems to me that multiple sheets have the benefit of being easier to organize but is there something I'm missing?

  16. Where do the photographers hang out?

    in Open Forum

    Posted

    I'm helping a friend of a friend out with his website. He's a photographer and he want obviously a website to serve as an online portfolio, showcase his work, and offer prints. I'd like to do some research on what exactly a high end photographer's website should look like. Where do these guys hang out I'd like to see what sort of things I should be doing. If you have a suggestion for a CMS that can handle it I'm open to suggestions.

  18. Please critique my site

    in Peer-to-Peer Reviews

    Posted

    well I'm pretty new to this so take from it what you will but the flash animation on the home page is just a TAD too busy. so much is going on it brought back memories of Angelfire.

     

    say what you will about tables when they're done right it is pretty. It's definitely aside from the animation cleaner than my site at the moment. I really can't find anything else to complain about it's clean, ordered, organized. it's everything I want my site to be minus the tables.

  21. Thumbnail Viewer Script

    in Javascript

    Posted 

     er="0" /> 

 

    have you considered putting something like this in your CSS which would get rid of borders and that way you don't have to type it in every single time you use an image?
    a img {border:none;}

     

     

     

    Where it says title=" "you can add a narrative to explain the image. It is great for the first image then the second images gets pushed to one side.
    I guess you took down the captions for the moment but the images do load properly (but i guess that wasn't the problem. Maybe you want to try something else. I used Lightbox 2 which worked great for a while. But it clashed with an accordion script I was using and I switched to Slimbox 2 which does the same thing (andmore) but doesn't have the conflict issues. it should be able to do the same effect and let you add captions. You would have to do a find/replace and switch rel="thumbnail" with rel="lightbox"

  22. Problems with: Accordion Content script (v1.7)

    in Javascript

    Posted · Edited by wolfkin

    http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordion.htm

     

    I'm trying to follow the direction for this accordion script. It's on the original "all tables all the time" version of the website. This is the last page left to be converted and since a find/replace didn't work I figured I'd just start over and this time maybe not use the default variables.

     

    Anyway first question does it matter what version of jquery I use? I've tried various combination of 1.2.2 and 1.3.2 because the instructions depending on whether your copy from the 'developers view' or from the codebox change. I've tried using local copies and the google link they have. I'm not sure that's the problem because I'm getting my headers and with the content hidden I just can't get them to toggle. I've tried copying the demo directly (with the jquery pointing to my own copy) and nothing.

     

    Here's a copy of my test. it's just the html and two js files

    http://www.sendspace.com/file/zatrab

  23. Right-Side Menu doesn't expand it just overlaps

    in CSS

    Posted

    i forgot I deleted an earlier post where I explained some of this in far too much detail. I think part of the problem is that originally the menu was horizontal. Vertical is what I'm looking for.

     

    This is sort of what I'm trying to do

    part2t.png

    only that's on the left side and my menu is on the right

    the issue is that instead of expanding over to the left when you highlight a menu item the child elements get displayed directly below instead of to the left and below.

    part1o.png

    that was fine if the menu is horizontal that's what you want but since it's vertical i need to either blank out the main items below or shift it to the left and I'm trying to shift to the left.

     

    as for the menu items themselves this is just a sample files i created for simplicity. The CSS is the same but the real html file is much longer and harder to read.

  24. text to xhtml for the non-techie

    in Miscellaneous Software

    Posted · Edited by wolfkin

    must have been something I was doing wrong then. Oh well CushyCMS will do the trick for now I'll keep snippet in my bookmarks in case i need it for the overhaul I'm working on.

     

    E: I just wanted to come back and again thank you for the suggestion for CushyCMS. Now that my client is finally starting to use it it's proven invaluable. They can keep the copy updated while I work on finishing my changes.

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