Joomla Templates

Hey there.

Does someone (Big Bear perhaps?) have some instructions on how to set up the menus for Blackbear Pro? I like the nice menu images included in the template, but when the template is installed on a clean version of joomla, the menus use the default joomla formats. I have tried quite a number of configs... for example, I placed the top menu in "user4" and added the '-nav' tag, but I have had no luck thus far with any of the combinations I have thought of.

Cheers

is it also published as a flat list?

Any other method will publish menu items inside a html table. Big Bear uses a common practice css method of styling menus. Using unordered lists and css. Its a little easier to style a little less source code intensive.

Yeah I tried publishing the menu as a 'flat list', but the menu pulled the styling from the blackbear pro vertical menu rather than the horizontal menu.

Also, all the menus are appearing 20 or so pixels left of the layout border. I could fix this in the css, but I figured I would see if there was something I was missing in setting up a blackbear template first.

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you - been very busy but I don't like leaving people hanging for over a week! Sorry.

Which Joomla are you using? 1 or 1.5?

No problem mate. I love your work, and haven't made a donation yet (I stress the 'yet').

I am using Joomla 1.x (latest release). I have the left menus working perfectly, but not the topmenu (in user4 position I believe).

Cheers,
Cam

Hey there Cam,

Top menu should be published user3
It should have a "menu class suffix" of -nav set in the parameters - I believe this should already be there but if not add it in.
User 4 is for search.

This is my bad. I have not written proper documentation for Joomla 1.0... I really was not sure how many people were still using it (though I am!) and actually just forgot about it completely. Most positions are actually the same as original BB for J1 but I did ad a special position for search and removed the need for publishing main menu in user 1 - this can now just be published left or right.

Hope this helps.

No problem!!!

Cheers, that works just fine. I think I had assumed that the menu would appear at the left... but it looks good at the right ;)

Thanks again... great template coding!

I am still not quite happy with a few aspects of Joomla 1.5, aspects I see as glitchy at best, so will not be switching for a while yet ;)

Cheers,
Cam

No problem Cam,

You can have the menu left quite easily - simply edit the css and float #nav to the left and #search to the right - you'll probably need to adjust padding/margins for these as well as the menu will have some on the right to buffer it from the edge of the template - you'd want to switch this from padding-right to padding-left.

Awesome.... cheers.

I was going to avoid playing with the css much until I had successfully gotten your original styling to work fully.

Thanks again! :D

No problem.

It really is a 2 min job if you want to try it.

At the moment #search is floating left and #nav is floated right. So all you are doing is swapping these.