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First of all many thanks to Big Bear for the great template. This is a real creative product!

So far I came along pretty good with the template except for a few issues on IE6.

Site is at: http://www.audiovisualconcepts.org

1. Right Module position is forced all the way down at the following menu items:
"Contact", "Audio Visual Forum"

2. Wrapper module forces some i-frame content out to the right as visible at:
"Photo Galleries", "1080 Movie List"

Above problems show up only when using IE6. IE7 and FF2 work fine.

Safari 3 on a MAC crashes after changing a page. But that has nothing to do with the template. The reason for the crash is the embedded mp3-payer (user3) which has a Skipjack engine (remembers position of the playhead during page change). Safari cannot handle it.

Any thoughts on that?

Post edited by: hptschupp@mac.com, at: 2008/02/21 06:58

Post edited by: hptschupp@mac.com, at: 2008/02/21 07:02<br><br>Post edited by: hptschupp@mac.com, at: 2008/02/21 07:03

That's how it looks with IE6 (contact page).

<br><br>Post edited by: hptschupp@mac.com, at: 2008/02/21 19:03

Photo Galleries in IE6:

Fireboard Forum in IE6:

<br><br>Post edited by: hptschupp@mac.com, at: 2008/02/21 22:46

Hi,
We battled with IE6 on transparent bliss to...
The issue with the right column being pushed down happens when the middle coulmn content is to wide.
The slideshow pro may need to have it's width reduced slightly.
Fireboard has its own CSS file which we'll need to look at.
I'll take at your site now and get back to you with some suggestions.
Big Bear

Thanks for the reply Big Bear.

As far as a could investigate with Firebug the width
of the Fire-Board is set to automatic. I might have to try a fixed setting.

Slide Show pro is currently running through a Wrapper
with 100% width. I will try to change it to a fixed pixel value and see if that helps.

Let me know if you have some more thoughts.

Also I was wondering if the background changer thumbs could be transformed into a module so I could select for which menu items (pages) it would show up. My plan would be to use it only on the front page and then having some more available real estate on the other pages.<br><br>Post edited by: hptschupp@mac.com, at: 2008/02/23 06:12

I would use the module position &quot;Top&quot; to publish the SLideShowPro.

We have set the CSS to 468 pixels wide for this module position and centered it to accomodate a banner ad at this common size.

You'll want to change this CSS to 560pixels wide which is the maximum you can use without changing the padding value of 20px on the containign DIV.

The code you will want to change in the CSS file is:



just make that

That should sort the slideshow issue if you create your SSP at 560 pixels<br><br>Post edited by: Big Bear, at: 2008/02/25 07:03

With fireboard I would set the width to 560px also - you'll have to look through the CSS file for fireboard and work out where to change it.

If you wanted a little more width and didnt mind having less padding betwen your content and the frame you could reduce the 20px padding on:



You could give it 10px of padding which would then give you an extra 20px you could add to the TopModule mentioned above.

padding: 20px; means 20 pixels on all sides so when you reduce this to 10 you effectively get 10 pixels more on the right and the left = 20 pixels total.

A useful tool for finding exactly what CSS is applied to a specific element is the Firefox Web Developers Toolbar which I mentioned in this post.

Hi,
I'm having the same problem hptschupp had. The third column (at the right) starts below the content. As far as I know there is nothing in my articles that is wider than the content column, that is, more than 468px wide.
Did he get to fix it? If YES, how??

Thanks in advance. This template looks great.

yosia wrote:
Hi,
I'm having the same problem hptschupp had. The third column (at the right) starts below the content. As far as I know there is nothing in my articles that is wider than the content column, that is, more than 560px wide.
Did he get to fix it? If YES, how??

Thanks in advance. This template looks great.
Yoshiyah

Was he able to fix it??????????<br><br>Post edited by: yosia, at: 2008/03/05 15:19

Can you link your site so I can test?

Right now my website is on a localhost but today I will upload it to a live server. Whenever I have the link, I will write it here so you can see it.
Thanks, Yoshiyah

Great!

A useful tool to help identify what is causing the issue is the Firefox Web Dev's toolbar

What I'd be looking for is any element that has width set to something greater than the available content area - sometimes elements (like DIV's or tables) have display set to block, width to 100% + padding, which can cause issues.

The problems can often be resolved by giving elements a fixed width + padding/margins that will not go beyond the available content area.

Should be able to get to the bottom of it once we see the site.<br><br>Post edited by: Big Bear, at: 2008/03/07 03:45

Sorry, I still wasn't able to buy a domain and upload my site.
Another problem I'm having is that the style of the VirtueMart category menu is not the same as the style of the template menues. How can I fix this? I've been trying many things in the css but I still didn't get it.
Thanks, yosia

yosia wrote:
Sorry, I still wasn't able to buy a domain and upload my site.
Another problem I'm having is that the style of the VirtueMart category menu is not the same as the style of the template menues. How can I fix this? I've been trying many things in the css but I still didn't get it.
Thanks, yosia

Is there any way for the VM products menu to have the default menu style? I'm only having this problem whith this template. I tried on others and it works no problem, the categories menu style sets to the default menu style of the template. But with this one it doesn't occur.

Thanks, Yoshiyah