Joomla Templates

When putting a menu in user3 to show at the bottom of the page... my menu items are set to the right side instead of the left.

I took a quick look at the css for the demo and didn't see anything different from my installed setup.

lake-houston.com

Joomla 1.5

am I missing a simple item somewhere?

I think the bottom menu should have a suffix of -nav assigend to it in the module parameters (backend of Joomla)

Let me know if this works.

Yes - it needs "-nav" placed under...

Advanced Parameters
- Menu Class Suffix

Thanks so kindly Big Bear.

My apologies, I may have overlooked putting that into the instructions...

It's often quite late at night when I'm tinkering on templates for JoomlaBear.com and it can be hard to remember everything...

Post a link when you finish the site! Keen to see how it works out :)

no worries... I'm very familiar with the late night tinkering.

Once I get the basics set up I'll re-post the link in the showcase area.

Thanks again and hopefully this one will enable me to make another donation.

Thx Graydon,

However my small bit of help was something that really should have been documented by us earlier and is not worthy of a donation :) letalone a 2nd donation!

However that said we never actually even cover our monthly hosting bill via donations, most months will see 3-4 donations come in for around $5-10 and our hosting is $80p/m.

So if you or anyone else reading this is in the mood for giving to our worthy cause :silly: then perhaps consider our new home page icon ads - you'll get a link from our page rank 5 homepage getting your new site indexed by google in a matter of days! and boosting your backinks!

I should say on the hosting front we have a VPS which lets us configure things as we want them and that comes at a price. We could probably get away with hosting this site on something cheaper - BUT I am totally over cheap hosts with bad support, downtime and servers that are not configured to run Joomla properly... We'll never go back.

I have discovered HostPapa recently though and I must say they are a very good option for cheaper cpanel hosting - makes most joomla stuff a snip as you can configure most things you want to through the cpanel interface.

I must warn you that I've pasted our affiliate link in above so if anyone does sign up via that link JoomlaBear will get a small kickback that will go straight into our site hosting fund at no cost to you - HostPapa pays the commission out of their margin.

If however this bothers you here is a non affiliate link here.

I should also say that I would never recommend a host, or any service that matter, if I did not value it or deem it to be of a high quality. The only reason we have partnered up with HostPapa is because they really do offer a good hosting service that works for Joomla sites.

Final note - if you plan on running a site like the new one we launched a few days back for our client NinjaKiwi you won't get away with any of the cheaper shared hosts. These guys need a dedicated server to support the often 1000+ users at any given time... I'm pretty stoked with how well Joomla is handling it - let us know what you all think of the design :)

Phew! I was in the mood for a rant.

Over and out.

Big Bear

I'll keep HostPapa in mind the next time I think I have a need for a site.

I have to say though - I have been very pleased with siteground so far... but unfortunately I haven't any sites that could really test them out traffic wise.

It's unfortunate you don't pick up more donations... I used to not think about it... but got some enlightenment one day when I thought "you know, I just really couldn't do this without somebody else giving me this template... and I sure and the hell can't live on free... and they can't live on free (especially considering how much a bear can eat)..." so I figured it was the right thing to do.

Ok - now we've both ranted : )

NinjaKiwi looks good.

ummm... Icon ads... it's like giving a donation - but it's a business expense... I like it! Gotta flesh out the site first.

Thx Graydon - Nice feedback - and yes bears to eat a lot - when I'm not building websites I'm usually in the kitchen cooking!