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Critique: my first Joomla template design - 6/26/2009 13:05:14
Hi all, kindly give me your comments for my first foray into Joomla template.
Currently all links in dropdown menu go to nowhere.
Go here.
Many thanks in advance!!
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RE: Critique: my first Joomla template design - 6/26/2009 16:34:25
Looks SUPER. I just bought the Visual Quickstart Guide to Joomla and someday hope to add a Joomla CMS portion to one of my clients sutes. Maybe you should be the resident expert for us to lean on?
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RE: Critique: my first Joomla template design - 6/26/2009 16:34:51
Very Nice!
but what's up with the red cross logo that appears in the background when you scroll down the page on the right side? Other than that, SWEEEET
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RE: Critique: my first Joomla template design - 6/26/2009 19:40:41
Looks a bit broken in a taller screen (I guess mine is taller? 22"). And similar to what Swoosh states, the red cross doubles on the right for me when scrolling.
I took over a couple of clients who's site are in Joomla. Takes a bit to get used to getting things working and plugging stuff in. I've found I need to go in and tweak PHP once in a while to make things play together nicely. Doing the normal updating is pretty simple, and the client does all that stuff. I get to fix things and install new mods etc.
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RE: Critique: my first Joomla template design - 6/27/2009 11:50:08
I see your daughter is not the only artist in the family! Congratualtions. Great job
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RE: Critique: my first Joomla template design - 6/27/2009 20:42:06
Looks like you used Artisteer for this. My wife and I use it for all our projects these days. Do you love it?
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RE: Critique: my first Joomla template design - 6/28/2009 10:58:36
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Looks like you used Artisteer for this. My wife and I use it for all our projects these days. Do you love it?
Very sharp! You're spot on Artisteer and I love it!
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/10/2009 11:33:01
I put in quite a few .png images which are big filesize, pls check out with your browser. Seems much faster with CSS compared to table.
Would like to hear comments from IE6.0 and earlier.
Please go here
thanks.
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/12/2009 10:18:46
why worry about it?
firstly, ie5.5 users are used to seeing that kind of thing
secondly, seeing a grey background is more than likely going to have very little impact on the usability of the site
thirdly, they're ie 5.5 users so tough :)
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/12/2009 21:59:04
aye to d a v e, I'll just leave IE5.5 users at peace, these are pragmatic times. There's nothing more I can do, really, as the dropdown menu is not supported in Artisteer anyway for IE below 6.0
caz lit a bulb for me on conditional comments, so I hid the dropdown menu and more importantly I managed to get the parchment centered in the scrolls instead of hugging the left of screen. Putting text-align: center for body in the CSS file does the trick.
At least now it is visually more presentable in IE5.5 than before.
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/14/2009 9:02:18
Finally sorted mine (mostly) on the new server here but most of it is for registered users only so you won't see the forum, wiki or directory of members. Even the mass mail seems to work! Found the images too.
The major problem that I had turned out to be a permissions problem, they had all been changed during the back up and restore - that was with Joomlapack, and it was my own fault.
Now for all of the static content from the previous site...sigh.
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/14/2009 11:45:55
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Finally sorted mine (mostly) on the new server here but most of it is for registered users only so you won't see the forum, wiki or directory of members.
Nice site, very clean. I especially like the colors.
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Now for all of the static content from the previous site...sigh
oh I dread this LOL
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/19/2009 23:54:35
I used Conditional Comments in the HTML and these do not validate at W3C. Its ok in the Head section.
Is there something I didn't do correctly?
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/20/2009 2:11:58
ok I managed to fix this, it sure is confusing.
The correct syntax :
<!--<![if gte IE] -->
<object></object>
<!-- <![endif] -->
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/20/2009 10:58:28
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<!--<![if gte IE] -->
<object></object>
<!-- <![endif] -->
You haven't specified the version of IE you are targeting, and by using "gte" you are targeting IE5.5 and all versions greater than IE5.5 so you will surely cause problems with IE7 and IE8?
Also you've got an exrtra "<!" in twice.
I actually meant it to be greater or equal to IE 6.0. I wanted to hide the Artisteer dropdown menu from IE 5+ because it wasn't supported in browsers lesser than IE6.
That code that I posted doesn't work...(what was I thinking?)
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So shouldn't that be:
<!--[if lte IE 5.5000 ]>
<object></object>
<![endif]-->
That's the format I always use and it works.
Yes this works in the <Head> but I have problem using it in the body and it won't validate.
Anyway I chance upon some useful CCs from cssplay.co.uk and this time I really got it working; It will hide the menu in IE5+ and at the same time validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
In Joomla, I use it as follows:
<!--[If gte IE 6]><!-->
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user3" />
<!--<![endif]-->
where "user3" is the dropdown menu module position.
It may look s t r a n g e but it works!
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RE: How is the page loading in your browser? - 7/27/2009 10:58:34
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The URL is here
Update:
All previous links have been deleted but I am unable to edit the links in previous posts.
The joomla site is now 'live' here.
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