Morwen Oronor
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Thanks for that, I'll fix the marquee now.
You are right, Lesa, after all the trouble you went to of course I should use it, just nervous t figure out how. It does look good with that in place, now how do I do that without pushing everything down the page, please?
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Thanks Lesa, that's better, now the scrolling pictures marquee is wider.
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Re: Links and CSS
You're welcome, Mo. To add the other changes, go to your HTML, and add:
First thing in HTML header:
<div id="outer">
Last thing in HTML footer:
</div>
Then, in your CSS, change the height of #header h1 to 453px so the banner will sit in the right spot, and add the following line anywhere, but I recommend immediately before #container:
#outer { background:url(http://i34.tinypic.com/14no8k8.gif) center top repeat-x; }
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Cool. Thank you that looks lovely. It's perfect now.
Last night Petal decided that she wants to make changes to Anything Goes. This is going to be interesting to see what she comes up with so expect lots of questions early next week.
Thank you so much for all the help.
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Yeah, that came out good. It's Almost seamless. Too bad that faded edge .png images don't work in all browsers. Then it would be really seamless.
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Funny things about the boards, when it is perfect I don't have the urge to change it, that's why Anything Goes undergoes so many changes, it is just never right. The pink was lovely but there were so many complaints about it that I had to do the change. Now the change is in Petal's hands she can decide what she wants it to look like and I'll just make the changes. All I'm doing is suggesting options for her to look at.
If you'd like to take a look at the testboard Lesa /btestboard32, look at what I did with the photo competition winners.
Another thing I suggested to her would be to put all the winners in a small scrolling marquee like the one on the Sports Board, if she doesn't like the sidebar.
She says that the sidebar makes her smilies fall off the page - she uses a laptop but I can't see that it should be any different with other boards with sidebars.\
Anyway let's see what she wants as a color theme and a background then I might shout for some help.
I just thought I's show you two how clever you've made me that I was able to put pictures in the sidebar.
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Re: Links and CSS
The sports board looks great, and so does the sidebar at your test board!
I'm going to guess that the screen resolution you use is 1280px or wider, because this is what the reply screen at your sports board looks like in a 1024px resolution:
To fix that problem for smaller-res users, you can go into the board's miscellaneous options, and where it says "Use the clickable smilies grid feature:" uncheck that box.
Then, in your CSS, you can tweak the way it looks, so only 3 smilies appear in each row:
.msgform_clickable_smiley_box_h { width: 205px; }
.msgform_clickable_smiley_box_h br { display: none; }
.msgform_clickable_smiley_box_h img { float:left; }
With the smileys that you currently have there, you could easily fake the "grid" feature by changing that last line to:
.msgform_clickable_smiley_box_h img { float:left; padding: 1px; margin: 1px; border: 1px inset #ccc; }
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That is very useful to know. Thank you Lesa. I'll tell Petal that. She hates it when her page slips off the side because she has a small screen.
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You're welcome, Mo.
It helps if you can change the screen resolution on your monitor to check out different layouts on a 1024x768 resolution. If that isn't possible, Total Validator (click "Advanced" at the left) is great for seeing what a layout looks like, not just at different resolutions, but also on different browsers. Since Total Validator can't see the posting screen, another tool you can try is Browser Sizer, which will actually resize your window to specific dimensions.
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Thanks it seems all ok with Petal now, the problem she was having was that the descriptions of the photos weren't going to a new line, I put in a hard return in the code and that fixed it, so she's happy now. But thanks for that.
This new screen I got with my new Mac has the facility to be turned either landscape or portrait, I tried messing around with that when I first got it and with the pages of different resolution sizes, I messed it all up and panicked , so now I leave it the way my son fixed it, no more resolution changing, on this screen anyway.
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