Centerbox Categories module vs. default Centerbox

[notageek]

Growing pains: I had the totally foreign idea after reading your post that I should hafe actually looked at the module's code before posting. I now see that the "bof:" and "eof:" is from the module's code.

Also, from your comment, I had the idea to stop using 0 for the category sort order for either category, and I numbered the sort orders as 1 and 2. This fixed part of the problem, which is that I can now read the top image which previously was scrambled with the second category's image. The text beneath the image(s) is still scrambled and I can only see the top image.

But it goes to show that the smallest of leads can lead somewhere. I didn't feel justified in posting a theoretical question on a forum devoted solely to operation of a module, since it is a smaller group looking at the limited module forum, but now I have something more pragmatic to post there. Thanks again.

[notageek]

Okay. It was really simple. I had the categories set at 5 per row, but only had the two top categories activated, not the subcategories. The images for some reason placed themselves one on top of the other.

I changed the setting to 2 per row. Voila! There they are, evenly spaced and displayed separately.

I suppose to many people that would have been an obvious thing to try first. Hopefully I will try the simple approach first with my next problem that seems daunting.

[notageek]

I came back to this problem because I again experienced superimposition of categories. I saw here that I had 5 per row and changed the setting to 2 per row to correct this, and checked Admin->Configuration->Maximum, but saw that I already had set 2 per row. I ultimately found the setting to change was a parallel setting to the maximum setting, in Admin->Configuration->Index Listing->"front page categories columns per row."

I hope this helps someone.