Footer Menu Support Thread

[hardwiredtemplates]

Thanks for your assistance clye, the footer now is consistent. Reason I asked to change the font family, is because I find the links a little hard to read(a bit too dark and narrow). I thought changing the font-family(since there was no bolding) would make a difference but it does not. I wanted so that its lighter and a little wider (makes it easy on the eyes). This is shown on this footer: http://www.cooltechcentral.com/. and in http://www1.macys.com/

by the way for the footer in cooltechcentral.com site is there an html code for the small greater then sign symbol before each link or is this only accomplished by an image?
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Regarding moving the links, I tried the following procedure to move the link titled "Links" into another table entry(similar to what I wanted to do with the Terms of Use)

---------- Steps followed to accomplish the above---------------
In includes/languages/comstock/english.php
wrote the following declaration: define('BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS', 'Links');

Then in includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/comstock/footer_menu_defines.php
wrote the following deceleration:
Define('LINKS','<li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_LINKS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS . '</a></li>');

uploaded both files and nothing changed. I am not a programmer but I followed similar procedure to your last post for the "Terms of Use" but this seems to be just a name change, and the DEFINE statements are all there. How can I do this with a brand New undefined Link?

Many Advanced thanks for all your help Clyde..

[clydejones]

Thanks for your assistance clye, the footer now is consistent. Reason I asked to change the font family, is because I find the links a little hard to read(a bit too dark and narrow). I thought changing the font-family(since there was no bolding) would make a difference but it does not. I wanted so that its lighter and a little wider (makes it easy on the eyes). This is shown on this footer: http://www.cooltechcentral.com/. and in http://www1.macys.com/

by the way for the footer in cooltechcentral.com site is there an html code for the small greater then sign symbol before each link or is this only accomplished by an image?
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Regarding moving the links, I tried the following procedure to move the link titled "Links" into another table entry(similar to what I wanted to do with the Terms of Use)

---------- Steps followed to accomplish the above---------------
In includes/languages/comstock/english.php
wrote the following declaration: define('BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS', 'Links');

Then in includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/comstock/footer_menu_defines.php
wrote the following deceleration:
Define('LINKS','<li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_LINKS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS . '</a></li>');

uploaded both files and nothing changed. I am not a programmer but I followed similar procedure to your last post for the "Terms of Use" but this seems to be just a name change, and the DEFINE statements are all there. How can I do this with a brand New undefined Link?

Many Advanced thanks for all your help Clyde..

Try making these changes in the stylesheet_footer_menu.css

#navSuppWrapper {
border:1px solid #ccc;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
background:none;
font-weight: 400;
color: #666;
width: 1000px;
height: 116px;
font-family: verdana,arial,lucida,sans-serif;

}


li a:link {letter-spacing:.1em;color: #444;font-size:9px;margin:0;padding-left:1em;padding-bottom:.3em;display:block;}
li a:visited {letter-spacing:.1em;color: #444;font-size:9px;margin:0;padding-left:1em;padding-bottom:.3em;display:block;}
li a:hover {letter-spacing:.1em;color:#f27a00;background:none;text-decoration: underline;}
li a:active {letter-spacing:.1em;color: #444;font-size:9px;margin:0;padding-left:1em;padding-bottom:.3em;display:block;}
.menuTitle {margin:4px;padding-bottom:.3em;text-align:center;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold;}

[hardwiredtemplates]

Alright this is getting a little frustrating, so i just made it all Italic and that seems to make it easier to read the links. We'll just leave it like that for now.

I am still struggling with re-arranging the links. These are the steps I followed in attempt to move the link "Links" under the menu title "Important links" to underneath the menu title "Quick links".

---------- Steps followed to accomplish the above---------------
In includes/languages/comstock/english.php
wrote the following declaration: define('BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS', 'Links');

Then in includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/comstock/footer_menu_defines.php
wrote the following deceleration:
Define('LINKS','<li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_LINKS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS . '</a></li>');

What Am i doing Wrong?

[clydejones]

Alright this is getting a little frustrating, so i just made it all Italic and that seems to make it easier to read the links. We'll just leave it like that for now.

I am still struggling with re-arranging the links. These are the steps I followed in attempt to move the link "Links" under the menu title "Important links" to underneath the menu title "Quick links".

---------- Steps followed to accomplish the above---------------
In includes/languages/comstock/english.php
wrote the following declaration: define('BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS', 'Links');

Then in includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/comstock/footer_menu_defines.php
wrote the following deceleration:
Define('LINKS','<li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_LINKS) . '">' . BOX_INFORMATION_LINKS . '</a></li>');

What Am i doing Wrong?

First of all that is an external link created using EZ-pages.

In order to move it to the quick links column you will need to make the define statement like this. The highlight is the id number for that particular ez-page which you will have to change

Define('LINKS', '<li><a href="' . zen_ez_pages_link(31) . '"> Links</a></li>');

You'll then need to add this to the following definition statement

Define('QUICKLINKS', '<dd class="first">
<ul>' . TITLE_ONE . HOME . FEATURED . SPECIALS . NEWPRODUCTS . ALLPRODUCTS . LINKS . '</ul></dd>');

[hardwiredtemplates]

Thanks for all your assistance Clyde. a little tweaking and this menu is an excellent contribution.

[smoke133]

Clyde,

Thank you for this module. When I add this module, it removes all of the bullets of my site. I can see that the css has this in it.

ul {margin:0;padding:0;list-style: none;}

When I remove this part, it fixes the rest of my site, but messes up the footer. Is there a way to remove the bullets from the footer and not the rest of my site?

[clydejones]

Clyde,

Thank you for this module. When I add this module, it removes all of the bullets of my site. I can see that the css has this in it.

ul {margin:0;padding:0;list-style: none;}

When I remove this part, it fixes the rest of my site, but messes up the footer. Is there a way to remove the bullets from the footer and not the rest of my site?

replace the includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/css/stylesheet_footer_menu.css

with the file from the following:

smoke133_fix.zip

[smoke133]

Thank you for your help. That worked great.

[growlight]

Hi Guys!
I'm looking for a bit of assistance before I pull my hair out. I installed the module and got it working but in the process I have messed up my header.

The site is http://www.growlightexpress.com. If you check it out you will see two green bars at the top and the links "on top of each other" instead of "next to" as it was before (and there was only one green bar before the install). I can only guess at something in the css but not really sure. My skills are weak!!!

Also is there a way to change the "on mouse over" for the links in the footer and header to not be orange but the background color? Again I can only assume something with the css file but don't know how to move form there!!!

Some other info: I merged my tpl_footer file with the given tpl_footer file since I had changes in mine...I might have missed something there...

ANY help is appreciated!!!
-Christopher

[clydejones]

Hi Guys!
I'm looking for a bit of assistance before I pull my hair out. I installed the module and got it working but in the process I have messed up my header.

The site is http://www.growlightexpress.com. If you check it out you will see two green bars at the top and the links "on top of each other" instead of "next to" as it was before (and there was only one green bar before the install). I can only guess at something in the css but not really sure. My skills are weak!!!

Also is there a way to change the "on mouse over" for the links in the footer and header to not be orange but the background color? Again I can only assume something with the css file but don't know how to move form there!!!

Some other info: I merged my tpl_footer file with the given tpl_footer file since I had changes in mine...I might have missed something there...

ANY help is appreciated!!!
-Christopher

Use the fix thats included in POST 27 above - that should take care of the problem.