Westminster New

Pompidompie:

Thank you Anne.
I compared the responcive.css to the one from the template addon and it is still the same.

My webshop is build local/on my computer. Will it help to post the pagesource? (right mouse click, look at page code)

No, I can not help you if I can not view the site.

Thanks,

Anne

May I ask Anne, if you would look at my site, how would you do that and what would you look for?

For instance, if I want to now how something is called and where i can find it, I use the elements in Chrome.

Pompidompie:

May I ask Anne, if you would look at my site, how would you do that and what would you look for?

For instance, if I want to now how something is called and where i can find it, I use the elements in Chrome.

I don't understand the question. Since your site is off line I can not see it or trouble shoot it. The first thing to do is to confirm that the layout is broken.

Thanks,

Anne

You always say, if you have a link, I will take a look.
That makes me curious, what do you do exactly(with what do you take a look) and what are you looking for.
I like to learn from you (and others) so step by step i can do more myself.
I always try to do things myself first, before I ask for help because that always makes me feel a bit like a nag (dutch: zeurpiet)

Most of use tools like the Web Developer or Firebug plugins for the Firefox browser to examine sites for issues. Try installing one or the other and give it a try. The browser also allows us to see the source code for the page.

stevesh:

Most of use tools like the Web Developer or Firebug plugins for the Firefox browser to examine sites for issues. Try installing one or the other and give it a try. The browser also allows us to see the source code for the page.

Yes, exactly ;) It also lets me see what if any changes you have made to the template package. I always need to check for bugs. If the problem is in the template package I need to know. But, if you have made customizations, etc. it is most likely something that you have done.

Thanks,

Anne

Thank you Anne that worked a treat :D and saved my hair too lol

picaflor-azul:

Just add:

span.category-subs-parent{color:yorucolor;}

Thanks,

Anne

picaflor-azul:

Yes, exactly ;) It also lets me see what if any changes you have made to the template package. I always need to check for bugs. If the problem is in the template package I need to know. But, if you have made customizations, etc. it is most likely something that you have done.

Thanks,

Anne

Bugs in a Picaflor Azul template? Perish the thought.

stevesh:

Bugs in a Picaflor Azul template? Perish the thought.

Lol! I love when people find them so that I can work on squashing them :smile:

Thanks,

Anne

I agree with stevesh :D
It is so great what you can do. I absolutly can´t. If we didn´t have you, I could not make a nice webshop for my business. I have never learned to work with html, php, css and so on. Everything I do is by looking at things, searching on google and this forum to find answers to the questions I have how to changes things, trying things... It works for me to build my own website this way, but I could never build a website for someone else, just because I don´t have enough experience.
I am a little bit jealous of al the nice things you create Anne, because i can really say that i enjoy building my website. So thank you for all the work you do to help everyone every day :thumbsup:

Later today I will try to add firefox and also look at the other one you guys mentioned. Lets see if I can work with it.

I'm not sure it is a template bug Anne. I think it isn't.

I think I need to look for i file of maybe jscript.
The first problem i saw was that everything under the breadcrums showed up under the left sidebox.
The seconds problem I now see is that on the home page, the featured products have to much space between that carousel and the footer. The padding on the bottom seems to be to much. I could try to changes that, but it could also be a part of the problem i am having somewhere.

Thinking of this weird things happening, wich file, in wich folder could I take a look at?
I mean, could it be a template thing? Then I go check the last addons to see if they have a template folder and what's in it.
And when I look in there template folders, wich file would be the first to think of?

Can somebody think with me for a minute, where to start?

Pompidompie:

I'm not sure it is a template bug Anne. I think it isn't.

I think I need to look for i file of maybe jscript.
The first problem i saw was that everything under the breadcrums showed up under the left sidebox.
The seconds problem I now see is that on the home page, the featured products have to much space between that carousel and the footer. The padding on the bottom seems to be to much. I could try to changes that, but it could also be a part of the problem i am having somewhere.

Thinking of this weird things happening, wich file, in wich folder could I take a look at?
I mean, could it be a template thing? Then I go check the last addons to see if they have a template folder and what's in it.
And when I look in there template folders, wich file would be the first to think of?

Can somebody think with me for a minute, where to start?
Quite honestly we can't even BEGIN to GUESS where you might start looking because we can't SEE your site.. It would help if you could put up a TEST version of your site on a LIVE server so we can SEE what YOU see.. Seriously.. if you do not see a recurring theme in all the responses you receive it's this: Put a link up to your site so we can see it.. Without that folks are guessing and they cannot help you.. Some folks (myself included) will not entertain guesses, hence you will not receive the quality/quantity of responses to help you help yourself..

Create a development site.. post a link.. THEN folks can REALLY help you (versus just guessing away at your issues..)

I know that it is easyer to see my site and take a look too, but i´m building off line, because I allready have a webshop online for a few years now.
Don´t get me wrong, I appriciate all the help, but i´m not asking you to do everything for me. I want to learn from what i am doing, i want to try things myself, I want to sit and puzzle with everything.
Forgive me my question, I thought if I explane what I am seeing, someone with way more experience maybe knows in which direction I must search, because I really don´t know what file is connected to which file. So not knowing which files are handeling the looks for those pages(other than the stylesheets), takes weeks for me to figure out what I might be looking for, because that is something I also don't know yet.
I don't want to sit here and say, you figure that out for me, because that would be real easy and in the end I still did not learn anything from it.

Pompidompie:

I know that it is easyer to see my site and take a look too, but i´m building off line, because I allready have a webshop online for a few years now.right.. having a live working store is NO REASON why you CAN'T create a LIVE dev/test store in a SEPARATE area.. Setup a sub-domain, and put your site there so when you ask questions people can SEE what you are asking about and offer real answers instead of trying to GUESS what you are describing..
Pompidompie:

Don´t get me wrong, I appriciate all the help, but i´m not asking you to do everything for me. I want to learn from what i am doing, i want to try things myself, I want to sit and puzzle with everything.
Forgive me my question, I thought if I explane what I am seeing, someone with way more experience maybe knows in which direction I must search, because I really don´t know what file is connected to which file. So not knowing which files are handeling the looks for those pages(other than the stylesheets), takes weeks for me to figure out what I might be looking for, because that is something I also don't know yet.
I don't want to sit here and say, you figure that out for me, because that would be real easy and in the end I still did not learn anything from it.You don't know which file to touch.. for certain things, yes the community can help without seeing the site.. But once you start modifying things and installing other plugins, then it gets MUCH harder to help you..

ANYONE with more experience cannot help you unless we SEE what you are trying to describe.. Honestly I can't put this much plainer.. Why do you think Anne (the AUTHOR of this template.. remember her??) keeps REPEATEDLY asking you to post a link so she can take a look?? It's so she can give you a much more INFORMED answer versus GUESSING (which answering BLINDLY means)

Help the community help you to learn.. Create a live dev/test site..

I have been working on making some changes to the way the template looks, to make it match more with the look of the live site.
The changes so far have been things like changing the logo, changing colors. There have been no changes to the other files I think?

I don't like the way the buttons like forward and submit look like. They are not aligned and the height they are at looks a bit weird, often they are both outside the white field where the form is, sometimes one of the buttons is partly inside the white field and partly outside it on the normal background of the site.
One such an example can be found at www4 dot carmo dot nl/index.php?main_page=password_forgotten (yes, it has to be www4, it is the test site)
Some of the other pages are where you can make changes to your account settings.

I have tried to see if returning the old css files makes it look better, but it makes no change in the height of the buttons, only the colors.

Is it part of the template that the buttons are at different heights, and sometimes are on top of a line, or is this something I did by changing a file where this is defined? I tried to look at the live demo of the template, but can't see it because of an error I get about bandwith limit exceeded.

Another question has to do with another part of the site. There are several categories without any subcategories or products in them, but they do have information in the description part. At the bottom of those pages, there is a horizontal line between the category description and the bottom of the white field. This can be seen at www4 dot carmo dot nl/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=493_497_549
Is there any way I can make it look like I did at www4 dot carmo dot nl/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=17_1210 ? To make it look this way I had to make a special css file containing ```
.productListing-data{display:none;}

If anyone knows an easy way, that would be great, otherwise I think that line can stay where it is now.

It's a nice template to work with, thank you for making this Anne.

Siem:

I have been working on making some changes to the way the template looks, to make it match more with the look of the live site.
The changes so far have been things like changing the logo, changing colors. There have been no changes to the other files I think?

I don't like the way the buttons like forward and submit look like. They are not aligned and the height they are at looks a bit weird, often they are both outside the white field where the form is, sometimes one of the buttons is partly inside the white field and partly outside it on the normal background of the site.
One such an example can be found at www4 dot carmo dot nl/index.php?main_page=password_forgotten (yes, it has to be www4, it is the test site)
Some of the other pages are where you can make changes to your account settings.

I have tried to see if returning the old css files makes it look better, but it makes no change in the height of the buttons, only the colors.

Is it part of the template that the buttons are at different heights, and sometimes are on top of a line, or is this something I did by changing a file where this is defined? I tried to look at the live demo of the template, but can't see it because of an error I get about bandwith limit exceeded.

Another question has to do with another part of the site. There are several categories without any subcategories or products in them, but they do have information in the description part. At the bottom of those pages, there is a horizontal line between the category description and the bottom of the white field. This can be seen at www4 dot carmo dot nl/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=493_497_549
Is there any way I can make it look like I did at www4 dot carmo dot nl/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=17_1210 ? To make it look this way I had to make a special css file containing ```
.productListing-data{display:none;}

> If anyone knows an easy way, that would be great, otherwise I think that line can stay where it is now.
> 
> It's a nice template to work with, thank you for making this Anne.

If you want to change any of the buttons you can do it with css.  Each button has a unique class.

You can make your other changes using css, or it might be easier to use a php if statement. 

If you need to make css changes I would recommend using chrome and the chrome web developer tools.

Thanks,

Anne

Using images in tables in EZ Pages with responsive theme

A general question and my apologies if this should be better asked elsewhere :)
This page on my site refers,
http://lotusmoonjewellery.com/my-season-colours/summer-colours

I have built this as an EZ page and placed images inside a five column table with cell sizes of about 150px and table width of 800px.
However this does not size properly under the new google test for Mobile Usability > Content not sized to viewport.

Can someone please provide a few clues as to the correct way to proceed in using tables in EZ pages under Westminster New or similar responsive themes?

Cheers
Terry

RedSpinnaker:

Using images in tables in EZ Pages with responsive theme

A general question and my apologies if this should be better asked elsewhere :)
This page on my site refers,
http://lotusmoonjewellery.com/my-season-colours/summer-colours

I have built this as an EZ page and placed images inside a five column table with cell sizes of about 150px and table width of 800px.
However this does not size properly under the new google test for Mobile Usability > Content not sized to viewport.

Can someone please provide a few clues as to the correct way to proceed in using tables in EZ pages under Westminster New or similar responsive themes?

Cheers
Terry

Fixed widths are the problem here. Instead of setting pixels use %, something like 19% for the cell sizes and 100% for the table width

RedSpinnaker:

Using images in tables in EZ Pages with responsive theme

A general question and my apologies if this should be better asked elsewhere :)
This page on my site refers,
http://lotusmoonjewellery.com/my-season-colours/summer-colours

I have built this as an EZ page and placed images inside a five column table with cell sizes of about 150px and table width of 800px.
However this does not size properly under the new google test for Mobile Usability > Content not sized to viewport.

Can someone please provide a few clues as to the correct way to proceed in using tables in EZ pages under Westminster New or similar responsive themes?

Cheers
Terry

Using tables for layouts is a huge NONO with responsive design. You need to use something fluid like a <div> layout.

Thanks,

Anne

Design75:

Fixed widths are the problem here. Instead of setting pixels use %, something like 19% for the cell sizes and 100% for the table width

Thanks Design75
I guess the 100% refers to the template width as per the conventional stylesheet.css settings, though from Anne's comment below the issue might be more complicated with responsive designs. Any further thoughts?