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I hired a consultant who I met through this forum to develop a template and import links from my current link directory of my 12 year old site Mind Media which uses Hyperseek 1.0 back in October of last year. She did the import for me and developed a template.


The template she developed was never satisfactory as the navigation bar shifts and disappears as screen resolutions get higher so that site is not presentable to the public at resolutions of 1280 or higher widths and distorted at slightly less resolutions. The site has never been rendered as static pages but you can see the dynamic version of the site here.

During the initial phase of the project, the worked closely with me but could never fix the template. The link import did not go well as I had used some javascript in my descriptions and when she imported into Gossamer 3.2, she imported the description into both a short and long deception fields.

My initial impetus in moving to Gossamer was dues to problems I had with SEO with my site on Google. The problem cleared up toward the end of the initial work period so I decided to fix the links one by one by hand over time (I've fixed most of the 1700 plus links by now) and continue to use the old site until I had problems with Google again. Those problems occurred again recently and so I started working on switching over to the Gossamer implementation of my site.

I again contacted my consultant (I will not mention her name but she put a link at the bottom of left hand corner of the site for herself, which is actually part of the problem as it shifts to far right part of the screen as resolutions increase). This person bills herself as a CSS expert but she is unable to fix the problem and has told me repeatedly that there is no problem. I've used third party sites to view my site at different resolutions and the problem is independent of any of my computers or browsers.

Can anyone help me fix the template? I am willing to pay for the work. I paid good money for a non-functional template so a reasonable consulting fee is certainly offered.

Any advice or a work-around quick fix for the problem would be helpful.
Bruce Ehrlich
Mind Media
http://mindmedia.com
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Do you have a screenshot/mockup of what the design is supposed to look like?

Adrian
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Re: [brewt] Need Help Fixing Template Developed by "CSS Expert" In reply to
I replied to the Brewt (Adrian) post by PM
Bruce Ehrlich
Mind Media
http://mindmedia.com
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Re: [mindmedia] Need Help Fixing Template Developed by "CSS Expert" In reply to
Hi,

Test this in luna.css :

Code:

ul.primarynav {
width: 700px;
margin-left: 40px;
}
...
ul.primarynav li {
float: right;
list-style-type: none;
width: 140px;
}



That should help you.

But, I think that you must re-examine the code in the future.

Mick

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Oyo: Jul 14, 2008, 2:59 AM
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I relied to the previous message by PM right after it was sent. I have not received a reply back after several days. I will post what my reply was publically now.

PM sent to Oyo follow:

You replied to my post in thread http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...orum.cgi?post=302506 and made a suggestion.

I am not an expert in css. However, I tried to interpret as best I could you brief suggestion. I added the entries to the luna.css in regions following entries pertaining to the same elements.
That did not help.

I tried modifying the entries by replacing what was there with your suggestions. I could do that with the first suggestion but there was no appropriate corresponding entry for the second entry so I appended it again.

The modified code (WHICH I DID NOT DO) has entries additional entries in the Navigation area called labeled "home" and "a". For example there is an ul.primarynav li.home {

I tried a few changes to these using your model but nothing got the page right.

Can you give me more explicit instructions about what you are suggesting
Bruce Ehrlich
Mind Media
http://mindmedia.com
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I replied to Brewt's which was sent a month ago by PM on July 13th. I have not heard back so I am posting the the substantial part of the PM that I sent in hopes someone can help me with this.


To answer your brief question "Do you have a screenshot/mockup of what the design is supposed to look like?" the short answer is no.

The longer answer is that I had given Sandra some ideas what I wanted the site to look like and she kept giving me different versions of the way she thought the site should be implimented. I had given her extreemly lengthy and detailed suggestions, most of which she ignored. One suggestion I had for example is that she might pattern the site to look something my favorite site using Gossamer Links http://www.mysummercamps.com/camps/Arts_Camps/index.html

As you can see it came out quite different but I was not complaining because she did do some good work on the detailed template (except for putting redundant image in that I could not get her to remove)

At the end, a problem I could not get her to resolve is a basic flaw which I have never seen crop up in any templates I have seen before.

You can see the problem in this when I open the site up in my browser in the attached . This occurs at higher resolutions more blatently and less so at lower resolutions

If I move the boundaries of my browser so it narrows, it can approach the morenormal.jpg which is how it should look like.

If you can help me with this problem, I am willing to pay a consulting fee.
Bruce Ehrlich
Mind Media
http://mindmedia.com
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If I am understanding your menu issue correctly you are talking about you want it to stay stationary.

This should help:

Open:
luna.css

Find:
.navbar {
RIGHT: 159px; LEFT: 250px; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 850px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 85px
}

Replace with:
.navbar {
FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 850px; CLEAR: both; MARGIN: 0; PADDING: 0 3px;
}
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That helped. I just logged in after giving up and found this reply. How do I get the white text to move to the black bar which right now is two low. The text shows as white on white. Is there another adjustment that can lower the text and not change anything else?
Bruce Ehrlich
Mind Media
http://mindmedia.com
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I take that back. It made the home page better but the detail pages are still broken.

This is a bloody nightmare.
Bruce Ehrlich
Mind Media
http://mindmedia.com