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posts: 9

On this site I am using the kubrick theme. www.talkingcp.info

Ihave created an image header with a grey menu bar across the bottom right so that white text of phpLayer menu will show. This does not appear - I have checked the image that is there and it is definately included.

Any clues?

Also I get some errors with kubrick:
Notice: Undefined variable: categories in D:\Clients\C1219\talkingcp.info\public_html\categorize_list.php on line 35

By the way I think this kubrick and twist themes are really nice
thanks
Vivienne

posts: 9

ALso I have noticed on twist (www.doggipedia.info) that the phplayers bar is replaced with white

viv

posts: 13 Ireland

If the menu is white, that means that you did not create a menu that uses menuId=43. You are actually seeing an error message in white. The distribution only creates the main menu which is menuId=42. But this menu is sooo long that it looks bad in the twist theme. So I set it to use menu 43.

You need to create a new menu (Admin -> Menu). If you want to use other than menuId=43, then edit templates/styles/template/tiki-top_bar.tpl and change the 43 to the appropriate number.

gary


posts: 13 Ireland

Also I get some errors with kubrick:
Notice: Undefined variable: categories in D:\Clients\C1219\talkingcp.info\public_html\categorize_list.php on line 35


Go to Admin -> General and change the php error reporting level for non-admin to report all errors except notices Then this notice will go away.

gary

posts: 38 Canada

Also I get some errors with kubrick:
Notice: Undefined variable: categories in D:\Clients\C1219\talkingcp.info\public_html\categorize_list.php on line 35


Go to Admin - General and change the php error reporting level for non-admin to report all errors except notices Then this notice will go away.

gary



This should be solved in Tiki 1.9.8
http://cia.vc/stats/project/tikiwiki/.message/55783d


posts: 9

Sorry I did read that about number 43 and created it and then worked on the site a bit and then created a new one!

Is there anyway to change an already created menu item number? Also I have 2 menus - one for anonymous and one for registered - can they both be number 43?

thanks a million
Vivienne

posts: 13 Ireland

The menuId is unique, so you cannot have two menus with the same id. But you can use the permissions field of a menu item to set whether it displays or not. Look at the original menu (id = 42) and see how this is implemented.

gary


posts: 9

Hi there

I still haven't resolved this - the problem seems to be:

kubrick on talkingcp.info: the logo I have chosen is all white with a grey bar I put in the logo where the menu is - this was because I wasnt sure how to change the text colour and it had a white background. This grey bar does not show - the bar is white with white menu options.

twist on doggipedia - the tpl has been changed already by Rick to reflect the correct menu numbers and the items appear correctly - the bar behind has just gone white.

sorry to be a pain
Vivienne


posts: 9

OK I resolved part of it as I did have the wrong image stored! so all that is left is:
Hi there

I still haven't resolved this - the problem seems to be:

kubrick on talkingcp.info: the logo I have chosen is all white with a grey bar I put in the logo where the menu is - this was because I wasnt sure how to change the text colour and it had a white background. This grey bar does not show - the bar is white with white menu options.


Vivienne

posts: 13 Ireland

Look at the kubrick.css file and change the styles (I use red for demonstration)

menu bar background color

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.horbaritem a: {background-color: red;}


menu item background color

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.mdkitem { background-color: red;}


I would recommend using Firefox as a browser, and use the EditCSS and ColorPicker plugin to tweak the colors on the fly. These plugins are very useful.

gary


posts: 9

Hi Gary

That seems to change the drop down colours when you mouseover etc. My problem is even seeing the menu when you are not mousing over. Nothing seems to make it show. (www.talkingcp.info)

Vivienne

posts: 254 Japan

Hi Gary

That seems to change the drop down colours when you mouseover etc. My problem is even seeing the menu when you are not mousing over. Nothing seems to make it show. (www.talkingcp.info)

Vivienne


I wrote a reply 24 hours ago but apparently just previewed instead of posted. I hate when that happens. (:wink😊

For the top row of menu items ("section" items when configuring the menu), the relevant CSS selectors are div.horbar (the whole row), and div.horbaritem (each separate item). The black background in the hover state is due to the .horbaritem property, which needs to be changed for your site (.horbaritem a:hover specifically).

(When you aren't sure of the CSS selectors being used, look at the source of the page in your browser ("View Page Source" or the equivalent). In a big page, I select and copy some of the affected text in the page viewed normally, then switch to the page source view window/tab and paste the copied text into the "Find" dialog. That lets me zero in on the relevant lines of the source pretty fast.)

-- Gary


posts: 9

Hi Gary

Could you point me in the right direction for the color chooser plugin - I dont seem to be able to find it unless I misunerstand what it does - it enables you to visually choose & update css colour?

Viv

posts: 254 Japan

Hi Gary

Could you point me in the right direction for the color chooser plugin - I dont seem to be able to find it unless I misunerstand what it does - it enables you to visually choose & update css colour?

Viv


We Garys aren't really interchangeable, but I'll respond since I'm here already. (:wink😊 The color chooser isn't a Tiki plugin, but a Firefox add-on. You can get it by clicking "Add-ons" under the "Tools" item in Firefox's menu.

After downloading it and installing it (an easy process within Firefox), you get an eyedropper icon in the bottom left corner of the browser screen. When you click it, the mouse pointer turns into a crosshair and information is reported in the browser status bar including the RBG and hex codes of the color under the pointer, its page coordinates, and the div or other object being hovered over.

As far as I know, it doesn't enable any editing, but is more of an analysis tool.

-- Gary/chibaguy

posts: 13 Ireland

I guess I wasn't as clear as I should be.

The EditCSS FireFox plugin allows you to edit the CSS on the live page. It allows you to try different things and see the effects immediately.

The ColorPicker FireFox plugin allows you to see the properties of any object on the page. It helps identify which object should be changed in the CSS.

These are two tools that you can use to help design or modify a theme.

the other gary


posts: 9

Thank you both - two Garys, now that is a lot for my mind to deal with 😊

You've both been really helpful and I think now my sites are looking a lot better although I will get some work done on them at the end to get them right. On to more content loading I think...

Thanks again, appreciate it.

Vivienne


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