I'm trying to achieve a fixed width theme of 1000 pixels.
I've been able to achieve the 1000 pixel width that sits central on a wide screen monitor.
I now have the problem that on some pages the submenu's on the right hand side of the page don't align under their correct main menu icon. An example of this is the Help submenu appears under the Search menu icon
Can this alignment be fixed in the theme css or do I need to modify the main code for these pages.
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Anonymous
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2009-10-20
Booma
First question, are you actually modifying Xenea, or a COPY of Xenia (renamed). You should do the latter, or you will be very unhappy next time you upgrade and all your changes get wiped out! Trust me, its worth it even if your changes seem minor at this point, and quite a simple operation.
Second - I would actually recommend you modify the 1000 down to 960px. That is normal, as it allows from scroll bars, and minor browser differences in the way widths are handled. It fits better on a 1024x768 display, which is still very common.
Third - to your actual problem. It should be possible to fix it in css. Its controlled by the tag ".submenu". It may need a left: xpx; attribute (or right:) adding to re-position it slightly. However, it will effect all of them, not just those on the right. There may be a better solution though. Can I see your site for myself?
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Anonymous
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2009-10-20
I second Kiwi's suggestion of using 960. Lots of people use the Office sidebar which takes horizontal space. I started using 960 before I found that others had chosen the same width for their own reasons. When I started building sites most screens were VGA so we had to make sites around 600 wide, then SVGA allowed us to move up to 750 or so. With XGA being the lowest common denominator these days, 960 has become the new defacto screen width to avoid horizontal scrolling.
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Your comments are probably valid, but without a name you lack credibility. Please redefine who you are
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2009-10-21
Brian (windmillway) - 'nameless one' is 'Lew". He has explained before (on another thread) that he can't find a way to register properly here (not sure why), so he uses a google login that works but doesn't transmit user name data.
Lew - if you can explain what your registration problem is we might be able to help (as none of us has had any problems). It might help avoid you getting repeat questions on this - or perhaps we should just carry on calling you 'nameless one', as its quite a catchy handle… :-))
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I'm trying to customization the xenea theme.
I'm trying to achieve a fixed width theme of 1000 pixels.
I've been able to achieve the 1000 pixel width that sits central on a wide screen monitor.
I now have the problem that on some pages the submenu's on the right hand side of the page don't align under their correct main menu icon. An example of this is the Help submenu appears under the Search menu icon
Can this alignment be fixed in the theme css or do I need to modify the main code for these pages.
Booma
First question, are you actually modifying Xenea, or a COPY of Xenia (renamed). You should do the latter, or you will be very unhappy next time you upgrade and all your changes get wiped out! Trust me, its worth it even if your changes seem minor at this point, and quite a simple operation.
Second - I would actually recommend you modify the 1000 down to 960px. That is normal, as it allows from scroll bars, and minor browser differences in the way widths are handled. It fits better on a 1024x768 display, which is still very common.
Third - to your actual problem. It should be possible to fix it in css. Its controlled by the tag ".submenu". It may need a left: xpx; attribute (or right:) adding to re-position it slightly. However, it will effect all of them, not just those on the right. There may be a better solution though. Can I see your site for myself?
Hi Kiwi,
I'll send you a link to my test site.
I second Kiwi's suggestion of using 960. Lots of people use the Office sidebar which takes horizontal space. I started using 960 before I found that others had chosen the same width for their own reasons. When I started building sites most screens were VGA so we had to make sites around 600 wide, then SVGA allowed us to move up to 750 or so. With XGA being the lowest common denominator these days, 960 has become the new defacto screen width to avoid horizontal scrolling.
Kiwi has look at my site and offered some suggestions, which I've looking into at the moment.
What I see and what Kiwi see is different. I was able to send him a screen dump of my screen so he could see the problem.
The problem is related to screen resolution.
I'm using a 22" wide screen monitor
I see you are here too oh nameless one.
Your comments are probably valid, but without a name you lack credibility. Please redefine who you are
Brian (windmillway) - 'nameless one' is 'Lew". He has explained before (on another thread) that he can't find a way to register properly here (not sure why), so he uses a google login that works but doesn't transmit user name data.
Lew - if you can explain what your registration problem is we might be able to help (as none of us has had any problems). It might help avoid you getting repeat questions on this - or perhaps we should just carry on calling you 'nameless one', as its quite a catchy handle… :-))