are there clean-ups for new templates?

[CEC]

I know there's been discussion around this -- but is the provider going to provide the new templates in a condition that can actually be run on Firefox?

Here's an add form:
Add a Listing

Here's a detail link:
Detail: Waggin' Trails Dog Walking Service

The forms as they stand are unviewable in FireFox

The template above is blue-smooth.

CEC

[inspireme]

I know, we have mentioned it 3-4 times on the forum, but the fact is, looking at the code, the 2 column structure they have used doenst really work in both browsers. Oddly enough, it looks best in firefox!

I have made some amendments to my template using fieldset and label whioch are a common layout structure of forms.

Instead of doing this on the detail page :

    <label>Url</label><span class="text"><a href="<%$url%>" name="link_<%$link_id%>"><%$url%></a></span>

type this :

    <fieldset><legend>Url </legend><a href="<%$url%>" name="link_<%$link_id%>"><%$url%></a></fieldset>

do the same for each item, the caption goes between Legend tags and the info goes after the legend close tag and in between fieldset.

It looks better already, but then to make it look really great add some style elements to these tags in style.css

try something like this :

fieldset {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background:#f0f0f0;
border:none;
font: 100%/120% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

legend {
color:#666666;
margin-left:-10px;
}

obviously, change as needed.

hope it helps, you need to alter detail_link, add_form and modify_form

[esm]

I know there's been discussion around this -- but is the provider going to provide the new templates in a condition that can actually be run on Firefox?

The forms as they stand are unviewable in FireFox

there has been some recent discussion of this issue. see http://www.nicecoder.com/community/t...ay-issues.html

welcome to the land of table-less DIVs.

I prefer a site that works in browsers, not one that just validates.

Kinda reminds me of the early days of PC programming when the assembly language programmers looked down their noses at the C language programmers because the C programmers' program ran 1/10 (one-tenth) of a second slower than the assembly language programmers' program.

Then the machine language programmers jumped into the fray and said their program ran 1/10 (one-tenth) of a second faster than the assembly language programmers' program.

What a hoot when you consider that about 95% (maybe even 99%) of the time the computer is just sitting there doing nothing waiting on the user to type something or start a program.

Sorry, this does not help your situation. I looked at your pages with FF2 and yep, they are screwy looking.

Here is my question. Did they look allright immediately after you installed the template...??? Have you made any changes to the templates...?

I looked at the blue smooth nicecoder.com demo using FF2 and it looked ok. at least I didn't not see the problems I saw on your site.

Maybe you made some changes to mess things up.



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[CEC]

many thanks inspireme!

[inspireme]

The demos look screwy, as i said in the other thread,throw some maps or some images in and you got yourself some really messy looking pages. Why nobody fixes them i have no idea, its simple enough - and im sure someone good with css could sort out the existing code - im not very good with it so i just did the above because i know about that.

John said to contact zubby if your having problems so you may want to do that.

[CEC]

thanks again. replaced divs with tables in the register form and it's, of course, fine:
Register

it was like the add form -- which for some reason is way out of whack for me in Fire Fox.

i've made very few changes to the template - and nothing to its structure (css - html). though i've overlooked things before. when i have the chance???? i will contact zubby and get back.

[CEC]

From Zubby:
First backup your current themes, then re-download bluesmooth from NiceCoder cliant area.
I've fixed it and sent an updates for all free templates to John and Dody last week.
Hopefully it solve yours and others problem regarding free templates.

Fixed all of my problems in a matter of minutes.

[CEC]

Acutally, check all of that. Fixed problems for FireFox, but now IE is screwed up - check out the right alignment.
Detail: Waggin' Trails Dog Walking Service


I just wish these things had been correct to begin with. It's one thing to offer them up as an additional feature, but to not have tested them ... wow.

[CEC]

Seems Zubby only has access to IE6 -- he's trying to fix, but he's operating in the dark a bit. Until there is better handling consensus between FF2 and IE7 these templates should steer clear of the 100% <div> css environment -- that is unless appropriate resources are applied up front to do the testing and build the work-arounds -- imo.

[CEC]

after 4 versions of the style sheet, i think zubby's got it. the version of blue-smooth i am now running works in FF and IE. i believe the update will soon be made to the download templates available in the customer area.

thanks zubby.

[inspireme]

http://browsershots.org/

is a good test.

[CEC]

very cool.