Image Borders - Section

[Clueless]

Hi,

Could anyone advise please. I have searched the forum to no avail.....

I am moving our site to a new domain (same hosting company) and changing the theme. (Actinic Business Plus Vn 11)

After conversion from V10 to V11 all images in sections have a border - this was not present on our original site. Images in Products are OK.

Please see http://www.fire-proof-data-security-...enix/shop.html
This is a test site and not live or completed.

I originally thought that it was clickable image links that caused the problem, but once again this does not happen in Products - see http://www.fire-proof-data-security-....html#aSS1193K which has extended information links.

Also, on loading, the site is painfully slow. It is on the same hosting server as our original site, is much smaller, uses identically sized images, but seems to load strangely (off web page on RH side and then resizes to screen dimensions). Absolutely at a loss as no settings have been changed, apart from "theme".

Any help or suggestions would be most welcome.

Many thanks

Peter

[leehack]

Something is seriously screwed up in your stylesheet, it has almost 4,500 lines of styling, a standard site would use 500-600. Looks like it is loading all styles or a very large part of them. Correct that before you do anything, there's nearly 100kb of styling for people to download on each visit to the site, which is the worst i have ever personally seen by some distance. Check out the css on the design tab or just revert it to factory settings (right click menu) in the design library if supposed to be standard.

[Clueless]

Many thanks Lee,

Let me try that out

Cheers

Peter

[Clueless]

Hi again,

Cannot get it to revert to factory settings - now totally at a loss. Wilol have to try to get someone more technical here to try to understand what is happening.

Thanks again

Peter

[Clueless]

screwed up in your stylesheet

Hi again,

I've gone all the way back to the initial snapshot, taken after Vn11 conversion. It appears to have been screwed since it converted from Vn10 (which seems to function reasonably well).

I am getting a multitude of:
"There is no factory setting available for the selected layout".

These all seem to stem from edited library layouts "Using CSS v8_5_3_0 (*).

Is there any simple way of exporting products and sections, registering a new site, setting up the Design/Theme/Variables and then importing products/sections that any dumbo (like me) could manage?

Cheers

Peter

[Duncan Rounding]

Yes. Export the catalog. Go back to a default design then import the catalog in. You will still probably have some work to do but it will get you well on the way.

[Clueless]

Re - Export Import.

Hi Duncan - thank you.

I was out of the office yesterday but will try this as soon as possible. Unfortunately it may be a day or two before I get time to look at the new site.

Many thanks for your confirmation that this should work.

Peter

[Clueless]

Image Borders - Stylesheet

Prior to taking Duncan's suggestion, I followed some advice given by Actinic Support and changed 'Site Options|Layout|Sections|Section link layout', to 'Css Section Link Layout'.

This does indeed seem to gave got rid of the "borders" issue, but the site is still very slow campared to our other, larger, sites on the same host server.

Can anyone please let me know if we still have a major stylesheet or other problem? http://www.fire-proof-data-security-...enix/shop.html

Many thanks once again.

Peter

[Duncan Rounding]

You actinic.css style sheet is still about 88Kb (over 4000 lines). Apart from that the server response time seems fast on my ISP link.

[Clueless]

Image Border

Many thanks Duncan,

I dont know where best to start given Lee's earlier comment "a standard site would use 500-600". I will try to see if there is anything obvious, but am pushed for time over the next couple of days (serves me right for having yesterday off!).

Cheers

Peter

[Sean Williams]

You could try this - (take a snapshot first so you can revert if it all goes t-up)
Go to Design | Library | Layouts and find the actinic stylesheet (probably under Web Page Outer Layout), right-click on Actinic Stylesheet and choose Compare With Previous Version, (then enlarge the window; why Actinic opens new windows so small beats me).
You can then see the differences between the two stylesheets - i.e. the original and the one you have now.

What I do in fact is copy and save the actinic.css file as .txt file first, then choose the Revert To Factory Settings on that same right-click as above, then copy and save the actinic.css file again as another .txt file.

Then I use PSPad Editor to compare the two .css files, as there is of course much more functionality in PSPad for editing etc. Any decent code editor will do.

I wouldn't be surprised if you find you stylesheet is the same as the factory one down to a point, after which it then goes hatstand.
Try deleting the hatstandy section and see what happens.

[Clueless]

Performance

Sean - many thanks.

Have compared the actinic.css with factory default and very little difference. I have used the default to upload a test and the site still runs like a 3 legged dog (well I exaggerate - it is not that quick).

I propose to go out tonight and buy a wig, so that I can pull some more hair out tomorrow!!!

Will sleep on this one (or rather - have nightmares)

Cheers

Peter

[Clueless]

OK someone obviously loves me. I worked on it from home last night - no problems. It transpires that our firewall rules had been changed recently - another tweak this morning from admin and lo and behold, reasonable performance.

Thanks to everyone who has tried to help - I should have got the message from Duncan's earlier posting "Apart from that the server response time seems fast on my ISP link. "

I will put my new wig away for next time.

Many thanks to all

Peter

[Sean Williams]

Admin. How much time is wasted by their fiddling about without notifying the users?

[Duncan Rounding]

You should still address teh size of your stylesheet. Backup then take a look at the stylesheet in Actinic and you will see that at the bottom there are some links to include other styles for different themes. Try deleting the ones that are not for your theme - ie all but silver.