css

[pinbrook]

Ok, one day later.....

I've got my DW/CSS design registered - excellent!

But using the Simple view on "Insert Actinic Content" choose bestsellers brings in a list of best sellers including full size image, ad to cart, description etc etc, this seems a bit daft to me, I only want a simple list of hyperlinks to my best sellers as I want to list them in my right hand column, and the same for new products.

So I go to advanced, but what is the variable to choose? I can't seem to find the simple list

WIP can be seen at test.pinbrook.net

these are my next Qs

I seem to have destroyed the left nav, this is supposed to be "fixed" with horiz dividers

my product text is miniscule, I've got p tags defined as .7 ems, horiz nav bar is fine

[RuralWeb]

But using the Simple view on "Insert Actinic Content" choose bestsellers brings in a list of best sellers including full size image, ad to cart, description etc etc, this seems a bit daft to me,

I reported this bug to Actinic a couple of weeks ago.

[pinbrook]

Ok, but there is a variable for the simple list that i don't seem to be able to find

[RuralWeb]

Ive given up on V8 untill I go one the course.

[cdicken]

Jo - the layout selector you need is 'BestSellersListSidebar'. I did report this as a problem to the development team a little while ago - but I guess this hasn't been fixed yet. I'll chase this up.

[pinbrook]

I've now got an irritating problem.

I've done my outer layer, using a custom css.

I've used actinic variables (pallette1,2,3) within my css so the colours work with the colouriser. On a local preview the site views fine , the palette colours are picked up, but when I upload to webspace those colours are lost.

The css file is being used as other css has come into play.

Here is an example line from my css

#daisyleft-menu a:hover, #daisyleft-menu a.current {
color: <actinic:variable name="Palette2" />;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 5px;
font-size: 1.2em;
border-right: 3px <actinic:variable name="Palette2" /> dotted;

palette 2 is orange, site is at test.pinbrook.net, css refers to the section list in the left nav with black bg. Local view is attached

[pinbrook]

I've also noticed that images referenced within a css file have to uploaded via additional files, they don't get automatically uploaded

[cdicken]

On a local preview the site views fine , the palette colours are picked up, but when I upload to webspace those colours are lost.

Could you check the css file on the website and see what the variables have been substituted for?

I've also noticed that images referenced within a css file have to uploaded via additional files, they don't get automatically uploaded

This is something I must document somewhere, you need to put any image files in the css files in single quote marks in order for Actinic to recognise them as filenames.

[pinbrook]

Here is a snippet ofthe css file viewed in notepad from the server

#daisyleft-menu a:link, #daisyleft-menu a:visited {
color: #ffffff;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 5px;
font-size: 1.2em;
border-right: 3px <actinic:variable name="Palette2" /> dotted;
}

if I edit the file online to put hard coded values in it is fine, I've changed the font from the actinic variable to verdana in the left nav and it displays ok

Css is a custom file editing with topstyle

[cdicken]

Just tried this for me and it is working perfectly.

You haven't got 'custom.css' listed in 'Web | Additional Files' have you? This would upload the css file un-parsed - overwriting the parsed one that gets automatically uploaded.

[pinbrook]

Can't test this at the mo Chris, as I have 2 sites on the go, the other site is also dying quite spectacularly now as well.

not sure which issue to pursue first...

Both sites start in DW and have custom css files

[pinbrook]

Ok Back to basics

1 copy actinccatalog.mdb from original folder to site1
2 open v8, change theme to cleancss
3 change colour scheme and save
4 strip content from ActinicSylesheet, place said content into custom.css (add own css to the bottom of the cssfile), leave the line @import url("custom.css"); in stylesheet within actinc.
5 go to DW, register theme
6 view site within actinic and preview, all is fine
7 web refresh site, to test.pinbrook.net

View site ....

custom css gets uploaded, i see it on the screen, and no it is not in additional files

[pinbrook]

ok I think there is an issue with using actinic variables within a custom css.

Compare test.pinbrook.net/acatalog/Clothing.html with

test.pinbrook.net/acatalog/test/acatalog/Clothing.html

the difference in the sites is the usage of actinic variables in my css code, 1st url uses variables, 2nd url uses hard coded values

Also note the loss of the dotted line between the products, in both test sites, this is governed by "dotted_line_blue" but it not visiible.

[jont]

Actinic will only parse its own files - the @import command is telling the stylesheet to import the info from custom.css but I doubt it will ever get seen by Actinic

[pinbrook]

Why does it preview on my PC but looses the value of the variables on upload?