Width Logo and Height.

[Faulkds]

Here we go again :-)


I've resized my test site to fit the size of my banner but I can’t get the banner to completely fill the header.

The whole site seems to resize but I always get this gap where my logo is located ... HELP!!!!

Site is www.motocc.co.uk

I’m using the design wizard.

I wanted to see how good actinic is without having to use external software to develop my site.

[leehack]

Your logo is a different size to the container (table) in which it sits. You can't put something 949 wide into something 974 wide and expect it to fit and touch the sides . You also have an empty <td> on the right of the logo area which is what is causing the space, you probably want to have colspan="2" on the starting <td> instead.

Get yourself Firefox & Firebug and then click on 'Inspect' and it will show you the problems.

[Faulkds]

So i resize the site to the size 949 which is my banner size.

It doesnt make any difference, the site doesnt resize to the banner width.

:-(

Ive uploaded it for you to see.

[cdicken]

You need a little tweak to the HTML I'm afraid as there are two table cells in that header bar - and the gap you see is the right-hand table cell with nothing in it.

To fix this:

1) Go to 'Design | Library | Layouts'

2) Locate the 'Web Page Outer Layout' group

3) Locate the 'Design Wizard Outer Layout' layout within that. Double-click on it to edit it

4) In line 43 there is a line that starts:
<td style=

5) Change it to read
<td colspan="2" style=

6) Delete everything from line 51 (starting <td align="right" ) to line 66 (containing a </td> tag)

That should do it. Click 'OK' and check out your layout.

[TraceyHand]

you have some cellpadding in your table which is 'padding' out the header around the banner and making it wider too
As Lee says, use Firefox with the Firebug plug in to locate and fix these and you should be able to get it to line up

[editted to add, this might not matter once then extra <td> is removed]

[Faulkds]

Hi,

I thought the whole point of the actinic software was so that people who aren’t developers can put a shop together.

It would seem that to even do the basics you need to edit this and that of the code.

[TraceyHand]

Hi,

I thought the whole point of the actinic software was so that people who arnt developers can put a shop together.

to a point, that's true.
Out of the box, Actinic serves many people quite well as a quick and (relatively) simple way of getting their shop and their wares online.

However, if you want to change the design of something then you usually need to be prepared to get your hands dirty, even if only a little.
I appreciate that V9 has made this easier with the "Design Wizard" but it has it's limitations.

Your site is obviously based on a theme with 2 'cells' in the top header and you wanted to replace it with a single banner.
Unfortunately, that's going to require some digging about on your part.

[Faulkds]

Thanks Tracey / Chris

[Faulkds]

I did the change chris but still dont understand why i have a orange border around the graphic.

The height of the banner is 126

The width of the banner is 949.

Ps. it does look better

[leehack]

That'll be the padding you've already been told about. Think there is "5" applied to the table. Beware that removing it may affect other things laid out in the table too, so make sure you check things after.

[parklifeclothes]

I did the change chris but still dont understand why i have a orange border around the graphic.

The height of the banner is 126

The width of the banner is 949.

Ps. it does look better

Is it down to possibly selecting the orange as part of your themes/advanced themes configuartion? Take a look in there and if there is orange have a play around (snapshot first). Although I think it looks quite intentional by having it bordered with orange.

[Faulkds]

Hi Lee,

OK im now a table wizard... :-)

Ive taken out the cellpadding="5" and set it to "0" as suggested.

Looks a lot better - thankyou....

However, the site still doesnt line up no matter how much i play with the image and the site width. Its out about 1 px and I have about a 2 px border line at the bottom of the image (which is now grey as i changed it from orange)...

Whats wrong with it now....

Why couldnt actinic have done a wizard like this.

1 Do you want a banner ? yes or no ?

2 whats the size of your banner?

3 do you want it centered, to the left or right of the page?

4 do you want a border around your site

5 border around your banner

4 Your site is being optimised - thanks have a nice day,

Bish Bash Bosh... Isnt that what a wizard is supposed to do?

[TraceyHand]

Isnt that what a wizard is supposed to do?

it'd be nice, eh?

Just look at the Network Setup Wizard.
It's been around for ages and not ONCE have I ever managed to successfully set up Network Settings with it.

I'm thinking Actinic Towers isn't exactly Hogwarts

[Faulkds]

Very good

Oh well, all seems to be well.

How its displayed in the software and how it looks when uploaded seem to be different!

I recon theres a dark force out there trying to mess with my patience

Thanks for all your help...

[Faulkds]

Also,

To backup a site is it ok to just to copy the whole sites1 dir and use it on another copy of actinic. On version 9 trial you cant import a snapshot. Im working from two machines.