html font query

I have added a marquee within the html of the brochure page which now scrolls exactly where I want it to on the horizontal header bar. I have set the sites font size and colour via design, text. This is all fine, however...

My question is: How do I change the font size and colour for the marquee which is within the html of the brochure? I have used the correct html code nice and simple and it refuses to change to anything other than what I have set in design, text tab.

The url is www.mpsurvey.co.uk and I am using Actinic Catalog V8.

Thanks

[gabrielcrowe]

Nnnooooo My Eyes, The Goggles They Do Nothing!!!!

[NormanRouxel]

Translation: Marquee's are guaranteed to annoy and distract your visitors. Perhaps 10 years ago they'd be considered cool. Yes, I know the BBC News site uses one. But a news site user is very different from someone who's on a retail site.

[gabrielcrowe]

bbc news uses a really cool looking ticker.

[NormanRouxel]

Actually, I see the marquee is only on the home page which isn't so bad. If it was on every page it would be an annoyance (in my opinion anyway).

[fergusw]

Natalie,
There are many on the web that feel Marquee scrolling text to "get your attention" is a poor attempt at something that should be handled in a better way.

To answer your question, I can see on the site that you are defining style classes called style1, style2 and style3 (these automatically created by dreamweaver of some other HTML tool?) however there are no references to these styles in your Actinic.css stylesheet. If there are no defined classes in the style sheet called style1, style2 or style3 then no style will be applied to the marquee on the site.

Stick something like this into your Actinic.css file and update the site. You'll see the style being applied.

/* Css style for marquee text - Use at your own peril! */
.style3{
color:red;
font-size:10em;
font-weight:bold;
}

[TraceyHand]

/* Css style for marquee text - Use at your own peril! */
.style3{
color:red;
font-size:10em;
font-weight:bold;
}

*shakes her head*

oh Fergus

(love the disclaimer, btw!)

[fergusw]

bbc news uses a really cool looking ticker.

What do they know?
They don't rely on the scrolling text to make the money they need to stay in business.

[leehack]

The Style1, Style2 rubbish usually gets embedded into the head area by dreamweaver IIRC. But oh my at the marquee anyway.

[fergusw]

*shakes her head*

oh Fergus

Well, at least it will make it obvious that a style change has occurred

The Style1, Style2 rubbish usually gets embedded into the head area by dreamweaver IIRC. But oh my at the marquee anyway.

My guess is that it was created and styled in Dreamweaver, but that they have only copied across the HTML code for the Marquee, and not the style info in the head........ place yer bets

[Mark H]

Natalie, your page is pulling apart a bit on larger screens - see attached

[kendo79]

html font query

I give up! My website is pulling apart and Ive changed the Actinic style sheet with the code and refreshed and saved and when I open catalog nothings changed and the css has reverted back to the original code!

I am greatful for any help and am aware my website is cr4p

[gabrielcrowe]

its not crap feller, it just needs some love.

try a fixed width?

[fergusw]

Natalie,
the CSS example I gave MUST end up in the online actinic.css file
http://www.mpsurvey.co.uk/acatalog/actinic.css
To do this you have to add the example I gave you into your local actinic.css file in your site1 directory.
If you made a change and it's reverted back then this is most likely because you have edited the wrong actinic.css e.g. the one in the siteHTML folder......
You'll know when it's updated correctly because you'll see the new CSS code here:
http://www.mpsurvey.co.uk/acatalog/actinic.css

[kendo79]

fixed width

Thanks, have now uploaded the header info as plain text, thus getting rid of the dreaded marquee.

I have changed the design, options property value to Fixed Width and on my screen the centre table was all squished. (technical term) ?