Upgrading V7 to V9 - product layout texts not aligning

[surbit100]

Hi Community
I am trying to upgrade from v7 to v9. v7 working fine, but want to upgrade for security reason. website is www.surbitonart.co.uk

product lyout set to Image on the left text on the side layout
On v7 product text are all aligned on the column based on the widest image. Regardless of the image size, v7 align the text to the widest image in the section products. All text are on a looking neet in a profetional look.

in V9 texts are moving to the edge of the image, thus creating clumsy look. As it was working correctly in v7 we didn't have to worry about the size of the image and as such we have no uniform size images

Actinic support gave me the following solution - but not seem to be working

"The only way to achieve what you want is to fix the width of the product layout.

The maximum width of image I found within the section I viewed was 200 pixels therefore I shall use this as the example.

Please go to 'Design | Library | Layouts' and scroll down to 'Products' and double click on the layout 'Standard With Image On Left'. In the screen that opens go to line 15 where you will see the following
code: -

<td width="25%" align="center" valign="top">

change the 25% for 220, so that it looks like this: -

<td width="220" align="center" valign="top">

then go to line 18 where you will find: -

<td width="75%" align="left" valign="top">

change the 75% to 280, so that it looks like this: -

<td width="280" align="left" valign="top">

and click 'OK'.

PLEASE NOTE: From this point onwards your maximum image width must be no greater than 200 pixels.

It is not working correctly, I have tryed every posible combination it is doing something not what I want. I went back to the support, I got the following answer

"Then you have obviously not done it correctly, do it again, there is no other solution.

Additionally please re-read my previous email with regard to sizing limits, if your images are bigger you will need to allow larger space to accommodate this, shrinking the other value accordingly. If you cannot do this, you will either have to resize your images or employ a web designer to go through your site editing it as need be"

Is there anyone know where I am going wrong or know otherwise.

it took me two weeks to implement v7 from scratch, after three years of working with Actinic, upgrading take ages, it suppose to be streight forword

Thank you in advance

[jont]

there is no other solution."

There are at least 2 other solutions .. try .....

Try opening the actinic stylesheet (design tab > page type) and look for

.image_product

try adding some right margin to pad it out eg if the existing code is

.image_product {
margin: 0px 18px 10px 0px;

increase the 18px eg:

.image_product {
margin: 0px 50px 10px 0px;

... nb the values read like a clock face..... top, right, bottom, left

HTH

[surbit100]

Text not aligning

Thank you Jont
I have tried your suggestion but no joy. Can you, or Can anyone see any other possibilities

I have attached a print screen of my problem

Thank you

[jont]

If you have different sized product images you need to follow the instructions provided by Actinic and fix the width of the table cells (or strip out all the tables and set via CSS which is the advanced option)... ensure you are editing the table cell widths in the correct layout version (switch to design tab and click on the product and edit the widths directly in the code view)

[surbit100]

Thank you. I have decided to revisit all our images, it may be a time to tidy-up three years of accumulated rubbish

Thank you and best wishes