Sticky shrinking menu, JA Morgan

gribblej

I've posted several times about how to do a floating sticky shrinking menu with your templates. The last time, there was a response, here. https://www.joomlart.com/forums/d/28000-floating-sticky-shrinking-menu/8
I wasn't getting notified of answers, so I thought the whole thing had been dropped.
But indeed a lengthy answer was given. Several people tried it. All gave up in frustration. Because it simply doesn't work. I think the problem may lie with the need to "Compile." All that accomplishes is to blow up the website. That is why we avoid it. And so, I would appreciate a solution which avoids the need to "Compile." We want to be able to apply the solution quickly to any theme we choose. There should be no need to Compile, if we can know where to put the code.
I have thrown up a simple blank test site for the purpose of debugging. What you're going to see is the blown-up website after Compiling. It started out as JA Morgan. After "Compiling," it somehow reverted to a T3 blank website. It doesn't work when toggled to "Theme 5," Or not toggled to "Theme 5." The compiling blew up the default template.css.
However, I've given you guys a login in the hopes that you may get it working. And then we can see how you did it. And then I can pass this solution around via my blog to all the countless Joomla designers out there who want this option, and who don't want to be forced to leave Joomla in order to obtain it.
That is the hard decision so many of us have had to make. Many already did make it and are your ex customers. I guess I'm more stubborn. What I'm asking - what we're asking for - is available even on el cheapo Weebly websites. But unfortunately Weebly is far too limited for the work that most of us have in front of us.
I sincerely believe that this would be good for your business. I hope that at last I may prevail upon Joomlart to also see it that way.
Best,
-Jim Gribble
Javelin Communications
Milwaukee WI USA

PS: I hope in these trying times for humankind that everyone at Joomlart is staying well and being safe. I understand that replying to questions such as this may take longer than normal. Take care.

saguaros

Hi gribblej

I just applied the changes suggested in above topic into your site and the menu is sticky now. When selecting 'style-5' theme, you still set to show Logo image but no image was added yet so the default T3 blank logo of T3 framework will show. I switch to use Logo text as our demo site and it's showing now.

JA Morgan is built with T3 framework which was built long time ago, it doesn't have sticky option unfortunately. In our new T4 framework, we implement this feature already. Hence, at this moment, for old T3 based templates, you can use this guideline for how to set sticky menu: http://www.t3-framework.org/documentation/menu-system.html#sticky-menu (it also suggests changes in CSS so you don't need to compile).

Kindly check and let me know if you need further help on this.

Regards

gribblej

I am very impressed and grateful.
First let me say I hope you are well.
I hope everyone at JA is well.
Second, please forgive my klutziness. I made all the changes too and couldn't get it to work. What did I do wrong? My partner is a coding genius, and even he was stymied! This is very powerful magic!
Third, we want to use it on a very, very important project. It's about COVID-19. We took this emergency job on a pro bono basis.
https://www.rebelconverting.com/
It was thrown together in four days but now is coming along
We've gotten a big response, lots of great feedback. Outpouring of support from all over. Getting the sticky menu to work gives a fabulous finishing touch.
Because we're showing the logo big in the top homepage banner, I hid the system logo by uploading a transparent PNG to homepage style. Simple cheap workaround.
Interior pages all show inline logo, using the same default style with top-level default template.css.
There are some style tweaks and a good bit of my favorite tricks in custom.css.
What would you suggest as far as implementation on livesite?
I have a hidden "experiment" page for debugging purposes.
If these cool menu effects are going to be well supported in the next version T4, that's fantastic news.
As important as this project is, and how important your technology has been, I think it's important to a have credit link back to Joomlart. The Morgan template is just great, notwithstanding the edits I made which are always a matter of personal preference to the designer.
That the themes change header layout gives a lot of options. I remember way back when, when they just changed color scheme etc.
Anyway thanks again, and I really would like to know what I messed up, and what my partner Pete Engel messed up. We both want to run with this going forward and anticipate many new projects coming up.
Best,
-Jim Gribble

gribblej

It's nearly 1 a.m. here and I am turning in. We've been working without a lot of sleep. I'm so glad I caught your attention. I'll be back at it in a few hours.
-JG

gribblej

Saguaros, I responded to you by e-mail thanks. I am studying how you made it work.
Your help is much appreciated,
-Jim Gribble

saguaros

gribblej

Let me check and reply you there.