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[maestroc Friend maestrocJoin date: September 2006Posts: 5Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#199095

Any suggestions or assistance on the problems below would be greatly appreciated. This is my first Joomlart purchase and I am NOT impressed so far…

I just purchased JA_Edenite and installed it on a Joomla 3.3.1 system. The system is pretty much stock except for adding JCE and a contact component.

I am totally confused by the framework and beginning to wonder if it did not install correctly. Nothing looks the way it does in your help files plus the majority of the help file links found in the template control panel do not work (404).

Other issues are that I can’t figure out how to totally turn off the logo. There are also many buttons in the template control panel that do not seem to do anything. Moreover, there is no ThemeMagic as shown in your documentation:

http://t3-framework.org/documentation/customization.html

And I simply cannot figure out how to do the most basic things with this template like changing columns widths. I need it to look like our old Joomla 1.5 version (which uses the old JA_Edenite v1.5 template) found here:

http://www.straightarrowhosting.net/~sawstemp/dmax/old

New version is found here:

http://www.straightarrowhosting.net/~sawstemp/dmax/new/

Please help!

[Ninja Lead Moderator Ninja LeadJoin date: November 2014Posts: 16064Downloads:310Uploads:2864 Thanks: 341 Thanked: 3854 times in 3563 posts]

#539992

@maestroc: I see your confusion about T3 framework. I would like to clarify a bit:

JA Edenite template uses JA T3v2 System Plugin: http://www.joomlart.com/documentation/joomla-framework/ja-t3v2-framework-for-joomla-2-and-joomla-3 , not our latest T3 framework version: http://www.joomlart.com/documentation/joomla-framework/t3-framework-for-joomla-2-5-and-joomla-3

Themagic option is not available in T3v2 framework plugin. You can follow this guide instead to change the logo in JA Edenite template: http://www.joomlart.com/documentation/joomla-faqs/logo-customization#change-logo-t3v2

Let me know if helps.

[maestroc Friend maestrocJoin date: September 2006Posts: 5Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#540060

Thank you for the reply but that opens other problems…

I simply changed the h1.logo background to “none”. I saved and uploaded it via FTP back to the server but that totally broke the layout. I was confused as to what might have happened so I control-Z’ed the changes to the file, uploaded the file (in it’s original state) back to the server, but the entire site remains broken.

I thought this might be something with your “Development Mode” setting in the template controls so I went in and set it to Development Mode=Yes and Cache Mode to Disabled. I refreshed the site but it remains broken with no styling whatsoever. This same thing happened yesterday when I was trying to do something similar.

ANY change to the template.css file breaks the entire site’s styling and there seems no way to recover it other than to reload the site from backup.

Site is at http://www.straightarrowhosting.net/~sawstemp/dmax/new/

If you want to take a closer look the login details were provided in my initial forum post. I have restored the site (again) from my good backup. All I want to do is remove the stupid logo and fix the width of the right column! I also need to make the menu text smaller with less padding so that all the items can get on one line.

[maestroc Friend maestrocJoin date: September 2006Posts: 5Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#540074

This is obviously an incompatibility with Joomla 3.0 and the Edenite template and your framework. In frustration I created a new, blank Joomla 2.5.22 site located at:

http://www.straightarrowhosting.net/~sawstemp/dmax/j25/

I then went in and made the same change to the template.css file. There was no problem. As you can see if you look at that page it removed the logo completely just as I wanted. The back end template menus also look fine and appear to work properly, even the popup tooltips which do not work in J3.3.

However, on the Joomla 3.3 site:

http://www.straightarrowhosting.net/~sawstemp/dmax/new

it breaks every time. In fact, ANY module added to the site other than adding a basic custom HTML module with a few images in it seems to break the whole layout. I can unpublish a module and get the site to go back to normal but any change to the CSS files corrupts the whole thing and it cannot be recovered.

As an example, I restored the Joomla 3.3 site again from backup. This time all I did was install Nice Social Bookmark. I published it to User1 in the Edenite template and the style broke again. Publishing a new module to pretty much any position breaks it. If I unpublish the module the page loads fine although without the style changes that I need to make.

Please let me know what is going on here. Is it a problem with the newer version of Joomla? I am trying to run it on Joomla 3.3.1.

I installed the template and plugin for Joomla 2x and 3x.

Any ideas? I need to get this site done as soon as possible and was not expecting these problems with the template… Going with Joomla 2.5 is not an option.

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#540128

I’m not sure how you get the problem when you change the logo on your site. But you can follow step below:

Open the templates/ja_edenite/css/template.css file and define logo’s dimension to match with new your logo.

h1.logo { height: 42px; margin: 8px 0 0; width: 435px; }

h1.logo a {
background: url(../images/logo.gif) no-repeat left;
height: 42px;
width: 435px;
}

Logo path: templates/ja_edenite/images/logo.gif

Regarding to Development Mode, if you set YES option it will disable cache on the template. Then your site will run without cache and this option should not break the layout as you mentioned.

I have tested both version J2.5 and J3.x and I could not find any further issue on it.

If you have additional question, please let me know.

[maestroc Friend maestrocJoin date: September 2006Posts: 5Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#540179

I am so frustrated with this… I know I am not crazy and I am following your directions…

I even made a video from a clean, brand new 3.3.1 install to show you what I am doing. It’s short so please take a look. You’ll see that what I am doing is not wrong. It just breaks once you save the css file and turn on Development mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_WdUMyOYE&feature=youtu.be

Have you tested that framework in Joomla 3.3.1? I made a fresh install for you so you can see the problem first hand.

http://www.straightarrowhosting.net/~sawstemp/joomla331/

I will send you login details in a private message.

I am telling you there is something wrong there. If you change ANYTHING in the template.css file, even as little as changing the color of something the site completely breaks.

This is a clean 3.3.1 install with nothing but edenite and akeeba backup installed on it.

Be sure to turn on development mode the problem does not reveal itself (nor do any of the changes you make) until you turn on development mode.

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#540221

I just upgraded JA T3v2 System Plugin version 2.7.1 directly on your site. Please have a look and make your own change again. If problem still persists, please let me know.

1 user says Thank You to Ninja Lead for this useful post

1. maestroc

[maestroc Friend maestrocJoin date: September 2006Posts: 5Downloads:1Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#540323

<em>@Ninja Lead 433949 wrote:</em><blockquote>I just upgraded JA T3v2 System Plugin version 2.7.1 directly on your site. Please have a look and make your own change again. If problem still persists, please let me know.</blockquote>

Thank you. That did indeed fix the problem. Just FYI, your Edenite template ships with a 2.6 version of that plugin. I was unaware that I would need to update it right out of the box so to speak. I guess I should have thought of that but I didn’t. Thank you for taking the time to look and figure this out for me.

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