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[pastorbill Friend pastorbillJoin date: October 2007Posts: 52Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#163346

I’m a newbie. Here is my site that I’m working on:

http://www.lillitesdaycare.com/lighthouseaz16/

which was an quickstart joomla 1.6 install. I love it so far except I have a few issues that this “newbie” can’t figure out even after searching the forums. I’m sure they are all very easy fixes and I apologize in advance that my brain can’t figure it out:

1. On the main menu at the top, when you hover on “Meet Us” you get three columns. The third column is yellow. Is this a parameter somewhere?
2. On the main menu again, when you hover on “Plug In” I have three stacked sections but is there a way to make it three columns like the “meet us” menu item?
3. Under the main heading “GET PLUGGED IN” when you click on an article, it opens on the front page instead of a separate page (the demo didn’t do this so I’m sure I’ve clicked on something). This is the contentslider module. This same thing happens with the featured articles in the content-main position.
4. Although I’ve set articles settings to follow global settings, and the global settings to NOT show the author, each of my articles still show the author. How do I change that? Also – if I don’t want the facebook “like” or “recommend” buttons, how do I get them to stop showing.
5. In the content-main position, I have a line separating two of the articles. But there is no line between the first and second articles. That should be an easy fix but ???

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#388874

Hi,
1. Remove this code from <joomla url>templatesja_methyscssmenumega.css file


.ja-megamenu .megacol.column3 {
background-color: #ffffdd;
}
2. Edit “Plug In” menu item, set Columns is 3 at Parameters (JA Extended)
4. Goto Extensions–>Plugins managers. disable “Content – JA Facebook Like It”
5. Replace this code from <joomla url>templatesja_methyscsstemplate.css file


.item-separator, .row-separator {
display: none;
}
by


.item-separator, .row-separator {
display: block;
background: url(../images/dot.gif) repeat-x left bottom;
}

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1. stevegoodall

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#388878

Thank you for your response:

#1 Solution worked.
#2 Solution worked.
#4 Solution worked (although the plugin is different in the 1.6 version).
#5 Solution did not work:
The css file did not have the code you specified. I did find similar code that specified .row-separator, but it already had code similar to your solution. This only is an issue with the first article in the content-main position (which are featured articles). Is there a separate code for just the first article?

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#388899

#5. Could you turn off css optimization to find down where css file contain code that I said?

[pastorbill Friend pastorbillJoin date: October 2007Posts: 52Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#388933

CSS optimization turned off. The only code similar to what you are showing is:

.row-separator {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
display: block;
height: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
clear: both;
float: none;
}

I don’t know – maybe its different because it is a j16 install.

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#388949

Hi,
You add this code into <joomla url>templatesja_methyscsstemplate.css file


.item-separator, .row-separator {
display: block;
background: url(../images/dot.gif) repeat-x left bottom;
}


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#388950

Hi,
You add this code into <joomla url>templatesja_methyscsstemplate.css file


.item-separator, .row-separator {
display: block;
background: url(../images/dot.gif) repeat-x left bottom;
}


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#388951

That did not work either.

[khoand Friend khoandJoin date: February 2011Posts: 4500Downloads:0Uploads:179 Thanks: 169 Thanked: 1166 times in 1060 posts]

#388955

You try this way:
-Remove previous code I said


.item-separator, .row-separator {
display: block;
background: url(../images/dot.gif) repeat-x left bottom;
}
– Replace this code from http://www.lillitesdaycare.com/lighthouseaz16/templates/ja_methys/css/template.css file


.row-separator {
border-bottom: 1px solid #DDD;
display: block;
height: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
clear: both;
float: none;
}
with


.item-separator .row-separator {
border-bottom: 1px solid #DDD;
display: block;
height: 20px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
clear: both;
float: none;
}

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#388964

That actually removed the separator line from all the articles so I changed it back. I think I can live with it. I looked back at the demo version on the joomlart site and it behaves the same way – I just never noticed. I’m not certain why they would have a separator on all the articles except the first one.

I really appreciate your diligence but I’ll just go with it for now.

Now … if you could help me figure out why my frontpage articles (both the ones in the contentslider and the featured articles in content-main feed continue to open on the frontpage instead of a separate page, plus I can’t seem to delete the author reference even though my global settings say to hide the author.

Thanks again.

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#389057

I don’t see what happened as you said. Could you give me a snapshot with annotation?

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#389065

<blockquote> I can’t seem to delete the author reference even though my global settings say to hide the author.</blockquote>
You edit article that you want to hide author. In Parameters (Advanced), you set Author Name field is Use Global (if it’s not affect, you try to set it is Hide)

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#389066

<blockquote> I can’t seem to delete the author reference even though my global settings say to hide the author.</blockquote>
You edit article that you want to hide author. In Parameters (Advanced), you set Author Name field is Use Global (if it’s not affect, you try to set it is Hide)

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1. pastorbill

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