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[fabulous Friend fabulousJoin date: August 2007Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#123062

I’m moving along on this template and I have to say I’m quite pleased with the terrific look and feel of the site I am doing at http://www.denisereynolds.com . Not finished yet, but getting close. Check it out.

One thing that’s still unresolved is my home page header image. I have a comp up there now. Before I purchase this image I’d like to see if the dark bar that houses the newsflash quotations that overlay the image could be made transparent. Right now the message that the image is designed to convey is getting obliterated by the darkness of the bar.

If it’s not possible to make it completely transparent then I’d like to fade it as much as possible.

If anyone knows how to do this could you post the code or send me a PM?

Many Thanks!

[f4ith Friend f4ithJoin date: September 2007Posts: 5Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#230564

Hi – Don’t know if you still need this, however I did the following on our site and it removed the flash dark shadow:

Put <!– –> around the section of code below – I think the area is called ‘innerpad’. It worked on mine at least. See below for example of finished code.

<!– <div class=”innerpad”>
<?php echo mosLoadModules ( ‘top’,-2 ); ?>
</div> –>

[Menalto Friend MenaltoJoin date: May 2007Posts: 4736Downloads:0Uploads:43 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 531 times in 361 posts]

#230570

do a search in the css file for top-bg.png and top-narrow-bg,png and delete them and then the dark shaddow is gone

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#230589

What has happened to your main menu with all the white??

[fabulous Friend fabulousJoin date: August 2007Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#230613

<em>@mfcphil 29075 wrote:</em><blockquote>What has happened to your main menu with all the white??</blockquote>
Could you be more specific so I can replicate the all-white issue? I’m not getting that.

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#230625

Needs to be viewed in IE7

[fabulous Friend fabulousJoin date: August 2007Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#230642

<em>@Menalto 29052 wrote:</em><blockquote>do a search in the css file for top-bg.png and top-narrow-bg,png and delete them and then the dark shaddow is gone</blockquote>
Menalto,

I tried your fix. It did take the black bar out, which then looked great on my home page—the page where the black bar was obliterating the header image. But I changed it back because on other header images with partially light backgrounds the white letters were no longer legible without the black bar.

I am thinking if there’s a way to fade the intensity of the black bar—say to 50% of the dark default shade—that may work for both types of photos. Hopefully it would still make the white letters visible over a light portion of the background image without completely obscuring the view of the darker photo that I have as the home page header image.

What do you think?

Is it possible to fade the bar?

[rusty1001 Friend rusty1001Join date: May 2007Posts: 73Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#230772

Replace that image with a transparent gif, that way in formating remains…
there should a 1×1 spacer.gif lying around some where, add into there make the same size as the image, and change the name in the template_css to suit this image name..

cheers

[fabulous Friend fabulousJoin date: August 2007Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#231035

<em>@rusty1001 29306 wrote:</em><blockquote>Replace that image with a transparent gif, that way in formating remains…
there should a 1×1 spacer.gif lying around some where, add into there make the same size as the image, and change the name in the template_css to suit this image name..

cheers</blockquote>
Thanks, Rusty.

Could you explain that a little more? I do not understand what you are telling me to do.:confused:

[lehoai Friend lehoaiJoin date: January 2007Posts: 158Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 13 Thanked: 7 times in 7 posts]

#231128

Hi fabulous, can i have a test account to have a look at your config module to fix this bug. Send me a private message please

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