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  • arucardx Friend
    October 3, 2012 at 3:00 pm #469015

    <em>@seaneo 340722 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks Swissa!

    logo:
    that did the trick…tell me how much bigger do you think I can make that 60 x 60 without upsetting the responsive gods?

    chrome:
    I use chrome, firefox, safari, and IE to test sites all the time, the problem, I am not a CSS guy…pretty much illiterate , I wear too many hats and not enough in my brain:)

    akeeba:
    I actually downloaded it yesterday and got a message that it needed PHP 5.3 instead of the PHP 5.2* that im running now, and I was worried about upgrading my PHP to 5.3 in case it messed with JA WALL – your thoughts? thanks!</blockquote>

    Sorry, I know you guys are trying to get the language thing to work but I’ll just take a quick at this question since swissa called me out xD.

    Well the ideal logo size without breaking responsive should be max 120(width) x 40(height). Any bigger in width would require you to enlarge the sidebar and your logo will look like it gets eaten on small resolution like iphone since the width is only so much. I won’t suggest using a 60×60 logo since it’s square and expanding the width would increase the height which then stretches the menu vertically. Creating unneeded ugly white spaces on desktop and overstretched menu buttons on mobile.

    So try to use a rectangular logo if possible which is a transparent png(yours is white now and doesn’t blend on mobile layout) and uses words only or something along that line like image behind the words. The reason for this is cause the logo position is vastly different on all device resolutions so you really need to position them carefully which is quite hard since you might fix one and break the other. So best way is to make a logo that looks good centered.

    As for the PHP 5.3+ thing, actually JA Wall doesn’t require that. The reason why it’s written as PHP 5.3+ is because Joomla 2.5’s recommended requirement is actually PHP 5.3+ but if you look carefully at the Joomla Requirements, it says that PHP 5.2.4 is the Min requirement. http://www.joomla.org/technical-requirements.html

    Moving to PHP 5.3+ might get slightly better load performance but apart from that, there’s no real need to run JA Wall on PHP 5.3.

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    seaneo Friend
    October 3, 2012 at 3:09 pm #469017

    Hi Arucardx – thanks for your detailed explanation on thje logo, but I am using the MINIMALIST theme/style – where the default logo is 60×60, which was obviously set by the authors of JA WALL- so I am wondering in this particular theme/style, how much bigger I can go from 60×60 , because if you look now at 173.254.15.37/next/ my logo is currently 60 x 60 but very hard to see and read.

    Regarding PHP 5.3, the only reason that came up as a topic, is becuase the latest verisonm of Akeeba requires PHP 5.3, so I was wondering if there was no conflict with JA WALL to upgrade to PHP 5.3…..and you say there is no conflict, and you are a JA Wall builder? so we are good to go? thanks and cheers

    swissa Friend
    October 3, 2012 at 3:11 pm #469018

    Cheers arucardx

    php was purely for akeeba and that IS important!! :p

    You seem to be one of few who actually try to help other community members too so pat on the back! I’ll be calling on your help if/when I actually get round to using Wall not just hacking it for others! 😉

    Thanks

    arucardx Friend
    October 3, 2012 at 3:40 pm #469024

    <em>@seaneo 340906 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Arucardx – thanks for your detailed explanation on thje logo, but I am using the MINIMALIST theme/style – where the default logo is 60×60, which was obviously set by the authors of JA WALL- so I am wondering in this particular theme/style, how much bigger I can go from 60×60 , because if you look now at 173.254.15.37/next/ my logo is currently 60 x 60 but very hard to see and read.

    Regarding PHP 5.3, the only reason that came up as a topic, is becuase the latest verisonm of Akeeba requires PHP 5.3, so I was wondering if there was no conflict with JA WALL to upgrade to PHP 5.3…..and you say there is no conflict, and you are a JA Wall builder? so we are good to go? thanks and cheers</blockquote>

    Hmm you mean this code in theme.css?

    /* Logo Image ---*/
    #logo.logo-image {
    background: #fff;
    border: none;
    width: 100px;
    height: 90px;
    }

    #logo.logo-image h1 {
    background: #252525;
    width: 60px;
    height: 60px;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 20px;
    position: absolute;
    }

    Well… that code is indeed strange. But I’m pretty sure the size of 120 x 40 for logo will fit well with all themes. You will need to change the height and width in theme.css according though to add a bigger logo. Still 60px height is wrong, the guy who did the minimalist logo in the demo probably wanted to create more white space at the top or it was done in a rush and they can’t be bothered to change it. But let’s just assume he wanted to create more white space at the top *cough*…

    If you really want the white space at the top, you can use 60 pixel for the logo height as well =) But the width, you need to use a rectangular logo. I admit that the logo space for JA Wall is very small and it’s very hard to actually get a good one in there. But a good logo designer can still do well with that amount of space. If the logo readability brothers you, then just have a bigger version of the logo somewhere on the site like the contact or about page.

    As for the PHP 5.3 and akeeba compatibility, yes the latest version require PHP 5.3 to work so you will need to upgrade your PHP version if you want to use akeeba tools. But there is only pros and no cons for this issues, so by all means go ahead and upgrade your PHP version lol, there won’t be any conflict. I’m also running Joomla & Ja Wall on PHP 5.3+

    P.S: swissa, I help out because it’s impossible for me to see all the issue in JA Wall. But if I can see and solve other people’s problem then I know how to solve that same or related problem myself in the future, so it’s a learning process for me. But I’ll be happy to help you out when you get around to using Wall =)

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    swissa Friend
    October 3, 2012 at 3:49 pm #469028

    <em>@arucardx 340914 wrote:</em><blockquote>I help out because it’s impossible for me to see all the issue in JA Wall. But if I can see and solve other people’s problem then I know how to solve that same or related problem myself in the future, so it’s a learning process for me.</blockquote>

    Exactly the way I’ve learnt Joomla in the last 9 months! 🙂

    Appreciated anyway especially as the old regular mods all seem to have disappeared!

    seaneo Friend
    October 3, 2012 at 3:57 pm #469030

    Thanks Arucardx – will do..by the way, I know from a marketing poitnm of view, it’s important ot have a clear logo at the top, but anyway yes I will include the loo in other spots also!

    Swissa,
    Since you didn’t yet answer my last question about “Tasting rooms” dis spearing off the left menu, and you showed me where to do the batching, shall I pursue the batching (after backing up!) and then deal with it from there?

    I will upgrade my PHP to 5.3 now and backup and then check this thread again before pursuing…gracias!

    swissa Friend
    October 3, 2012 at 4:13 pm #469033

    do a backup, and copy the backup file down to your desktop – you’d be surprised how many people go to do a restore and then realise they’ve deleted the archive on the server…..

    akeeba documentation will tell you where etc.

    once you’ve got a backup you are covered so go ahead!! last minute problems we all have!!

    If I change the language on your site, I still see the left menü in English so I would think that you haven’t set them all to English. You need to do that – when you change off the language EVERYTHING should not appear as it’s the wrong language. You might find you’ve set Tasting Rooms to something other than English.

    Ciao

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    seaneo Friend
    October 3, 2012 at 6:31 pm #469043

    Hi Swissa,

    Ok! I did the backup, FTP’d (not browser download) the backup file to my computer, …

    Then…I batched the big move and now have all the categories under the “English” category.
    Then, it still didn’t show the items on the left menu until I placed “demo contents” folder in between English and the categories.
    So now the path for each English category is /English/demo-contents/-category name, and it shows all the categories on the left! Go figure!

    THEN:
    I changed the category for each one of the articles to in it’s appropriate category.

    Example:
    Tasting rooms article is now in /english/demo-contents/tasting-rooms
    etc,
    etc,

    And NOW:
    The front page is blank, but at least the articles show up on when you click on each item on the left menu.

    So the question becomes:
    How do I tell the back-end to tell these “teaser articles” to be on the front page?

    An example of an article that is NOT a teaser article, is the Hotel Xumec in “Where to sleep” . This article should not appeart on the home page, and only appear when a user clicks onm “Where to sleep”

    I await your reply – thank you!

    1. categories
    2. articles
    seaneo Friend
    October 4, 2012 at 1:07 am #469057

    **update, doing some category testing with batch tools, reading some more threads, understanding more, will advise, thanks!

    seaneo Friend
    October 4, 2012 at 10:02 am #469123

    Buenos Dias Swissa!

    Okay I have overcome understanding that there is no need for the “demo contents” category, etc.

    At this moment I have all 16 or so articles in the “English” category, and I have the “English” category in the category blog layout in the “English” menu item

    This is why you see all these articles on the home page at http://173.254.15.37/next/

    In my case, I have 32 categories that need to appear on the left menu at all times. By later today my article count will increase from 16 to 32 since these articles are the “lead” (or some say “teaser”) articles for each category

    Here is what I cannot overcome yet:

    I need for these 32 categories to appear on the left menu at all times, and for the lead article from each category to appear on the home page. Once a user clicks on a lead article on the home page, the page that should appear should show all the articles related to that category.

    But I caanot acomplish this yet, what am I doing wrong?

    Thank you!

    seaneo Friend
    October 4, 2012 at 12:45 pm #469142

    Thanks Swissa, for your offline help – much appreciated! you rock! cheers

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    seaneo Friend
    October 10, 2012 at 12:52 pm #469642

    Can somebody please help resolve this:

    at http://173.254.15.37/next/

    when a user clicks, on the left menu, “Where to sleep” it takes the user to:

    http://173.254.15.37/next/index.php/english/93-where-to-sleep

    and that is perfect.

    The question is:

    on the front page there is article preview also called “Where to sleep” (picture of a bed)

    what is the process to make it that if the user clicks on that article preview, that it also takes the user directly to

    http://173.254.15.37/next/index.php/english/93-where-to-sleep

    instead of opening the article?

    many thanks in advance

    seaneo Friend
    October 11, 2012 at 3:40 am #469709

    please this is hot, any help would be super appreciated thank you

    seaneo Friend
    October 12, 2012 at 2:01 am #469829

    can anyone help please! thank you

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    October 13, 2012 at 6:54 am #469964

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