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Hello JA!

First, I wanted to say thank you! You guys are great and usually are able to help me to get where I’m going!

second, the ‘problem’ (more like my lack of understanding) is I’ve been following along with pixelzombies awesome tutorial on making my homepage only, mega-menu vertical. http://www.joomlart.com/forums/showthread.php?67435-Tutorial-Make-your-Mega-Menu-vertical!/page2&highlight=vertical I’m pretty close (I think) to pulling this off. I think, I hope… The rest of the site looks exactly as it needs to.. http://jacobtittlechairmaker.com/index.php/process

If you go to http://jacobtittlechairmaker.com/index.php you can’t see the vertical menu, but if you go to http://jacobtittlechairmaker.com/index.php?tp=1 there is the vertical menu on the left! I can see that it’s not in a block and I’m thinking that this is the ‘issue’, but I’m not sure what to do about it…

and, I can’t seem to figure out how or where to style this menu, as I don’t want the ‘home’ link to show,(I was thinking of just making it white) and I need them to be closer together and on the right instead of the left…

If someone could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it!
-Matthew

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#453340

Or another way to ask this is…

“How and where do I specify which ‘block’ a menu is displayed in?

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#453391

<em>@soggybottommedia 320107 wrote:</em><blockquote>Or another way to ask this is…

“How and where do I specify which ‘block’ a menu is displayed in?</blockquote>

I guess “a menu” you mentioned is a menu module, if it’s a module then you can place it into a jat3 block, for example if you want to place into the left1 block, you go to your template back-end >> go to edit the default layout, you would see a block like this
<block name=”left1″>position-7</block>

With this defined all modules from the position-7 position will be displayed at the left1 block and you can assign your menu module to the position-7 position to get the module display there.

Hope you get the idea!

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#453448

Hello Sherlock Holmes,

Thank you for the response, I really appreciate it.

umm… This situation is a little different (I believe) as I’m using the mega menu…

The menu is not there if you go to http://jacobtittlechairmaker.com/index.php

but if you add the ?=tp1 to show positions, http://jacobtittlechairmaker.com/index.php?tp=1 …… there it is… I just need to figure out how to gt it to show up and place it under the logo there…

Thank you for any help, this thing has really kicked my butt and I really really need to figure this out today… Can I buy you a beer? 🙂
-Matthew

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#453563

Hi Matthew,

Is that a menu module ? which position you assigned it to ? if you can pm me your admin account I will take a look for you

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THANK YOU Sherlock Holmes… I REALLY appreciate your response and your willingness to help a guy out who is very stuck…

PM sent, please let me know if you have any questions, or if there’s anything I can do from my end…

-Matthew

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Hi soggubottommedia,

I went to your back-end assigned the “Main Menu” module to display “on all pages”, now you can see the menu items on the left side, the menu items there are being duplicated, you can try as following to remove the duplicate
Open the file of templates/your_template/css/template.css and adding this css

#ja-left1 .moduletable_menu{
display:none;
}

I hope this would help !

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#454355

Hey, Thank you!

I’m not sure about the “menu items being duplicated” you mention… I’m not seeing that at all. What I’m seeing is great, except I need to now position the frontpage menu to the right and down under the logo…

I see the vertical menu there on the left now, but I still can not figure out how/where to position it… I need to get it on the right below the logo, and I would really like to understand how/where to do this… I can NOT find where to position this menu…

I REALLY appreciate your help! THANK YOU!
-Matthew

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<em>@soggybottommedia 321425 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hey, Thank you!

I’m not sure about the “menu items being duplicated” you mention… I’m not seeing that at all. What I’m seeing is great, except I need to now position the frontpage menu to the right and down under the logo…

I see the vertical menu there on the left now, but I still can not figure out how/where to position it… I need to get it on the right below the logo, and I would really like to understand how/where to do this… I can NOT find where to position this menu…

I REALLY appreciate your help! THANK YOU!
-Matthew</blockquote>

Must be the weather or a hard day at work hacking their systems but I seem to be in hacking mode. So don’t trust a word I say, take back ups of any file I dare to mention before you play with them and don’t hold your breath that it will work. Serious about the backup- Really!

go to layout.css (vplugins/system/jat3/jat3/base-themes/default/css/layout.css) and look for line 79 or just try adding the whole of the following code to your template.css – this is what you can try – play with the numbers to get it how you want

#ja-right {float: right;
margin-right: -658px; < add this line
margin-top: 235px; < add this line
}

if that messes up other pages we’ll need to make a special class for the menü and you’ll need to restore this to its original state – hence make a backup!!

to get rid of that line on the right of the menü you need to to mega.css line 43 (templates/ja_t3_blank/themes/vertical/css/menu/mega.css) and remove the border-right line

.ja-megamenu ul.level0 li.mega {

• height: 45px;
• width: 175px;
• padding-top: 0px;
• text-align: left;
• right: 10px;
• border-right: 1px solid #CCC < remove this line

}

You might need some playing about to get it how you want and don’t forget that this untested on a real site – I hope it works for you, but please don’t blame me if it doesn’t. It’s late fo me!! 😉

*Sherlock, sorry if I have stepped on your toes!

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#454372

Hey Swissa!

Thank you for the response and the help!

I tried your suggestions on the layout.css in the ‘vertical’ folder under plugins and no effect…

This layout is for the homepage only… I want the grey line on the right. btw… I just need to figure out how to position the menu and I’m there…

Thank you again for the help, please let me know if you have another idea!

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#454373

The layout.css is not in vertical. Please check my post and is also below. This is for me when I change the plugins/system/jat3/jat3/base-themes/default/css/layout.css at line 79 as written above on http://jacobtittlechairmaker.com/index.php. Vertical menü is for the grey line only.

Hope this works. Otherwise best to wait again for Sherlock!

Sorry!

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#454376

SWISSA!!! 🙂

That totally works!!! THANK YOU!

Thank you swissa! Thank you Sherlock! Thank you Pixel Zombie! 🙂

I really and truly appreciate you JA!

The only thing left that I know of is how/where can I get the frontpage menu items to “align left” instead of being centered… If you have an idea, please share it. (and if you can, point me in the right direction to being better able to find these kind of things on my own, so I don’t have to bother you fine folks. 🙂

THANK YOU JA!!!

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.ja-megamenu ul.level0 li.mega span.menu-title {

• text-align[FONT=Menlo, monospace]: [/FONT]right[FONT=Menlo, monospace]; [/FONT][FONT=Menlo, monospace]< I think right looks better than left![/FONT]

}


add this code to the end of your templates/ja_t3_blank/themes/vertical/css/template.css

Take a copy of this file as when JA release an upgrade of T3 this may be overwritten so you will need to add it back in. 🙂

Right, the next bit. I use Google Chrome Developer Tools for my css stuff. I’m not a good teacher but if you use Chrome, just right click on any part of the website and then choose Inspect Element. It will give you the code and the place i.e. line number and then you can change anything on the fly and see the results. What? – you thought I was clever? 😀

Check on youtube oder so for some guides – they’re going to do it better than I!

All the best

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#454845

THANK YOU Swissa!

Many many thanks!
-Matthew

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<em>@soggybottommedia 321447 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hey Swissa!

Thank you for the response and the help!

I tried your suggestions on the layout.css in the ‘vertical’ folder under plugins and no effect…

This layout is for the homepage only… I want the grey line on the right. btw… I just need to figure out how to position the menu and I’m there…

Thank you again for the help, please let me know if you have another idea!

</blockquote>

How your site looks in my chrome – live with me doing nothing! Clear your cache down and see if get the same!

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