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#139283

Hi – I am hoping to switch across to the awesme Opal template…

My current site (Edenite Template!) uses the standard Joomla Category Blog layout view on many pages…. I like the 2 column option and have small left aligned thumbs beginning each article…

Take a look at the attached .jpg to see what Opal does…..

It breaks to a 1 column format – and puts the left aligned image on top of the article…

Sadly this looks a mess?!?!!!!

Can it be fixed?!!

Thanks!

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#296662

I gave the same problem. It will looks ok, I think, if you will turn on 3 columns (1 Lead, 3 (at least intro), 3 columns in your menu configuration).
Please, can you tell me what editor do you use to insert pictures in artcles? Does their pictures are shown resized?
Thanks

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#296673

Hmmm – Yes 1 Lead and at least 3 improves things – but this clearly is a bug then for the developers here to tweak for us? Because 1 Lead and 2 Columns for example doesn’t work!!!

I want a 2 column format (after all see what 3 columns does to my ‘Add Comment / Read More’ line in the attached pic)

My pictures were inserted with JoomlaFCK editor – and they are 100 x 100 pixel files – for some reason this template is shrinking them smaller than that too – take a look at the .jpg attached here – the box size of the image is right, but then the image is shrinked down further for some reason – at 100 by 100 original and intended size, why are they shriking?

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#296703

I guess it is a editor problem. try to delete image size values from your article sourse, width and height.
Is slould be <img src=”/ja_opal/images/resized/images/stories/demo/sam-9_185_115.jpg” alt=”Sample image” title=”Sample image” align=”left”></div

instead of

<img src=”/ja_opal/images/resized/images/stories/demo/sam-9_185_115.jpg” alt=”Sample image” title=”Sample image” align=”left” width=”xxx” height=”xxx”></div

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#296705

accbonner, you could try starting with http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/how-to-align-pictures-at-one-column-article-body/ and than you shoud look in the same file to some column variables. Hope you will manage to do this!

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#296928

Great – Thanks Teletrance I followed that link and found the same code in the blog.php file in the category folder which worked for me.

So for remaining big issue is the template seems to have a bug that stops you having a 2 column format in Category Blog view. It just shows as 1 column if you select 2….

1 Column works fine – as does 3 column – Just 2 column doesn’t!!!!!

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#296966

with pleasure. Hope you will find the 2 column problem. I wouldn’t say that this is a bug, but a setting for customization template. I guess you will find your answer in the same file, it is a php modification that shouls be done, I don’t know which one, unfortunatelly

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#296971

accbonner, I think your problem was solved here: http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/bug-frontpage-2-column-blog-layout/
seemns like it was a css problem after all, 🙂

(I doubled this post so the user receive mail and know taht his prob has found a solving)

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#296981

Awesome – That fixes that one! 😀

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#297369

Hi all !

We can fix it following way below :

Open blog_item.php file in templatesja_opalhtmlcom_contentcategory folder, find following code section at about line 67 :


<div class="img-desc clearfix">
<?php echo $image; ?>
</div>


change to :


<div class="img-desc">
<?php echo $image; ?>
</div>

Hope can help you.

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#297376

Thanks Hainn – I’d already used the fix above which added code to the CSS… http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/bug-frontpage-2-column-blog-layout/

Does your proposed solution work without the need to do that?!

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