Hi,
I have used the CSS Menu Designer for the first time in the design of a new website.
To begin with, if anyone wants to check, it is located at http://www.nifraproductions.co.cc .
The problem is, on my pages, the menu is nice ly at the top left, but on one page the menu is a whole bit more to the right, nearing the middle.
The HTML for one of the good pages is:
In the <head></head> tags there is (although the menu designer generates this automatically)::
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/menu-menu.css" media="screen">
then the code goes further:
"<div align="center"><h1>Welcome to our website</h1></font></div>
<ul class="menu-menu">
<li class="first"><a href="http://www.nifraproductions.co.cc/contact.htm">Contact us</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freegb.net/gbook/nifra">Guestbook</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nifraproductions.co.cc/media.htm">Media</a></li>
</ul><br><br><br />
Dear visitor,<br> etc...."
On the page where the menu does not display properly, the same line is in the <head></head> tags, and the code is as follows:
"<div align="center"><h1>Our Media Page</h1></div><br />
<ul class="menu-menu">
<li class="first"><a href="http://www.nifraproductions.co.cc/index.htm">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#Pictures">Pictures</a></li>
<li><a href="#Music">Music</a></li>
<li><a href="#Video">Video</a></li>
</ul><br /><br /><br />
Dear visitor, <br> etc...."
Now, the badly displaying menu works perfectly, goes to all the proper links, displays the colours properlu, except for one thing, I just cannot get the placement right.
I have given the URL and the HTML, so, feel free to go and have a look to see if there is anything you can do to help.
If more information is required to analyse the problem, please let me know and I will provide it.
All help will be very gratefully accepted, as this issue makes the page look untidy.
Thank you very much in advance,
Frankie.
Problem with the CSS Menu Designer -...
Frankie Deschacht
Registered User
43 posts
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
Well I'm not sure where the problem you're having is located (which page) but I can tell you your menu is kind of messy in it's setup. Mostly due to the menu being different on different pages, and then of course that there is no way to get back to your page within your Guestbook setup, you need a link back in there too.
The way it's setup right now with different menus on some of the pages is kind of messy in that it should be the same menu for each page so your visitors have a sense of continuity to each page that they are staying within your website. External sites such as your guestbook cannot always be helped in opening without a menu, but you did good to put that on a separately opening page, just need a link back to your home page on it.
Other than that, I am not sure where the problem you're seeing is located due to the menu differences.
Which page is it on that you are having difficulties?
BWT, I was viewing in FF 3.6.3 in case that will make a difference
The way it's setup right now with different menus on some of the pages is kind of messy in that it should be the same menu for each page so your visitors have a sense of continuity to each page that they are staying within your website. External sites such as your guestbook cannot always be helped in opening without a menu, but you did good to put that on a separately opening page, just need a link back to your home page on it.
Other than that, I am not sure where the problem you're seeing is located due to the menu differences.
Which page is it on that you are having difficulties?
BWT, I was viewing in FF 3.6.3 in case that will make a difference
Frankie Deschacht
Registered User
43 posts
Oh, OK,
thank you for your reply.
The fault is on my media page, which is http://www.nifraproductions.co.cc/media.htm .
Yoiu are right about the non-continuity being messy, but that is due to the fact that the page was only started up yesterday and still needs a lot of building up.
By the way, on the guestbook page there is a link back to the homepage, on the top right, but unfortunately, I do not haave control over the guestbook page (it is external) to put a link of my own on it.
So, the fault is on the media page, while on other pages my menu is nicely left aligned, the one of the media page is almost centered.
So, if that helps any further, I'd be glad to hear any comments.
Thank you for your reply so far.
Kind regards,
Frankie.
thank you for your reply.
The fault is on my media page, which is http://www.nifraproductions.co.cc/media.htm .
Yoiu are right about the non-continuity being messy, but that is due to the fact that the page was only started up yesterday and still needs a lot of building up.
By the way, on the guestbook page there is a link back to the homepage, on the top right, but unfortunately, I do not haave control over the guestbook page (it is external) to put a link of my own on it.
So, the fault is on the media page, while on other pages my menu is nicely left aligned, the one of the media page is almost centered.
So, if that helps any further, I'd be glad to hear any comments.
Thank you for your reply so far.
Kind regards,
Frankie.
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
hmm I don't see differences in the menu code at all, but I do see a break on the Media page that isn't in the other page:
<div align="center"><h1>Our Media Page</h1></div><br />
<div align="center"><h1>Our Media Page</h1></div><br />
dave beall
Ambassador
712 posts
@Frankie Deschacht, here is a link to get a free guestbook that runs in your cgi folder
http://www.rlaj.com/scripts/free_perl_cgi_scripts.html
here is one sample of what I did with it,, It's not in any menus because I'm not using right now
http://www.beallgroup.net/guest.html
Go ahead and try it...
http://www.rlaj.com/scripts/free_perl_cgi_scripts.html
here is one sample of what I did with it,, It's not in any menus because I'm not using right now
http://www.beallgroup.net/guest.html
Go ahead and try it...
CoffeeCup Software Rocks!
Registered User
866 posts
One thing you could do with the guestbook link is to set the target attribute to _blank so it opens in a new page, therefore we don't get bumped from your page and have to try to get back. This is standard practice when linking to external sites because the last thing you want to do once someone has found your site is to send them packing from it.
An observation; on my 24" wide-screen the whole site looks disjointed and fragmented with images pinned to the centre of the page and text hard left. This is not to say it doesn't look good, it just might look better if it was contained, say in a single-celled table or by using CSS to position the elements a little tighter together. This means also it would render more consistently on all different monitors.
An observation; on my 24" wide-screen the whole site looks disjointed and fragmented with images pinned to the centre of the page and text hard left. This is not to say it doesn't look good, it just might look better if it was contained, say in a single-celled table or by using CSS to position the elements a little tighter together. This means also it would render more consistently on all different monitors.
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
Dave Thompson wrote:
One thing you could do with the guestbook link is to set the target attribute to _blank so it opens in a new page, therefore we don't get bumped from your page and have to try to get back. This is standard practice when linking to external sites because the last thing you want to do once someone has found your site is to send them packing from it.
One thing you could do with the guestbook link is to set the target attribute to _blank so it opens in a new page, therefore we don't get bumped from your page and have to try to get back. This is standard practice when linking to external sites because the last thing you want to do once someone has found your site is to send them packing from it.
He already does have it doing that
Robert Libbey
Registered User
4 posts
I originally posted this in the section on the new version of HTML Editor, but it looks like it belongs here.
I want to add an additional Root Item to an existing menu created with CSS Menu Designer. I opened the existing menu.mnu file and didn't have a problem adding the new Root Item to the "end" of the existing menu. However, I want to insert the new Root item as the 3rd selection in the menu instead at the end of the menu. How do I do that without delelting all the existing Root Items below the 3rd one and then re-entering them, and their Subitems, again? Same question when adding a Subitem to a list of existing Subitems... how to insert it without deleting the existing items?
I want to add an additional Root Item to an existing menu created with CSS Menu Designer. I opened the existing menu.mnu file and didn't have a problem adding the new Root Item to the "end" of the existing menu. However, I want to insert the new Root item as the 3rd selection in the menu instead at the end of the menu. How do I do that without delelting all the existing Root Items below the 3rd one and then re-entering them, and their Subitems, again? Same question when adding a Subitem to a list of existing Subitems... how to insert it without deleting the existing items?
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
Robert Libbey wrote:
I originally posted this in the section on the new version of HTML Editor, but it looks like it belongs here.
I want to add an additional Root Item to an existing menu created with CSS Menu Designer. I opened the existing menu.mnu file and didn't have a problem adding the new Root Item to the "end" of the existing menu. However, I want to insert the new Root item as the 3rd selection in the menu instead at the end of the menu. How do I do that without delelting all the existing Root Items below the 3rd one and then re-entering them, and their Subitems, again? Same question when adding a Subitem to a list of existing Subitems... how to insert it without deleting the existing items?
I originally posted this in the section on the new version of HTML Editor, but it looks like it belongs here.
I want to add an additional Root Item to an existing menu created with CSS Menu Designer. I opened the existing menu.mnu file and didn't have a problem adding the new Root Item to the "end" of the existing menu. However, I want to insert the new Root item as the 3rd selection in the menu instead at the end of the menu. How do I do that without delelting all the existing Root Items below the 3rd one and then re-entering them, and their Subitems, again? Same question when adding a Subitem to a list of existing Subitems... how to insert it without deleting the existing items?
Answered in your other post on this issue, one post will usually do the trick no worries
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