text navigation in left column - and logo banner - both for entire site

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Hello and thank you for this very nice theme.

I love the 3 column format. I would like to be able to put a text navigation menu in the left column and have this available on every page of my site - pretty much. Is this possible? If so can you please point me in the right direction. I'm thinking possibly I place an include somewhere but I'm not sure where the template is.

Also, like others I have been interested in changing the slideshow in the mast of the page. I was wanting a fixed image. I would like this to be the same for every page also, more as a logo banner for my site.

Plus I notice in the design thumbnail there is some light gray shading for some items in the left column. I havent seen this in the design so far?

I am fairly new to Concrete5 and apologise if this question has already been answered on my occasions already.

Thank you kindly.

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themazza
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cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
cannonf700
The Mazza,
Have you seen the demo at:www.www.rynomediaonline.com/concrete5/black-accents/... ?
This should give you a good idea about what can be done with the site.

For the text navigation:
go to Dashboard > Pages and Themes > click the "Page Types" in the tabs area. On the next page click the "defaults" button for each of the page types. This will open a new page with default view of that page type. Click "Edit" now, in the sidebar under the editable area labeled something like (sidebar nav) add an autonav block. set up this block as you like. Now click the block you just created and choose, "set up on child pages" check the boxes for the pages you want the navigation to appear on. When finished, click the exit edit mode and save. Now that block will automatically be included with those page types when you create new pages.

For the slideshow. Put your page in edit mode. Delete the slideshow block and add an image block - with the image of your choice.
also check outhttp://www.glorioustravels.com for an example of a modified version of this theme.

Thanks,
Ryan Vars
RynoMedia
aka Cannonf700
themazza replied on at Permalink Reply
themazza
Hi Ryan
Thanks very much for responding to my questions so promptly.

I am working my way through the instructions now. So far it's working good although I have found a strange anomaly with the sidebar menu. I have noticed that the font size for the sub menu page is larger than the font size for the main pages which looks a bit odd. Are you able to explain how I can correct this?

Also, how would I go about making that menu a text menu, rather than the button style menu in gray that I have now? Not sure which way I want to go yet, but as it looks now it's not obvious which page is a subpage.

Thank you so much
cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Reply
cannonf700
Can you post a link to your site?

That sidebar navigation wasn't meant to handle multi level menus. This is probably the problem.
If you don't want the button style menu then go back to those default pages and move the navigation out of the area it's in and into the basic sidebar area. That's all.
Again, you can see examples of this on the test site.
themazza replied on at Permalink Reply
themazza
I moved the autonav down lower to another section of the left column and while it now shows up as a text menu, with 2nd level links on the default page, I can't see any type of nav in the left column of my web pages now?

ie, when I included the auto nav into the autonav section, I got a menu with the grey buttons as designed, but when I removed that and moved it lower so I could have a text only menu instead I get nothing on the pages of the site, only on the default page. Your advice please?
http://www.hbrocknroll.co.nz

Thank you
cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Reply
cannonf700
Like you did before you probably have to apply those changes to all the child pages.
If this doesn't work then delete the block and start over..
themazza replied on at Permalink Reply
themazza
Ahh stupid me!
themazza replied on at Permalink Reply
themazza
Hello
I would like to remove the top menu and the grey bar it sits on, and move the rest of the page up to where the bar sits now. Is this possible? If so could you please point me in the right direction.
Kind regards
themazza replied on at Permalink Reply
themazza
And, is it possible to reduce the depth a little ( of the black strip across the top, so the whole page lifts up a little) without mucking up the whole page? Of course I will still need to see the edit buttons when in edit mode. Is that why many of the sites seem to have a strip across the top?
Thank you.
cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Reply
cannonf700
In order to shrink the black area you will have to re-size the top_bg.gif found in the theme's 'images' folder.
cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Reply
cannonf700
themazza,
to delete the menu you will have to open the theme's page type .php files. (full.php , left_sidebar.php, right_sidebar.php, three_column.php etc...) and delete the following code from each of those files:
<div class="top-menuzone">
            <div class="mainmenu">
               <ul>
                  <?php
            $menu = new Area('Header Nav');
            $menu->setBlockLimit(1);
            $menu->display($c);
            ?>
               </ul>
            </div>
     </div>

you should find this code towards the top.
themazza replied on at Permalink Reply
themazza
Thanks for your response. I have not tried it yet as I want to make sure that is really what i want to do first.

On another matter about this style. The page seems a little wider than default browser settings. Whenever I open the site, whether it be at home on my pc or at work (actually I've tried it on several screens) it seems to be about 100 pixels too wide. I always have to scroll to the right to see all of the info in the right column, yet there is about 20 pixels of 'spare' screen to the left of the left column. Is it possible for me to shrink the center column or the two outside columns evenly, to bring it in to fit the browser nicely. To about the same width as the concrete 5 main body. Havent measured it in actual pixels but I'm thinking you might already know what I'm talking about?
Cheers
Thanks very much
cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Reply
cannonf700
This problem is related to your web browser settings. When I view the page it is centered just fine.www.www.rynomediaonline.com/concrete5/black-accents/...
check you zoom level especially if using Internet Explorer.
themazza replied on at Permalink Reply
themazza
Thanks for that. I checked my zoom level on my computer and it is at 100%, but the fact that I get the same issue on any computer would suggest that it's not related to my browser settings I would have thought? Also, when I click on the link and view the theme it is slightly to the left. However, my issue is not so much about centering but more about making the page as a whole slightly narrower. I'm thinking that's probaly something I could do in the center column but not really sure where to start?


Thanks
cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Reply
cannonf700
Start here: line 23 of the main.css file

#container .container-center {
float: left;
position: relative;
width: 600px;
}

adjust your width accordingly.
SAA replied on at Permalink Reply
SAA
Hi,

I'm using Black Accents theme and have solved most of my adjustment problems. The only thing I did not manage is to alter the position of the left column of the theme in the main.css-file. Can you tell me where to alter it?

Thanks in advance,

Lovic
SAA replied on at Permalink Reply
SAA
Finally I have found it myself :)

To alter the position of the left column, edit

#container .leftzone {
padding: 10px 0 0 60px;
}

in the main.css of black accents theme.

Have fun,

Lovic
cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Reply
cannonf700
I just logged in to reply - glad you found it.
Can you share your site's link - I would love to see what you've done with it.

Thanks
SAA replied on at Permalink Reply
SAA
Hi,

presently I do the adjustment work on my local version of the website. I will upload the css-file in the next days.

I would like to send you a link to the website in some days, when some other things have been done.

My biggest outstanding problem is to fix the footer position to the bottom of the browser window. I could help myself only by deactivating the footer image in the css. This is because on some pages there is lots of content (on others not much). The main concern is, that sometimes the footer appears in the middle of the page.

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