Hi all,
It's my first time using css and script.So please bear with me.
I'm editing a skin, ezfiction by kali.
http://www.made-by-kali.com/2008/01/04/efiction-3-skin-e-zfiction/
But i'm having some problems. Could someone please check my code and advise? It's at http://jrock.xxxholic.net
1) Between the image banner and the rest of the page. There's to be a a header with the search function. But as i customise this, it's disappered. And i couldn't figure how to get it back.
Also i intend to put my fiction links here, instead of the top header.
2)How do i edit the drop down boxes or text boxes? I wish to centralize it on the "titles", implement CSS. but i played around with it, it did work. 😕
3) As i browse to the other pages, i wish to maintain the 2 col layout. Maybe have a shoutbox on the left and the dropdown boxes on the left and the story index on the right. Could someone explain to me how to go about doing that?
4) when i move the feature that was on the banner image in the header tpl, my banner image disappeared. So instead i replace it with rows of
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. Using firefox and safari on my laptop (apple mac 13"), it looks fine. My when i test it on on my windows computer (bigger screen) using firefox and IE. There was a big gap of space between the image and the rest of the page. I'm not sure if other browsr is also afeected. How can i retify this?
Yup, thats all for now. I'm pretty clueless abt css and codes. I'm not sure what else i need to post. But if i miss out some vital information, just let me know and i'll post it up.
Thanks! 
Why are you using ezfiction if you are making all these modifications to the header :? You'd be much better off with Nirvana, which you are basically modifying this skin into.
1.
<div id="search">
</div>
is what is in the source of your page. Are you sure that you have the actual code for the search block in the header tpl? Make sure the block is set to active in the variables.php
2. https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6489.0
3. First, you would need to make sure the blocks were set to be active in the variables.php. Then you'd have to change all the html in the '.tpl's to maintain the two column layout like in the index.tpl.
4. You must have muddled the css for the banner, because I just pulled out the featured block on my test site from the header and nothing happened with the banner image. I have no idea what you did, so I suggest you put the css back to the default and then try again.
Skins made by Kali are no longer supported!
I didn't notice i was editing the wrong skin. Dumb me. 😀
So i redid the whole thing using nirvana. And it's working well! Thanks Kali!
I still have a few problems though. http://jrock.xxxholic.net/index.php
1) The user info block? How can i add breaks inbetween the lines? On my laptop the login block looks funny.
___________________________________
|
| Penname: | -textbox- | Password:
| | -textbox- | X Remember Me
| | GO |
| Register | Lost Password
|________________________________
The password is not in the same line with the passwords text box. But in my Computer screen it looks fine. Cos its has a higher resolution. I think i have to edit the login.php? But i don't know .php at all. I did a google and was told "n" was linebreak for php. But i couldn't figure out where to put it in the file. And the text field is not aligned in some browsers. Any way of working around that as well?
2) Is there a way for me to customise the height of each indivial block table? I would like to increase the height of "most recent" & "random story", while when i added the shoutbox, the block was too long and it scrolled off the page due to the large textarea. I tried to customise the textarea in css. But i couldn't get it to work. Same goes for the email form.. So i guess i'm doing something wrong. 😕
3) If i were to want blocks in the rest of the pages, does that mean i just have to implement the block divs for right and left index?
And thanks for the help earlier. 🙂
