Pre/Soft launch of first cmsms site

[dhathy]

This is a pre/soft launch for a political/news type blog. 
FYI: Yes, some things/links are broken.
Basic design/color scheme/layout in place

http://www.reasonandsanity.com/

Used:
CMSMS 1.5
News
Blogs
Captcha
Polls
RSS2HTML
Articles
Quotes
Glossary/Dictionary - though not active just yet
Forms

Will/might/should use in near future:
Archiver
Front End Users
Calendar

[danilski]

FYI - in Google Chrome browser the site does NOT show up as it is supposed to.

[JeremyBASS]

for what it's worth... though it moves fast through the site... I assume because of the ajax... the site was mind numbingly slow loading... a fast  t1 here.... but that took 15-20 sec to load... normally I would have left...

other wise Nice site... lots of stuff there..

need a z-index on your menus, they fall behind in IE...

IE is still ~80% of the market... it's mostly us designers and what not, are the users of ff Chrome and such... but I guess it's all in who your targeting...

anyway... nifty site...

cheers
jeremyBass

[dhathy]

Funny you should mention the z-index.  I have another thread going about that exact same thing.

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 959.0.html

Spent most of the day yesterday with no luck.  Back at it again tonight.

Any suggestions, Jeremy, would be most appreciated.

On a personal note.  Is the BASS after Jeremy b/c you are a bass player?  Just curious.  I just stripped and refinished my early 80's G&L bass, this past summer.

Thanks for the heads up on the loading issue.

[JeremyBASS]

Bass is my last name... like the fish and I'm a drumer... 

yeah the z-idex can be fixed as such...

in these

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#primary-nav ul, 
#primary-nav li:hover ul, 
#primary-nav li:hover ul ul, 
#primary-nav li.menuparenth ul, 
#primary-nav li.menuparenth ul ul { 

and

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#primary-nav li:hover ul, 
#primary-nav ul li:hover ul, 
#primary-nav ul ul li:hover ul, 
#primary-nav li.menuparenth ul, 
#primary-nav ul li.menuparenth ul, 
#primary-nav ul ul li.menuparenth ul { 

just insert there... ... ok... I just looked at your site... the bmenu is not working... gav me an error... To be frank... you'll be better off useing the normal menu man...

anyways... you only need to put a z-index of 1... and not a -1 to the item it's going over...


hope that helps...

cheers
jeremyBass

[dhathy]

I was just giving the bMenu a shot.  just got it all changed back to what it was and will try your suggestions.

TIA

Dan

Nothing better than I good rhytmn section

[dhathy]

Jeremy has "SOLVED" the case of the z-index at the following thread:

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 959.0.html

Thank you kindly, my friend.  You should get another Karma point for this.

Keep drumming!

Regards,

Dan

[JeremyBASS]

hey no prob... happy to help...

cheers
jeremyBass


one other thing If I may... for what it's worth only 2 of my 6 screens "Search: " was readable.. the color is of the same contrast and tone... so only my fully calibarted system showed it clearly... I'm sure that's picky... but I'm a detail freak and I like to know...  any ways.. like the site...  Have a great night...

jeremyBass

[dhathy]

The devil is in the details so freak away@

Just to be clear.  You are talking about the word "search" before the search text box, correct?

I may need to block that area off with something to make it more readable.  Or "white" as a text color may work. 

Again, you are on top of it!

[Nullig]

This may not be important for you, but the site doesn't validate - it has 116 Errors and 78 warning(s).
Also, the layout doesn't seem to work in IE6 - it definitely needs some tweaking there.

Nullig

[dhathy]

Thanks for the input.  They are not worried about IE6 at this point.  Their call.

As for validation, I have come up with similar results. It seems that most of the errors and warnings that I have come up against are in the output of the RSS2HTML module.  I don't think from the module, per se, as much as how the incoming rss feeds end up being output.

I have scratched my head on that one.

Last I checked the css was very close to 100% validation but I have made some changes and not rechecked since so I could be incorrect about that.

[Nullig]

While I'm not a proponent of Microsoft browsers, it's been my experience that almost 50% of the visitors to the sites I've worked on use IE6, with the other 50% being comprised of Firefox, IE7 and other assorted browsers.

It doesn't seem like good business practice to ignore 50% of your potential clients.

Nullig

[dhathy]

I agree with you 100%.  However, at this stage, the site is more proof of  concept to display certain features - the blog, news module, articles, rss feeds, etc., than it is to attract clients , users, or visitors.  At least that is the immediate  intent.

At some time in the future I will need to look at making this work with IE6.  Magic wand anyone?!:)

Thanks,

Dan