{SOLVED} Another newbie needing a bit of help!

[bigbadjimmyp]

Hi all,
Although I have managed to solve the majority of my issues by searching tjese forums, I have a few that are still bugging me to hell and back!
My site is: www.bsgsa.co.uk
When the cursor hovvers over the banner .gif, the image disappears for a split second, and if you click on it, you always go to the "about us" page.
I cannot find the expression that states that it should do this (simple, I know!)
Also I have problems with cross browser compatability, although I fear that I am opening a large can of worms, trying to get it sorted.
BTW this kicks the hell out of joomla!
Thanks in advance!

bbjp

[Nullig]

You need to change this:

div#header {
  height: 300px;    /* adjust according your image size */
  background: #5C7671;         
}

The "About Us" page is set as your default page, which is why clicking on the banner takes you there.

Nullig

[bigbadjimmyp]

Hi again, and cheers for the info......What do i need to change it to though, so I get rid of the irksome self link?

[bigbadjimmyp]

Once again I have managed to make a mess of it.......
I have just updated (sort of) to IE 7, and the left side bar seems to have slipped upwards and is encroaching on my banner, which looks very bad. My template is here:






{sitename} - {title}


{metadata}


{stylesheet}

{cms_selflink dir="start" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="prev" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="next" rellink=1}





{literal}

=b){nw=b+"px";}if(w



#pagewrapper {width:expression(P7_MinMaxW(720,950));}
#container {height: 1%;}


{/literal}









   
   
      {anchor anchor='menu_vert' title='Skip to navigation' accesskey='n' text='Skip to navigation'}
      {anchor anchor='main' title='Skip to content' accesskey='s' text='Skip to content'}
   
   


   
   


 
 
{cms_selflink dir="start" text="$sitename"}


 





 

   

 
 
        {breadcrumbs starttext='You are here' root='Home' delimiter='»'}
 
 
 


 
 

     
     

     
     
        Navigation
        {menu template='simple_navigation.tpl' collapse='1'}
     
     

     
     
        News
          {news number='3' detailpage='news'}
     
     

     
     


     
     
        {print showbutton=true script=true}
        {title}
        {content}


       


{anchor anchor='main' text='^ Top'}

       
            {cms_selflink dir="previous" label="Previous page: "}

            {cms_selflink dir="next"}
       
       


     
     
 


 
 


 
 
      {global_content name='footer'}
   
 








And the apliccable stylesheet text is here:

*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
  text-align: left;
  font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 75.01%;
  line-height: 1em;
}

/*
set font size for all divs,
this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
  font-size: 1em;
}

/*
if img is inside "a" it would have
borders, we don't want that
*/
img {
  border: 0;
}

/*
default link styles
*/
/* set all links to have underline and bluish color */
a,
a:link
a:active {
  text-decoration: underline;
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color. this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #5C7671;
}

a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #5C7671;                /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}


/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-color: #5C7671;
  color: #385C72;
}

/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
  background-color: #ccc;
  color: #333;
  margin:1em;    /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
}

/* center wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 0 auto;      /* this centers wrapper */
  max-width: 80em;  /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
  min-width: 60em;
  background-color: #fff;;
  color: black;
}


/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it so that the image wont cut off
*/
div#header {
  height: 200px;    /* adjust according your image size */
  background: #5C7671;         
}

div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: #5C7671 url(images/cms/banner_11.gif) no-repeat 0 12px;
  display: block;
  height: 290px;            /* adjust according your image size */


  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

/* position for the search box */
div#search {
  float: right;
  width: 23em;    /* enough width for the search input box */
  text-align: right;
  padding: 0.6em 0 0.2em 0;
  margin: 0 1em;
}

div.breadcrumbs {
  padding: 1em 0 1.2em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
  font-size: 90%;        /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative, this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
  margin: 0 1em;        /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;
}

div.breadcrumbs span.lastitem {
  font-weight:bold;
}

div#content {
  margin: 1.5em auto 2em 0;  /* some air above and under menu and content */
}


div#main {
  margin-left: 29%; /* this will give room for sidebar to be on the left side, make sure this space is bigger than sidebar width */
  margin-right: 2%; /* and some air on the right */
}

div#sidebar {
  float: left;        /* set sidebar on the left side. Change to right to float it right instead. */
  width: 26%;    /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
  display: inline;  /* FIX IE double margin bug */
  margin-left: 0;
}

div#footer {
  clear: both;      /* keep footer below content and menu */
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #5C7671; /* same bg color as in header */
}

div#footer p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  padding: 1.5em;      /* some air for footer */
  text-align: center;  /* centered text */
  margin: 0;
}

div#footer p a {
  color: #fff; /* needed becouse footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
}

/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
  height: 1px;
  padding: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
  margin: 1em;
}

/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
  width: 49%; /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}




/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {

}

/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
  font-size: 2em; /* font size for h1 */
  line-height: 1em;
  margin: 0;
}
div#content h2 {
color: #294B5F;
font-size: 1.5em;
text-align: left;
/* some air around the text */
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-bottom: 1px;
/* set borders around header */
border-bottom: 3px solid #e7ab0b;
border-left: 1.1em solid #e7ab0b;
        line-height: 1.5em;
/* and some air under the border */
        margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.3em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h4 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
div#content h5 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
h6 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; /* some air around p elements */
  line-height: 1.4em;
  padding: 0;
}

blockquote {
  border-left: 10px solid #ddd;
  margin-left: 10px;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-style:italic;
}

/* Wrapping text in tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
white-space: pre-wrap;      /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word;      /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 1em;
}

pre {
  border: 1px solid #000;  /* black border for pre blocks */
  background-color: #ddd;
  margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
  padding: 0.5em;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  font-size: 90%;


}

/* Separating the divs on the template explanation page, with some bottom-border */
div.templatecode {
  margin: 0 0 2.5em;
}

/* END TEXT */

/* LISTS */
/* lists in content need some margins to look nice */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height: 1.4em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}

div#main ul li,
div#main ol li {
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}

/* definition lists topics on bold */
div#main dl dt {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0 0 0 1em;
}
div#main dl dd {
  margin: 0 0 1em 1em;
}

div#main dl {
  margin-bottom: 2em;
  padding-bottom: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
}


/* END LISTS */



I am a complete novice to this so, if you are a bit of a ninja at this, any help will stop me from pulling my hair out (its already thin lol)
Thanks
bbjp

[Nullig]

If you don't want the header self link then remove that line.


 
  {cms_selflink dir="start" text="$sitename"}
 


Nullig