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Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:05 pm**

I made some major changes to our website. I'm not sure why the changes broke our footer though. Here's the code for Layout 1...

{process_pagedata}
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<__html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
{* Change lang="en" to the language of your site *}

<head>

<title>{sitename} - {title}</title>
{* The sitename is changed in Site Admin/Global settings. {title} is the name of each page *}

{metadata}
{* Don't remove this! Metadata is entered in Site Admin/Global settings. *}

{stylesheet}
{* This is how all the stylesheets attached to this template are linked to *}

{cms_selflink dir="start" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="prev" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="next" rellink=1}
{* Relational links for interconnections between pages, good for accessibility and Search Engine Optmization *}

{literal}
<__script__ type="text/JavaScript">

</__script>

{/literal}

{* The min and max page width for Internet Explorer is set here. For other browsers it's in the stylesheet "Layout: Left sidebar + 1 column" *}

</__script>

{literal}
<__script__ language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/budgetbadge/budgetBadge.js"></__script>
{/literal}

</head>

</__body>

<hr class="accessibility" />
{* Horizontal ruler that is hidden for visual browsers by CSS *}

{* Start Header, with logo image that links to the default start page. Logo image is changed in the stylesheet "For template: Left menu + 1 column" *}
<div id="header">
<h1>{cms_selflink page="home" text="$sitename"}</h1>
<hr class="accessibility" />
<div id="helpmenu">{menu start_page="top-help-menu" number_of_levels="1" template="default"}</div>
<div id="address">{global_content name="district_address"}</div>

<div id="transparency_reporting">{global_content_name="transparency_reporting"}</div>

<div id="news">{global_content name="news"}</div>
{*
<div id="buttons">{global_content name="buttons"}</div>
*}
{* End Header *}

<div id="menu_horiz">{menu start_page="school-menu" number_of_levels="1"}</div>

{* Start Content (Navigation and Content columns) *}
<div id="content">

{* Start Sidebar *}
<div id="sidebar">

{* Start Navigation *}
<div id="menu_vert">
<h2 class="accessibility">Navigation</h2>
{menu template='simple_navigation.tpl' collapse='1'}
</div>
{* End Navigation *}

{* Start Search *}
<div id="search">
{search searchtext="Enter Keywords..."}
</div>
{* End Search *}

</div>
{* End Sidebar *}

{* Start Content Area *}

<div id="main">
<div style="float: right;">{print showbutton=true script=true}</div>
<h2>{title}</h2>
{content} <br />

<hr class="accessibility" />
</div>
{* End Content Area *}

</div>
{* End Content *}

</div>{* end pagewrapper *}

{* Start Footer. Edit the footer in the Global Content Block called "footer" *}
{* Something is wrong with the footer. If uncommented, doesn't adjust right with website *}
{*
<div id="footer">

{global_content name='footer'}

</div>
*}
{* End Footer *}

<__body>
</__html>

Like I put in my comments, if I uncomment the footer, the footer shows up in the top menu bar of the website.

Right now, even with it commented, the top bar is blue but the footer copyright info is appearing up there. I think most people just don't notice it.

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:07 pm**

If you want to see the website, it's www.lakeviewschools.net. If you look close at the top blue bar, you'll see the copyright info.

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:07 pm**

Where is the site, where is the stylesheet?

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:09 pm**

Well, the website is making me a liar. The footer text isn't showing up in the top bar anymore (with the footer commented out.) I just changed the comments a few minutes ago seeing if I could get the footer to work right, but I commented it again. I guess this time, the comments must be working better because it's not showing up in the top bar anymore. But still when I uncomment it, the footer shows up towards the top of the page.

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:11 pm**

Here's layout 1's stylesheet. Again, the website is Lakeviewschools.net...

/*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
/*
padding sets the space between the left menus to the side of the browser... adds blank white space
although 0 to 10 made some space but 10 to 300 didn't change...
*/
padding:300;
}

/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
text-align: left;
font-family: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: #0f86c8;
text-decoration: underline;
}

a:visited {

background-color: inherit;
color: #0f86c8; /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}

/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #31346e;
}

/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
background:url(uploads/template/bodybg.png) top center repeat-x #fff;
color: #333;
}

/* center wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
margin: 0 auto; /* this centers wrapper */
max-width: 80em; /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
min-width: 60em;
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: 150px; /* adjust according your image size */
background: url(uploads/template/header.png) top center no-repeat;
position:relative;
}

div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
/* background:url(uploads/template/logo.png) no-repeat center center; */
/*Removed logo in upper left of website per Kari Paulen on 5-23-2012 */
display: block;
height: 150px; /* adjust according your image size */
width:150px;
text-indent: -999em; /* this hides the text */
text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

div#address {
position:absolute;
left:0px;
/*
left used to be 140. Changed it to 0 to move address left where paw print used to be
*/
top:23px;
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#686868;
line-height:1.2em;
}

#address h1 {
color:#30307a;
font-family:"fantasy", serif;
font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic;
font-size:32px;
line-height:1.4em;
}

div#news {
width:290px;
position:absolute;
top:20px;
right:240px;
height:130px;
overflow:hidden;
margin:0px;
}
/*
Removed upper right buttons below
*/
/*
#buttons {
position:absolute;
right:0px;
top:30px;
}
*/
/*
#buttons li {
list-style-type:none;
padding:10px 30px;
}
/*
#buttons li a {
font-size:18px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#fff;
text-decoration:none;
}
*/
#buttons li a:hover {
background:transparent;
color:#303079;
}
*/
/*
Buttons on right color background below
*/
/*
#buttons li.blue {
background:url(uploads/template/buttonblue.png) center center no-repeat;
}

#buttons li.green {
background:url(uploads/template/buttongreen.png) center center no-repeat;
}

#buttons li.orange {
background:url(uploads/template/buttonorange.png) center center no-repeat;
}
*/
/* position for the search box */
div#search {
padding:20px 0px 20px 20px;
}

#search .label {
color:#a6a6a6;
text-align:left;
padding:5px 0;
}

#search input {
border:1px solid #cbb204;
color:#8c7802;
background:#fffce8;
padding:4px;
}

#search input.submit {
background:#cbb204;
color:#fff;
border:0px;
font-weight:bold;
}

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: 20%; /* 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;
/* padding: 10.5em; puts padding before menu on left side. commenting out because not looking quite right. with just this, bar still goes all the way across and doesn't look right.*/
}

div#footer {
clear: both; /* keep footer below content and menu */
color: #5a5954;
background-color: #eae9e2; /* same bg color as in header */
border-top:2px solid #dad9d0;
}

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: #5a5954;* 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;
color: #31346e;
}
div#content h2 {
color: #31346e;
font-size: 1.8em;
text-align: left;
line-height: 2em;
font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;
font-style:italic;
}
div#content h3 {
color: #31346e;
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 <code> 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 */

#above_content {
padding:5px 10px 25px 10px;
font-size:1.3em;
font-weight:bold;
color:#ff0000;
line-height:1.3em;
}

#above_content a {
text-decoration:underline;
}

#above_content p {
display:inline;
}

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:13 pm**

Also, while I'm on the topic of the overall layout not right, does anyone know how to add margins to the side of the website so horizontally it doesn't just go off into forever land? I'd like definite edges so it looks more like a piece of paper the website is on.

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:15 pm**

/* hide everything else! */
div#header,
div#header h1 a,
div.breadcrumbs,
div#search,
div#footer,
div#menu_vert,
div#news,
div.right49,
div.left49,
div#sidebar {
display: none !important;
}

This is in one of the stylesheets, this is in another :

div#footer {
clear: both; /* keep footer below content and menu */
color: #5a5954;
background-color: #eae9e2; /* same bg color as in header */
border-top:2px solid #dad9d0;
}

Why worry about colours if it is hidden?

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:52 pm**

So just create two new spreadsheets with the code you made and attach it to the main template?

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:13 pm**

Most likely the biggest problem you have its that there are way too many position: calls, they are very rarely needed especially for simple things...

Posted: **Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:00 pm**

Ok, I tried creating a stylesheet called footer and then putting the code in it

div#footer {
clear: both; /* keep footer below content and menu */
color: #5a5954;
background-color: #eae9e2; /* same bg color as in header */
border-top:2px solid #dad9d0;
}

attached the stylesheet to my template and then uncommented the code I had in it and it didn't work. Messed up just the same. I'm sure I'm just reading it wrong. I don't quite understand what stylesheets do.

I didn't design this website. But the person that did passed away so there's really no one to go to except me and this forum.

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