[support] Help greatly needed (and appreciated!) - they should be the same! - why aren't they the same?!

Fri Apr 24 11:39:19 UTC 2009

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:46 PM, spaceboy_psy <sp_spaceboy at msn.com> wrote:
>
> "I'm not sure where your comfort with CSS is so I'll just sort of stop here
> on the CSS stuff."
>
> Hahaha, good call Brian, as this is all completely new to me!
>
> Fantastic guys, this is really impressive stuff thank you very much indeed.
>
> So I have to find '...themes/garland/style.css' and make the changes there?
not really, please take a look at the theming section in the doco, it
s better if you override default themes with a sub-theme, otherwise at
the next update your changes will be deleted.
>
> I'm a volunteer at the place I'm doing this for, so I'll get propery into
> all this on Saturday and almost certainly come back here with some more
> questions.
>
> In the meantime, is it at all simple to explain why these two feeds have
> ended up different? Is it that the new one I created (the News feed with the
> problem) has been created with troublesome default settings, whereas the
> original, the Features feed on the front page, must have been changed
> manually with CSS to have its present appearance?
>
> Ok, I'll be back on Saturday to really hack away at this, many thanks guys!
>
> Simon
>
>
> Brian Choc wrote:
>>
>> I'll expand on this a little bit.
>>
>> Here's the code from your style.css file which established the header
>> styles:
>>
>> #sidebar-right h2, h2.heading, .block h2{
>>       background:#027ac6;
>>       color:#ffffff;
>>         ...
>> }
>>
>> This section, among other things, sets the background to blue and the H2
>> text to white.  However, as Tom points out, this is being overriden by the
>> anchor tag surrounding your titles, which brings in this style:
>>
>> a:link, a:visited {
>>   color: #027AC6;
>>   text-decoration: none;
>> }
>>
>> and also
>>
>> a:hover {
>>   color: #0062A0;
>>   text-decoration: underline;
>> }
>>
>> So you will probably want to adjust the colors for the hover color as
>> well,
>> but of course only for the specific situations where this blue-on-blue
>> comes
>> up.  If you're not familiar with the Firebug add-on for Firefox, you
>> should
>> look into it as it's a great way to find out things like "where is that
>> color coming from?"  I'm not sure where your comfort with CSS is so I'll
>> just sort of stop here on the CSS stuff.
>>
>> One other thing though: you're using the Garland theme and these styles
>> are
>> coming from the /themes/garland/style.css file.  If you'll be doing any
>> substantial changes, you may want to look into setting up a sub-theme
>> rather
>> than modifying the included style.css file because any installing a new
>> version of Drupal will overwrite your changes.  If it's just going to be
>> one
>> or two little things (like this color change), that's probably not
>> necessary.  However, you will want to make sure you note your changes so
>> you
>> can recreate them later when an upgrade is done.
>>
>> Hope that helps, too,
>> Brian
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Tom Lucas <tech4him at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Good news!  ;o) Looks like just a styling issue. The headlines are there
>>> but styling like your generic links. i.e. both the link text color and
>>> the
>>> block color are the same.
>>>
>>> You'll want to add something like this to your CSS. I'm not a CSS guy so
>>> I'm only giving a place to start.
>>>
>>> .view-content .view-content-News-only-News-Feed a
>>> {
>>> color:#FFFFFF;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Hope that helps
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM, spaceboy_psy <sp_spaceboy at msn.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello there!
>>>>
>>>> I'm having an annoying problem with a News Feed. Long story short, I'm
>>>> very
>>>> new to Drupal, trying to help sort out this website that was created by
>>>> someone else a few years ago, so I apologise if I don't give all the
>>>> pertinent info straight away, I'll do my best but please ask if more
>>>> details
>>>> are needed! It's for Edinburgh's Peace & Justice Centre, so it's helping
>>>> a
>>>> good cause. I just don't know what to do in this situation...
>>>>
>>>> If you could have a look at this page:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.peaceandjustice.org.uk/
>>>>
>>>> you'll see the Recent Features feed, on the right panel.
>>>>
>>>> And here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.peaceandjustice.org.uk/news
>>>>
>>>> you'll see the Our News feed on the right panel.
>>>>
>>>> Previously, they were the exact same feed. I succeeded in creating a new
>>>> feed for the News page which would only show News items, and editting
>>>> the
>>>> front page feed to only show Features and Analysis. BUT, although as far
>>>> as
>>>> I can tell I made the News feed to be exactly the same as the frontpage
>>>> feed, except for the filter, as you will have noticed the headings for
>>>> each
>>>> item are different and you can't read the headings on the News page
>>>> until
>>>> you hold the mouse over them or Select All text.
>>>>
>>>> So I want the appearance of the news feed to be the same as the Recent
>>>> Features feed on the front page. But after going through all the
>>>> Administer
>>>> menus several times the only thing I can find that might help is to edit
>>>> the
>>>> colours in the Garland Theme somehow, but I'm reluctant to do this
>>>> incase
>>>> it
>>>> makes some big changes elsewhere - particularly worried I do something
>>>> that's hard to turn back, like what I've done on the News feed! I'm
>>>> really
>>>> hoping there's a really obvious solution to this that someone will
>>>> recognise
>>>> immediately, that would be just fab.
>>>>
>>>> As I said, please ask for more info if it's necessary, need to get this
>>>> fixed soon as possible so people can read the news headlines! ^_^
>>>>
>>>> Many many thanks
>>>>
>>>> Simon
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