[support] Understanding how a theme 'works'

[Michelle Ziegmann]

Roger,

I've used Marinelli on a few sites and have been really happy with the 
css.  I think some things have been altered in your theme's css that has 
made everything go askew. Here are a few things I found that made 
significant improvements to the layout:

1. The <div class="eksymbol"> that I believe you must have added has 
shifted everything to the right 130px.  I would get rid of that and put 
it in a different way, like as a logo.

2. In both #submenu and #wrapper, remove the left:130px and left:145px

3. In ul. links, remove width:970px

Hope that's helpful!

Michelle


On 11/23/2010 7:28 PM, Roger wrote:
> I don't know if anyone can help me but I am in a big problem
> understanding how a theme works in Drupal6.19
>
> I'm using Marinelli - Giordani to create a site www.drupal.eckankar.org.au.
>
> It's roughly ok but has problems I do not understand.
>
> The member's login is way off the bottom of the content wrapper.
> I found the<div class that handles it but cannot successfully
> reposition the components.
>
> I need the quote slide show to appear top right corner of the page, nit
> in the content, but if I use the blocks to relocate it it disappears.
>
> Also the designers have put a wide variety of .contentblocks to be all
> things to all people however it prohibits me from relocating some of the
> menu components which are in the .rsidebar and .lsidebar
>
> Basically I need all the output to appear in the .wrapper. if you go to
> the site and click on an underlined date in the calendar you can see
> what I mean.
>
> Another nagging issue is that in on Apple Mac the whole page is wrecked,
> it does not zoom. The logo goes up and  left.
> It is position:relative to #page which does not alter in position or
> dimension.
>
>
> I do not know if I'm even explaining the problem right, it's very
> confusing as there seems to be overrides from the system and the
> Marinelli theme systems that I cannot find using Firebug.
>
> thanks in advance
> Roger