By kenwen on

Hi all,

I want to discuss the possibility of getting some cleaning up done on our website.

We've just upgraded to 4.7.1 and shoehorned in a load of features.

As expected we have run into some problems, luckily most of them minor

Firstly:
The video nodes do not display properly in IE - the link is here, http://www.londonkettlebells.com/cms/taxonomy/term/64+65+66

for whatever reason it displays perfectly in Firefox so I think its probably a CSS problem

Secondly:
TinyMCE not appearing for comments - its enabled and even has the toggle for disabling it on display but no editor

Thirdly:
The most simple, user pictures need to be aligned in comments as for the nodes (ie sitting on the underling of title)

I'd like the CSS tidied up as much as possible, my theme is based on boxgrey but its a mess as I've been cramming bits in. In conjunction with that I'd like the CSS annotated so I can see what changes will affect what elements.

Some stuff to do if this goes well:
An overhaul of the way the site works. Right now we have a blogging community in the back but I'd like to set it up as a whole community so when someone clicks on "community" - they get the community drupal site with blogs, news headlines, articles etc - I'd then want a fancier menu system where the "community" menu will have blogs, articles, galleries, videos etc

Instructor Listings:
Some users will be listed as instructors on their profiles (this will be set by the site admin so must be hidden and only changed by the admin) - I'd like to have a directory of all instructors with the ability to "sticky" a chosen few. Looking at the profileplus module it looks like this is almost what I need. Hoevever, I'd want it to display all users that meet the criteria of instructor and when the search is run it narrows it down.

The bounty for the first part will be $100 - I think I could do it but spending a few weeks tearing my hair out when someone here has the answers for an hour or two's worth of work. Hmm :)

The second part is up for negotiation.

I've sent the same enquiry to a company in the UK that provides this service and at the earliest, will let people know tomorrow (Friday) what our plan is.

Best regards,
Ken

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Comments

Tiburón’s picture

Tiburón commented

Hi Ken

It looks to me that you have stumbled into the Peek-a-boo IE6 Bug.

Short story: content touching a floatede element is hidden (white on white). Using the mouse to select the area will reveal the hidden text. You can finde the full description of the bug at: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html

The fix is to start your style sheet with a rule that gives every element layout status in IE.

* { zoom: 1;  }

This sets all elements to have a zoom level of 1 mening 100% or no change (you can always over rule this later in your CSS file). IE will now see all elements as having layout, which defeats the Peek-a-boo bug.

That should take care of the first problem.

For the second problem you need to give more information about your setup.

  • Which version of the TinyMCE Drupal module?
  • Which version of TinyMCE?
  • Is access to TinyMCE enabled for the apropiate user roles?
  • Have you created TinyMCE roles/setups for the user roles?

Using a Drupal 4.7 installation (test server not yet upgraded to 4.7.1) I did a fresh install of the TinyMCE module, downloaded the newest version (2.0.6.1) of TinyMCE from http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/download.php and went through the setup of access and TinyMCE roles. My default setup was not to show editor, but let the user activate it. Anonymous users had one set of buttons and authenticated users had even more buttons.

It seemed to work nicely.

Have you solved the third problem yourself?

I visited:

DIPPING | London Kettlebells
http://www.londonkettlebells.com/cms/blogs/andy97/685#comment

and the user picture for the comment is placed (in Firefox) as you describe for nodes.

Anyroad ... the solution is to edit your comment.tpl.php to place the $picture the apropiate place if set and perhaps add a line or two in your CSS to float it and add margins. Use your node.tpl.php for reference so they will look alike.

Regards,

Christian Larsen

kenwen’s picture

kenwen commented

:)

it works for the vids but there are now breaks after anything that's been floated - will see what I can do about that. EDIT: Changed it to * { line-height: 1.1; } and it works!

RE: TinyMCE module - 4.7, tinyMCE 2061, access is all set up, the only time that all users can't use TinyMCE is for comment entry

third task - working on it but one of the reasons I wanted to farm it out is I ahve a few weeks of work that means I cant do the web work for the company.

The offer is still open if you're interested - the main one (for the initial work) is annotating the stylesheet so i can change things at will :)

thanks a lot for the help, appreciate it