Spacing or padding around article blocks

[ZarPrime]

Diana,

On the spacing issue for the article, you might want to take a look at this bug report I made about a week or so ago.  I believe that your issue might be related to this bug ---> http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?action=bugtracker;sa=bug466

Take a look at this report and read the associated topic that I reference in my post.  The way I temporarily fixed it for this member was to put their article into a Front Page block.  If this is the same issue, it is still an open bug and the fix for now would be as I state in the report, to place the article into a "single article" Front Page block.

Here's a link to a message describing what I actually did to make the article show without the gray border. -->  http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php/topic,28507.msg227167.html#msg227167

ZarPrime

[Dianna]

Hi Zarprime,

1. FOOTER question - thanks for the footer info. That does put me closer to what I want, but I'm wanting to find where the TP Portal copyright is so I can put it in the same line as the SMF copyright.  Ichbin said this has been addressed in the forum so I need to do some more looking. But I will for sure probably add my footer as you showed. Then I can move the entire thing to the SMF footer area. 

2. I just looked at you bug report and in my quite a few hours searching on the forum I had already read that thread. So I'm glad I'm on the right track when you referred me to that thread.  I think you're right with the frontpage because when I had put my homepage html into the frontpage it looked much better.  I can try the frontpage way but wouldn't that only fix my homepage?  I have all of my site HTML pages pulled over into TP. Or can you put all pages into a frontpage single article setting??

[ZarPrime]

Diana,

If you want to try my single article category block method with more than one article, simply create a FrontPage (Single Article) block for each article, and then place them one right after the other.  In your case, I would uncheck all the visual options and show the blocks without the title or frame.

Why don't you try it out, and if you don't like it you can always turn the blocks off and switch back to just showing articles instead of showing Front Page blocks containing the articles.

On the question about which file contains the the TP copyright, I'm not sure off the top of my head so I'd have to search for that as well.  I've got a few minutes, so I'll see if I can find it.

ZarPrime

[ZarPrime]

For the copyright location, read this message and the rest of the topic --> http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php/topic,24164.msg195035.html#msg195035

I'm not sure that it is stil there, but it probably is.

ZarPrime

[Dianna]

Hi Zarprime,

I just did a test of putting my "about" page into a frontpage to see if it fixes that bug. I'm confused because I made the about page with the "show on frontpage" option, that was the only way I could figure out how to make each article as a frontpage. Is that the right way? 

But then the confusion is also that the about page is now my actual homepage and my homepage is now at another link.  I'm sure that can be fixed somehow by how they show one after the other but in looking at how the URL is for the home page now, I don't like how those pages show up for the URL.

I like how it used to be like this:

www.schreeandbaby.com/index.php?page=about

So is that what I have to give up in order to get all my site pages to work right?  That sucks actually.   This whole thing is because of the gray border or padding behind the articles. Something that seems so small but very important to the look of my site. SIGH.  Do you know when the bug could be looked at because setting all of my pages in the frontpage way just doesn't seem right and look right. It's confusing.

I also have to go and look because I did the php content line that Ichbin gave me but my images aren't showing up with the php coding. My images are in the same folder that the php coding is pointing to.  Sigh. 

That cell padding issue and these scrolling iframes have had me hung up for a week on just that. I can't seem to get past these issues so I can get my site built. This is a radio show with listeners waiting for the site to come up. I have a lot of pressure right now to get this site up. I'm so hung on these issues. Yes, meltdown starting. Sorry.

I do appreciate all of everyone's help. I just can't these 2 issues ironed out.

[Dianna]

Hi Ichbin,

Thanks again for the php block code to insert content. I tested it out on my about page and my images disappear. They are located within the same folder as my html page. 

example:
/pages/about.html
/pages/images

I dont' know what to do to make the images show?

www.schreeandbaby.com/index.php to see what I'm talking about. Ignore that the about is on the home page, that's what I'm melting down about in my above post. I'm at a loss with that cell padding and putting all pages into frontpage articles just doesn't seem to be the idea way to help that bug.  I'm at a loss on it and it doesn't look good on my pages.  

[IchBin]

This is the beauty of Firebug. When you have little issues like this, Firebug can show you the fix in 5 seconds. If you click on an images, you can see the path. Since your images are being loaded in TP/SMF now instead of the iframe, you have to supply the relative path to SMF's index.php file. If your pages directory is in the same directory as your index.php file for SMF, you simple change the path. With firebug, you can do this live right on the webpage by clicking on the inspect button, then highlighting the image you want to check. Then look at the HTML code in the firebug window. You can then click on the path of the image and test things. Try it out, and you'll see how cool firebug is.

[Dianna]

Hi Ichbin, I just did a property check on the image on the page and I think I can tell how it's reading wrong. I will have to check out firebug. 

One thing, just call me crazy, but I have the test page in the php code block as you instructed and I STILL see a scroll at the bottom of the article.  I've cleared my cache and it's still there. I know it's calling the php code because of the images being gone. Take a look and see if you still see the scroll? 

If you do, then it's that bug that zarprime is talking about and I'm really about to freak for not being able to get this worked out so I can get on with my site design.

Look and see if you can still see the scroll

http://www.schreeandbaby.com/index.php

ETA:  Ichbin, look at this page to see the about page that is using the PHP code, I took it out of the frontpage setting.  Go here to see the php code that still has the scroll:

http://www.schreeandbaby.com/index.php?page=about

I'm thinking when in Rome.....I might just reformat, squeeze up and shrink up all of my HTML pages,  to fit this mystery padding so it may fix the scroll that way. Not sure what else to do.

[Dianna]

Zarprime, I'm taking my test page out of the frontpage option, it's not working. I can't get some of the top coding to go away, it shows the date and article title, and views and ratings, EVEN though I don't have them checked.  This work around of putting into the frontpage options is just making matters worse for my issue. The URL's look bad and it just doesn't look good.  I'm going to go back to the original problem of having my articles set up correctly but going back to have just the cell padding bug to worry about and go from there. 

Do you know if anyone is looking in to the bug or when?  I'm hitting frustration on this one simple issue because it's messing up the look of my entire site, outside of the forum. The forum looks great.

[IchBin]

If you take out the code you have in that article/block in the middle, do you still have the scroll problem at the bottom?