Spacing or padding around article blocks

[G6Cad]

Please, EDIT your posts instead of just adding a new one after your own.
From what i can see, your meny have an extra br between HOME and Topics link, if you look closer, you see that the space there are wider then the other

Also your top block ( or what ever it is ) that holds your add images free shipping, florals etc, contain more images then the width of the block can handle, the last blue image there beside the dental plan image are only 1/3 visible.

[Dianna]

Oh sorry about adding posts after my own posts.  Do you mean I have some extra space between my home and topics on my main menu?  I think that is just something I need to tweak in my template, I know how to fix that.  I'm going to be adding more items to my menu so I was going to tweak that spacing then. 

Oh, I'll have to take a look at the affiliate marquee scroll.  Those are all things I have to iron out.  I've been very involved in getting beta3 installed and figuring out the scroll problem. 

But my MAIN issue is that gray padding behind my article/sites pages, i.e. faqs, about, testimonials, etc.  That gray block is a mystery block. Zarprime said it was on the bug list. I've just added a frame around and am working around it at this point until the bug is looked into.  At least it's gray and sorta matches my site.

Thanks for looking at my site.  Check out that gray border around my articles, that is the culprit and my issue.   

I've taken this page so far and worked around it to incorporate it into the site since I can't do anything else with it. I put the frame around it to make to look nicer. It actually doesn't look too bad for now.  I'll let the site go live with it and will wait for the big fix.

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

ETA: Zarprime, please read this!!! Check it out -- One thing I've noticed when I added the frame to the gray mystery area on my ABOUT page to make it look nicer and when I tested it out, it just put the border around that mystery gray area.  Well, it appears that the gray padding/border is actually a frame itself but without the border on it!!!!! 

Look at my about page and then look at my other pages and look at the difference.  When I chose the FRAME option on the about page all it did was add the border to that gray area.  So if someone is looking at the bug, maybe that will help identify that gray area, I think is a FRAME setting that is stuck in the "ON" mode without a border on it.  And it's definitely the same gray as the frame settings in my right panel so I think it's definitely a frame without its border in articles that is set to ON in the coding. 

[ZarPrime]

I've looked at the about page several times and it actually looks very nice.

I don't have time right now to deal with this but either tonight or tomorrow I want to look at your site from the inside.  In order for me to do that, I am going to ask you to setup a temp account with full admin access.  I want to check some things first hand.  You can do that now if you want, but like I said I won't be able to look at it until at least tonight.

Once you've setup the temp account, PM the details to me (username and password).  Don't put that info here, just PM it to me.

ZarPrime

[Dianna]

Okay, sure, thanks!!!  I really appreciate it.  I'll go do that right now. BRB

ETA:  Oh, and yes I agree, with the border on that gray padding, it actually doesn't look bad. I can live with it. It makes the panels and article area line up at the top and that makes me happy so I can live with the bug if I have too.  I'm working on shrinking up the width of my HTML pages to fit this mystery frame/padding, but that's now big deal, it won't take me long.

I'm going to PM you now the login.

[ZarPrime]

Diana,

OK, please have a look at your Front Page now.  If you don't like it this way, I can change it back.

I'll check back here a little later.

ZarPrime

[Dianna]

I think it looks really good!  I like it a lot!  I can keep my pages at the width that I have them and I like the green top. I like it lot! 

So what does that mean?  Do I need to put all articles into a frontpage?  The one thing I didnt' like about that was how the URL looks with all of them in frontpages. And it seemed a bit confusing to work with. I didn't like how the articles in frontpages put the page numbers at the bottom, I would need to remove them.  I would have to find how to remove the pages at the bottom.

Let me know what I need to do. I really like it a lot though!  I guess I can live with weird looking URLs for my pages.  That could be a tradeoff.  I like it a lot!!!  Thank you so much.  Let me know.   

[ZarPrime]

Hi Diana,

No, what I would do is ...

1.  Have the Link in left Menu go straight to /index.php instead of to /index.php?page=home.

2.  Then I would setup your other articles to appear like the About Page.  This way, the other articles will look consistent with the way the about page looks and you won't have to worry about what the Home Article looks like, since clicking that link will take you straight back to the home page instead of to /index.php?page=home (the HomePage article).

This way, the article pages will still be article pages, and even though they will have the gray border, they'll still look pretty good.

The page number at the bottom only appears when an article is shown on the Front Page.  Since the Home article on the front page is now in a block it won't show the page number since it is the only page that will be on the Front Page.

LMK what you think.

ZarPrime

[Dianna]

ohhhhh, HUGE bummer, I thought you were going to say that I would be able to make all of my pages look like how you did the frontpage.  You teased me with that!!!  So I'm back to where I was, I just have the homepage looking the way I want all of my pages look. 

The reason I put the home link to the index.php?page=home is so that all of my pages would be consistent with the gray border. I'm picky like that, I want all to look alike.  That's why I built that link to look like that.  At one time I had the frontpage looking okay but the rest of the pages didn't.  I guess how you were able to do. 

So that cell padding is still going to have to be a work around.  I was excited to maybe get that green bar the top for all of my articles pages like you did.  HUGE Bummer, but I'll have to work with it and shrink up my pages like I did on the about page and continue on with putting a frame to make that damn cell padding have a border so it looks better. 

I'm sad, I was so excited with what you did on the frontpage.  Thank you for looking into and what you did. I do appreciate your time!  If you're like me, time seems to get sucked up quickly.  I wish I could get all of my pages to look like your frontpage.  :-( 

Thanks again though!  I'm off to start shrinking HTML pages. 

[ZarPrime]

Again, the gray border, if it is indeed a bug, will get fixed, but I can't make a bug go away in beta 3 just by wishing that it were so.   The last time I checked the bugtracker was this morning and it was still in there.  Hopefully, Bloc will be able to figure it out and fix it for beta 4, but I can't even guarantee that.  The gray border around the articles is just something that you are going to have to deal with until the bug is fixed.

On that green line across the top on the Front Page, it is just a front page block without a title and without any content, and set to show just the title (no frame).  If you want something like that above every article, you can probably setup an upper panel block to do the same thing, and set it to show on the pages of each article.  However, the gray border will still be in there as well.  There's nothing I can do about that at this time.

ZarPrime

[IchBin]

If you don't like the color gray in that spot, why not take it out?