Theme Customizing

The first one puts over 1.5″ of white space below the menu, with an “Edit” link in the middle of that, which should be at the bottom of the page.

Are you sure this edit link would be visible to anyone other than you or your editors?

The second on has 1.5″ of white space for the left and right margins, which then compress the text into the middle, causing violation of rule #1.

I don’t understand the problem this causes.

Andrew,

Item #1 it’s the white space that is reserved for this “Edit” link that has to go, so moving it to the bottom where it should be would resolve most of that problem. Not sure if there is other white space defined, but violates the no more than 15% white space rule.

Item #2 or anything that “squeezes” text, that makes the “home” page scrollable. The non-scrollable home page rule has been in effect since 1994, and will never change because you loose “stickiness” if the viewer can not see everything they need to know about you and your company at the “first view”! This is based on the KISS, “The first impressions are lasting impressions” and stickiness rules/guideline established in 1994 and Google, the #1 site in the world, follows these religiously!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by TBotNik.

Can you show us your website?

Andrew,

Also why does this theme, cancel the ordered and unordered list indents. Having to use multiple instances of “hard space” characters and hand number to get a proper list.

OMR

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by TBotNik.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by TBotNik.

Andrew,

You can only see the website with an edit entry to your “/etc/hosts” file, since you get penalized 18 months on SEO from Google if you set the “A Record”/DNS before the site is 100% complete. So NO, not giving you access to that!

Cheers!

OMR

I’m sorry there’s little help I can give without seeing the Webpage with the problem. If your issue persists on a page in the theme’s demo site you can provide a link to that page.

Unless there is a bug in the theme, the “why does the theme do things this way” is answered by “it was designed to do that”.

Andrew,

Well if this theme is purposefully designed to increase white space and violate native HTML operations, such as indents, what other theme similar to this one do you have that actually allows us normal HTML operations and control of the white space.

I’ve looked over several of the 20-something themes and chose this one as from the demo it appeared to have everything I needed, but obviously not; as these restrictions did not show in the demo. Additionally I’m trying to change the colors of the menu and this theme does not have the normal “Menu Editor” where I can change these so now have menu bar of white on aqua blue but fly outs are white on white, so nothing can be seen.

Appreciate the help!

OMR

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by TBotNik.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by TBotNik.

Changing the theme design is difficult, but introducing control to change theme design is even harder. Realistically, you may have to use another theme that has this control built in.

Looking at the menu bar for example, it is far easier for us to suggest a CSS fix rather than an option to change the colour in the dashboard. Are you okay with this?

Some design features are more difficult to change than others, such as the design of the header image. There are many support topics requesting change to the design of the header image and they remain unresolved because of this difficulty.

Andrew,

OK, Got the site finished and turned on the DNS, so in 24-48 hours after “A Record” propagation through all the gateway servers you’ll see the site at:

com-co-inc.com

Then we can discuss the problems.

Cheers!

OMR