I know little to nothing about HTML or CSS (but I am trying to learn little by little).
I am currently working on my professional portfolio and I'd like to break the website up a bit better than I have it now now (that is, with horizontal lines after each section). I've designed the website so that it is a one-page style site. However, it would be nice to change the content background for different sections of my resume, the about me (which I know needs more work, I hate talking about myself lol), and the contact me parts of the site. I'm thinking something along these lines, but much simpler.
I'm currently running Wordpress 3.8.1 and using the Highwind theme. I achieved the scrolling action with the Page 2 Scroll ID plugin. What you should be aware of is that all the content on the site is on a single page and the menu buttons merely point to different locations on the page by the way of divs. See this tutorial for a better explanation.
I'm not sure you're going to be able to get this happening with the Highwind Theme, or at least without some heavy customization of it.
The way the types of sites you're talking about work is that each section of the page has a 100% wide div with a 1255px wide div (the inside div could be anything really as long as it's not 100%) the inner div is centered inside the 100% wide outer div.
Here's a very quick codepen example...
http://codepen.io/catchlightWeb/pen/tpKrG/
For your example, instead of the SectionOuterOne and SectionOuterTwo classes having different colors, they'd have different background images.
Hope that helps.
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I'm working on a responsive email design and running into some trouble. It partially works but I'm thinking I need fresh set of eyes and help cause I'm not finding the solutions. I think the nav links are what's creating most of the problems but unsure if that's really the problem.
Basically I want the email to be responsive and stack to pretty much a single column with exceptions.
The problems I'm running into are these:
Whole page isn't fully responsive - ( get sidescroll part of the way )
wide ads 565x70 doesn't seem to change size
Top nav with social icons are not stacking properly. I want the left links to not move (maybe center if needed for small screens) but social icons stack below the other links. 3 columns wide preferably just like they are now just want the icons below the menu.
nav menu below the logo - Here I want them to center with smaller screens but also stack in order with 2 columns wide. I've tried fluid text that wraps but it didn't seem to work for some reason.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've tested and tried other resource items but seem to be failing with what should work according to the other resources.
Below is the link to template.
http://bit.ly/1u67HDG
thanks.
Well, you will need a responsive css. I am a big fan of Twitter Bootstrap. You will design your entire email as a normal site with your tags and include your CSS.
Here you can look at these awesome CSS's that are responsive:
http://getbootstrap.com/
http://metroui.org.ua/
http://www.99lime.com/
http://purecss.io/
http://gumbyframework.com/
Your are setting inline widths on images and tables. The CSS in the header can't override the inline declarations.
Thanks. It seems that I mostly had each table on their own. So I created wrappers, double checked the widths re-added classes and etc. It seems to be working pretty good now.
Sometimes a fresh pair of eyes helps. Thanks again.
P.S. J.otero - Frameworks are good if you're using it for the web but they will do little to nothing for email.
I have a client that is looking for a Wordpress plugin or theme that will display an image over a rotating slider, similar to the home page here: https://www.threebakers.com/
Any thoughts on an out-of-the box solution, or do I need to build this one by hand?
Ironically, I did this exact thing on this site here:
http://www.gilbertmeatlocker.com
Its using the popular Flex Slider, but its not Wordpress. I was working with Drupal on that particular site, so its a custom implement of the stand-alone javascript Flex Slider.
I had to fiddle around with z-index and I used negative-margins to move elements into position.
That particular implementation on gilbertmeatlocker.com is extra complex because the silver frame around the edge is also overlapping the Flex Slider. I would recommend not doing a frame like this if possible, though. It added some serious bugs that were difficult to make work on all browsers.
Putting a single image over the slider like your bakery example or the gilbertmeatlocker.com logo shouldn't be a problem though.
If noone else recommends something better, you could try Flex Slider. There is a Wordpress version of it.
I'm trying to make a sample web page to get acquainted with HTML5, and I'd like to try replicating Facebook's page layout; that is, the header that spans the entire width of the screen, a small footer at the bottom, and a three-column main body, consisting of a list of links on the left, the main content in the middle, and an optional section on the right (for ads, frames, etc.). It's neat and displays well in multiple window sizes.
So far, I've tried to accomplish this with a <header>, <footer> and a <nav> and <section> block, respectively. There's a few anomalies with the page, however. The footer (which contains a simple text block with copyright info) appears at the top-right of the page below the header when the window is maximized. On the other hand, when there isn't enough space to display everything in the window, it places the main body text below the section. In other words, it keeps moving elements around to fit the window.
Could someone please tell me how I'd achieve the look I'm going for? I've tried playing around with a few CSS attributes I read about through Google, but I'm pretty sure I don't know what I'm doing, and could really use some guidance.
Thank you!
This isn't an HTML5 question as much as it is a basic understanding of HTML and CSS. If you're going to jump in to web dev you're going to need to understand basic CSS like floating etc. I would recommend some tutorials on YouTube or NetTuts. Just play around with a few divs, move them around the page, manipulate them with CSS and it will start to come together. Then making a three column layout with fixed header and footer will seem like a piece of cake.
Floating Divs w/ CSS
I find CSS to be super hard. It is quite difficult to make a page that looks good and works on lots of different platforms and browsers. You may find it easiest to use a css framework, such as Bootstrap.
Drop that into your website, and use it to make your layout. Use the dev tools for your browser (Firebug for firefox) to examine the styles that are being applied to the various elements. Modify the styles to suit your needs.
HTML5 doesn't really give you a page layout for free. The elements you mention (header, section,etc) are used to create semantic pages, rather than to specify how they should be displayed.
Can't help much without your code. But I am sure it is because of float issue. add this CSS property to your footer clear: both
Hope it might help.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make yourself a little hack, or if you're looking for a complete library that will do all this for you, but if you're looking for the latter, I recommend Twitter Bootstrap, which is a cross-platform solution for implementing many HTML5 features, and even resorts to fallbacks for non-modern browsers. The only drawback is the requirement of jQuery in order to initialize the components that are responsive*. However, this is optional if you are not looking to implement these features. The responsive design, amazingly, does not require javascript since it is pure CSS. Hope this helps!
*Edit: meant "interactive" there, not "responsive."
My website is built, (graphically designed) to be compact. Because my background will not look good on repeat, fixed, or with a white/black gradient towards the bottom. The thing is, I need to have a fixed content area, because of the graphical nature of my site. A box, which has to remain the same size, at all times. So, my question is, can I use wordpress, in such a way, that I will get a sort of iframe, within my content area, without the content area dragging on for how long the content is ? Let me show you an example of what I want : http://s15.postimage.org/obk0ivffv/2352366d.png
Can this be done, in wordpress ? Through CSS or something ? Thank you.
Just wrap your content in a div, and set a max-height and overflow-y:scroll on that container with css.
Edit: fiddle example
http://jsfiddle.net/Kncy6/
I have a site based on Solar Sentinel Joomla template. www.sism.org
I'm having some visualization problem with chrome.
The right side-bar is shifted down after all the content, while it should be floating on the right!
Could someone explain me why?
PS: the template css is pretty messy, and there is some custom css and js made by me inline at the beginning of the page.
EDITED
It's hard to answer your question because you've not provided any code or other way for us to determine what might be going on for you.
At a guess, I'm going to say that the main content div on your page is extending (in width) and forcing the sidebar to drop underneath.
You can test this by making your main content section slimmer and see if the right hand bar decides to shift back into place.
As for why this might only be happening in Chrome and not other browsers, it's hard to know without more information.