IE obscuring CSS menus

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I need a little help.

In IE7 on the PC the Gallery pages of this site

   http://dantucker.co.uk/cityscape/

the CSS menus are being obscured by the pictures. The pix for the Galleries
are produced from LightRoom using a Flash gallery exporter.

On Safari and Firefox [Mac] the menus come out on top.

Best wishes Peter

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Hi Dan

I had the same issues when building my website http://www.jamiejonesphoto.co.uk/

From what I understand here is that any Flash gallery will always be the front item on your webpage. My menus would drop in behind the gallery and wouldn’t work until the gallery fully loaded. From what I am lead to beleive there is not much that can be done about this.

All that I could do was shorten the menus and lower the gallery, so that the menus didn’t drop down behind the gallery. I still have to wait for the gallery to fully load for the menus to work correctly.

I also did some quick gallery page links on the gallery pages so people would click them instead if using the drop down menus.

If you find a better solution I would be grateful if you can let me know.

I did my Galleries in Lightroom using the SlideShowPro pluging

Looking at your website, you could lower your gallery frame.

Out of interest how did you load your different galleries on to the pages?

I ended up using the iFrame and pointing it to different Gallery index pages that were store in different gallery folders on the web server. I spent days messing about with this issue.

One thing that I did notice was that the images in your galleries appear soft which I feel impacts on the visual appreciation of some very nice pictures.

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on 28/02/2009 18:46, Snapper at email@hidden wrote:

Hi Dan

I had the same issues when building my website
http://www.jamiejonesphoto.co.uk/

From what I understand here is that any Flash gallery will always be the
front item on your webpage. My menus would drop in behind the gallery and
wouldn’t work until the gallery fully loaded. From what I am lead to beleive
there is not much that can be done about this.

Yes, but it works fine fine in Safari and Firefox on the Mac. But on the pC,
IE, FF AND Sb4 have the same problem.

All that I could do was shorten the menus and lower the gallery, so that the
menus didn’t drop down behind the gallery. I still have to wait for the
gallery to fully load for the menus to work correctly.

I also did some quick gallery page links on the gallery pages so people would
click them instead if using the drop down menus.

Yes I could have changed the way the site worked, but did not want to do
that.

If you find a better solution I would be grateful if you can let me know.

Hopefully someone who does know what is wrong will post to the list.

I did my Galleries in Lightroom using the SlideShowPro pluging

Looking at your website, you could lower your gallery frame.

Out of interest how did you load your different galleries on to the pages?

The galleries each in their own folder/directory were created using
SimpleViewer out of LightRoom, then we bought the pro version so we could
control the layout:

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/viewers/

Then in FW just created an HTML frame on the page and dropped the viewer.swf
file into it and published then copied the other files created by Airtight
Viewers into the gallery folders.

I ended up using the iFrame and pointing it to different Gallery index pages
that were store in different gallery folders on the web server. I spent days
messing about with this issue.

One thing that I did notice was that the images in your galleries appear soft
which I feel impacts on the visual appreciation of some very nice pictures.

That’s down to the photographer, Dan, I’ll pass your comments along.

Best wishes Peter

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Thanks Peter

That only helped when I had a framing issue but does nothing for assisting my css menus from having issues when a frame with a flash gallery is on the page. The csss menu still breaks up and drops down behind the flash gallery. This seems to be a fault that Freeway just can’t get around in its current state.

You have to wait for all items in the gallery to load before the css menu works

Regards

Jamie

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on 01/03/2009 16:54, Snapper at email@hidden wrote:

Thanks Peter

That only helped when I had a framing issue but does nothing for assisting my
css menus from having issues when a frame with a flash gallery is on the page.
The csss menu still breaks up and drops down behind the flash gallery. This
seems to be a fault that Freeway just can’t get around in its current state.

I see Joe Billings has made some suggestions how you might fix your
problems, best wishes wit fixing them.

You have to wait for all items in the gallery to load before the css menu
works

That’s not what I see here, on Mac or PC, the menus load with the page, then
the images load, you can check this using the Develop/Web inspector as
mentioned by Dave.

BTW I’ve mentioned your comments about the soft pix to Dan, he’s had a
rethink and has sharpened them more.

Thanks for you suggestions

Best wishes Peter

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