[Pro] Help with site conversion from FWP 5.5 to 6

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I’ve almost finished converting a FWP 5.5 website to FWP 6.0.3. Plus, I’ve redesigned the site so that it’s now an inline layout, or at least I think it is. However, I’m having problems with the following pages that I hope someone will be able to help me with:

The horizontal rules for this page are not showing up. All the other properties in this section are fine:
http://wmp.idealynx.com/properties/cremation.html

Smooth Scroll is not working properly here, but Softpress tested it on their test site and it works fine:
http://wmp.idealynx.com/extras/funeral-terms.html

For some reason, nearly ALL of my web page navigation menu type appears bolded, save this page, which is what I want. What’s different about this page that makes the navigation type appear correctly?
http://wmp.idealynx.com/contact/location.php

Thanks in advance for your help.

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I’ve redesigned the site so that it’s now an inline layout, or at least I
think it is.

I don’t see it so much. The way the page breaks when resizing the text
makes me think there is a lot more you could do with your layout.

Also, there is a lot of what appears to be junk code in your site. For
example, TypeKit code for the Trajan font that I don’t see used on those
pages. Typekit Badge code uselessly inserted in the funeral terms page
between the </html> and </body> tags.

I will spare you my rant on your use of layout tables on the cremation
page.

The horizontal rules for this page are not showing up. All the other
properties in this section are fine:
http://wmp.idealynx.com/properties/cremation.html

Horizontal rules… do you mean the blue and gold divs titled “top-rule” and
“bottom-rule”? Or are there actual html <hr> elements in there somewhere?
Where exactly am I not seeing this?

Smooth Scroll is not working properly here, but Softpress tested it on
their test site and it works fine:
http://wmp.idealynx.com/extras/funeral-terms.html

I’m not that familiar with “Smooth Scroll” action, but I can’t seem to find
any javascript evidence that such a thing is applied to this page… could it
be that it’s not actually applied, or was improperly applied?

For some reason, nearly ALL of my web page navigation menu type appears

bolded, save this page, which is what I want. What’s different about this
page that makes the navigation type appear correctly?
http://wmp.idealynx.com/contact/location.php

They all look the same normal weight to me… no boldness I can see.

I’m using Safari 6 to view these pages.

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On 22 Feb 2013, 3:53 pm, The Big Erns wrote:

I’ve redesigned the site so that it’s now an inline layout, or at least I
think it is.

I don’t see it so much. The way the page breaks when resizing the text
makes me think there is a lot more you could do with your layout.

Crap. I made the page wrapper for each page an absolute element, instead of an inline item. That sucks. I wonder if I can easily cut and paste all of the elements into an inline wrapper.

Also, there is a lot of what appears to be junk code in your site. For
example, TypeKit code for the Trajan font that I don’t see used on those
pages. Typekit Badge code uselessly inserted in the funeral terms page
between the and tags.

Yeah, I need to clean that up.

I will spare you my rant on your use of layout tables on the cremation
page.

Please indulge me. This is the only way I know how to line up info like that. If there’s another, better way, please share.

The horizontal rules for this page are not showing up. All the other
properties in this section are fine:
http://wmp.idealynx.com/properties/cremation.html

Horizontal rules… do you mean the blue and gold divs titled “top-rule” and
“bottom-rule”? Or are there actual html `` elements in there somewhere?
Where exactly am I not seeing this?

The blue horizontal rules are within the tables, under the heading “Pricing” and “Memorial:”. You’ll see an example here: http://wmp.idealynx.com/properties/burial.html

Smooth Scroll is not working properly here, but Softpress tested it on
their test site and it works fine:
http://wmp.idealynx.com/extras/funeral-terms.html

I’m not that familiar with “Smooth Scroll” action, but I can’t seem to find
any javascript evidence that such a thing is applied to this page… could it
be that it’s not actually applied, or was improperly applied?

Perhaps. How do I check?

For some reason, nearly ALL of my web page navigation menu type appears

bolded, save this page, which is what I want. What’s different about this
page that makes the navigation type appear correctly?
http://wmp.idealynx.com/contact/location.php

They all look the same normal weight to me… no boldness I can see.

I’m using Safari 6 to view these pages.

Weird, I’m using Safari 6 too and I can definately see a difference in the Nav type when in the Contact > Location page.

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Is there anyway to easily turn an absolute item into an inline item?

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Ernie, how are you testing the page breaks?

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Also, how do I prevent the Navigation Bar from moving to the left when the user reduces the browser width?

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If you cut it from your layout, then double-click inside another HTML element and paste, as if the HTML box was a bit of text, you will make that element an inline (relative-positioned) child of the element you pasted it into. You can then adjust its position using floats, margins, and so forth, and any other content within the parent element will be affected by that inline element.

Walter

On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:19 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

Is there anyway to easily turn an absolute item into an inline item?

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Well, be careful with cutting and pasting inside. In Pro6 I have
experienced some difficulty with that - perhaps related to Master pages,
I’m not sure - but I’ve had the paste be incomplete, as in some but not all
or boxes without text and image content.

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hiddenwrote:

If you cut it from your layout, then double-click inside another HTML
element and paste, as if the HTML box was a bit of text, you will make that
element an inline (relative-positioned) child of the element you pasted it
into. You can then adjust its position using floats, margins, and so forth,
and any other content within the parent element will be affected by that
inline element.

Walter

On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:19 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

Is there anyway to easily turn an absolute item into an inline item?

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On 22 Feb 2013, 5:31 pm, waltd wrote:

If you cut it from your layout, then double-click inside another HTML element and paste, as if the HTML box was a bit of text, you will make that element an inline (relative-positioned) child of the element you pasted it into. You can then adjust its position using floats, margins, and so forth, and any other content within the parent element will be affected by that inline element.

Walter

On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:19 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

Walter, thank you so much for your help. I truly appreciate all of your constructive and helpful advice. So, the first thing I need to do, and where I clearly screwed up, is create an inline container for all of the child elements. Is that correct?

Also, all of my pages are based on a Master Page(s). If I correct the Master Page with the technique you’ve outlined above won’t everything in my linked site pages break?

I can see this being a real train wreck if I do this wrong. :slight_smile:

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I would experiment with a new Master Page. Draw a single HTML element on it somewhere. Then double-click inside that box and choose Insert / HTML Item from the main menu. Expand that inline element to a useful size, put some content in it, make it a color, whatever else you like. Then double-click next to it and insert another element. Repeat.

Make an instance page based on this new master, and preview it in a browser. Go back and change the master at any level you like – inline element, outermost HTML element, whatever. Preview again and note if your changes took in the the way you expected them to.

Now alter the instance page in some way. Add another inline element to the outermost container, preview again, see if it works the way you expect. Finally, go back to the master and make more changes. You should be able to alter any master content that isn’t directly altered itself on the instance page and have those changes propagate to your instance page anyway.

All of the foregoing is true of 6, not 5.5 or earlier.

Walter

On Feb 22, 2013, at 1:44 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

On 22 Feb 2013, 5:31 pm, waltd wrote:

If you cut it from your layout, then double-click inside another HTML element and paste, as if the HTML box was a bit of text, you will make that element an inline (relative-positioned) child of the element you pasted it into. You can then adjust its position using floats, margins, and so forth, and any other content within the parent element will be affected by that inline element.

Walter

On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:19 PM, RavenManiac wrote:

Walter, thank you so much for your help. I truly appreciate all of your constructive and helpful advice. So, the first thing I need to do, and where I clearly screwed up, is create an inline container for all of the child elements. Is that correct?

Also, all of my pages are based on a Master Page(s). If I correct the Master Page with the technique you’ve outlined above won’t everything in my linked site pages break?

I can see this being a real train wreck if I do this wrong. :slight_smile:

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Gotcha. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks Walter.

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