Problem when creating new block region on front page, sidebar won't align. Please help!

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IFAM's picture

Hi,

We're currently designing our first OP (sub)theme and are having a problem when creating a new block on the homepage.

We've created the block with the following code;

Added;

regions[featured] = Featured

to the .INFO file.

Added;

<

div id="featured"

<?php
print $featured
?>

Above '

<

div id="sidebar-right" class="sidebar">' in page-front.tpl

Added;

featured {

padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px
float: right;
width: 580px
}

to our theme's CSS file.

But the result is that the sidebar starts at the bottom of the 'featured' block, but in the sidebar.

Is there something we've missed here? We've tried moving it around in page-front.tpl and also playing with the CSS, but nothing seems to solve it.

I've attached a screenshot incase this isn't clear.

Any help would be really appriciated!

Thanks

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sidebar won't align

hariharasuthan_mk's picture

problem due to , incorrect html / some other , could you send the url ,then we can solve that.

Hi, I'm having some problems

IFAM's picture

Hi,

I'm having some problems with doing that....

The site is on a local server so I can't send you a URL, I can't attach it in a txt file as it won't allow me to attached to a comment and if I paste the code in, it says that my message is spam...

Any idea's apart from starting a new discussion?

The only changes which we've done is what's above; is there anything wrong with that?

P.S. The CSS alignment is 'left' not 'right'.... sorry.

Thanks,

I've uploaded the

IFAM's picture

I've uploaded the 'source.html' and 'css.txt' to another site's directory.

You can find the two files here;

http://www.lansdownlinks.com/files/source.html

http://www.lansdownlinks.com/files/css.txt

Just 'view source' on source.html for a better view.

Any pointers would be great, we've tried some more things today and it hasn't helped.

Thanks.

Your design is gorgeous; Can

ithacaindy's picture

Your design is gorgeous; Can I pick your brain? How did you accomplish the slider on the front page? Also, what css was needed to transform the menubar? If I can get OP looking better, I may switch to it as my main publishing platform.

If you're talking about

IFAM's picture

If you're talking about www.lansdownlinks.com, I hate to say that's a WordPress site.... :) I manage a few sites and that was the easiest for me to upload the files to...

Although, it wouldn't be difficult to make OP work like that, you just need to know your CSS and understand theming OP.

Has anybody got any ideas about this homepage block problem?

Hi, We've fixed it

IFAM's picture

Hi,

We've fixed it finally!

We had missed the 'body.front-page' attribute before #newregion in our CSS - it's working fine now!

P.S. ithacaindy, although in my opinion WordPress is easier to setup a site and add nice featured compared to Drupal, the more I use Drupal/OP, the more I realise how much more powerful and customisable it is than WP.

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