Help with Banner Block alignment

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

Hey guys I stumble in here every few months with a question and I'm hoping someone can help me yet again.

I want to have a banner block stretch across the homepage.

This is what my homepage looks like.

http://www.customobsessions.com/modules/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14619

This is what happens when I move the banner block from the bottom center of the page to the top center.

http://www.customobsessions.com/modules/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=14622

I'd like the banner block to just stretch across like the stories block.

Thanks for your help.

Dave

Private Joined: May 31, 2003 Posts: 39

Hello Dave...

Before misunderstandings go overrule ...

You show in your homepage screenshot no block at all ... in your second screenshot you show2 blocks
one on the right and one in the center .. so to understand your question

** You want to have the 2 blocks show as 1 on that position?

However if do that , and if you add later a different block on the right , your topics/news articles will reduce size.

Grtzz wHiTeHaT Wink

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

Look at the first picture. I want the page to look exactly like that but have one banner block stretch across as the others do.

The other picture is to show what happens when I move the block up there. It's weird cause when it's bottom center it's one block stretched across which is exactly what I want. When I change it to top center it turns into two blocks and moves the stories over as I have pictured.

Hope that makes sense.

Private Joined: May 31, 2003 Posts: 39

yes your explenation is understood... however i'm amazed aswell...
That isnt normal behavior for a theme.
Is it a default theme or is it customized?

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

it's a semi customized theme but pretty much everything has worked as it would in a normal theme.

I just need to know what and where I need to edit to change the Banner block.

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

Anyone!!!!!!!! Please help.

Private Joined: May 31, 2003 Posts: 39

You should at least provide us with the block code.

And even then it might not be posseble to fix your problem.
It can be whatever....

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

I don't suspect it will be a difficult fix as I've had other alignment fixes which I've easily found the answers to on here. I just need my hand held a bit to get me started.

Mad

I can not figure out how to post code on this forum... is there some trick. I've tried about a 100 different things and it will not allow me to post code. I don't get it.

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

Here is a link to the code in the block-Advertising.php file, I'm assuming this is what's required. I just saved it as a txt file.

http://www.customobsessions.com/images/banners/block-Advertising.txt

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

Pretty please!

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

Maybe this is the file where the change needs to be made. Here is the blocks.php file from the theme I'm using.

You'll have to right click and save this file then open it with a text editor as for some reason when you click it from the web it's opening as a html file still.

Please help.

http://www.customobsessions.com/images/banners/blocks.txt

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

Please someone... I've been digging and diigging... I don't even know what file to be making these changes in now. Sad

Please help.

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

I have determined that this happens with any block I put in the center_up postition.

What happens is it's doubling any block that I move from the center_down position to the center_up position.

Any ideas where to fix this issue?

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12397

It sounds like its a problem in your theme, possibly the blocks() function is called multiple times in your theme.php

Sergeant Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 103

K, I've now loaded a new install of NUKE on a completely different server. I've taken a copy of the theme I'm using currently off my live website and uploaded it to the new mirror on the new server and when I move any block to the centerup position it works as exactly as it should.

See it here.

http://comotors.ipower.com/test2/index.php

So..... it's apparently not the theme. Evader you worked on my site a while back regarding to some alignment issues. Is there anything you can think of that may have been changed outside the theme to make this happen?

I have no idea where to look now. ............ Sad

I'll never get any advertisers if I can't put the banner in that section.