Indexhibit^TM
Index + Exhibit

Hey Vaska

Any developments on the crabs layout template?
Do you remember a few wks back when I pointed out the spacing issues between project text and first image when using crabs you mentioned an update on its way...

Rob

robert_boon,

I'm the one who put together the crabs template. I've done some updating about a week ago, but I do not think it touches any margin "problem" you are mentioning.

As for any spacing needs, I think that this is best solved using CSS and customizing some parts of the code to suit your personal needs (look in the file, I've strategically put some notes on where you might want to change stuff). I do not see spacing as a bug per say... It is somewhat subjective...

If I am mistaken and there really is a bug that hinders the usage of the template, I will gladly find a fix for it. Just post a link or picture with some background detail on how it is possible to reproduce the problem (browser ver., platform, etc.)

Hope that helps!

hello antoine
hopefully you can see what i mean in this image link?
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k104/CREATIVEBOON/Picture6.png
im working with
firefox
IndexhibitTM v0.70

and having issues with project information and the first image posted when using crabs - previously vaska had replied to say there was an update due to correct the issue?
Please advise if theres something i can do as im inexperienced with css

regards

rob

robert_boon,

I have to say that I'm not sure what I'm looking at when I check you screen capture... And even with a better capture, I won't really be able to give you any real feedback on you issue unless I can see the real page (so that I can also check your CSS).

Like I said in my previous post, and I'll try to highlight it here again, all the margins in the template are easily customizable if you edit the code inside the template. I have included some comments exactly where you need to change things. It doesn't require any CSS or programming knowledge per say; just that you take the time to read a bit and figure out the logic for the margins.

If you do not want to get involved with the code, you'll have to use the default margins with a clean indexhibit install.

As for the update mentioned by Vaska, I did do an update a few weeks back. If this doesn't solve your issue, it means it wasn't related to the update I did. (My update involved the insertion of proper values for the height/width of each picture. It doesn't touch anything related to margins/paddings as far as I'm concerned)

Hello antoine
thankyou, apologies the issue was the spacing between the project information text and the first image posted - the image overlaps and obsucres the text when using crabs.
if this isnt a regular issue i will try to look into the css padding as advised...

rob

I think my advise might have been a bit on the "dry" side.

I do wish to help, but I believe this is an issue with your customization and not the template itself. First try to adjust the padding, if you do not succeed, post a link to the live page so that I can have a look at the html/CSS and maybe guide you as to where you should adjust things.

Firebug for firefox is probably your best friend when you try to adjust your CSS styles. Highly recommended.

hey antoine
yeah here you go
http://www.robertboon.co.uk/index.php?/news/rb-dl-vs-dhp/
i havent customised anything yet this is a problem using the default template maybe you can have a look?

thanks

rob

The "problem" is here in your style.css - line 58


#content p { margin-bottom:9px; width:400px; }


The width:400px property is conflicting with the default width set by my template.
If you remove it, it will properly work.

I say the "problem", because I think this might be a customization that you added to your style.css... So it might be something required for your other pages. In that case, like I said before, you should adjust the template (not for the margins like I first taught) so that it uses your 400px width instead of the 300px width I set as a default.

The way I've built the plugin, it requires a set width in order to work properly. Maybe there are other ways to make this a bit more flexible, but it would require more code, which will make it even harder for people to look at the source and figure things out I think.

Please let me know how this goes and if you can manage to adjust this to your liking.

You should not remove the 400px from #content p...this is a default that comes with Indexhibit...this would mess up the rest of your site. If there is a conflict here then the plugin needs to deal with it...

I mentioned this exact thing long ago as well.

ok, sorry im a little lost now...
Ive not customised anything.
This is the default settings as installed.
The first time i tried crabs it did this and Vaska you mentioned an update was coming to solve the issue... Im not curently using crabs for this issu and would like to so if there's an update or solution id be very grateful.
many thanks
rob

Sorry for not updating this thread.

I did do an overwrite of the default width which I will remove in order to prevent clashes with the default settings of indexhibit. Of course, it will be customizable for those who want to, but this will solve this issue.

One thing I'm not sure to understand -and I need to do more testing on this- is why my default install of indexhbit with the plugin installed (as seen on the download page for the plugin) does not ended up with the problem robert_boon seems to be experiencing.

As mentioned in another thread, I will try to fix this over the weekend.

Thank you for your patience.

PS: robert_boon, I apologize for the confusion caused by this.

no problem - look forward to the update!
thanks antoine

Alright, I\'ve updated the plugin -sorry for the delay- so that it doesn\'t touch the default CSS styling of the text content.

You can get it here: http://download.neverprint.com/formats/crabs-on-a-beach/

For future reference, I will not make any more additions to this plugin except if it breaks the default indexhibit\'s install. In any other case, you are more than welcome to look inside the file, read the comments and adjust it to your liking. I did this update because I did do an overwrite of the default styles, but it was not a bug per say and could have been simply adjusted by anyone who would have looked at the file.

I encourage people to take what I built and do more with it... This is how we learn!

Let\'s see those exhibits!

wondeful works perfectly now:
http://www.robertboon.co.uk/index.php?/optimism/

(i know i have to clean my urls asap)

thanka antoine!