Puzzled - RT Clarion Template and 3rd party com
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First - RT Clarion is Beautiful! I'm updating my husband's website (we used an earlier RocketTheme template for the original incarnation of his site, and wanted to rebuild it).
I'm not a developer or web designer - just a helper with enough talent to get myself in trouble...
Site is located at: newsite.sjreno.com (we'll migrate it after the few bugs are worked through).
I needed a good testimonials component for his site - and chose Skyline Testimonials ( www.vnskyline.com/ ) for the appearance and ability for public viewers to submit a testimonial.
I have a few challenges that I thought were related to the component, Not my template, and have been emailing back and forth with Skyline all week - however, after no luck, I tried applying a different template and suddenly the Skyline component worked beautifully. I'm not sure how to resolve the few small quirks and thought I'd see if you folks had time/inclination to point me in the right direction?
Challenge 1) The testimonial module viewable on the home page, Sidebar a, shows a dark grey 'shadow' behind the 'open quote' image. This secondary open quote image isn't a part of Skyline's component - so it's coming from the Clarion theme - but I'm not sure why/how? The dark grey 'open quote' appears more clearly when you go : newsite.sjreno.com/index.php/contact-us2/testimonials .
Challenge 2) On the page newsite.sjreno.com/index.php/contact-us2/testimonials the blue button 'Submit' should actually read 'Submit Your Testimonial' - other templates show the entire button, but not RT Clarion. Suggestion on how/where to go to allow the button to appear in full?
Challenge 3) (final challenge) - when you click the 'Submit Your Testimonial' button, the form should be a pop-up, but instead it takes me to a new page that no longer displays within the framework of the site. Ideas?
I would Really appreciate a tiny bit of guidance, though I realize using a non-RocketTheme component for testimonials (I didn't see one offered here) may mean I'm on my own figuring it out...I just hate blindly tinkering without really knowing what I'm doing.
Thanks kindly,
Jen Juhasz
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CHALLENGE 1
GOTO
newsite.sjreno.com/templates/rt_clarion/css/typography.css
DELETE (if your not using the RT quotes anywhere).typography-style-light blockquote {background: url(../images/typography/light/quote-l.png) 0 0 no-repeat;}
CHALLENGE 2
Theres a problem in
newsite.sjreno.com/components/com_sl_tes...assets/css/style.css
REMOVE.sl_testimonial-testimonials h1 { overflow: auto !important; }
The text you want to display is formatted wrong, as it has <span>Submit </span> and then the rest of the text outside of the span.
The popup is also an awkward one but can be integrated with RokBox quite easily but will require some workaround in php to get it working right.
Hope it helps.
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Quick note: I just realized I shouldn't have posted this message into the General Discussion - how do I move it to the appropriate place?
Thank you so much for the reply. Solution 1 worked like a charm.
For #2 - I understand removing that text forces the rest of the text 'your testimonial' to appear regardless...but why if I change the template or theme to even something like Beez or Atomic, the button appears in full? It shouldn't if the developers had made an error with code Span 'submit' /span, right?
I also can't sort out where that code error is on their part...neither can they - which is why I posted here to RT - thinking the modification should be made to my template.
I'll work on the suggestion for #3 later today - I very much appreciate the guidance/direction where to look.
Regards,
Jen
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- As an additional note - for the help with PHP modification to incorporate the popup with RokBox, I would happily pay a reasonable fee...
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Update re: #3 - the PHP modifications -
Reading through the forums, I found a recommended solution for pop-up challenges where the code reads:
<a id="submit-testimonial" class="sl_button modal" href="<?php echo SL_TestimonialHelperRoute::getFormRoute(0, base64_encode($uri), true); ?>" rel="{handler: 'iframe', size: {x: 600, y: 550}}">
<span><?php echo JText::_('COM_SL_TESTIMONIAL_SUBMIT_TESTIMONIAL'); ?></span></a>
I've tried changing the code to read:
<a id="submit-testimonial" class="sl_button modal" href="<?php echo SL_TestimonialHelperRoute::getFormRoute(0, base64_encode($uri), true); ?>" rel="rokbox[fullscreen]">
<span><?php echo JText::_('COM_SL_TESTIMONIAL_SUBMIT_TESTIMONIAL'); ?></span>
I also tried: rel="{handler: 'rokbox', size: {x: 600, y: 500}}
Neither option produced even a tiny change in how the pop-up (or lacktherof) is being handled. I've read through every PHP file and can't find others that refer to how the forum popup is handled.
Other ideas on how to modify PHP to use Rokbox versus iframe?
Note: I again tried applying a different template to see how things are handled, and the iframe pop-up works just fine. I'm almost to the point of trying to find a different testimonial component because I prefer my rocket theme template and can't sort out this conflict...
Thanks,
Jen
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Hi Jen.
If you pop me some login details and file access i could always take a quick look at some point.
I cant promise anything, but im sure i can get i working how you want with rokbox etc...
PM some details for access
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Sent a PM first thing this morning - hopefully it was received.
Thanks so much!
Jen
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