SOLVED Documentation for gantry-width classes
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- Comm Ev
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Hi there,
As most everyone knows, many of the of the RocketTheme templates use built-in classes to control content layout within a particular container in Gantry.
For example I can see that a container is diplaying three columns using a content structure that starts off like so:
<div class="gantry-width-block demo-width-100"> <div class="gantry-width-33 gantry-width-block"> <div class="gantry-width-spacer"> <div class="gantry-width-30 gantry-width-block"> </div> <div class="gantry-width-70 gantry-width-block">
But where is the documentation for this? I've checked the the Gantry site and didn't easily find it. I searched the forums and found people saying "Search the forums for gantry-width". And frankly this should NOT be documented in a forum. Other Joomla Templates usually have container layout and control in the supporting docs. Am I going to have to dig through CSS to review style classes?
Thanks in advance.
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I would say that you didn't search our Docs very well
www.rockettheme.com/docs/joomla/basic/cr...tom-responsive-grids - Check my services at: Mihha-Vision
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Virtuacomm-team wrote:
But where is the documentation for this? I've checked the the Gantry site and didn't easily find it. I searched the forums and found people saying "Search the forums for gantry-width". And frankly this should NOT be documented in a forum. Other Joomla Templates usually have container layout and control in the supporting docs. Am I going to have to dig through CSS to review style classes?
These are just CSS classes that Rockettheme uses for the demo pages. You will usually find the definitions for a SPECIFIC template by looking here -> ..\templates\rt_templateName\lessgantry-core.less -> look for "// Custom Widths" -
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- Comm Ev
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Igor Mihaljko wrote:
I would say that you didn't search our Docs very well
www.rockettheme.com/docs/joomla/basic/cr...tom-responsive-grids
Igor, Thanks for the link. I appreciate it.
But I would say your search results aren't very relevant if I can't pull up this doc searching for "gantry-width". You'll notice that term is used several times on the page you sent me... Yet searching for "gantry-width" does not produce that page in my first two pages of results. In fact most of the results simply show "Gantry" and not even the complete term "gantry-width". And I as mentioned in my original post searching the forums kept referring back to the forum.
You are familiar with your own content. I am not. However I am the end user and customer. So before insulting a user I would suggest you conduct usability testing with customers on your own site search results.
I actually spent some time trying to search for this content. So my original post may have reflected my frustration but you can see what I mean if you try the search function. - Last Edit: 10 years 7 months ago by Comm Ev.
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- Comm Ev
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DanG wrote:
Virtuacomm-team wrote:But where is the documentation for this? I've checked the the Gantry site and didn't easily find it. I searched the forums and found people saying "Search the forums for gantry-width". And frankly this should NOT be documented in a forum. Other Joomla Templates usually have container layout and control in the supporting docs. Am I going to have to dig through CSS to review style classes?
These are just CSS classes that Rockettheme uses for the demo pages. You will usually find the definitions for a SPECIFIC template by looking here -> ..\templates\rt_templateName\lessgantry-core.less -> look for "// Custom Widths"
Dan,
Thanks for the clarification. It's been awhile since we've used RocketTheme and some things have changed. I volunteered to track down some documentation for others.
Thanks to everyone for the prompt responses.
Jesse
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Igor Mihaljko wrote:
This documentation is exactly what I was looking for. It's thorough and well-written as well. I just wish it would have shown up my search results.
Thanks again, Igor.
Jesse
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Virtuacomm-team wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. It's been awhile since we've used RocketTheme and some things have changed. I volunteered to track down some documentation for others.
Okay I just tried this and it worked for me.
1) the Search phrase is "gantry-width"
2) Go to Joomla! Documentation
3) In the upper-left hand corner there is a Search Rockettheme modules so enter "gantry-width" (no quotes) and wait while Ajax brings you a dropdown of results.
4) pick the latest template showing, I picked Hadron
5) In your browser search enter "gantry-width" (no quotes). I got hits.
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- Comm Ev
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Thanks, Dan.
But your scenario proves my point... You described 5 steps to achieve search results that utlimately were not the page that completed my task. (It was the page Igor referred me to.) Imagine if Google results were this vague?
In fact here was my process:- Go to the search box in the upper left and search for "gantry-width".
- Review the results. Filter the results further by "documentation". (I did.)
- Review the results. Notice how the most frequently highlighted search term is just "Gantry"?
Now look at it from the end user's persective:- How relevant do you perceive the search results to be when the majority of highlights are not the complete term?
- Some pages will have the "gantry-width" on them and some don't. However the documentation page that I needed talks about "gantry-width" about 36 times. Why was this not presented to me higher up in the results? This is the disconnect that I am talking about.
Your documentation is quite large and different users will approach it different ways depending up on the nature of their inquiry.- You can't say everyone should go through the index structure because not everyone will mentally map content the way you have.
- You can't describe a 5 step search process and believe that every user will instinctively use that process.
- You sure shouldn't blame a user for not being able find something when the results are not as relevant as they could be.
We just user tested two sites running Lucene and Apache SOLR. There's a lot of tweaking involed to get search results that are meaningful and actionalable. That's why I suggest user testing your own results. My scenario is only one of a few that should be tested by people not familiar with the documentation content. - Last Edit: 10 years 7 months ago by Comm Ev.
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