Ads Breaking Templates and Apology to James S.
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- Aurora
- Jr. Rocketeer
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James,
I recently posted some cranky comments in which I blamed RocketTheme templates for not working properly. The format of the pages became broken when viewed in lower resolution screen settings. Well, is my face red! I was specifically using Versatility III template and the positions used across the page were user3, user4 and right. I placed ads in the right position. Everything looked great on a 20+ inch screen but when viewed in lower resolutions 1024x768, 800x600, and 640x480 everything broke on the right margin.
James warned that the problem was most likely a banner or ad that created the chaos. I looked at positions user3 and user4 and eliminated all ads from position right and added ads back to the right one at a time. The first ad that I started with was a simple HTML text ad with a simple link. The whole page broke on the right.
Well, it turned out that the ad breaking the page was not in user3, user4 or right, but at the bottom of the page in user5. I had placed a horizontal ad banner which when combined with Who's Online in position user6 blew out the right margin. Changing that ad fixed the problem and all is well. I assumed that the problem was at the top of the page but it turne out that a bottom of page ad that created the problem. Moving Who's Online down to advert2 and that horizontal banner ad down one position to user7 or user8 resolved the problem.
Morals of the story!
- Ad content can and will break the template
- Look at all ads and content on the page for potential conflicts.
- Even though a position will resize automatically for text content, look at the content for images intermixed in the text with fixed sizes which may be preventing the position from autosizing.
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- Bob Ateah
- Elite Rocketeer
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It takes a big person to admit when they are wrong, kudos to you for that!
Cheers! - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- James Spencer
- Preeminent Rocketeer
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Roland Deschain wrote:
It takes a big person to admit when they are wrong, kudos to you for that!
Cheers!
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