Thursday, November 17, 2011

Problems with Cufon fonts and mega menu

Thanks to this bit of code

#primary_menu { position: relative !important; z-index: 9999 !important; }

provided by Problems with Cufon fonts and menues in IE8 I got this mega menu working with my cufon heading.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Business Catalyst: How to connect an email address to a form

Not straight-forward:
- Create the User (email only to not pay as another user)
- Create a Role
- Create a Workflow
- Create a Form
- In the form, click on the form title to get to the "Use Workflow? (?)" details dialog. (This should be available from the Action Box, but it's not.)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Floated items and side li tag margin collapse

Lots of discussion about top and bottom margin collapsing.  But I'm most often disoriented when I encounter a li near a floated image.  Typically the image is floated left, but I don't want or need to float what's surrounding it.  Most of the other elements look fine jammed up against the image margin.  Not the LI's.  I want them tucked in a bit more, but their margin starts at the beginning of the floated image, so usually there's no margin at all.

Here's a little fiddle to illuminate.

This fellow has the answer:

.entry-content li {
left: 50px;
position: relative;
}

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Business Catalyst: How to stop sections from being editable

Business Catalyst arbitrarily decides to make sections editable with their "Site Editor" (was "In-Context-Editor").  They pick odd portions: banner headings, logos, etc.  They give a rather lame mechanism to remove these, but it doesn't always work, e.g. if the editable-section happens to be just an image.

To remove the in-context-editing, create a "content module" from the section of the template that is wrongly editable, load the piece of code to that and "Add modules to the Template".
Specifically in the Admin dashboard, top menu Admin, Manage Site-Wide Templates...
Manage Content Holders is in the same general area.

Update 10/18/2011:  Also try removing "permission" to manipulate the template in the Role for the User level.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Adwords conversion amount

Google Adwords conversion tracking widget either added or allowed me to add a dollar sign ($) to the conversion amount.   (I don't think I would have thought to put it in myself, but I might have.)  Anyway, Dreamweaver gave a syntax error on an if and assignment statement using the $.  

I first just removed the symbol from the javascript (which as it turns out would probably have been fine), but I had a thought that it  might not work correctly with whatever's going on back at Google.)  All I needed to do was to go back into the widget and remove the $ from the little input box.  But before I thought to do that, I wasted some time Googling for answers.

If someone is using a plain editor that doesn't catch syntax errors, I imagine they might have a problem with their conversions running properly.