layout falls apart with random image option ??

[ir803]

here's the site http://ffotowales.co.uk/ galleries work fine, and up till now i had one row of random images on the first page. we decided that we wanted a more taylored set of random images that came from a specific folder so we could select particular set of images, I thought I could remove the random image option on the logged in config page..  breadcrumb/anycontent/random but when I removed it the page layout goes crazy, the footer image rises up into the main content area and a scroll bar appears vertically and horizontally, the sidebar text changes font size, when you click on a gallery it goes back to it's original layout, it's just the main page that's affected, Is there a limit to how LITTLE you can have on the main page, do I have to have at least one option selected aswell as anycontent ? or am I missing something here. I was intending on adding a script to call random pictures from a different folder and display them on the anycontent page under the quick link words.

[Joachim Müller]

Zip your custom theme and attach it to your posting

[ir803]

Thanks for the reply this is the folder for the themem I've been working with. http://www.itsmy-space.co.uk/blogpicuploads/k2/

[ir803]

sorry..forgot to zip it, now it should work http://www.itsmy-space.co.uk/blogpicuploads/k2.zip/

[ir803]

sorry..forgot to zip it, now it should work http://www.itsmy-space.co.uk/blogpicuploads/k2.zip/

Ok now I'm just being stupid, try it this time.

[ir803]

Not quite sure why the link isn't working i'll try it again, http://itsmy-space.co.uk/blogpicuploads/k2.zip that's better now it works.

[Joachim Müller]

You have deliberately rendered the "Powered by Coppermine" footer invisible by setting the font-size to 0.1em. I'm not willing to look into this any further. I'm out of this thread.

[ir803]

Hang on one minute please.. please do not cut me off , I feel I am standing in front of a smoking gun for an oversight. I've just looked through the code and spotted what you have seen. My CSS files ARE messy and when the site is complet I will hopefully be able to condense the CSS together and hopefully it will still work, but for now it is an ongoing in progress site.
1. The coppermine link is still there, you can see it on the site, it was there yesterday when I sent you the zipped file and it was there one week ago and it will be their next week too.
2. the bit off css code you have seen is in the "extra" Css file parts of which I have copied and pasted from other css files I have been refering to online and I did not notice that was in there mainly because it doesn't in fact seem to do anything to the footer which has in fact been changed slightly to the same colours as other links on the site. I am still learning CSS and stumbling through PHP and if I see something working sometimes I will copy and paste and disect and try to understand. the extra file was a load of pasted CSS to try to change certain bits of the site, there are a few bits that are repeated from the other style sheets only because I haven't got to them yet or deleted them yet.

I completely understand why it should be there and have noticed there are lots of requests to move it or get rid of it. It is there and is part of using coppermine, that is the end of the discussion. If I could move it to the bottom of the page under the footer graphic (when the page shows correctly) it would be more aesthetically pleasing, but despite reading many posts on the subject it seems beyond my expertise to do it. IF it were in fact more straight forward to put it at the very bottom not out of sight but where a lot of other site have their "powered by XX" credit maybe a lot more people would be less inclined to try to remove it.
I design more straight forward html sites for people and appreciate the fact that they let me put a credit on the bottom so I am not trying to get rid of the credit/link.

I hope this explanation will show me in better light.

[ir803]

well if my explanation is'nt good enough for GauGau, is there any body else willing to look at this, after all, it's possibly a technical question possibly regarding the theme structure that may help others aswell.