Website Layout Problem - Anyone Help?

[Stitch Up]

Hi guys

I'm next to useless when it comes to website design!

Our website is built on Magento Community Edition and most of the management is done through the Admin page. From the admin page I can manage products, product images, pricing and every other thing I might want to do.

A few days ago I added another Category - Bling it Up! It appears on the top menu line of our website BUT, it pushes the Inks category a line down!






The reason some of the categories don't show is because they're not enabled.

Does anyone know what I have to do in order to get the 'Inks' category back on the same line as the others?

I'm stumped

Cheers

John

[FutureProject]

looks like you've got a bastic width issue, 6 menu items are too big for the container so the container needs to be bigger or the menu items padding smaller..

good news from the screen shot you have plenty of spacing to play with and I think you'll need to chop off a couple of pixels from your menu item spacing at most..

without your site being live (maintenence mode) I can't test the theory or give any real advice.

[Stitch Up]

Thanks FutureProject for your reply (sorry, don't know your name).

I went into the Admin page this morning and received some 'Critical Security messages' about patches that must be installed! When I went to the Magento download page I noticed there was a later version of Magento 1.9 that contained all the patches.

From the Admin Panel I logged in to Magento Connect Manager and 'Checked for Updates'. Sure enough Mage_All_Latest showed 1.9.1.1 was available, I selected it and clicked 'Commit Changes'. A lot of green text scrolled followed by a success message I logged out of Magento Connect Manager and now, when I go to my website www.stitch-up.com all I get is this screen:



Been like that for over an hour now!!!

I can't get into my Admin page either - same unavailable page displays! I can get to my Magento Connect Manager page though and log in!

What the heck have I done?!!

Cheers

John

[FutureProject]

possibly didn't clean up the maintenence flag

https://kb.magenting.com/content/24/89/ ... lable.html

[Stitch Up]

possibly didn't clean up the maintenence flag

https://kb.magenting.com/content/24/89/ ... lable.html

It was exactly that! The help pages sorted it!

Phew, was really worried I'd screwed up big-time! Always the danger with little knowledge!

Also, I don't need as much 'padding' between the menu items - just need to work out how to correct it - maybe through the Admin pages?


Thanks

[FutureProject]

ok, it is an easy fix but not 100% sure if it's done through the admin or manually in the files. (this may help answer that; http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/c ... guide.html)

essentially you need to edit the following file: http://stitch-up.com/skin/frontend/defa ... ommenu.css

and in this bit change the "width: 700px;" to "width: 900px;" as the site is not responsive I don't see any unforeseen consequences (um obviously else they would be seen but that's not my point)

#custommenu {
color: #b8b357;
font-size: 16px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: relative;
width: 700px;

z-index: 999;


}

[Stitch Up]

How the heck did you know that?

I used FileZilla to download the file you referred to and then edited and uploaded - it worked - I'm amazed!

May I ask, is website work something you do as I need my site sorted badly! Of course I'm willing to pay.

The updates I tried to make as a result of the 'Critical Messages' I had failed and as a result I've lost a video window that used to appear at the bottom right of the product pages.

I've requested tech support at my hosting site if they can revert to the last auto backup taken.

Thanks so much for your help.

John

[FutureProject]

originally I started life as a degree holding web developer, I dealt with a lot of start up companies and bought a vinyl cutter to add van branding to my offerings, then a couple of years ago I got a heat press built a gift site and haven't looked back...

web design is great and before everyone thought they were website designers the money was good, but I find it hard to compete with "little timmy who can do a website for £100" as it's difficult to explain that making something pretty is different to making something that's pretty, future compatible, mobile friendly and built to help your company in getting found (but it'll cost you more than £100)

I don't know a great deal about Magneto itself but the principals of most stuff is the same which is why I was able to point you in the right direction unfortunately above casting a quick eye over a site to help solve a simple problem, I'm not really available for any website work at the moment.


Andrew

[Stitch Up]

Thanks Andrew,

I paid well over £4k to have my website built but now discover I've quite a bit of cleaning up to do I thought he'd done a good job and, to a degree, I think he has, BUT, it's like me saying my dentist is a great dentist - if he doesn't cause me pain, he's great - I'm not able to measure 'greatness' within disciplines I know little about.

I've muddled my way through over the past few months, but realise there are many significant issues, many highlighted today when I attempted to do a few Magento recommended critical security updates, and failed!!

The tech guys at my hosting company are re-installing from a backup taken yesterday, to correct some of the problems I caused today! Should take an hour or so.

Thanks again for all your help Andrew, it really is appreciated.

Cheers

John

[FutureProject]

just remember to do the css change after the backup