Fundamental Flaw with concrete5? Resizing blocks.
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Hi Guys.
I was told how amazing Concrete5 is, but all I can see is a very restrictive, albeit an easy method of making simple changes quickly to a site.
I have chosen the "Full Width" page type from the design menu, but it is not actually full width!
When I insert a block to work with, it only fills about 60% of the screen, centred. But one of my images is 900 Pixels wide, yet because I can not resize the width of the block, this image is slightly off centre!
Even worse, I have some Flash on the page which has a width of 1190 pixels, this is so obviously off centre it looks terrible.
My site ishttp://www.taranisbedlam.co.uk please go and take a look to see what I mean.
Is there really no way to easily resize the blocks to make it do what I want it to do?
Thanks.
I was told how amazing Concrete5 is, but all I can see is a very restrictive, albeit an easy method of making simple changes quickly to a site.
I have chosen the "Full Width" page type from the design menu, but it is not actually full width!
When I insert a block to work with, it only fills about 60% of the screen, centred. But one of my images is 900 Pixels wide, yet because I can not resize the width of the block, this image is slightly off centre!
Even worse, I have some Flash on the page which has a width of 1190 pixels, this is so obviously off centre it looks terrible.
My site ishttp://www.taranisbedlam.co.uk please go and take a look to see what I mean.
Is there really no way to easily resize the blocks to make it do what I want it to do?
Thanks.
What you are seeing is not a restriction of Concrete5 but rather a restriction of the template/theme you are using. You will have to modify your template to allow full browser width. Which template/theme are you using?
Aha, Ok.
I'm using the Dark Chocolate theme.
Looking through the themes main.css now.
I'm using the Dark Chocolate theme.
Looking through the themes main.css now.
Ok...
It looks like I have to change the ccm-image-block in the class="ccm-image-block" but I have no idea where the class is!
Any ideas?
Cheers
It looks like I have to change the ccm-image-block in the class="ccm-image-block" but I have no idea where the class is!
Any ideas?
Cheers
" But one of my images is 900 Pixels wide, yet because I can not resize the width of the block, this image is slightly off centre!
Even worse, I have some Flash on the page which has a width of 1190 pixels,"
I believe the theme you're using (Dark Chocolate) is Only 800 pixels wide by design! Thats certainly going to cause issues w/ a 900 or 1190 image regardless what the block size is. You can change the width of the theme in its Main CSS folder. (path is Concrete5.4.1.1 - concrete - themes - Dark_chocolate - Main) see line 14?
Even worse, I have some Flash on the page which has a width of 1190 pixels,"
I believe the theme you're using (Dark Chocolate) is Only 800 pixels wide by design! Thats certainly going to cause issues w/ a 900 or 1190 image regardless what the block size is. You can change the width of the theme in its Main CSS folder. (path is Concrete5.4.1.1 - concrete - themes - Dark_chocolate - Main) see line 14?
How did you get to that path? I am using the yogurt theme but I have no idea where the "main CSS" is for the theme
Copy concrete/themes/dark_chocolate to the themes directory where you have C5 installed. You never edit files under the concrete directory, always copy them out to your installation directory so they are not overwritten by an upgrade.
Once that is done your css will be in themes/dark_chocolate/main.css or typography.css What you are looking to do will be in main.css. If you use Firebug with Firefox you can very easily find what elements you need to change in your css files.
Concrete5 has a bit of a learning curve but no fundamental flaw.
Once that is done your css will be in themes/dark_chocolate/main.css or typography.css What you are looking to do will be in main.css. If you use Firebug with Firefox you can very easily find what elements you need to change in your css files.
Concrete5 has a bit of a learning curve but no fundamental flaw.
