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make top AD banner absolute?

Post by oneshot » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:01 pm

When viewing the site on my Android the top banner you have in the big blue header moves down and over the the links section and makes navigation pretty tricky to impossible.
the whole section of links is covered..

I am 100% mobile internet browser outside of working hours..

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Post by Amx » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:02 pm

Yup, been mentioned, commented on, and looked into. Aaron is procceding on how to fix that problem. Thankyou. [biggrin]

Oh ya, you probably mean 'absolete' as "get rid of it".
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Post by natetreat » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:10 pm

No, absolute is a css positioning rule. The element is positioned relative to its first positioned (not static) ancestor element. With the upgrade there are probably a few quirks that need to be worked out.

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Post by oneshot » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:13 pm

gone is good too.. =D>

a static position works too.

for you Amx ;)
Absolute Positioning:
An element whose position property has the value absolute is said to be absolutely positioned, and is completely removed from the document flow: it doesn’t affect subsequent elements at all. It’s positioned with respect to its containing block, and it establishes a new containing block for normal flow children, and for descendants whose position property is set to absolute.

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Post by Gringo Pescador » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:25 pm

Huh - I was thinking he wanted a Vodka ad on top.. :-k

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Post by Aaron » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:38 pm

Like mentioned before in other posts I have a fix for this coming. Probably tonight if I have the energy. I have a site-wide template overhaul in the works.
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Post by Amx » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:40 pm

Too much computer talk for me. [scared] I can barely pronounce 'computer'. :scratch:
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Post by natetreat » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:47 pm

The static position would take it out of the flow, which would bump up everything underneath it. It'd be a hassle. I don't know what the mobile site looks like, my phone aint fancy like that. Web savvy fishermen! What's the world coming to. :)

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Post by oneshot » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:13 pm

Aaron,
i'll hold off on my QA work until the next overhaul happens ;) :pirat:

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Post by Mike Carey » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:43 pm

oneshot wrote:Aaron,
i'll hold off on my QA work until the next overhaul happens ;) :pirat:
Blame it on me. I'm out of town and Aaron may he waiting till I get back. BTW, 87 in Austin and gas is $3.25.

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Post by Racer » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:11 pm

hang in there Aaron. You're doing a great job and we all appreciate the time you put into this great site.

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Post by G-Man » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:11 am

I like the latest banner with the links, it brings back the feel of the old site and keeps me from having to jump all over the place.

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Post by Aaron » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:20 am

It was never our intention to have the forum be completely separate from the rest of the site (i.e. without menus) but it was more important for us to get the forum online first than to get it all working together as one. The site was going offline for hours at a time at random intervals and it was the old forum that was causing it. Now that the two are synced up everything should be easier again.

BTW, I count this banner ad placement problem as solved. As well, that d--n John Deer ad should be gone today. That rollover action is killing me.

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Post by oneshot » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:24 am

great updates!!

i'll do some hammering a lil later ;)

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Post by SculpinKing » Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:08 am

Aaron wrote:It was never our intention to have the forum be completely separate from the rest of the site (i.e. without menus) but it was more important for us to get the forum online first than to get it all working together as one. The site was going offline for hours at a time at random intervals and it was the old forum that was causing it. Now that the two are synced up everything should be easier again.

BTW, I count this banner ad placement problem as solved. As well, that damn John Deer ad should be gone today. That rollover action is killing me.
Menu looks great now. I figured you were working on something, but this is is better than I was hoping for.
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oneshot wrote:Aaron,
i'll hold off on my QA work until the next overhaul happens ;) :pirat:
Blame it on me. I'm out of town and Aaron may he waiting till I get back. BTW, 87 in Austin and gas is $3.25.
Jealous. I just spent a week in Minneapolis and actually had frost on my windshield one morning. At least it was sunny. I was in Austin last year and I could quickly see why it has such a great reputation.

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