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Hi Jayne,
Drop me an email at [email protected]. I'll take a look at it for you tomorrow.
Thanks,
Ben
You've set the .title-area to
width: 1140px. That means regardless of the viewport size (the size of the device's screen), it will display at 1140px.Change it to
width: 100%;and addmax-width: 1140px;. That will solve your problem. Always usemax-widthto constrain the width of something; notwidth.
Haha. I know. The site was redesigned again and then stalled. Oh well.
It could be any number of things. It's extremely difficult to tell because of the right click is disabled (here's some free advice – get rid of it. If someone wants to steal your content, there's a million and one ways of doing it that doesn't require right clicking).
I had a quick look through your CSS and couldn't see any absolute widths that could be causing the problem.
I would recommend disabling your plugins on by one to see if one of those are to blame. They have their own CSS files and one of those might be causing the issue.
I was merely telling the truth.
But you were wrong.
Other than Sixteen Nine, 8 or so months ago, Studiopress hasn’t put out a child theme in about a year. What’s wrong with being truthful?
Sixteen Nine was released back in August 2013... Far more than eight months ago. StudioPress has released a number of themes since then – these are just the themes released in the last 12 months for example:
June 2014 – AgentPress Pro
July 2014 – Generate Pro
July 2014 – Education Pro
August 2014 – Daily Dish
September 2014 – Remobile Pro
November 2014 – Whitespace
December 2014 – Cafe Pro
January 2015 – Altitude Pro
March 2015 – Modern Studio
April 2015 – Author ProAnd yes, there is absolutely nothing wrong be being truthful – except when you're wrong.
And I’d have to object to a comment you made, Ben. If you looked at the site linked by the original poster, Jennifer, you’d see he’s running Thesis. But hey, have at it.
And if you'd actually read Jennifer's post, you'd have realised the site that is linked is HER site; not Chris Brogan's – which she didn't link to.
The rest is a discussion for another time and place.
In almost all cases, the ultimate objective is not merely to create a wonderful site, but to ensure the client can negotiate his or her site so it’s easily maintained by the client themselves and they don’t have to rely on us to continually charge them to service or upgrade their site.
I agree with that 100%.
Jason.
There are two main reasons why there has only been a handful of new themes:
1) The core team has been focused on Rainmaker. That's part of the reason why Lauren was brought on board – there was a recognition within Copyblogger that they had perhaps neglected StudioPress a little too much.
2) There has been a growth in the number of third party theme providers. Brian's guiding philiosphy has been to create a marketplace where others can create businesses and livelihoods around a core product. As more and more theme shops have opened, there has been less and less need for StudioPress to support the framework using its own child themes.Also, a couple of theme shops have all-in-one packages, such as Web Savvy Marketing.
I cannot say the same about Thesis.
She's already said she wants to move away from Thesis. You're preaching to the converted 😉
RE: Colbalt's Dynamik. That is a tool that is designed for the DIY market. You should not be using it to produce themes for clients. It – like other page builders –Â has it's place. But it produces a ton of junk code and isn't optimised like a site built by a developer with a strong understanding of PHP, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery can.
The site you referenced is not using the Genesis Framework and Genesis child theme. He is using Thesis.
Wrong. It is running on the Rainmaker platform, which itself is based on the Genesis Framework. He used to use Thesis, but you'd have realised he was no longer doing so if:
a) You'd bothered to read Jennifer's post properly.
b) You'd actually looked at his site.In fact, he hasn't used it for nearly a year.
I am disappointed that Brian has stopped putting out child themes on Studiopress.
Wrong again. Brian hasn't stopped putting out child themes on StudioPress. He has stepped back from leading design of new themes and handed that over to the very capable Lauren Mancke. But he certainly hasn't stopped designing and developing new themes – Expedition Pro is his next one.
https://dribbble.com/shots/2079737-Expedition-is-Simply-Amazing
Jennifer. Thanks for putting the contact request in – I've just gotten into the office so I'll be replying to you shortly.
Ben
This is well beyond the scope of the StudioPress forums. You'd be better off asking this on something like Stack Overflow.
I believe Chris' site is a custom design.
You can do anything on a Genesis-based website that you can with any other website. Genesis is simply a foundation to take care of things every site needs.
The cost is completely dependent on a number of different things.
You could probably use Generate as a good start if you didn't want to go from nought.
Feel free to fill out my contact form. If I'm not a good fit, then I'm sure I can find someone in the Genesis community who is.
http://www.inboundcreative.co.uk/project-planner/
Note: This is not a question related to the Genesis Framework.
Try issuu.com.
Sorry to throw a spanner in the works, but I would strongly advise against developing on a server. In fact, if I was interviewing someone and I found out there weren't developing locally, the interview would end there and then. I know many of the major agencies are exactly the same.
Developing on a live server is a form of cowboy coding and is frowned upon in the development community. Developing on a live server and then migrating to another server comes with just as many – if not more – problems than developing locally with a tool like Desktop Server and migrating the database and site using its inbuilt tools. In fact, I can spin up a server in Desktop Server – already set up with Genesis and my starter theme, with all my commonly used plugins installed replete with licence codes – in 30 seconds.
I can also upload the site to a live server in less than two minutes – again, with all the content, database and licence codes in place.
Developing online also makes developing sites in Sass (or LESS) near impossible (you'd need to complile locally, which defeats any benefits of developing online).
In other words, you can develop online – it does work – however it's frowned upon and if you want to move beyond being a freelancer, then you need to develop locally. Desktop Server makes it so much easier.
Even easier. Invest in Desktop Server. It's well worth it.
https://serverpress.com/get-desktopserver/
Make sure you get the Premium one. It'll make uploading locally developed sites easier too.
We can't see the page.
However, you can take advantage of the benefits of Genesis and simple unhook and rehook the primary navigation within the site-inner div.
The very first code example shows you how to do just that.
On line six of the example, you'll want to change the genesis_before_header to genesis_loop or genesis_before_entry.
Regardless of whether you are working locally or online, you should never edit the Genesis Framework theme itself. So long as child themes have the necessary code to define themselves as a child theme of the Genesis Framework, only the child theme needs to be active. It doesn't matter whether you're working locally or not.
As for the question of copying files, for most basic things, the functions.php and style.css files are all you need. Once you want to start customising individual pages and templates, then you can start creating new templates.
Hell, my Genesis child themes often are a mix of templates, template includes, scss files, js files and a whole other host of things. However, don't try to run before you can walk.
Yup. As Coral said, you'll need to style the CSS of the dropdown to match.
You need to change the size in the functions.php file.
If the images do not reload after that, you will need to use an image regeneration plugin.
Regenerate Thumbnails is a good one for this purpose.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
Gravity Forms will do this. You need to make sure you select "Dropdown".
Simple answer? You're headed in the right direction.
You will want to use Genesis' hooks function to add a widget area to the relevant hook.
I haven't used Flexslider for a long time, but it looks like you've selected an option to have it set to a maximum width of 800px. Go into Flexslider's options and have a look for the max-width option. Set it to 100% and you should be fine.
If you're not using it, then there is no problem with disabling and deleting the plugin.