Vivacious Template Released

rrhode · 30.06.2005, 20:49

Free Mambo template released called Vivacious.
This template is vivacious(cheerful)!!!

w1x · 01.07.2005, 17:31

Hi,
some sections break up like the newsflash at top and popular items etc. Please fix this and also, it does not display bottom modules. Any fixes. I love the design.

Thanks

rrhode · 03.07.2005, 11:39

Updated!

Fixed the various bugs in this template.

Someone told me(I think it was you w1x) it was the best template they ever saw for Mambo

Now, I dont know how to judge that but WOOHOO!!!

w1x · 03.07.2005, 12:21

definitely one of the best ive seen for mambo. This and planetfall. well done

rrhode · 04.07.2005, 03:57

Thank you

I already sent this to you but... for everyone else...

I updated again after I noticed a couple bugs I should have seen before. Take care!

keymaster · 20.07.2005, 11:46

Hi Ryan,

I wrote the following email on your site. I apologize if it is duplicated here, but I am not sure if you are checking you ty2u.com site, since the last news item posted was some time ago.

Here is a copy of the email I wrote you:

Firstly thanks for such a literally refreshing template. It is like a breath of fresh air.

Do you know if there is a way to prevent vivacious from "scrunching-up" beyond some minimum fixed width, when the window size is reduced.

Currently, when you shrink the window size, the modules all get realigned, text in the main body moves down, and it looks like a mess.

I don't mind it shrinking a bit, but there really should be some minimum fixed width one can set, below which the template would not shrink, say 800 px., so it never looks buggy.

I don't mind changing the template CSS or template file in dreamweaver, just need to know what and how to do it.

Do you know how?

Thanks very much and congratulations again on designing such a nice template.

rrhode · 20.07.2005, 12:36

Hi there,

I should get working on that site shouldnt I. I transferred ty2u.com to a different domain and then all my sites started being hacked. Not ty2u.com itself, but subdomains of that site were completely messed up, and all my other domains at my old host. I lost every single one of my other sites. Very crazy!!!

So yeah, I have been pretty busy. My appologies for not updating. I am just going to have to put it together. I want to have the same site up from before I changed hosts so I will see what I can do. I just have not had the time to work on my own stuff. I really have to make money to eat. Kind of rediculous if you ask me but I guess that's life for now.

As for your minimum maximum width thing... IE sucks but FX will work if you put in the class .outer (or whichever one I use for this template) the following code:

Code:

min-width:800px; max-width:1000px;

That should give you what you want in firefox. But... if you want it to not resize at all, just set the same class to a width like width:800px; You will have to edit what is there instead of adding a new one. I think it says something like width:90% but just change the 90% to 800px and you should be ok.

Let me know if you need some more help...

keymaster · 25.07.2005, 14:09

Hi Ryan,

Your suggestion was right on. It worked perfectly.

One other thing I've noticed with Vivacious on Firefox:

The top tabs do not behave well in FireFox. In IE6, they work fine.

In Firefox, they very frequently form two rows, even when the template is wide. In other words, instead of all the tabs lining up nicely in a single row across the top of the page, the leftmost 2 or three tabs form a second row, underneath the rest of the tabs. This doesn't happen in IE6. It looks silly because there is plenty of space for all the tabs on a single row.

However, if you refresh the page, they are back in a single row again. It happens very frequently, and makes the template look really buggy (but only in Firefox).

Do you have any idea why that might happen? (is there a way to fake an additional refresh so this won't occur? - or any other acceptable workaround).

Thanks.

rrhode · 25.07.2005, 21:29

I think that maybe the width of the top menu module in the css is set to auto instead of 90% but I am not sure. I will check into it if you cant figure this out.

KriKit · 25.07.2005, 23:19

Ryan, I can't find where to download this template in your downloads section. Perhaps you could point me in the right direction?