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Old 25-01-2008, 11:20   #1 (permalink)
Ha Tikvah
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Firefox won't render site template properly

Newbie to all of this to a degree, so please have patience if this is something I should have twigged before now to fix.

I transferred our small self-help charity site from HTML over to CMSMS over the past 6 months or so, and thought I'd done a fairly good job but had to rush making it live because we'd run out of server space with 2 sites on it, tho that's no excuse. I committed the cardinal sin of webmasters (and been doing this long enough to know better) and didn't test the site in any browser other than IE. So it was a bit of a shock when I discovered that the site won't render properly in FF. I've used Andreas Viklunds O1 template because it was the only one I could find that has a suitable submenu system set up (I'd have no notion how to do it manually otherwise), but for whatever reason it will not view properly in FF except in WebDev mode when you "edit CSS" - then you can see it as it should be, but as soon as you come out of that it reverts back to a "text only" type of presentation. I can't get hold of Andreas to find out if it's a template issue, and while I've played around with CSS attached styles etc, haven't found removing any that fixed it.

This is a vital resource for our charity and with 1/3 of our visitors using FF I'm pretty desperate to find an answer. When I say I'm a newbie, I know the most basic of CSS and was able to figure out how to change the template in parts to suit my needs - just don't understand enough to know how it affects the output .

If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be grateful. Since I can't place URLs yet, if you do a search on FMSNI (Fibromyalgia Support N. Ireland) you should be able to locate it (ignore the Google cached msg - it's old). Appreciate any help
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Old 25-01-2008, 11:25   #2 (permalink)
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I don't think you have your stylesheets linked properly.

It's properly rendering the CSS you are using: http://www.fmsni.org.uk/stylesheet.p...diatype=screen

It's pulling whichever stylesheet is associated with templateid 44. Twice.
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Old 25-01-2008, 14:48   #3 (permalink)
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Not sure

Appreciate your input. I might be wrong, but I think it's got the only 2 stylesheets it can have associated with it (screen & tools) - there were originally 4 and I removed 2 others that came with the template, but which I wasn't sure were that necessary - I'd tried removing that "tools" one but the site wouldn't view right in IE then. I just had a thought last night about how a previous site I'd worked on a few years back had somewhat of a similar problem but it was down to errant Divs - but if that's the problem I'm even less able to figure out how to fix it. I do know the original template fared no better when I tried running the site through it yesterday, so points to a template issue presumably, but I have no experience to spot where, and don't want to kill the site trying to figure it out alone . Viewing the source in FF gives some red / symbols along the way but unsure if that means they're missing and I should put them in?.

Forgive my denseness - old problem - the more you look at it the less you see sometimes, and I've spent so long trying multiple things I'm just plain confused now! .
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