Hi April

1. Yes we use our own template for Joomla51.com

2./3. I believe this to be a component issue rather than a template issue. It might be worth testing your forum using Beez and see if the issue is still present to confirm.

4. Presuming you are using Joomla 3.x, our templates no longer use mootools. In Joomla 3 mootools has been replaced by the jQuery library.

Ciarán

Hey Ciaran,

Thanks for replying to me.. . so you will see why I have no idea where to begin.. I added a Mootools extension.. but don't think it worked. They also told me to disable different components, and plugins one at a time, to see if there is a conflict.. OMG WHY? hmy: ... Thanks

The Kunena professional support told me this about Beez3.

In my opinion, the Beez3 template is probably one of the worst templates "developed"—if I could stretch the meaning of the word—for J! 3.x. That's just my opinion, of course.

I don't want to debate about whether the Beez3 template is the "best way" for you to test a Joomla website. I am aware that the Beez3 template has not been maintained or modified by the Joomla developers for 2 years (or possibly more) and, given the current state-of-play and Beez3 template's history of problems, I would suggest to people who are just beginning their Joomla "journey" to start with the J! 3.x Protostar template. Again, that's just my opinion, of course.

Although the developers have made a lot of effort to ensure that Kunena works with the "standard" Joomla templates, the Beez3 template is known to be "buggy" (i.e. defective) and problematic. As far as I know—I could be wrong and I'm happy to be corrected by the developers—Kunena is not tested with Beez3.

Ciaran,

I figured it out.. and it was an oversight on my part.. my apologies.. But what do you think about the issue re: Beez3 vs Protostar? Can I uninstall Beez3 or should I?

Also not sure why my forum sits in the middle of the template defined by S-C-S -
SideCol-A Width (%) = 100 (so I can get the fullsize)

I want it to flush far left, leaving some room on the right so I can use for display purposes. Any suggestions.. thanks

A

Hi April

They do have a point however having it uninstalled will not cause you any issues. The template will only ever be loaded if you assign it to a menu item. You can remove it but unless you wish to just clean up your template manager, there is no real need.

Would you have a URL to an example of your forum?

Ciarán

Hello Ciaran,

OK great!..I will remove it. My site is still not online.. but I can send admin access because I really need help with over all customization. I will send the access to your email.. Thanks

A

Thank you

I have checked your site and your forum appears to be already taking up the full width of your content wrapper, 980px as set in your templates parameters.

Ciarán

Ciaran,

OK, so how do I move it to the far left? So I can use space on the right? How do I change the background? I was playing around with the template colors, etc., but could not figure out the background. It took me a while to learn how to put the template menu and header on top. Again, I'm spending time researching various template customizations for the program. I have so much to do and I hope to make some progress this weekend.

Thanks

A

Hello Ciaran,

well I thought I found the answer but why every time I modify .wrapper960 {
width: 70%; margin-left: 5px
}

where forum sits... changes occur to the entire page? my menu, header, etc.. all shifts accordingly. What module is this sitting? Can't identify it. Thanks

april




Thanks

Hi April

Presuming I understand you correctly, you wish to place a module to the right of your component (forum) area? Have you considered simply using the 'sidecol-b' module position for this purpose? Once a module is enabled in this position, the space will automatically be created to accommodate it.

Ciarán

Hello Ciaran,

That's how it is.. Side col A & B.. I have it C-S-S. but when I reduce the far left margin.. put forum close to left side of template wall the entire page shifts, my entire header, menu, breadcrumb, etc.. everything above the module moves to the left and off the screen... what the heck.. :huh: hmy: Thanks

Hello

Could you please forward a URL to an example of this issue. We are no longer able to access your site with previous details sent.

Ciarán

OK, same info I sent before.. I just need to enable it. Thanks

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Ciaran,

Thanks Maria helped with this.. not sure how or why I couldn't figure this out.. I guess because could not figure out where the forum was positioned on the page. .. this leads to another question i will post. Thanks for your patience

A

Hi April

1. Yes we use our own template for Joomla51.com

2./3. I believe this to be a component issue rather than a template issue. It might be worth testing your forum using Beez and see if the issue is still present to confirm.

4. Presuming you are using Joomla 3.x, our templates no longer use mootools. In Joomla 3 mootools has been replaced by the jQuery library.

Ciarán

From what I see, the templates still use mootools (even the latest one, Vitality: <script src="/0123/media/system/js/mootools-core.js" type="text/javascript"></script> due to the menu which relies on that. This has a negative performance impact. Any plans when this dependency is removed so the menu works with jQuery only?

Best regards, Niko

Hi Niko

Our more recent template releases are no longer dependant on Mootools so you can safely remove the loading of Mootools without any ill effect to the template. To do so simply remove the following from the head of your templates index.php (../templates/[YourTemplate]/index.php)...

JHtml::_('behavior.framework', true);

Ciarán

Can you precise "more recent"? For example, I'm using Kindle, Presence, Bordeaux and Pianoforte. In general, they work fine except for the fact that cascaded menus are messed up... if it would be possible to somehow improve this it would greatly improve the mobile versions for older templates (Mootools is using about 300 KB)...

Best regards,
Niko

Hi Niko

Sure... following are a list of all templates not dependant of Mootools...

J51 - Vitality
J51 - Enterprise
J51 - Boutique
J51 - Stockholm
J51 - Alexis
J51 - Central
J51 - Boss
J51 - Journal
J51 - Enlighten
J51 - Lifestyle
J51 - Habitat
J51 - Calibra
J51 - Classic

Remaining templates use Mootools for the animated dropdown on the top menu sub-items. If this is a feature you are not using then you can safely remove Mootools.

Ciarán

Hi Ciarán,

thanks for the clarification. I've just played a little bit, do I get that right that the anmiated menus do not require mootools-more, so that I can at least safely change

JHtml::_('behavior.framework', true);

to

JHtml::_('behavior.framework', false);

?
This saves 231 KB.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Best regards,
Niko

HI Niko

Yes. The templates listed below use CSS3 for the dropdown menu. Older templates use Mootools for the animated effect.

Ciarán

Sorry, perhaps my question is a little bit confusing, so here I go again

I've played around with older templates (Presence, Pianoforte etc.) I'm using (they also use submenu items), so I need Mootools for these.

When I use (in these old templates)

JHtml::_('behavior.framework', true);
two mootools libs (mootools-core, mootools-more) with a overall size of more than 300 KB (80+231) is loaded.

When I change this line in to
JHtml::_('behavior.framework', false);
only mootools-core with a size of about 80 KB is loaded. mootools-more with a size of 231 KB is not loaded, but it seems to me that this library is not required as the submenus still seem to work.

Can you confirm that the mootools-more lib is not required or is it required in a particular scenario?

Thank you!
Best regards,
Niko