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  1. Carrie Wrigley
    Carrie Wrigley
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I just got the emailed notice about your new template, Lifestyle. What a spectacular template! I especially love the new "Beautiful Grid Gallery" you added for this template. I love this new feature so much that one way or another I'd like to use it on one or more of the 5 sites I've rebuilt over recent weeks with your other templates (Grafik, Renovate, Habitat, Polaris, and Letterpress.)

So I'm wondering about the following options:

1) Is there any way to plug this new Grid Gallery feature into any of these other templates, to use there?
2) On Lifestyle, the one thing I don't like is that there's very little room for content under the header area on all the pages. On Habitat, which I'm using for one of my sites, like Lifestyle, the Title bar appears on the home page above the Menu bar on the home page. But then (in Habitat) the title bar disappears on the other pages, leaving more room for content, with the just the thin menu bar at the top of the page. On Lifestyle, both the menu and the title bars remain visible on all the pages - leaving little room for content below. Is that feature adjustable in Lifestyle, so that there's more content space on the content pages?

Here's an example of what I mean: In Habitat, when you move down to content, the Title bar disappears so you can see more content, like this:

http://impactmusic4kids.org/caring/community (Or, see this on any page in your Habitat demo)

But on Lifestyle, the top title bar stays put - so you still just have about half the screen below to fill with your content. (e.g. see this on all the pages of the Lifestyle demo)

Is that an adjustable feature? Because I really LOVE everything else about this new template, and plan to start finishing up all my sites tomorrow with images - which the new Grid Gallery would be so perfect for. But I still need to have my content visible - so I'm trying to decide on the best course. Advise?
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Hi Carrie

1. Yes the GridGallery will work with out issue with other templates in our collection.

2. With a quick edit of the template source code you can have that just the menu is fixed to the top of the browser similar to that of our Habitat template. To do so simply replace the following in your templates scripts.php (../templates/j51_lifestyle/php/scripts.php)...


<script type="text/javascript" >

  jQuery(window).load(function(){

    jQuery("#container_hornav").sticky({ topSpacing: 122 });

  });

  jQuery(window).load(function(){

    jQuery("#container_header").sticky({ topSpacing: 0 });

  });

</script>


With...


<script type="text/javascript" >

  jQuery(window).load(function(){

    jQuery("#container_hornav").sticky({ topSpacing: 0 });

  });

</script>


Ciarán
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Carrie Wrigley
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That's wonderful, wonderful news. I'm so glad I waited to do images until now, so I could use the Grid Gallery. I probably will end up using it on all my sites. It is very cool! :-)

So - to achieve that, I'm guessing I simply download Lifestyle, and then upload the GridGallery module from the Lifestyle folder into the extension manager for my other sites and templates?

As far as php code replacement - I haven't ever messed with code on that level and am not sure how to find and access it, to replace it. But I would like to learn. Is that something I can do via FTP? Or is it something found on my hosting account files (I'm using Bluehost?)
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i just downloaded Lifestyle and peeked into the filenames. Looked like the modules it's packed with have all the same names as Grafik, Renovate, and others I'm already working with. So... Is the Grid Gallery file the same with Lifestyle, and I already have this functionality built into the other templates? Or, is this a new version of the Grid Gallery, and I should replace the old files with this one to get the text element to display along with the picture?

I haven't yet worked with these modules - that's the project for later today - so I'm just getting acquainted with what module does what. :)
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Hi Carrie

GridGalleries are pretty much the same across all our templates with the exception of different styling. Each GirdGallery module is styled specifically for the template it is included with.

To change the GridGallery module in a Joomla installation simply install the module via your Extensions Manager.

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So - I think what you're saying is, for example - I could pull in the grid gallery extension packaged with lifestyle , and pop it into grafik.. Then it will display with the styling shown in the lifestyle demo (picture plus text). Instead of just the native grafik styling (just picture. ). Is that a correct understanding?

If so , is this also true for the icons extension?

And if so, could you feasibly use more than one styling within the same template ? (Like, both with text from the lifestyle version, and without text from the grafik version, say to use in different locations or different pages?
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Hi Carrie

Yes that is it. Installing the GidGallery module from 'LifeStyle' in to 'Grafik', your Grid Gallery module will then display as seen on the LifeStyle template demo. Ths is the same for the icons module.

Sorry to say only one style of each module can be used on a template at any one time.

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Hi,

I just installed the template and I have some questions:

What am I doing wrong in the opacity part of the header? I have changed it a couple of times, set it on 2 or on 8 or whatever.. on transparent.. colored it red or white.. it is not changing to transparent. I now work on Chrome, but it's the same in IE. I have used another template before and there's no problem on that one.

I have tried to install the demo version, but gave up on it after reinstalling it three times tonight and have tried it manually as well.. On the first template a couple of months ago, I gave up as well, I thought it was me doing things wrong, but now I have installed it exactly as it should have been done, but I still get an empty installation. I had a crash and now I'll just settle for trying to copy the looks as much as possible, since I wanted my site to look like example style 3. Would it be possible for you to make a screenshot of all the styling options for me (especially the opacity settings?)
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Sorry, I just found the parameters inside the demofolder. They are already there!
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I'm sorry. I did not find the parameters. These are for Habitat. Not for the new template.
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Hi Stephanie

May I suggest sending temporary administration access to your Joomla installation to info@joomla51.com and we will examine this issue further. For our reference please paste a link to this post in your email.

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Thank you Stephanie

I have set up your template style similar to that of the template demo style 3 as requested.

It is important to note that transparency is removed from the header and top menu area of the template once these elements hit the top of the browser window.

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Thank you so much Ciarán!

That was really a good service ;-) I can continue now with building my site. Thanks!
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Can you help me on another one? When I look at my site on my mobile phone, I don't see the text I've typed under the pictures in J51_GridGallery module. Is there something I have to change?
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Hi Stephanie

This is done by the module to save some space on smaller screen devices. To revert this you can try adding the following to the Custom CSS field of your templates parameters.,


.j51gridgallery figcaption {

    display: block !important;

}


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Excellent! Works great! Thank you.
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