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[starcalc]

Please help me. The "News" module is displaying the titles in a weird way. To see what I mean, just go to starcalc.110mb.com. The title of the news should read "Sample News Created", but the letters are too close together. I have noticed this on the News page, too, but at least it's readable there. Is there any code or procedure that would fix this?

[Busman]

The problem goes away if you take out the <h1> and </h1> in <h1>Sample News Created</h1>

[starcalc]

The problem goes away if you take out the <h1> and </h1> in <h1>Sample News Created</h1>

Thanks. How exactly do I do that?

[general vegitable]

just remove it from the text

[starcalc]

just remove it from the text

How? Is there something obvious that I'm missing?

[general vegitable]

right you would have put in:

Code:

<h1>title</h1>

right? you need to change it to just

Code:

title

[Busman]

I guess from his menu structure that starcalc is using the 'amazing' website creator, so a simple file edit may not be in his repertoire.

Sorry, starcalc, but I have no familiarity with the workings of the website creator.

[starcalc]

I can do file edits. I just need to know where the stupid file is! And yes, I do use the Website Creator. Also, it appears to work fine in IE8 (from browsershots.org), but all other browsers show the mistake.

[Piotr GRD]

@ general vegitable
He is using website builder. The <h1> over the title of the news is added automatically, he can not delete it.

@ starcalc
Unfortunatelly in the template that you choose is a bug with formatting the h1 in the news section.
As anyone can see, the style for the news is added in the body section inside of news section - very strange, but I guess that was most easy for programmers to implement add-on modules formatting inside of templates.
Unfortunatelly I can not see any way for edit this - either the CSS style for news section or deleting the <h1> tag.

[general vegitable]

thanks guys, thats cleared a few issues up on my end, somehow i had a bad feeling about the website builder from the start. this issue seems like another bug in the system

[Busman]

@starcalc :

When you edit your page, enter h1 tags in reverse order around the text in the title field..

   </h1>Sample News Created<h1>

The website creator will then pad your text with h1 tags in the correct order, which will be nullified by yours.

Edit: Piotr Grd's solution below is more 'scientific' and elegant, but I'll leave my quick-and-dirty solution on the record in case another visitor needs the same solution, and doesn't feel competent enough to edit the CSS.

[Piotr GRD]

OK. I think I got the solution for you.


Either with File Mager or FTP client find a file /images/default.css on your account.
Inside of it there is:

h1 {
   letter-spacing: -3px;
   font-size: 2.6em;
}

The red is a problem.
Add inside of this file new style:

#NewsTitle h1 {
   letter-spacing: 0px;
}

Should work.


Basically everything is OK, but only not in this template.


edit:
Aha! Clear your browsers cache after ding this modification of CSS file to see the changes. And remember to make backup copy of original just for a case.


@ Busman
Your solution is working.
There is only a field for title of the news, but HTML is not wipped out from there.

[starcalc]

Where do I add that code? Is there any way you can post the sections before and after the place where I'm supposed to add it? Also, couldn't I just change the "-3px" to "0px"?

[Piotr GRD]

Inside of that .css file. I guess that will work anywhere - put it at the very end of the file for sure.

And if you just change it all <h1> tags will be affected.
And you just (I guess) want to change only <h1> tags inside of the #NewsTitle div.

[starcalc]

And if you just change it all <h1> tags will be affected.
And you just (I guess) want to change only <h1> tags inside of the #NewsTitle div.

I don't want scrunched-up text anywhere, so I just changed it. While I was at it, I changed the -2px in h2 to 0px, too.

[Piotr GRD]

Outside of the news section <h1> and <h2> have large fonts, so that letter-spacing is well-founded for that. But of course it's all up to you.

[starcalc]

I noticed that the title was too spread-out with 0px, and the page subtitles were to srunched-up with -3px/-2px, so I changed it to -2px/-1px, and added the news thing. Also, xx.xx.xx.xx, from London, United Kingdom (England), was the first real visitor to my site since I installed the hit counter. He (or she) clicked on a link in this thread to view the home page. This person uses Windows XP, with Internet Explorer 7. His screen resolution is 1280x1024, and he visited today at 5:00:30 PM EDT (10:00:30 PM London time, 21:00:30 GMT/UT)

[Piotr GRD]

Well... I think that IP you should edit into ***, some persons don't want to show their IP to publicity. _{done that ~inportb}

Anyway - nice to hear that you resolve your problem.