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Graphic header in center column for search results ??
 
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markb



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:56 pm    Post subject: Graphic header in center column for search results ?? Reply with quote

Is there any way to get a graphic header ... like a banner or a topic heading at the top of the center column of a search results page?
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john
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Graphic header in center column for search results ?? Reply with quote

I can't see any way to do that, sorry.
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markb



Joined: 03 Apr 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:30 am    Post subject: Search Results Column Widths Reply with quote

My blogs have three columns, with the center carrying the articles and being the widest.

Part of the reason I wanted the graphic headers (to use like a spacer) was to solve a problem in Safari, which showed a wide left column and a narrower than expected center column on search results pages. In other words, it didn't fit the look and feel of the structural format of the blog -- and it looked bad. Firefox for Mac didn't show this. Explorer and Firefox on WIndows didn't have the aesthetics problem either.

To get what I wanted for a visual result, I went into the styles template for the MAIN PAGE and changed the following CSS code (the change? left col: "width: 15%" to "width: 215px"; right col: "width: 20%" to "width: 195px"):

/*** structural ***/

table.columns {
padding: 0;
height: 100%;
width: 1010px;
}

table.columns td.left {
vertical-align: top;
width: 215px;
height: 100%;
padding: 10px 15px 10px 0;
border-collapse: collapse;
}


AND

table.columns td.right {
vertical-align: top;
width: 195px;
padding: 15px 0 15px 20px;
height: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

Also changed minimum width for center column from 340 to 550

}

table.columns td.center {
vertical-align: top;
padding: 15px 0 20px 0;
height: 100%;
min-width: 550px;
border-collapse: collapse;
}

Strangely this degraded the look in WIndows (Explorer and Firefox) very slightly -- narrowing the center column a little and bringing the right column toward the left a little. Overall, the net effect is better visual with the fixed column widths.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:24 am    Post subject: Re: Search Results Column Widths Reply with quote

Looks fine on my Mac Safari 3.1... Unfortunately, that's about all the input I have on this one...
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