Custom HTML advanced formatting: Assistance - html

I want to ask a few questions regarding advanced HTML formatting of my homepage in this case.
Some background to my problem:
I am using a content management system called "Joomla!" to manage my site.
Here is a link to my site under construction... Smart-Drones.
At this point I have designed exactly how I want the website to look by basically "drawing it" using paint.net. I have all of the graphics on different layers so that I can save them and insert them into the web page as PNGs.
Basically this is how I want my website landing page to look:
(since I can post pictures with my "reputation of <10" please refere here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=706&t=858845)
The way the Joomla! Content Management System works is by splitting the website into modules which are in specific positions.
Inside each "position" is a space that can be formatted using HTML and my home page is one big HTML module so it's basically a bog standard HTML page.
You can see from the images attached that the landing page requires a large background image (which provides framing for the page). The background image is a PNG and has the Fibonacci patterns as well as a large picture in the center of the page.
I want to overlay more elements, such as images, buttons and text over that background image. I also want to be able to precisely position the HTML elements.
The image below should give an idea of how I need to position the elements:
I have been trying to formulate the page using a WYSIWYG editor called JCE (Joomla Content Editor) but have been having no luck. It just refuses to work and is so fickle to work with!
I tried to insert a div and then add the background image and to position the elements over that image using 'absolute positioning' but the farthest that I have managed to get is what you can see on the home page, a mess:
The WYSIWYG editor has generated this code:
<div style="background-image: url('images/Backgrounds/Smart-Drone-Golden-Background-With-Drone.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center center; width: 799px; height: 906px; position: relative;"> <img style="position: absolute;" src="images/logo/Smart-Drone-4-logo.png" alt="Smart-Drone-4-logo" /><span class="h3" style="position: absolute;"><span class="h4" style="color: #ffffff; position: absolute;">INTRODUCING THE ALL <span style="color: #ffcc00;">NEW</span></span><span style="color: #ffab00;"><span class="h4"></span> </span> </span>
</div>
Not pretty, so I ask the community...
...How do you normally go about this process? It should be fairly standard procedure but my searches have turned up no practical advice.
Any advice or links to tutorials that may be of help will be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Jethro.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=706&t=858845

Emmanuel is basically right about the site layout edit abilities of tinyMCE. But Joomla's tinyMCE integrates buttons for formatting. That means you can add your own formats via a file called "editor.css" which is placed in your template /css folder. All defined classes in there are integrated into tinyMCE. So if you want to set background images via tinyMCE your best bet is to create or edit the editor.css and add something like the following.
editor.css example:
.my-background {
background-image: url('images/Backgrounds/Smart-Drone-Golden-Background-With-Drone.png');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
width: 799px;
height: 906px;
position: relative;
}

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Cover/Landing page text position display

I am creating a new website via Squarespace platform. The template is Brine Family 7.0.
https://kazoo-bulldog-snp5.squarespace.com/
Password to access is: 1234
I am trying to change to some text display that I am not able to do with the out of the box feature of Squarespace, but I can access some code sections to do some custom.
On the cover/landing page, I have some text displayed on the top of the page, above the logo that is centered. I want to display it on the bottom of the page, just like that:
https://ibb.co/fN1V5th
Do you have any code suggestion for that?
Thanks a lot for your kind help!
Use this code with your content. (Assuming content is placed in h1 tag)
h1{
position: relative;
bottom: 20%;
}
And, this community is not for suggestions. If you find problems or errors in your project code, you can ask in this community. Hope it helps!!.. Happy Coding!!

how come image wont load on website as href?

im really new to this but heres my problem. I need to upload a pic onto my website (im using aptana studios 3). So i save my image as jpeg and use the code:
now it acknowledges that I am uploading the picture but it won't load. Do i have to convert the image or save it a certain way?
Oh buddy, make sure to post the code you're having issues with. In any case, it doesn't really matter what file extension you use (though .png may be the best for web). I'm assuming this is hard-coded HTML, if that is the case, I would use a simple <img /> element to display a picture. Make sure the image is saved in a nearby directory.
<div>
<div class="item"><img src="./example.png"/></div>
</div>
In the example above, example.png is located in the same folder as my index.html file. We use the attribute src, not href. An href attribute dictates what page is to be loaded when an element, e.g. an <a> element, is clicked on. If you have a CSS stylesheet, it might be preferable to load the image as a background-image to a <div> element, so that it would be easier to manipulate image properties like height and width. An example of that would be:
<div>
<div class="item"/></div>
</div>
..and the CSS:
.item {
background-image: url("boxes.png");
width: 800px;
height: 600px;
background-size: contain;
}
Here, I set the image's height and width, and tell my styles that I want the whole image to be show with background-size: contain;.
I hope this helps.

Indenting background image placeholder text to remove from view area

Right, so, I've been informed by a usually high-quality, reliable source that best practice when creating linked images that also include text is as follows:
Create some placeholder text inside the anchor element like this:
<a class="logoWithText" href="logoWithText.raw">Mr Happy Forever Foobar</a>
Change the element CSS to indent this text outside the viewing window:
.logoWithText {
background-image: logoWithText;
width = 200px;
height = 100px;
display: inline-block;
text-indent: -9999px;
}
The idea is that without doing this, if CSS is turned off on a user's machine, or they are trying to look at it with a screen reader, they're going to have problems viewing the image. But this way they will only see the text if CSS is switched off, and it will be positioned correctly.
But what if the image fails to load for some reason but they do have CSS switched on? The user is not going to see the placeholder text at all... and I'm also pretty uneasy about the whole put the text all of the way off the screen, as far as it can go as it seems pretty inelegant and I am worried there are likely to be all sort of unforeseen problems with writing code that's totally against the logic of the language in this way.
Can anyone suggest a solution which would account for both broken image links and a lack of CSS support on a user's device, and which would be more immediately intuitive to people viewing the code? If there's really no other way of doing this or you guys think my approach is totally wrong or whatever that's ok, I just want to know if I'm going about things the right way.
Why not
Html
<a href="http://yoururl.com" class="logo--text">
<img src="zoidberg.jpg" alt="This is the text that shows up when your image is broken">
</a>
CSS
.logo--text{ width:200px; height:100px; }

Show background image that repeats on y axis?

This is a relatively small project that I've been working on however it's driving me insane...
I'm trying to port my original website (which was done completely in Dreamweaver, HTML) to a Visual Studio 2013 ASP.NET project where I can add databases, login's etc. for an assignment I have.
The main problem I have is the fact that my CSS code does not want to do what I tell it to do in terms of the layout.
I've tried completely remaking the website entirely step by step, making sure each aspect works correctly before moving on to the next.
This is what my original website looks like:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/sxfeg.png
(Original HTML + CSS) https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7ed94218f9374d41918e
Now, I used a template a long time back in order to get this design and I've experimented to see which CSS code affects the layout and found that the tag main_container (line 13 of the HTML gist) controls the white background of the website.
So if I remove the tag, this will happen: http://i.stack.imgur.com/BFNLE.png
^ This is important in my problem.
When porting over my website, I copied across all the code correctly and adapted it to ASP. (See Gist: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9c09befeb8950f4c1416)
However, in doing so, I encountered a problem where the CSS code for the main_container was not being used correctly.
#main_container{
width:977px;
background:url(center_bg_repeat.gif) repeat-y center;
The image was not being repeated on the y axis like on the original website and here's the result: http://i.stack.imgur.com/E4TZU.png
Have I got the syntax wrong? Or what is wrong with my code?
I've placed all the images in the same folder as the CSS file for
convenience.
Is this a problem with Visual Studio 2013 or am I doing something
fundamentally wrong?
Is there perhaps another way to port this same design without
causing so many problems?
I'm not entirely clear on what you want to achieve but if it is the same layout as your original site, then it is better to replicate the html and css exactly first to get it working then look at restructuring or refactoring the code. For example, check that all element sizing is the same so that content displays as you expect.
There are a couple of key differences between your original and new code that could affect the behaviour in the new version of your site. In your original css you don't have a repeat style for center_bg_repeat.gif. Also, it looks like #main_container isn't referenced in your original code.
Repeating a background image won't cause content to repeat across the page. You are already including your content in your new html so you just need to use positioning (e.g. floats vs relative/absolute positioning) to get the tiles to layout in the way you want (see code snippet for an example).
html, body, .container
{
height: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
}
.tile {
float: left;
width: 20%;
height: 30%;
margin: 10px;
padding: 20px;
background-color: #ccc;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="tile">first</div>
<div class="tile">third</div>
<div class="tile">second</div>
<div class="tile">fourth</div>
<div class="tile">last</div>
</div>
In your case, if you want #main_container to scale to fit the content then set its style to min-height: 100%;

Place a html link on part of a background image only, typo3 site.

I have taken over a website that was coded in tables (looks like DW) and is half coded in typo3 CMS and half hard coded.
Anyway, my boss has asked me to make the logo clickable to link to the homepage from every page that the logo shows. The problem is that the logo is part of the whole image that makes up a third of the page, so linking the whole image is out of the question.
I don't want to have to restructure and slice the images to separate the logo from the BG image, so is it possible to place a link section over the logo only?
I thought about an empty div that sits over the logo section only with a link tag that fills it 100%, is this possible and would it work? The site is here http://overbeckanalytics.com/typo3/menu-top/about-us.html... you can save the BG image and see its not just the logo...
Please tell me how I can make a link that sits over the logo only on that image.
Is the background image on the <body> element? If so, this should work:
<body>
Example Company
</body>
With this CSS:
a#logo_link {
position: absolute;
display: block;
visibility: hidden;
left: 42px;
top: 42px;
width: 42px;
height: 42px;
}
Note the <a> tag needs to be directly inside the <body> tag, or else the position may be incorrect. It can be anywhere in the body tag however, at the beginning or the end.
I've also placed the company name inside the link, since it's a bad idea to have a link without any text. A blank link cannot be understood by browsers designed for disabled users, and it may trigger spam algorithms in search engines. The visibility property will make the link invisible, even though it is still there and can be clicked on.
I provided an example answer. If you're allowed to load a JQuery library and can place the anchor somewhere on the page.
http://jsfiddle.net/XFvQD/
You would be looking for something like this:
<html>
<body>
<img src="http://listphobia.com/wp-content/uploads/honda-v4-concept1.jpg"/>
</body>
</html>