footer issues, articles

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Dear moderators,

In the event of a response, you are kindly requested to provide complete answers..

1.It is impossible to make the footer menu appear on startup. I have followed all the right steps publishing module, footer menu position as foot nav etc.. I even installed the real design template, and compared the footer menu settings, they were both the same but footer would not appear on start up. Am i doing something wrong?? what do you suggest me to do?

2. On the main menu bar, i would like to have an about us tab where a click would direct you to an article providing the relevant info. Now i don't want that article to be shown among the other articles.
Same goes for terms and conditions, by creating through single article, i need to choose a category and then shown among the articles. Any way around it??

3. I would like at the contact us page to have a messaging form that will gives you options for different departments, a bit like gavick contact us option.. How do i do that?

4.I would like to reduce footers height as shown in picture.

ps: im developing on MAMP so i dont have log in details..

thank you in advance..

Hi

1. There is no footnav position in footer, but You can easily create it by adding this code to /layout/blocks/footer.php

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<div class="foot-nav"><jdoc:include type="modules" name="debug" /></div>


2. You can always have a separated category for it, but if You do not like it this way than You can use blank component for this menu item and display the content with a simple Custom HTML module in mainbody position.

3. Joomla is providing a Contact extension which can be accessed via menu item. Please use that in this case.

4. To reduce footer please play with values of margin in this class:

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#gkFooter {
    margin: 32px auto 100px !important;
}


Thank you Teitbeit! I knew i couldn't be 40hours wrong!
i tried putting the code line in the footer php but it wouldnt work, maybe im putting it at the wrong place so could you give me the above and below lines?
When i go to the footer menu, it is connected to the menu module instead of the footer one..

... something else, the position on the template is footer_nav , while you write foot-nav in the code.. does it work the same

reading again the thread i notice that i said i have placed the footer menu position at foot nag, i meant footer_nav .

Please use this code :

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<jdoc:include type="modules" name="footer_nav" style="gk_style" />

right after this line in footer.php file

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<footer id="gkFooter" class="gkPage">

then just publish module on footer_nav position and check results (probably it demands additional styling)

sorry i misread your post and i copied pasted teitbite line, i did yours and it worked! THANK YOU!
now how can i make them appear as shown on the screenshot: horizontally????
With the code you gave me they apear vertically.

Could you show me your site ? This is custom modification so I need to check this directly in your installation.

I develop on MAMP.. Is there any other way we can do that?

Hi

1. There is no footnav position in footer, but You can easily create it by adding this code to /layout/blocks/footer.php

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<div class="foot-nav"><jdoc:include type="modules" name="debug" /></div>


2. You can always have a separated category for it, but if You do not like it this way than You can use blank component for this menu item and display the content with a simple Custom HTML module in mainbody position.

3. Joomla is providing a Contact extension which can be accessed via menu item. Please use that in this case.

4. To reduce footer please play with values of margin in this class:

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#gkFooter {
    margin: 32px auto 100px !important;
}


Hi

Sorry for the confusion becuase of the position name. I was copying it from site and forgot to change the name. I'm glad Bartek has explained it. Unfortunately He is right about the issue. From this step we need to see Your site to help further. I advice to ignore this problem for now and get back to us when site will be online.

We could use teamviewer or something similar? so you can check it?

Hi

Yes of course. Please add me to Skype and chat to me when You'll see me online. My login is "teitbite"

Thanks a lot! Added..

Hi

Sorry has skype disabled. Just agreed to Your contact.

Hi

We have spend some tome on skype and this are the fixes for joomsocial style and footer menu we have created:

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/* FIX */
table.paramlist.admintable { display:none; }

#xiussearch[type="submit"] { background-color: #aaaaaa; }

body #community-wrap ul#featurelist li {
    background: url("../images/bullet99.png") no-repeat scroll 0 8px transparent !important;
}

#gkFooter {
    text-align:center;
}

#gkFooter ul.menu {
    text-align: center;
    float:none;
    width:100%;
}

#gkFooter ul.menu li {
    display: inline-table;
    margin: 0 10px;
    border:medium none;
    font-size: 15px;
    font-weight: bold;
}


Hello

I tried to do it and it's working fine !

However do you know how can we get the menu like a normal menu footer ?

Right now I have it like that

http://joomgeek.com/index.php?option=co ... Itemid=625

And it's not very nice

tks a lot for your valuable help !

Hi

Can You please describe what menu You are refering to ? I do not see any menu broken on Your example.

Hello !

In my case to fix this issue, I just add some "text+link | test +link | ' in the footer module.

It looks like a module even if it's not really one.

http://www.joomgeek.com/

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0c21129769

But it would be nice to get a proper menu moudle position in this nice template