Member Menu

Hi, does anybody know how to 'attach' the member menu to the right of the top menu, and make it smaller (like facebook notifications, messages and friends)?

Thanks in advance,

Ryan

:)

In advanced settings in admin panel, you can set the member menu to be at the top. The rest you will need to use css positioning to get the items where you want them.

which file would i resize the member menu on?

To see what CSS files are controlling what, go into the admin section and turn off CSS caching.  Clear the caches, both in admin and in /cache and /cache_public.

If you don't have firefox, get it, or Chrome.  Download Firebug for FireFox; Chrome has one that ships with it but I prefer Firebug.  Once you are set up, use the right click on the element you wish to inspect and choose "inspect element".  It will open a view at the bottom of the page with two panes, on the left is the page elements and on the right you will see the CSS controlling the elements.  You can real-time changes to the CSS to see how it will affect the element; reloading the page will clear out the changes in case you screw it up to the point you can't get back.  Once you have it like you wish, note the changes you made.  It will report not only the CSS sheet that contains the control but the line number as well.  Edit the stylesheet on the server and reload it.  Then reload your page and your changes are there since you are not caching the css, no need to clear caches.

I hope my explanation is clear enough.

is there a simpler explanation haha?

i currently have the 'shark' template by ibdw and i want this member menu to be to the right of the search bar at the top? i just need someone to tell me how to get it there haha thanks again!  

Only those with that same template will be able to answer that. Or you can shut off css caching on your site and provide a URL so others can use firebug to locate the proper CSS changes for you.

Using the Inspect Element feature of FireBug I am able to see the css but the link always says gzip_loader.php rather than the filename of the css page that I need to edit. How do I find out the name of the actual css file?

Thanks,

Dan

 
You must turn off dolphins cache and compression options. Your seeing the cached copies instead of the actual files.