Web site building help?

[Andy_con]

am building my very first web site and its going very slow. im after some help.

www.lazershows.co.uk

im using joomla and i downloaded template equalizer from here -

http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting/joomla15-templates.htm?page=12


i have a few questions -

1 - at the top is the multi coloured equalier bar thing, would someone be able to fade in my "lazershows" logo behind it?
if yes how would i go about uploading that to replace the existing one?

2 - in the equalizer bar it says lasershows in lower case. in my site settings it reads "Lasershows" with a capital. when i upload other templates it comes out as a capital but not in this one. editable or not?

 

[colossuss]

1 - at the top is the multi coloured equalier bar thing, would someone be able to fade in my "lazershows" logo behind it?
if yes how would i go about uploading that to replace the existing one?

2 - in the equalizer bar it says lasershows in lower case. in my site settings it reads "Lasershows" with a capital. when i upload other templates it comes out as a capital but not in this one. editable or not?

If you faded your lazershows banner behind it and then had the extra text on top of it (The text that you want the capital 'L' on) then it would look quite confusing
Anyway, to change it you would have to navigate to http://www.lazershows.co.uk/templates/siteground-j15-15/images/ on your webhosting and replace the current headerhv.gif with the new one

I believe the answer to 2 will be solvable in the css

 

[Andy_con]

umm i see ya point.

maybe this template isnt what im after.

gee its tough work making a web site.

ive been looking at this, how fooking cool

http://www.templatehelp.com/preset/pr_preview.php?i=27694&pr_code=7q85772a0lkYu445RCRj7Z6HQa36X3

 

[Track'd]

background:none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
color:#DDDDDD;
font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,sans-serif;
font-size:36px;
font-weight:normal;
letter-spacing:1px;
margin:0;
outline:medium none;
padding:0;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:lowercase;

Find that and remove it

 

[Andy_con]

background:none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
color:#DDDDDD;
font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,sans-serif;
font-size:36px;
font-weight:normal;
letter-spacing:1px;
margin:0;
outline:medium none;
padding:0;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:lowercase;

Find that and remove it

top man it worked..........

still not sure if this is the template for me though

 

[colossuss]

ive been looking at this, how fooking cool

http://www.templatehelp.com/preset/pr_preview.php?i=27694&pr_code=7q85772a0lkYu445RCRj7Z6HQa36X3

That is awesome. Only problem is flash slows down pc's a far amount, especially old ones

Just think simplicity is key, don't try to over load it!

Oh and Joomla is quite a good choice, but if you cant find any themes you like for it then have a look at cms made simple, which is an alternative


Edit: You could just replace the header with your own banner

 

[Andy_con]

That is awesome. Only problem is flash slows down pc's a far amount, especially old ones

Just think simplicity is key, don't try to over load it!

Oh and Joomla is quite a good choice, but if you cant find any themes you like for it then have a look at cms made simple, which is an alternative


Edit: You could just replace the header with your own banner

i know simple is best but i want awesomeness and cool.

how would i replace that banner with my own??
sorry this is my first build

dont have a clue what cms is??

 

[colossuss]

Sorry mate, CMS stands for Content Management System, which is just what systems like Joomla are called (Where you can update pages from an admin page on the site itself)

Here's a quick banner I Made up for you which will fit where that one is now. If you want to put it up (It will look better on a black background because of the transparent parts)

You'd need to save the image (bellow) as "header.gf". Then go to /templates/siteground-j15-15/images/ on your webhosting and replace the header.gif that is already in there (You might want to back it up first)

Then to get rid of the text (Which you just spent time getting the capital at the beginning on :rasp Then find (Again):

background:none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
color:#DDDDDD;
font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,sans-serif;
font-size:36px;
font-weight:normal;
letter-spacing:1px;
margin:0;
outline:medium none;
padding:0;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:lowercase;

And add "display: none;" to the end of it so it looks like

background:none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
color:#DDDDDD;
font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,sans-serif;
font-size:36px;
font-weight:normal;
letter-spacing:1px;
margin:0;
outline:medium none;
padding:0;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:lowercase;
display: none;

Edit: Actually the "display: none;" bit might be wrong, try it and check for me haha. It may get rid of the header completely

 

[Andy_con]

top man worked perfect.

wish i knew how to do this stuff

seeing as your so good at this how do i change where it says welcome to frontpage, to home page??

http://www.lazershows.co.uk/index.php

 

[colossuss]

Erm.. I think its in frontpage management? Im not sure, havn't used Joomla in a long time!

 

[Andy_con]

sadly its not, ive searched high and low for it.

not to worry ill have to live with it for now.

how did you get my banner to be transparant? that one there now dont look the best. it would be good to lose that layer over the top and keep transparant

 

[colossuss]

How do you mean mate? The mesh bit?

 

[Andy_con]

sorry,

if you look at the banner current at the top of my site the edges/whole thing is transparant. this is the one you did for me.

but when i upload my original banner its not transparant.

so how did you do this?

 

[Andy_con]

WTF......

can someone please help me before i go fooking mad!!!

on this page -

http://www.lazershows.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60&Itemid=75

you can see it says portfolio at the top.

now if i change it to Portfolio is just dissappears, it appears with any single word i want except Portfolio. it works with portfolio but not Portfolio

why, why, f**king why??????????

 

[The Hoff]

Nice looking site so far, what have you built it with?

Noticed on your homepage that the image of you standing in front of the rainbow spectrum isn't linked to the correct image [the rest of them are OK].

 

[Andy_con]

ok cheers ill double check them.

i used joomla.