Showing Off Wasdale Mountain Rescue

Jon Lynch
August 30, 2011 at 8:08 pm #1664

Hi,

Just looking for feedback on http://www.wmrt.org.uk. Particularly from anyone using IE9 since my PC is running XP I can’t test it in IE9.

Thankyou for an excellent theme!

Jon

Mod

Kenneth John Odle
August 30, 2011 at 10:13 pm #16706

It looks good in IE9. In fact, it looks the same as it does in Firefox 6. I love what you have done with the top-nav bar and the footer. A very creative use of what is otherwise usually blank space. Please tell us how you did this.

Thanks,

Ken

Jon Lynch
August 30, 2011 at 11:03 pm #16707

Thank you Ken,

For the header I hooked onto the graphene_feed_icon action hook and used numbers greater than 10 (the default) for the order. Since all three added bits are floated left I gave About Us 11, Contact Us 12, and the Rescue Counter 13. Then I cloned the CSS to match the nav menu.

eg:

<?php

/* — Adds About us link to top bar — */

add_action(‘graphene_feed_icon’,’wmrt_about_us’, 11);

function wmrt_about_us() {

echo ‘<div id=”wmrt_aboutus”><link a href=”‘ . get_site_url() . ‘/about-us/” title=”About Us”><span>About Us</span></link a></div>’;

}

?>

I added link to stop the forum software mangling it.

Hope this makes sense, and thanks for the feedback.

Jon

Mod

Kenneth John Odle
August 31, 2011 at 1:32 am #16708

I added link to stop the forum software mangling it.

Using backticks is your best bet for this.

Action hooks! I was just looking into this today and seeing how they could be used and then here’s a perfect example. Talk about serendipity. You’ve definitely given me a lot to think about here.

Thanks,

Ken

Admin

Syahir Hakim
September 3, 2011 at 1:28 pm #16709

Looks good! Maybe add little icons for the sunset and sunrise time? Also, it’ll probably be better to define a background colour for the header (eg. black), so that it won’t be see-through while the header image is loading.

CharlieMadsen
September 3, 2011 at 3:55 pm #16710

It looks amazing 🙂

How did you add that ‘Want to join the team?’ text at the bottom of the site?

Mod

Kenneth John Odle
September 3, 2011 at 4:00 pm #16711

Not sure, but that looks like a custom menu added to the footer menu area. I haven’t messed around too much with the footer menu, but it is one of those other under-utilized areas.

Jon, you are really making good use of everything that Graphene has to offer. Well done!

Ken

Jon Lynch
September 3, 2011 at 9:14 pm #16712

Syahir, thank you very much for the feedback, and of course the excellent theme, both ideas now implemented.

Charlie, Yes I just created another menu in the custom menus and then set it to the footer menu. Nothing too complicated.

Ken, thank you !

sfry77
October 1, 2011 at 8:37 pm #16713

Excellant Facebook menu on the left. I am still learning menu building and would like to know how you did that one. Thanks.

sfry77
October 2, 2011 at 11:59 pm #16714

Never mind. Figured it out!