[Resolved] Slider Recommendations

[Kamela]

Hi Tom,

A client wants an image slider at the top of the home page. Which would you recommend?

Thanks!
Kammy

[Tom]

Meta Slider is really popular. There’s also soliloquy slider, master slider, slider revolution etc.. There’s tons of them.

[Kamela]

Thanks!

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

[Lynn]

Hi Tom,

I am working on a new site using Generate Press. I have implemented a static (sticky) vertical menu in the left sidebar using recommendations I found elsewhere in the forum. Works very well.

I have two questions:

1. Can I use a slider in the content area when I have a vertical menu?

2. Below the menu I have added an html widget. Both the background of the menu and the widget are the same colour but the space between the menu and widget is the background colour of the site. Since the menu and widget are both in the left sidebar, Id like to colour code the sidebar background the same as the menu etc. I have tried adding CSS to do this but with no luck. Can you provide any details on how to do this?

Thanks,

Lynn

[Tom]

Hi there,

1. It should work – are you getting any errors?

2. Can you link me to the site so I can see?

[Lynn]

Hi Tom,

Sorry it took me so long to respond. I had trouble accessing the Generate Press website. Kept getting a connection reset error message. For some reason this happens from time to time on my system and I will be unable to go where I want to go. No answer for why it happens so far.

Re. 1. No , haven’t actually added a slider yet. Will try soon.

Re. 2. The site under development is not available unless you change your hosts file. You can access the site with the live URL (ie http://www.jockosbeach.com or jockosbeach.com) by overriding the public DNS servers by adding an entry to the hosts file that is local to the computer that you are browsing from using the following entry:
208.70.79.131 jockosbeach.com http://www.jockosbeach.com

Instructions on how to modify your local hosts file at https://docs.contegix.com/display/CUSTOMERS/How+to+Use+a+Hosts+File+to+Override+DNS are appropriate.

Otherwise I could send you an image.

Thanks.

[Tom]

Added that to my hosts file, but here’s what I’m seeing: https://www.screencast.com/t/UPlzlXkx

[Lynn]

Hi Tom,

Not sure why that didn’t work for you. I took a screen capture and loaded it onto a web page you can see it at http://www.astrolabewebsites.ca/jockos.html.

Here’s the code for the sidebar (via view page source). I tried adding a background colour to the sidebar using a couple of different classes. Couldn’t get it to work. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Lynn

[Lynn]

Oops, the code is not showing in the post above. Not sure why. Anyway, I added it to the web page for which I provided the link above.

[Tom]

Can you give this CSS a try?:

#left-sidebar {
    background-color: #000;
}

[Lynn]

Hi again Tom,

It looked like that was going to work. the space between the menu and widget filled in with black until I started to scroll and then the space opened up again. Yet both the menu and widget are in the left sidebar. Ideas? could it have anything to do with the Sticky Menu (or Anything!) on Scrollplugin?

Thanks.

[Tom]

Is there any way you can quickly throw it up on a staging/temp server so I can take a look at the code?

[Lynn]

That is a development/staging site. I sent an email to the hosting company asking why you couldn’t see the draft site when you changed your local hosts file. Here is what he wrote back. Does it mean anything to you / does it help?

The account may have been copied from the existing server. If that was the case, the old site files would be in place until they are removed.

I’ve added a file on the new server named christest.php; you’ll see a phpinfo page if you go to http://jockosbeach.com/christest.php.

Hope that helps.

If not, I’ll leave it until the site is live and get in touch with you then about this issue.

Thanks.

[Tom]

I can see the PHP info, but I can’t see the new site.

You may need to remove any static files for the old site within the root folder. I think that’s what they’re saying?

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