help! sudden layout mess with changes I did not make

katieh / 2013-01-29 19:05:58   

Hi,

I started over with my website after purchasing 2.0 and was getting in the final stages of getting it all back up. I have the columner theme going with visual index and had the menu column on the left and the pre-nav (an image logo) on the right. I was trying to adjust the margins for the index and exhibit, and suddenly upon refreshing the page a bunch of things dramatically changed that I had not designated.

For example, I was changing the margin numbers by tiny amounts (25px to 10px, etc) and had settings on links (index sections, hover, active, everything) to never include underline -- and that all was fine -- and now suddenly all my index headings are underlined, even though I did not change this back, my spacing between the index headings all disappeared, and the pre-nav image suddenly moved back to the left, and the exhibit page moved dramatically down, though my most recent changes reflected none of this!

I will add that I was first adjusting the style.css in ndxzsite/default and it wasn't seeming to reflect the changes, so I opened the style.css in the columner folder and tried making the changes there, and then they seemed to be appearing, and I'm wondering if it suddenly became confused? Although I never placed in either style.css that I wanted underline or to move the pre-nav or create such a huge top margin in the exhibit.... it seems all the work I just did suddenly disappeared and got messed up and I don't know why. I just tried clearing the cache and it is still messed up. I was saving and checking each tiny change I made so I am very confused why suddenly on one refresh all this stuff would change so dramatically. And I just changed back the last thing I did (small margin change by 10px) and it is still all crazy looking. please help!

thank you so much!

website: giraffesonfilm.com

arsondpi / 2013-01-29 19:20:29   

This is confusing indeed.

This link is supposed to be your style.css of the columner theme:
giraffesonfilm.com/ndxzsite/columner/…
But there's nothing there...
So the site is currently working with reset.css

I suggest you try to reupload the style.css of the Columner theme (if indeed there's nothing there)

katieh / 2013-01-29 19:27:36   

oh phew!

you're right - I have no idea why that suddenly disappeared, but that document in cyberduck had indeed turned into 0 KB, even though i was editing it, it seemingly got disconnected/deleted from the one I was editing. Anyway, once I copied and pasted what I was editing back into the columner/style.css, it went back to normal.

thank you SO MUCH for pointing that out!

Vaska A / 2013-01-29 19:29:00   

FTP can disconnect randomly like that - have to be careful.

This thread has been closed, thank you.