dear andy,

thanks so much for taking the time to reply to my question.

i tried using just an image and that was much better. it was responsive and i managed to get rid of the top/bottom padding but couldn’t get rid of all the extra space on the right and left sides no matter what i did.

at this point i’m caving and hiring someone from werkpress.

but thanks again for chiming in.

cheers-

cindy

dear josue,

thanks for your reply and all your suggestions – so appreciated!

first, the footers a done deal – it now works! thank you! i had to add some more css styling to one of your bits to get the image position lower and more to the right :

#footer .widget .textwidget img{
   float: right !important;
   display: block;
margin-bottom: -2px;
margin-right: -30px;
}

and i used a max-height attribute to stop the #footer from getting taller when i made the browser window smaller.

i also hid the header and got the submenu in the right location and sticky – so hooray!

unfortunately though i couldn’t customize it at all. i tried every configuration i could think of (my own custom class and all the classes i could find in the shortcodes.css (e.g. .av-submenu-container, .av-subnav-menu, etc.) but couldn’t get the results i wanted.

here’s a picture of what i currently have vs what i’d like:

http://www.cindyworkman.com/cw_images/menu_josue_030215.jpg

while i could adjust font attributes, here’s a list of what i had trouble with:

– changing the height of the menu. i’d like it to be 42px
– i’d like the menu buttons to expand the full width of the menu
– i’d like the active background color to be #5c5c5c
– i’d like there to be a border between buttons (running the full vertical height) and along the top and bottom of the whole menu bar

thanks in advance for your help and yes, i’d like to tackle the overlap and the image responsiveness once this is sorted out.

cheers-

cindy

Dear Rikard,

thanks so much for your replies – worked like a charm!

yah!

cheers-

cindy

dear josue,

thanks so much for following up as the forum posts are really an invaluable tool to learn more about the theme.

looking forward to a resolution and thanks.

cheers-

cindy

dear elliot,

thanks again for your reply.

and i’ve taken your advice. biting the bullet and leaving it as is as who knows what the future might bring…perhaps a B-L-O-G…..:}

cheers-

cindy

dear elliott,

thanks for your reply and for the explanations. glad too to hear WP will only load images as they are required by the page.

but i do have some concerns as they apply to my unique website. i’m creating a one-page website with no blog. it will an online artist portfolio site and so chock full of slider portfolios which will require an ungodly amount of images.

I will be using a 3rd party slider to create these portfolios so i’m not sure how they’ve configured things e.g. what set dimensions they might use and/or the number of variations they automate during the upload process – which would be in addition to those configured for the enfold theme (smartslider2).

so in the end i’m concerned that with a media library that could potentially include 1,000 images, the image count will jump to 14,000 quickly with all these mandated variations.

in the end, i’ll only need images for backgrounds of color blocks, for my menu (custom css) and for these slider portfolios.

i’ve found another 3rd party plugin that will allow me to create folders inside the media library – so this will help organize the images but is there a way to prevent this automation?

– can i limit/prevent these various image variations from being written and upload only one image – at my intent size? by this i mean, i upload an image that’s 1200×1200 and that’s the only one that get’s uploaded/created?

– is there a way to circumnavigate this automation process completely? e.g. i tried (via ftp) to upload an image into the uploads folder, but it doesn’t show up in the media library. my take-away from this is that in order for items to be seen/worked with in the WP admin UI, images need to be uploaded using the admin interface. or am i missing something?

thanks in advance for your reply.

cheers-

cindy

you are a god – thank you!