Hi all,

Firstly, my thanks to guys who answered my dumb newbie questions and in particular Roland Deschain.

The general joomla forum were helpful along with all component builders, too numerous to mention.

Over twelve months ago I lost my pride and joy, my one and only son.

I was determined to build a website dedicated to him he would have been proud of, hopefully this is good enough for him:

http://www.jamesszubinski.me.uk

More content is loaded weekly (I have lots of pictures)

Replicant was an amazing template, I had to switch it to legacy mode for some of the modules.
I borrowed the audio module from a Scottish developer,  - Du Vien or similar (he is vietnamese)
http://www.duvien.com/1-pixelout-audio-player-151-released-joomla-15x
The photo galleries were Phoca from Czeck Republic - http://www.phoca.cz/phocagallery/ thank you Jan - if you are browsing the photos use the RSS feeds and click on the little blue arrows. Also for an awsome experience goto Piclens and grab the browser plugin. Wow... a wall of photos, videos... whatever
The message component is brilliant - JoomlaComment - unfortunately the French developer has had to bow out and this is no longer supported - great shame.... maybe someone here can take it over
http://demo.acgeorgette.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=5#josc1702

Finally the very customizable and visual counter.... excellent... from the guys at Neoworx
http://www.neoworx.net/blue/login_page.php?language=english

not forgetting the excellent module to move (clone) my site onto the target with doing the minimal amount of effort - JoomlaPlug

http://www.joomlaplug.com

Ok that is everything I think.....

Comments anyone?

thanks

george

Martin

Thanks for your kind comments.

Your last point... you may want to think about widening your wrapper?

Being a bit dense I know, but (a) why would I do that? (b) what is a wrapper? (c) how do I do that??

thanks

george

Brilliant, thanks for that information.

You don't know what you don't know....

When the horizontal menu wrapped, I thought, don't like that but maybe it should look like that...

thanks

george

Martin

Big shame... I found the wrapper code <but> the template is heavily rel;iant on the transparent images and a whole bunch of them needs resizing too....

see http://www.rockettheme.com/option,com_smf/Itemid,190/topic,14759.0/ one of the posters suggested labs could rework the template to be fluid, but that is non-trivial as far as I can see ...

ah well..

george

Thanks Martin but I have very little capacity at the moment...

I'm busy looking at some of the nice features in Hyperion and planning a site for my family... boring I know but an interesting exercise.

george

I enjoyed seeing the site about your beautiful son.  He shares a birthday with my oldest son--Feb 20.   My eyes are filling with tears as I imagine losing a treasure of a son like that.  Your tribute to him is beautiful.  What a handsome fellow and obviously well-loved by all. 

In Firefox it does seem like there is something odd about where the main content is landing relative to the menu--the menu is centered but the content is veering to the right, sort of.  I think I would want it all centered, but I have no idea what to suggest.

God bless your family.