Help with Ultimate Theme

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 October 2016, 10:20 PM

Hi Jimi, I wasn't 100% with your requirements in the first place.

Do you want them in the RED extreme browser edge or BLUE page edges?

**siran** · 23 October 2016, 04:57 AM

Hi Jimi,
there might be something wrong with your document. When I right click the text objects to the left of the "now on sale" page then Xara crashes.

**siran** · 23 October 2016, 05:00 AM

Hi Roly,
I guess I will from time to time.

**roly** · 23 October 2016, 07:35 AM

yeah, thank you.

Ciao

Roly

**Jimi King** · 23 October 2016, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Hi Jimi, I wasn't 100% with your requirements in the first place.

Do you want them in the RED extreme browser edge or BLUE page edges?

As they are placed in my original file really. It's only when published they go further into the centre. I'm not sure of the implications of resizing the page width to 1300px either. Since it didn't have any effect I'd probably better reduce that somewhat.

**Jimi King** · 23 October 2016, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by siran

Hi Jimi,
there might be something wrong with your document. When I right click the text objects to the left of the "now on sale" page then Xara crashes.

You may well be right.

**Jimi King** · 24 October 2016, 07:55 PM

Thanks to everybody who tried to help out on this. I ended up starting again and pasting the elements into the new document. Sadly it didn't make any differenece so I'm resigned to taking the problem into consideration when placing text and images.

I'm now trying to find a way to use a video as the backdrop on the home page. Anybody successfully done that?

**siran** · 25 October 2016, 06:46 AM

I didn't try it, but this THREAD looks promising.
There was another one posted by RobXar but I can't find it right now.

**siran** · 25 October 2016, 07:23 AM

Here is an example that uses javascript. It is a variation from another THREAD.
There is some code at the page head.
The video placeholder has a name applied. (Which is used in the code to identify the placeholder and to apply a style.)
The placeholder also has the video file attached (the name of this is referenced in the placeholder body code).
The placeholder size has to match the dimensions of video file.
The video tag used in the placeholder code is only supported in IE9 and later.
Some combination of browser and OS might not support the mp4 video.

**Jimi King** · 29 October 2016, 09:36 PM

Thanks again for the help siran.

This seems to work very well.

Edit. Seems I was a bit premature there. I have a small problem in that if I try to replace the current front page backdrop it doesn't go full screen. It justifies to the left. If I add a new blank placeholder instead it works fine but replaces all the other pages with the background video too. Clearly there are other names used in the original background that I need to work through.