Woods and Trees !

[bwood]

@acorn you never cease to amaze. How did you get so smart?

[Acorn]

@acorn you never cease to amaze. How did you get so smart?

Bill, you just have to sweat away all the stupid.

Hope you are back on-line with a proper connection.

Acorn

[zapatak]

Dear Acorn,

let me apologise for not replying earlier but we have had eight days without internet ! In the current situation this is enough to drive one mad ! Right now we have a blistering 2mbps but this is a lot better than zilch !

I must admit that your detailed instructions are a bit like too much information for me and I made no progress in that department.

However I did more or less complete the small site but unfortunately there is one small question which I hope you have an answer for...

I tried out the idea of making the site with responsive web design, it is more or less successful appart from your trick to make a language appear on start up which doesn't appear to work on the smaller smartphone model.

Clicking the flag icon brings the text in but unlike in the desktop model I have text empty screens when starting on the mobile model.

I enclose the XAR file so that you can see what is or isn't happening.

You may enjoy the slideshows !

Best wishes

[Acorn]

I am sorry to say that I have been disappointed in that you seem to have ignored everything I proposed in https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...170#post624170.

The flag buttons do not have the right code.
The yellow Placeholder is nowhere.
You decided to place the English and French layers between the MouseOff and MouseOver layers to start with and then mix in a popup1 layer elsewhere and to cap it then re-position the French and Layers above MouseOver.

The code in the yellow Placeholder is trying to determine the layer number for French and English. My original was (4, 5); you set an impossible task of making it (4, 3) and thereafter (6, 5).

To make things right I would have to re-order everything, a task that is properly yours.
It is harsh but if you don't you will never know what has gone wrong when updating your site later on.

In its present state I cannot guess if Variants will work.
I am more than happy to work on it but on a corrected version.

Acorn

[zapatak]

Hi Acorn,

No hard feelings :-)

The first glance looked daunting

Although you must remember that I have had no real opportunity to see or get to grips with it for a week. We just had a very unreliable not so hot spot.

I will now try to put some order into the layer structure and flag coding to see if I have a bit more luck.

Sorry

[zapatak]

Hi Acorn,

Hope you had a good day despite the dismal performance of your PM !

I think that I have correctly modified the site, i.e. sorted the layer arrangements, inserted the yellow rectangle and modified the flag messages.
I don't understand how to set up a term 'lang' or how to change storage preferences.

Unfortunately it still does not work as one would wish.... No doubt more errors on my behalf but any help would be welcome...

thanks in advance...

[Acorn]

Lots of little corrections to Layer Names and their levels.

First go, nothing works with the Variant included.
I deleted it and all is fine.

Tomorrow, I will have a look to see what the problem might be.

It may not be possible but I may have an alternative that is probably cleaner for a SmartPhone.

Acorn