What did I do wrong (no background and other problems)?

[superduty]

Not sure what I did wrong to end up with a www site that looks like this - http://www.jandsranch.com/index.htm

There is no background, gauges dont work, and there seems to be some other issues also.

Thanks

[DaveNZ]

Read the cumulus help file, "Creating a web site"
It's all in there, laid out very nicely...

[werribee_au]

Hello superduty,

You need to upload certain files and directories to your web site to allow the formatting and graphics to appear.

Dave is correct; the help file has all the information required.

Quote from the help file:

The following files and folders need to be uploaded to the directory you supplied in Internet Settings :

weatherstyle.css
wz_jsgraphics.js
folder dbimages and all of its contents (make sure the contets are put into the files into the dbimages folder on your server)
CumulusRealtime.swf

Oh, these files are in the cumulus installation directory eg: c:/program files/cumulus/ or the directory you specified when installing cumulus.

This should start the ball rolling.

Post back when you have done this whether successful or not so we can help further.

Gerard

[daj]

There is no background, gauges dont work, and there seems to be some other issues also.

This exact problem came up yesterday ....https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2258

You didn't read the help file, I can sense it. LOL

As has already been pointed out...

See the section on Core files

http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Simple_Website_setup

[superduty]

I feel like such an idiot. Every question I ask around here has been answered before. This is after I spend an hour ro two looking for the answer. I think the problem is, it is truly Greek to me and so even when I see the answer it doesnt register. Sorry, this is not my first time using a forum, though it may appear that way. I know what it feels like to be the one with the knowledge and realize how frustrating it is for you guys to wanna just say, Why don't you search first! Anyhow, my apologies.

OK, so back to the good stuff. I was able to do some FTP (landed up using filezilla) and the www site is now pretty. I see a couple of things that are not:

1. a few labels on the gauge page.
2. Moon on the main page.
3. Capital letters for the title J and S Ranch. (I think I saw an answer to this issue a few days ago when I was browsing the forums....)

I assume I messed up somewhere with the FTP of files, but not sure which ones. Is there any concern if I FTP a file again if it already exists in the directory? Like I said this stuff is truly greek to me.

http://www.jandsranch.com/localwx/index.htm

[steve]

1. a few labels on the gauge page.
2. Moon on the main page.

Looks like you haven't created an images folder.

3. Capital letters for the title J and S Ranch. (I think I saw an answer to this issue a few days ago when I was browsing the forums....)

It's in the FAQ - http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/index.php?ti ... upper_case

[daj]

I feel like such an idiot.

Don't worry too much -- at least you made the effort to search. When we post links it just saves us repeating it all again. I fully understand that some of it make not make sense unless asked in a different manner, which is why a forum is great.

[superduty]

I thought I created the images file and then moved in the correct files. I will have to go back and figure out what I did. Like I said I am pretty clueless on this stuff.


I am going to try and fix the caps issue.

Can anyone recommend a good www site that explains www site creation, editing, etc that may give me a better understanding of how all this works. Something that will give me a foundation. Google searches turn up too much information and it is difficult to sift through to figure out what is good tech info and which sites are simply trying to sell you something.

Thanks again.

[superduty]

OK, got the graphics going. I am still having a hard time with the capital letters for the title? I went through the file named "weatherstyle" Using notepad, I deleted every line (I think) that had the word "lowercase" in it. I did a ctrl-F for the word lowercase and came up empty so I think I got them all. Then using filezilla I deleted the weatehrstyle file from the www site and uploaded the edited version. I then forced a web update in cumulus. Then looked at my www site and it is still lowercase? I am sure I am missing something easy?

[beteljuice]

Your weatherstyles.css still has the lowercase instruction !

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h1 {
	font-size: 150%;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-transform: lowercase;
	color: #678090;
	letter-spacing: 0.7em;
	padding-bottom: 1em;
	text-align: left;
}

either change the line to:

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	text-transform: none;

Which will alter the behavour of all <h1> frxx ug </h1> on all pages

OR

alter your htm(l) code on each xxxxxT.htm page.

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<h1><#location> weather</h1>

becomes

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<h1 style="text-transform: none;"><#location> weather</h1>

[superduty]

I thought I was supposed to delete every line where the word "lowercase" was located?


@charset "UTF-8";
body {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
color: #585858;
text-align: left;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-image: url(images/picture.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left bottom;
}
#content {
margin-top: 5%;
margin-right: 20%;
margin-bottom: 5%;
margin-left: 20%;
}
h1 {
font-size: 150%;
font-weight: bold;
text-transform: none;
color: #678090;
letter-spacing: 0.7em;
padding-bottom: 1em;
text-align: left;
}
h2 {
font-size: 125%;
font-weight: bold;
color: #6F9DBE;
letter-spacing: 0.4em;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: left;
}
a {
color: #FF6600;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: normal;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #CC6600;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline overline;
color: #6F9DBE;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.credits {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 70%;
font-style: italic;
letter-spacing: 0.3em;
text-align: right;
}
h3 {
font-size: 110%;
font-weight: normal;
color: #585858;
letter-spacing: 0.4em;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: left;
}
ul {
font-size: 75%;
padding-bottom: 1em;
padding-top: 1em;
margin-left: 10%;
list-style-type: square;

}
li {
padding-bottom: 0.5em;
}
h2 {
font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 90%;
color: #555555;
letter-spacing: 0.15em;
padding-bottom: .2em;
background-color: #c0cad3;
text-align: right;
padding-top: .2em;
padding-right: 1em;
}
.blockquote {
background-color: #E7E7DE;
margin-right: 22%;
}
caption {
font-size: 95%;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: .1em;
padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-bottom: 0.25em;
text-align: left;
}
table {
font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.tableseparator_temp {
font-size: 90%;
font-weight: 400;
background-color: #678090;
color: #CCCCCC;
padding: .5em;
letter-spacing: .1em;
}
.tableseparator_rainfall {

font-size: 90%;
font-weight: 400;
background-color: #8499A7;
color: #CCCCCC;
padding: .5em;
letter-spacing: .1em;
}
.tableseparator_wind{


font-size: 90%;
font-weight: 400;
background-color: #A2B1BD;
color: #666666;
padding: .5em;
letter-spacing: .1em;
}
.tableseparator_pressure {



font-size: 90%;
font-weight: 400;
background-color: #C0CAD3;
color: #666666;
padding: .5em;
letter-spacing: .1em;
}
td {
font-size: 100%;
padding-top: 0.2em;
padding-right: 0.5em;
padding-bottom: 0.2em;
padding-left: 0.5em;
color: #222222;
}

.td_thumbnails {
padding-top: 0.1em;
padding-right: 0.2em;
padding-bottom: 0.1em;
padding-left: 0.0em;
}

.td_temperature_data {
background-color: #F1D3B7;
}
.td_rainfall_data {

background-color: #F5E0CC;
}
.td_wind_data {


background-color: #F9EDE1;
}
.td_pressure_data {



background-color: #FDFAF6;
}
.td_navigation_bar {
text-align: center;
padding-top: 1em;
padding-bottom: 1em;
letter-spacing: 0.2em;
background-color: #ffffff;
}
.labels {
font-weight: bold;
background-position: left;
}
.site_data {
text-align: right;
}
.colon_separator {
font-weight: 400;
background-position: left;
}

[beteljuice]

That is NOT the file being seen by your pages, is that a later edit or hasn't it been uploaded to the correct place on your web site ?

[superduty]

beteljuice, you were correct. Apparently when I first uploaded (FTP) the files, I uploaded them to www.jandsranch.com I wanted to FTP the files to www.jandsranch.com/localwx I landed up uploading the files to both locations, not realizing the www.jandsranch.com was also showing cumulus. So after I edited the css file I was uploading it to the www.jandsranch.com site not the /localwx.

One more question (for now). It shows "J and S Ranch weather" How do I get the "W" in Weather capitalized?

Thanks for your patience.

[steve]

One more question (for now). It shows "J and S Ranch weather" How do I get the "W" in Weather capitalized?

The word 'weather' is hard-coded into the web templates (indexT.htm etc) so you need to edit those.

In case you haven't seen any warnings about this yet - the web templates (indexT.htm) etc are overwritten when you install/upgrade Cumulus, so if you do start editing the files, make sure you take copies so you can reinstate them if/when you upgrade.

[superduty]

One more question (for now). It shows "J and S Ranch weather" How do I get the "W" in Weather capitalized?

The word 'weather' is hard-coded into the web templates (indexT.htm etc) so you need to edit those.

In case you haven't seen any warnings about this yet - the web templates (indexT.htm) etc are overwritten when you install/upgrade Cumulus, so if you do start editing the files, make sure you take copies so you can reinstate them if/when you upgrade.

So I want to edit the W in weather. I opened indexT.htm in notepad, changed the w to a capital. I FTPd the indexT file and now my main page is capitalized. However, all the additional pages are still lowercase. How do I make it capitalized on every page.

Also, can you explain more about making copies of the indexT file? Do I need to save copies even if the "w" is the only edit I make?