Anyone know Joomla?

[drwex]

I'm having a minor spot of trouble and the various docs I've read online aren't helpful.

I'm trying to add my own CSS styles. I'm using the default template, and I've edited template.css to include them.

I can view source on my page and see that /templates/rhuk_milkyway/css/template.css is indeed being included. When I open up that page in the browser directly I can see that my style is there. I tested the style by writing a little HTML file on my local disk and viewing it in the browser and the style works as I'd expect, but somehow when the page is rendered, the style is not picked up.

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[melebeth]

I can not help you. I can, however, say that joomla is evil. (Someone told me it was easier to work in than Drupal. They lied. I love Drupal.)

Thanks for sharing your experience

[drwex]

I'm sorry it didn't work for you.

[meadmaker.livejournal.com]

My first thoughts would be that either the selector isn't quite right (typo or some such), or that the formatting is being overridden by a more specific tag.

What browser are you using? For issues like this, the developer tools are incredibly useful. For Firefox, I use FireBug; for IE, I use the IE Developer Toolbar, and for Chrome I use the built-in developer tools (control-shift-i).

Each of these have a mode where you can click on an element to select it, and then it will show you what styles are affecting it, from what stylesheets.

Is this visible somewhere?

That's a good point

[drwex]

I should load up firebug. The example is really grotesquely simple, but maybe Firebug will help me figure something out.

Re: Thanks for sharing your experience

[melebeth]

Sorry, I hate when people do that to me. :) My residual rage just got out. I second the firebug recommendation. It's really useful for figuring out what is styling any particular element.

Re: Thanks for sharing your experience

[drwex]

It's OK. I try not to judge responses - so many people read and don't take the time to say anything. I really do appreciate that you shared, even if it was residual rage.

You're not the only one who isn't pleased with Joomla. I just don't want to try and wrestle the Drupal octopus into submission for what ought to be a fairly simple site. I might back down and try Wordpress, if I can find a good-looking template.

However, given the nature of the fail I'm not sure that'd help. It might give me a reference point at least.

Re: Thanks for sharing your experience

[melebeth]

There's a fabulous site for custom wordpress theme generation here. Simple and very flexible.