'flyout revisited' problem... am sure the problem is me!!

i am very new to this, so if you would take the time to answer, can you please write as simply as clearly as you can? would be appreaciated, thanks.
am working with the wayfinder revisited flyout menu [http://www.muddydogpaws.com/development/wayfinder/examples/example-6.html] and am not managing to get the menu to ’look nice’ [it stays as ugly purple underlined links displaying all second and third levels indented, not flying out]. the css is definitely attached right as i added an h1 tag to it and styled some text with that within my template to see if it registered and it did.

i have tried a couple of the other menus in muddydogpaws and they work well [basic dropdown and flyout] so i know i’m on the right track. i copy and paste the wayfinder snippet call, make the chunks using the code exactly as is, download and save the css in the same place as it is on the site [assets / templates / wayfinder / flyout_revisited.css] and i link to that css within my template.

can anyone suggest anything i might be missing? cheers!

What browser are you using?

Can you give us a URL to look at?

hey there bob, thanks so much for your reply. i’m on a mac, looking at it in firefox [i know ie is no good for the mac so not worrying about that] and also checked it in safari, no joy with either. i’m working locally at the moment, so will have a crack at uploading something so i can give you a url. such a learning curve, even uploading and creating the remote db is massive for me!! might take me a while to get back with that url or you’ll see new posts about my probs with that

Does the example menu on that page at MuddyDogPaws.com look ok in your browsers? They look fine to me, but I’m using IE7 and FF on Vista.

It looks like you’re doing everything right. Here are the only things I can think of offhand:

• You have some "style" statements in your template, or in the document, that are interfering with the Wayfinder .CSS.
• When you cut and pasted the examples, you didn’t scroll all the way to the right and some of the stuff got truncated

hi bob! thanks for coming back to me [i did get stuck trying to get my test page up on my remote site so have been working on getting that resolved to be able to follow up on this!]. i’m going to have another crack at it as soon as i get it up and running, so i’ll check for styles and the truncated info and let you know how i go. i think it might not be the cutting off the text option as i tried a good half dozen times and i’d hate to think i missed it that often!!
don’t suppose you’d be able to offer insight into getting modx working on godaddy? i’ve created a database only getting ’connection to host: failed!’ when i try to get it sorted. i have a screen shot i could put up of my login details and what i’m putting in the modx fields if you’d be gracious enough with your time to take a gander?

I’m sure you know to use "dummy" details when posting to a public forum!

Quote from: kathleenread at Jul 28, 2008, 06:53 AM

hi bob! thanks for coming back to me [i did get stuck trying to get my test page up on my remote site so have been working on getting that resolved to be able to follow up on this!]. i’m going to have another crack at it as soon as i get it up and running, so i’ll check for styles and the truncated info and let you know how i go. i think it might not be the cutting off the text option as i tried a good half dozen times and i’d hate to think i missed it that often!!
don’t suppose you’d be able to offer insight into getting modx working on godaddy? i’ve created a database only getting ’connection to host: failed!’ when i try to get it sorted. i have a screen shot i could put up of my login details and what i’m putting in the modx fields if you’d be gracious enough with your time to take a gander?

As Sottwell suggests, you don’t want to be posting your login details here in a public forum.

I found this by going to Google and entering: Modx "connection to host failed" godaddy

OK...so you’ve uploaded your unzipped MODx files to the server? Next, in your Hosting Control Panel of Godaddy, go to Databases-->MySQL. Once there, click "Create Database". Once you’ve created a new database and it has set up, click on the edit icon to the right of the name of the database you’ve just created (there should be a pencil icon and a "x" icon next to each other...click the pencil icon). Inside you’ll see "MySQL Database Information"...these are the values you’ll plug in while setting up MODx.

Host Name: put this value in for hostname
Database Name: put this value in for database
User Name: put this value in for user name
etc.

I installed MODx on a Godaddy Deluxe hosting a few months back and remember it being the biggest pain. Their settings were difficult to navigate around. Here’s one of the problems I ran into and was able to get help from the MODx community to fix it:

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,18070.0.html

ha ha, yes, i wouldve been careful with my details, thanks for the warning [that said i am a trusting soul, noone would want to mess with someone else’s account would they... ]
i found that same previous thread when i started trying to get this happening. it seemed to work so easily for them that’s why i’m pretty sure it’s me doing something wrong. am going to ask godaddy for some more help and see how i go...
i like your site by the way. realised last night you were the fellow helping me. really nicely and clearly written, cheers

hello there, am wondering if anyone can spot what i’m missing with wayfinder. i’m just mucking around for the moment getting the hang of things, so what you’re about to see won’t be pretty...

i’ve been using muddydogpaws.com for this. at http://cheerytomato.com/modx170808/ you can see the nav items and it’s the one called ’revisted flyout test’ that i’m not getting right [so this is using a template especially for this test]. this was using http://www.muddydogpaws.com/development/wayfinder/examples/example-6.html for reference.

i also had a crack with http://www.muddydogpaws.com/development/wayfinder/examples/example-4.html , that’s the link in my nav called ’flyout’ [uses a diff template to the example above that’s not working], so i think i must be on the right track if that one works?

anyone spot something that i’m missing? can i also ask if anyone knows how to insert an arrow graphic so that it would like nicer than the dodgy ’>>’ i’ve put in after ’flyout’. i’ve searched ’wayfinder insert image’ and ’wayfinder insert arrow’ only maybe there’s a more technical term i should be looking for?

thank you for your help

It looks like no .css at all is being applied to your menu.

For that example, you should have a chunk named cssplay_revFlyOut that contains the following :



Check the spelling of the chunk name carefully (the names are case-sensitive) and make sure the file named in the chunk is where it should be.