we created a specialized news portal with it newsy, that is the online extension for a print magazine. it has been damn hard work to get it where it is today, specially the translation of some features into German! still can't get the date to show correctly ("MÄR" for the months of March has "Umlaut Ä" in German) and other things, but so far I am quite happy with the result. too bad IT Headline is out now that would have been even more suitable. But it's too much work to change it now. Specially as we are working on a store for our publishing company using IT TheStore and two more editorial news portals for which we are looking at IT Headline (and having problems - see my other post at Template issues).

any input and suggestions for improvement gladly appreciated for:

www.alpenadria.eu

Hi,
That's what i call a great modification.

Regarding the date issue i will give you a solution tomorrow morning.

I have also some minor suggestions.
- I think that is more usable to put the big banner just below the header box and up to the content one. IT will have more ROI value there, because it will blend on the content. Or you can put the header on the top on other pages, except the homepage because it's distract to much the first time users to see the banner when they first see the page.

Because you have a big logo i think that is better that you align it on the left of the header not on the center. I think it will have more impact there.

Also the footer links. I noticed that you have 2 menus there. Try to align them on the center instead of the left.

Good luck with your project and hope to see here more from you.

Hi,

thanx for the suggestions. I changed the big banner. You are right, looks better. and should it get more impact: fine with me
assigned the logo to left. I am not sure. Probably will redo the whole logo with a subline, too.
what I cannot get working is centering the footer links. they are created through the footermenu, correct? but when i change the float in the css to "middle" it looks really weired. Is that the wrong place to make the adjustment?

#footer{
border:none;
font-size:.89em;}
#footermenu ul{
margin:15px 0 0;
float: left; [DO I HAVE TO CHANGE IT HERE TO MIDDLE?]
width:100%;
border-bottom:1px solid #E6E6E6}
#footermenu li {
float: left;
list-style-type:none;}
#footermenu li a {
display: block;
border-right:1px solid #E6E6E6;
text-align:center;
padding:1px 12px;
margin:0 0 10px;
float: left;
color:#555;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
text-decoration:none;}
#footermenu li a:hover {}
#footermenu li.last a {
border-right:none;
padding-right:0}
#footermenu ul li a#active_menu {
font-weight:bold;
color:#222}


Appreciate your support on this. And looking forward to tomorrow's news...


OOOps, while we are at it one more thing (I love Steve Jobs... and working on his fruits):
When I create new ad positions using the banner module (like the google ads you find on the site) I always get an annoying list dot in front of the ads. Can't find where to change this (and I searched, believe me...).

Hi,

Regarding the footermenu.

Find:
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#footermenu ul{
margin:15px 0 0;
float:left;
width:100%;
border-bottom:1px solid #E6E6E6}
#footermenu li {
float: left;
list-style-type:none;}
#footermenu li a {
display: block;
border-right:1px solid #E6E6E6;
text-align:center;
padding:1px 12px;
margin:0 0 10px;
float: left;
color:#555;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
text-decoration:none;}

Change with:
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#footermenu ul{
margin:15px 0 0;
padding-bottom:10px;
position:relative;
overflow:hidden;
text-align:center;
border-bottom:1px solid #E6E6E6}
#footermenu li {
display:inline;
list-style-type:none;}
#footermenu li a {
border-right:1px solid #E6E6E6;
text-align:center;
padding:1px 12px;
color:#555;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
text-decoration:none;}

thanx for the code, but it does not work correctly. it's centered, yes, but see the "look" for yourself (file attached). sorry....
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That's very strange. What browser are you lookin at? I test on my localhost and it seems that it works fine.