WHY IS MILONIC SO HARD TO USE???

Poster: monk275
Dated: Wednesday August 27 2008 - 22:59:17 BST

http://www.milonic.com/menusample54.php This is what i bought. I had it working pretty good before I bought it. Then I bought it and look what happened???? Even when I changed it to "vertical" it just disappeared??? Here is the site http://www.caravanlogistics.ca/new_index.html

Before I bought it wouldn't line up in Safari and it looked wierd in IE6. NOW IT IS COMPLETELY F'ED.

I just don't get it??? I am not a web master but I have built over 15 sites. Some of them I bought stuff on-line (everything I bought was easy to use and worked as promissed). I liked Milonic buttons and I saw that work had been done for Porshe and other big companies. I was hoping just to pay and have it work as I have done in the past but i have spend coutless hours on these buttons and they sitll don't work properly in every browser. Now that I have paid for them they don't work at all.

What do I do??? I paid and I just want them to work

I am so annoyed???? Can anyone help???

Bryan - bmonk __at__ paladin-capital.com

Re: WHY IS MILONIC SO HARD TO USE???

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday August 28 2008 - 5:10:35 BST

Hi,

It seems that when you downloaded and unzipped your licensed version you uploaded the menu_data.js file that came with the download and that is the example data file. If you have the one you made someplace just replace the one you downloaded with it. I would suggest that the one you made you rename so you don't ever have that problem again.

Here is your page up at my site LINK REMOVED

and here is a zip file with everything in it. You will, of course, have to change the paths for things since I put everything into one directory so the paths are to that one directory. This includes your licesned menu, but a data file called monk_data.js and the two new images, location_new.gif, and location_on_new.gif. Let me know when you get the files so I can delete them from my site.
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I hope this is what you want. I realize that the actual data file I have is your 'test' one and may not have all the correct info in it, but at least it's the one you started and is vertical, and has new location images so the circle looks centered on the line. I tested it in IE6, FF1.5, FF2.0.0.16, NN7.2, NN 9, Opera 9, Safari 3 [for pc]. The only problem is in Safari 3 for pc and that is a beta browser I believe. The circle is a pixel too far right. Nothing I tried fixed it, sorry.

If you have any more problems, please post back. We are more than glad to help out.

Ruth

Re: WHY IS MILONIC SO HARD TO USE???

Poster: monk275
Dated: Thursday August 28 2008 - 13:17:22 BST

You are wonderful!!!! Ruth.

I have not done anything but read this post so please don't remove the file. I will try and fix it today. I will let you know when I have it. I just wanted to say thank you for the quick, thorough reply.

Bryan

Re: WHY IS MILONIC SO HARD TO USE???

Poster: monk275
Dated: Friday August 29 2008 - 14:19:57 BST

Ruth, you are amazing. One last thing. I have found it difficult to find an IE6 browser. Can you have a look to see if this works? I copied your work exactly (i think) http://www.caravanlogistics.ca/new_index.html

I have 2 questions:

1) I see that there are constanly updates for these milonic buttons. http://www.milonic.com/menuvinfo.php there was one yesterday. Should I periodically check for updates and change everything except the "monk_data.js" file that you made for me? Or should I just leave everything alone???

2) (Not a milonic question but its related) Is there a website that you go to to see how things look in different browsers??? I can't put IE6 on my computer now that I have IE7 on it? IE6 is very hard to find

Anyway, you are amazing!!! Have a great long weekend!!! And thank you for everything

Bryan

Re: WHY IS MILONIC SO HARD TO USE???

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday August 29 2008 - 16:36:25 BST

Hi,

It looks fine in IE6.

You should go to both of these links and subscribe one or both of them, each is to notify you that there is a update on the menu. You should always update the files. You are entitled to free updates for a year. At the end of the year if you want to keep updating you need to renew your support license, otherwise you just keep whatever the last version to which you updated is. Updates are sometimes just additional functions, but sometimes they are fixes for different browser glitches, or changes in how they function, or added things based on new developments on the web, or css etc.

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Of course, the only files you update are the program files, not the data file, though since you have renamed that there won't be a problem. By the by, you can name that monk file anything you want

There are places on the web for checking things in other browsers. I have used this one, it is free http://browsershots.org/
Note that all the browsers are checked so if you don't want to be sitting there for zillions of minutes you probably want to uncheck some of them

One suggestion on your page. As you design, remember that the actual width available at 1024x768 is not 1024 since that includes the scroll bar and the browser edges. It's probably someplace around 1000 px. In IE there are bottom scroll bars with your layout, maybe 20 or so pixels over, same in FF though not as many pixels too wide.

Ruth