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Contact form and thumbs

edited May 2012 in Airlock Posts: 6
Hi,
Firstly really love this theme, great work.
This is my first foray into website publishing, so sorry if I ask what seem like dumb questions.
I'm doing nicely so far, I've had a few issues that I've been able to work through, however I am a little stuck now and would really appreciate some assistance.
Is timthumb supposed to create a sidebar and page thumb for videos as well as images? I get image thumbs automatically, but no video thumbs. I have read that it can do this and just wondered whether it was supposed to with this theme.
I'm having real trouble getting the contact form to work, I just keep getting 'Something wrong. Try again.' when I submit.
Also when I click on my email link it fires up an outlook email box twice.
Thanks in advance for anyone's assistance.
Cheers Reuben

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  • AirAir
    Posts: 10,970
    Hello,

    Setting thumbnail for videos is not available in our theme. However in portfolio item you can set Custom Sidebar thumbnail , and it could work similar.

    Please post link to your contact site co I could check, but it seems that something wrong in your server config.

    With regards.
  • Posts: 6
    Hi,
    Thanks for the response. I'll set the video thumbnails manually.
    Link for contact page http://www.karbalion.com/contact/
    Another quick query, I noticed this was mentioned before, but when you set the background image, it repeats to the text limits of your site and not necessarily the limits of the browser windows see http://www.karbalion.com/blog/ the bottom of the page is the default grey not the image.
    Thanks again, Reuben
  • AirAir
    Posts: 10,970
    OK, to fix background you will have to edit 3 files
    airlock/common/css/style-light.css ~1 line:

    html{
    background-color: #f6f6f6;
    font-size: 13px;
    color: #a1a1a1;
    min-height: 100%;
    font-family: Calibri, Arial, Tahoma;
    }
    body{
    border-top: 6px solid #6e6e6e;
    background: #f6f6f6 url(../gfx/light/bg.png) 0 0 repeat-x;
    }
    change to

    html{
    background: #f6f6f6 url(../gfx/light/bg.png) 0 0 repeat-x;
    font-size: 13px;
    color: #a1a1a1;
    min-height: 100%;
    font-family: Calibri, Arial, Tahoma;
    }
    body{
    border-top: 6px solid #6e6e6e;
    background-color: transparent;
    }
    airlock/common/css/style-dark.css ~1 line:

    html{
    background-color: #383838;
    font-size: 13px;
    color: #8e8e8e;
    min-height: 100%;
    font-family: Calibri, Arial, Tahoma;
    }
    body{
    border-top: 6px solid #222;
    background: #383838;
    }
    change to

    html{
    background-color: #383838;
    font-size: 13px;
    color: #8e8e8e;
    min-height: 100%;
    font-family: Calibri, Arial, Tahoma;
    }
    body{
    border-top: 6px solid #222;
    background-color: transparent;
    }
    airlock/advance/user-css.php ~53 line:

    html,body{
    {$body_bg_color}
    }
    body{
    {$body_image}
    {$body_position}
    {$body_repeat}
    }
    change to

    html{
    {$body_bg_color}
    {$body_image}
    {$body_position}
    {$body_repeat}
    }
    and after that change something in color menu to generate new stylesheet.


    About contact form, check 'Airlock->Main Settings->E-mail address where e-mails will be sent ' , maybe some typo in e-mail address. If not then it is some deeper thing with server config.

    With regards.
  • Posts: 6
    Great, many thanks.
    On the email thing, I've set the email in settings already and you're probably right it may be a server issue. I'm just not sure how that works, I'm afraid. A little help would be really appreciated. I guess I'm a little naive I thought the contact form just sent an email, does it need smtp settings etc?
    Anyway I'm using a bitnami wordpress stack on amazon EC2. I've directed my domain hosts DNS to my amazon elastic IP. Do you think it would be a domain issues, i.e. do I have to redirect my domain mail exchange, or is it more likely an issue with my amazon instance do you think?
    I appreciate it's probably not your issue but any help would be terrific.
    Thanks again
    Reuben
  • Posts: 6
    Hi,
    Just to update on the contact form, I've switched to gmail through smtp and it's working fine now.
    Thanks for all your help.
    Reuben
  • AirAir
    Posts: 10,970
    Nice going! Sorry for not providing help on time :-(

    With regards.
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