[JTFF]

Hi guys,

Well it’s been over a week since I’ve heard from you. I know you are busy, but it’s taken three weeks to get one response back (July 5-July 26), and it could go on a month to get two responses back! If you can explain why the menu is acting the way it is in my last post, it would help me immensely. I’m sure you guys appreciate how important all of your customers’ sites are to them since in many cases it will be providing income etc. Hopefully, I’m not being unreasonable in this.

Thanks again

[JTFF]

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I took a look at the test page. I’m surprised that the plugin did anything since the problem was happening before I got the plugin. If you’ll look at the test page again, I have added some more sub-menu items. The problem arose when I added sub-menu item ‘FLY FISHING TEST 5’. When you remove it, the main menu item lights up. When it’s there, it does not.

Thanks again

[JTFF]

Hi guys,

Just trying to save my question as it’s coming on a week. I know that this has been a tedious question, but it’s very important to me that my homepage function correctly. The inconsistent menu items violates many of Steve Krug’s basics for a homepage, not to say he’s the end-all be-all, but his recommendations make sense. Once again, any suggestions on why the sub-menu items are affecting the light-up status.

Thanks

[JTFF]

Hi guys,

Thanks for your time. I looked over your guys’ answer, and it just does not seem to work like that in reality. I understand what your saying is descriptively accurate, no href etc., but that does not help me solve the problem. With respect to the links and the home page, the question becomes why are they doing this, and it is not simply a link issue. The default seems to be to light up, so the question then remains why are some lighting up and others not. Linking has a limited predictable effect on the home page menu items. What is predictable is that when the number of sub-menu items is increased or decreased, the menu item is directly affected. I tested all of my menu items with a programmer friend, and this was the only thing that yielded anything predictable. When sub-menu items are taken away, eventually the corresponding menu item lights up; when they are added, eventually the opposite happens, irrespective of the link or name of the menu item. Thus, there must be something within the sub-menus that is causing this based off the fact that the correspondence is not numeric, i.e., there is no exact number of sub-menu items that causes this effect, but usually around 8 or 9 menu items causes the menu item not to light up. Any suggestions in this direction?

Thanks again for your time.

[JTFF]

Hi,

Well, since I wrote last, the links have begun to do something different. So, for no apparent reason at all, “fly fishing media & reviews” has started to light up. It makes no difference what I link to any of the menus items; nothing I do affects it at all. I can put a link in, take one out, whatever. It acts the same as “hosted fly fishing trips”. Also, there is no reason why “hosted fly fishing trips” should be any different from “to fly fish” or “rankings” as far as I can tell, yet it lights up. I just want consistency particularly on my home page; it just does not look professional.

Thanks

[JTFF]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your help. I think that’s what Ed was saying as well, and I thought that that made good sense, but in practice it wasn’t doing that as far as I can tell. Concerning the page menu item, I have found that custom gives me more flexibility. The problem that I was seeing still remains unless I am absolutely not understanding.

The upshot is that if you and Ed are right, then “hosted fly fishing trips”, which has the exact same link structure as the first three (i.e., it has no link in it in the menu page), should not light up like it is (I can put the home page link in here and it solves the problem somewhat). Furthermore, “fly fishing media and reviews” should light up because it is linked to another page. However, it does not light up on hover even though it is linked to another page just like “about” right next to it. I hope I have understood you correctly, and if I have, then the problem remains on the homepage for sure.

Thanks

[JTFF]

Hi guys,

Just bumping it to the front again since it’s in danger of slipping away. For some reason this question has been elusive over the last two weeks. Any suggestions to make it more conspicuous or any tips that would help you out? Anyways, the question is above. Hopefully, it’s an easy fix.

Thanks

[JTFF]

Hi Ed,

I really appreciate your help. I know you guys have a ton of questions. I was hoping that it was as easy as that, but I am still having problems with this once again on the home page. Just to test this, I linked “fly fishing media & reviews” to another page, the “about” page. However, it does not change color like the “about” page does even though it is linked to the exact same page. On the other hand, “hosted fly fishing trips” turns blue like the “about” menu item even though it is linked to nothing, or evidently the homepage. Something is happening to each one of these items. Suggestions?

Thanks

[JTFF]

Hi,

Just bumping this to the front since it’s slipping away.

Thanks

[JTFF]

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[JTFF]

The link didn’t post for some reason, but it was the thread with people not being able to click on disable breadcrumbs etc. in old posts.

[JTFF]

Hi,

It must be displaying differently on your computer. All I did was adjust the color via the custom color page. Any suggestions?

1) On the first link (Homepage), the first six menu items do not display hover. However, “about” (the last one) does.
2) On the second link, everything works like it should (hover and nav pointer).
3) On the second link, the nav pointer does not work.

Thanks

[JTFF]

http://toflyfish.com/wordpress/
http://toflyfish.com/wordpress/flies-fly-tying/
http://toflyfish.com/wordpress/tying-material/

[JTFF]

I’ve now been looking at multiple pages to see what’s going on with the nav text color etc. The features change on almost every page. Sometimes the nav pointer is present, sometimes it’s not. On some pages everything works and the text is all the same (on all 7 menu titles). On the homepage, the text is always different colors with the 6 and new one, but the new item is always the only one to have the text color change on hover. The sub menu items now all change on hover. The only thing I did was change the color of the nav divider. Not sure what’s going on here.

Thanks