I am sure this should be a simple fix but I keep going in circles trying to position the facebook and twitter logos on this page.
they are placed as “position: relative;” but they move the quote area on the right, down. And subsequently my navigation moves down as well.
any suggestions about solving this for me would be greatly appreciated!
thanks so much Rayzur,
that is such clear and concise info. I will go back and re-evaluate the different pieces. This Wordpress site was set up by someone else, and I am going in and working on the parts that need adjustment as I learn more about CSS.
your kind help is very appreciated.
thanks,
Jeff
Hi,
To add to what TommiChi has just said I would suggest setting up a header div for the icons and quote. Set an appropriate height (about 168px) on that header and it will position the menu below correctly. The menu will not be in the header but it will come after it in the markup.
Then I would take the height off of that quote and just float it right without the 500px left margin. Wrap your two icons in a div and float it left.
That logo image that looks like the header image is actually a BG image on your body, I would make it the BG image for #wrapper2 and set it as no-repeat. That will keep it centered in the wrapper, as it is right now it scrolls left at narrow viewport widths.
I kept focusing on my css file, when it was the placement of the icons that was the problem. once I moved them out of the div they were setting in everything went into place!
thanks again,
Jeff
You should have placed your facebook and twitter icons in the same container. I made a few small changes to your markup via firebug, that should get you on the right track (I have not done your work for you, but pointed you in the right direction)…:
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<blockquote><p><strong>Mission:</strong> Lore of the Land’s mission is to develop and nurture the art of bioregional sound collage and provide training in aural history recording within indigenous and traditional communities throughout the American West, including northern Mexico. <em>Lore of the Land, Inc</em>. recognizes the direct relationship between indigenous culture and environment, traditional wisdom and knowledge of habitat, the power of place and inter-species communications. Lore of the Land enables communities to record their own cultural and contemporary aural art forms, control dissemination of these materials, and conserve their unique system of coordinates for navigating within the biosphere. This knowledge holds the key to restoring the Earth.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Focus of Activities: </strong> <em>Lore of the Land, Inc</em>. trains scholars within indigenous and traditional communities in the practice of aural history and the art of sound collage. We also produce radio programs for distribution and broadcast over Community Public Radio stations, sound collages for museums and CD distribution, and books and articles, all of which focus on the relationship of cultural diversity to biodiversity, and forward the importance of collaboration between indigenous culture bearers and members of the scientific community.</p>
<p><strong>Previous Projects: </strong> Through a Ford Foundation grant administered by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, fifteen community scholars from within Navajo, Hopi, Río Grande Puebloan, Tohono O’odham, Seri and New Mexico Hispanic cultures were trained in the practice of aural history, and provided with up-to-date digital recording equipment and computers to pursue cultural documentation within their respective communities. The project also resulted in digital duplication of the Loeffler Aural History Archive to be donated to the New Mexico History Museum at the Palace of the Governors.<br>
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<p><strong>Founding:</strong> The organization was founded in 1994 in Santa Fe, NM by Lee Udall as the Native American Arts Scholarship Fund. In 2000, Mrs. Udall and the board invited Jack Loeffler to expand the purview to include aural documentation of indigenous knowledge and habitat. After Mrs. Udall died in Dec. 2001, the board reorganized. In 2005, the organization’s name was officially changed with the State of New Mexico and the IRS to Lore of the Land, Inc.</p>
<p><strong>Sponsoring Other Projects: </strong> Lore of the Land, Inc. occasionally sponsors projects initiated by others assuming that they are compatible with the nonprofit, 501c3 purposes of the organization. As fiscal sponsor, Lore of the Land, Inc is responsible for receiving and disbursing funds and filing all reports required by the funder. Each sponsored project must have a board member as the point of contact who oversees project implementation and ensures that all reports are done correctly and on time.</p>
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