A Major issue i am facing after the beta test-run of my upcoming website

netketu - June 17, 2009 - 02:24

I am one of the proud user of drupal CMS and ofcourse overwhelmed being a part of this community Now.
I have successfully installed and ran the drupal 6.12 on hostgator for almost a week, with almost all elementary core modules as well as a few ADD-ON modules available through drupal.org/project

Right after the end of the week, i tried uploading or testing a few more modules like, CALENDER, DATE
,FIVESTAR,FIVESTAREXTRA,VOTINGAPI,MODR8 etc.

once i installed them, i first ran into memory error which was related to the HOST. i mailed them, and they increased the APache memory for me to 90M.

Now, am done with their successfull installation though got some new bugs or problems.

1. Immediately after installing, my site began to slow down means the regular browsing speed of the site eventually got decreased. maybe, i have too much of ..cache in my browser. though still after clearing the cache, still responding a bit slow as compared previously.

2. http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2702/sitel.jpg << this is the image of our site's homepage.
though, when browsing through books and blogs now its those pages coming up like - http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2153/90131675.jpg
??
Okay, i can do something of the speed issue, though ..i cant seem to figure out ... whats the fix to this second issue??

P.S : i have already tried disabling and deleting those modules, but all in vain.

any help, would be appreciated.

Thnx

Gaurav Bagdi

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Using Internet Explorer by chance?

Moonshine - June 17, 2009 - 04:00

If you aren't aggregating your CSS files via the "Performance" section of the Drupal admin, then you might be running into an Internet Explorer limitation. It can only handle so many included CSS files before it starts ignoring them. I forget the limit off hand but I think it's around 32. If you have a ton of modules enabled then it's not hard to hit that on some pages. Of course letting Drupal aggregate them into one via the Performance section will work around that and speed up delivery considerably. But it's a pain if you're doing any theme work. Firefox w/ Firebug is pretty much the only game in town for that.

Good luck...

--
Codelica.com - Open Source System Design

Thanx for the Valuable info

netketu - June 29, 2009 - 23:10

Hi Moonshine
THank you for the tips.

First of all, i got your points about CSS and stuff.
as away from the city for some project, i just came back and restarted the work on the web portal.
I tried, Clearing the Cache, the first thing i did. I even some modules like, WYSeditors where i had four different editors were installed in. Just uploaded only one FCKedit instead.

Observed till two days, site was fine with most of the browsers leaving only I.E 7.
Though, dont know for whatever the reason is. a new problem knocked my web-portal down. sorta.

I am using Giordano with Marinelli as the base theme, and now ..am not able to get the theme display properly in any browser whatsoever.

The Left Content and the right content both are appearing at the same - LEFT SIDE BAR??
i have tried, clearing the CACHE and stuff.
the Right side bar is not even visible ???

AM so so , Stucked?
ANybudy has any idea, how to fix this. let me know, if i need to disable more modules or anything?

Any Help or suggestion, is welcome.

provide information

dman - June 29, 2009 - 23:21

Sorry, it's hard to guess what your css issues are without a link to the site. You're asking us to debug blind without showing us the code.
I understand if you think it's neccessary to keep it private - but that means your problems are your own, for now.
We can only make vague guesses at common mistakes.

.dan.

Okay

netketu - June 29, 2009 - 23:43

I understand that Mr.Dman.

Let me show some of the screenshots in here.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9634/leftsidebar.jpg - Leftsidebar
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8060/rightsidebara.jpg - Rightside bar

the site is coming up like this now, though previously it was absolutely fine.

And do let me know, what Code information you are directing towards? or asking about?

will try as much as possible to describe the problem. :)

THank you for the comments and suggestions.

guess

dman - June 30, 2009 - 00:29

You have something in the side column that is too wide for it. I can't tell what changes have been made, but it MAY be just a product of the content.
Disabling some blocks may free up that space. One of them is now wide.

A rough result may be achived by applying overflow:hidden to the sidebar (or somewhere nearby in the CSS) which will force this to not happen ---- at the expense of TRUNCATING part of your content.
Sometimes you need this.

.dan.

Well,

netketu - June 30, 2009 - 01:12

i had a similar thought about this bug, before. however, i dont think any block would be doing this?? as i am pretty much sure about the layout i had previously like a two days before, is still unchanged or anything.

Still, am gonna try disabling some blocks.

Will get you the updates.

Thnx

Any More Suggestions, are all welcome?

FIXED !!

netketu - June 30, 2009 - 04:11

Hi Guys

first of all thanx to Moonshine and den to mr.dman for the tips.

Now i have my website layout back !! and its responding quite good.

Appreciate the HELP.

Thanks and Regards
Gaurav Bagdi