I need Help modifying my Navigation Menu

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Well Heres my site: Guitar-Insight.com

I've been working on it for about 2 weeks now. Well, once you navigate away from the homepage an adsense unit appears under the nav menu.

I need this menu to enclose the adsense unit.. So the ad looks like its meant to be there and not just thrown in.

If anyone can help me it'd be really appreciated.
#menu #modifying #navigation
  • Profile picture of the author FredFarnes
    Each theme has different options. If you are unable to achieve your adjustment within the theme options, you may have to place the google code directly into the php file as necessary. It may be a "header.php" or "navigation.php" or something similar. You'll have to do that within the theme editor.

    Check with the author of your theme, that's probably the best way to solve this..
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    • Profile picture of the author jitterbug978
      Thats not the problem I'm comfortable editing the themes files and that is how I placed the Adsense unit. I dont think I could have used a plugin to get it where I needed it to go anyways.

      The problem now is it looks out of place and I need to do some modifications to make it look like it belongs where it is. I want it to look professional and not just thrown together.

      I want the Leaderboard adsense unit that is directly below the Nav Menu to be enclosed. I want it to look like the existing menu drops down around it on each side. So that the bare spots dont show.
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  • Profile picture of the author SuiteJ
    I don't know what you mean by this exactly:

    I want it to look like the existing menu drops down around it on each side
    but, from my understanding you just want the ad to look like it's part of the site layout and not "separating" it.

    A very simple thing you could do is create a style for the adsense code and give it a background color. I think making it the same dark gray color as the bottom of the nav gradient might look ok.

    So, this could depend slightly on your theme code, but you should be able to just do something like the following

    Put your adsense code inside something like:

    Code:
    <div id="adsense">
    <--Adsense Code-->
    </div>
    And stick this in your style sheet

    Code:
    #adsense {
    background: #252429;
    width: 941px
    }
    That's basic, but putting a background color would help you get what you want I think.

    You could also move the adsense code down inside the code that has this image as the background. That would make the nav tight against that "lip", and your ad would not "put a break" between the nav and content.

    That was after a quick glance but hope it helps a little.

    Cheers
    Jay
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaarrrggghhh
    Yeah you can accomplish that by adjusting your CSS as outlined by SuiteJ... just take his word for it, it will work for you and SuiteJ was sweet enough to share it with you
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