Making cosmetic changes to web site like pulling teeth.

[Zedster]

Hello folks,

 

After a year of trying to upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6, I finally got the site upgraded to 1.6. But of course the site is totally unusable. 

 

Many things now are just cosmetic and by all rights should very easy change but is simply not the case. 

 

For example, we wanted to make our front page look less cluttered so we deleted some aspects of the front page. This has in turn made the front page slider entirely too large, also I cannot find out to change it's alignment from center to off to the right so I can bring our category menu up along of side it. I have made all of the images used in the slider the same size and actually the size I would like them to display and also changed the pixel width size to match the images.

 

I have attached an image that shows alignment problem and also another problems with the arrows used to navigate the slider. They are not aligned to the middle. This just looks bad. Any fix for that?

 

So now I go into "positions" thinking, yes this must be it. But it only lists in what order things appear on the page not alignments. But then I see "Live Edit" and figure my prayers are answered (being atheist I should know better). This nearly worthless little feature does nothing more than let you delete or change the order of things not positions. Intuitive is not what I would call this part of the program.

 

Next, is there ever anyway of adjusting fonts used and font sizes in different module elements for example, the text in "Top horizontal menu"? I am pretty sure the answer to this is, I need to learn to code.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Zed