I thought I'd do a follow-up to the post above for anyone who is interested. With a pointer in the right direction from @Brogan I solved the problem of the FT controls as shown in the second image in that post. What I had to do was style the FT controls, giving those the same opaque background as the title and text containers. It nearly solved the problem, except for one small thing:I'm trying to sort the styling on my site based on what @Gazhyde has done. I'm using the SPs to do this. I'm currently doing this on my test site before transferring to my live site. I've managed the home page just fine which is currently looking like this (I may tweak a few things further):
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I am however having a small problem with the blocks on the forums page:
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The issue you can see is at the top right where the FT controls are. The issue seems to be relating to using overflow CSS.
On the home page I don't have this problem - I removed the overflow CSS from the title and there isn't any for the text.
On the forums page, there is overflow in both the title and the text. The text of course requires it or it would overflow right down the container. I don't want to remove it from the title as when I do, the title container extends to the left (underneath the avatar I think) and at narrow widths titles can go onto two lines and I end up with the last line of text in the text section being clipped (but only if the title goes onto a second line).
Of course this issue doesn't occur if you don't see the FT controls.
I've tried various things but I still can't get it to look the way I want. Any suggestions?
I have updated the second post with some more screenshots: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/cta-featured-threads-portal-paid.64261/#post-678212
Even with just those few sites, it shows how flexible the add-on is and how easy it is to make a unique looking home page.
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