Site Menu page will not extend/get longer

Question

I am adding to my Site Menu and something is awry at the bottom of the page. Because I am adding more to the page, I have to lower the rest of the page to make room for the new text. However, the page refuses to lengthen. One manifestation of this is that the last item on the text field, the Bylines site, was pushing through the footer area, becoming partially hidden rather than pushing the whole page down and maintaining total visibility. (It's visible in Safari, though.)
Just now I went to the Page inspector and brought the Footer back down to ZERO and I removed the Counter from the Footer and placed it onto the text field. I also upped the text field to 800 pixels, which oughta be enough for a Site Menu page!
Still, when I select all that I want to have lowered on the page, IT STILL REFUSES TO LOWER. I welcome any insights.
Lorna in Southern California

Answer 1

You need to increase the Content Height setting,
Lorna. I can tell you right now that your Content
Height is more like 1000-1200 as it stands. Just
compare the width of the page to the height. Imagine
a square with sides the same size as the width of the
page (which by default is 700 right?). So if you
look at your page, the length of the page obviously
extends beyond a square with 700 pixel sides.
Just keep adjusting the Content Height UP until you
see the footer move down the page.
James, wow, you were right. I set the text field to 1500 pixels and the page length visibly lengthened. I now have the Counter at the bottom of the page.
BUT WAIT! THERE IS A NEW PROBLEM! <she shrieked>
When I clicked to insert an Email Me button, it went to the bottomest bottom of the page and slipped below the bottom page boundary. You know how when Bugs Bunny was hiding behind a large rock, you could see his ears twitching and you knew that he was hiding there? Well, similarly, I saw two, maybe three handlebars to what I know is the Email me button, but when I clicked onto the handles to "grab" the button and lift if from where it should not be, those handles disappeared, not to return. Of course, I experimented to push the page down longer, using the Counter button as a bulldozer, but the page would not lengthen, probably because it reached the limit of the 1500 pixels. So I figured: If I set the text field to max out at 1500 pixels, how is it that the Email me button has slipped below that? And so I bring the issue to the Forum once again.
So NOW what?
Lorna in Southern California