I'm building a Xoops-powered site on top of a cute design by our regular designer. The problem is that there are two specific blocks (a top menu with links to static content and the search box) that should be displayed outside the standard 3-column design that XOOPS uses (they fit in the page header).

I could move this code in my theme HTML into the header:



But this would move all the blocks of that kind.

I'm currently thinking of hard-coding the aforementioned items in my theme. For instance, I can display the regular search box, copy the generated HTML into my theme header, and hide the box.

Is that a good idea? What's the best approach I could use?

Go here: http://helpxoops.info

There are links to one site with over 1000 XOOPS and XOOPS Cube themes... plus you can see some interesting implementations for additional ideas.

There is a module to help you do this - read the about Boox

There are themes that add the search box to the header, as well as the login and user blocks (zeta reticuli, morphogenesis and others based on them).

There are also ways to use the banners to position your custom blocks.

And also a bit of searching on this forum will provide other information on this topic...