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What XOOPS provides is a very powerful and flexible backend. The reason a lot of sites look very much the same is because a lot of users are happy with it that way.
With a little imagination, and a bit of time, you CAN create a totally unique look and feel for your site. Of course, you'll need to hand-code in theme.html, but if it was any more simple, you'd be lacking in power.
I'd be surprised if you could point me to a site which doesn't use one of two or three basic design concepts. Either menu top and bottom, menu left, menu right etc. The three column display isn't particularly strick with XOOPS either... you can for example set your right hand blocks to display on the left, giving you a two column display.
All you have to do is work a little.
With a little imagination, and a bit of time, you CAN create a totally unique look and feel for your site. Of course, you'll need to hand-code in theme.html, but if it was any more simple, you'd be lacking in power.
I'd be surprised if you could point me to a site which doesn't use one of two or three basic design concepts. Either menu top and bottom, menu left, menu right etc. The three column display isn't particularly strick with XOOPS either... you can for example set your right hand blocks to display on the left, giving you a two column display.
All you have to do is work a little.
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I've had a quick look at the teme for you, and the following alterations should do the trick.
On line 40 of theme.html (within theBluePhlame folder) you'll see the following line of code:
Quote:
Replace it with:
Quote:
This will put your banner where you want it. No do a search within Wordpad (or whatever you're using to edit the file) for:
Quote:
Apart from the line of code you've just altered, there will only be one other instance of this in the theme. Delete that entire line, which will be:
Quote:
and save your file. Upload it to the theme directory, and hey presto!
I've not had a chance to upload the theme and double check for myself, but you should be okay with this.
On line 40 of theme.html (within theBluePhlame folder) you'll see the following line of code:
Quote:
<td width="781" height="66" background="<{$xoops_imageurl}>headermiddle.PNG"></td>
Replace it with:
Quote:
<td width="781" height="66" background="<{$xoops_imageurl}>headermiddle.PNG"><center><{$xoops_banner}></center></td>
This will put your banner where you want it. No do a search within Wordpad (or whatever you're using to edit the file) for:
Quote:
$xoops_banner
Apart from the line of code you've just altered, there will only be one other instance of this in the theme. Delete that entire line, which will be:
Quote:
<{$xoops_banner}>
and save your file. Upload it to the theme directory, and hey presto!
I've not had a chance to upload the theme and double check for myself, but you should be okay with this.
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There isn't a detailed stats module for the admin as far as I'm aware... but then I generally use the stats provided by my host for this
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Hi tempo,
If your new theme doesn't show banners, it's just because there's a small section of code that hasn't been included within the theme.html file.
To add a banner function to the theme, open the theme.html file and insert the line
<{$xoops_banner}>
where you want your banners to be displayed.
Hope this helps!
If your new theme doesn't show banners, it's just because there's a small section of code that hasn't been included within the theme.html file.
To add a banner function to the theme, open the theme.html file and insert the line
<{$xoops_banner}>
where you want your banners to be displayed.
Hope this helps!
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Hi all!
The present banners module for XOOPS (and most other CMS) allows you to restrict the number of impressions can be made by a banner before it expires. I find however, that most advertisers are more interested in how many CLICKS they get from their banner rather than the number of impressions.
It would be great to see a function whereby the number of clicks can be bought, as opposed to the number of impressions, with the banner expiring after X number of clicks.
It would also be nice to have an option to email / print an invoice to your advertisers detailing the number of impressions, number of clicks, and cost per click etc.
Might it be possible to add a pop-up manager to XOOPS as well? Although not a great fan of pop-ups myself, it could be used as a way of generating income for high-bandwidth sites, as advertisers pay more for this than banners. It can also be used to highlight a particular section of interest within your site, a kind of internal promotions tool.
Just a couple of thoughts...
The present banners module for XOOPS (and most other CMS) allows you to restrict the number of impressions can be made by a banner before it expires. I find however, that most advertisers are more interested in how many CLICKS they get from their banner rather than the number of impressions.
It would be great to see a function whereby the number of clicks can be bought, as opposed to the number of impressions, with the banner expiring after X number of clicks.
It would also be nice to have an option to email / print an invoice to your advertisers detailing the number of impressions, number of clicks, and cost per click etc.
Might it be possible to add a pop-up manager to XOOPS as well? Although not a great fan of pop-ups myself, it could be used as a way of generating income for high-bandwidth sites, as advertisers pay more for this than banners. It can also be used to highlight a particular section of interest within your site, a kind of internal promotions tool.
Just a couple of thoughts...
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I think the auction module is a great idea, and I'm looking forward to seeing it develop into a stable release.
The additional of an option to charge a handling fee for succesful options would be a huge benefit - a module like this is great for adding stickyness to your site, but with stickyness comes increased bandwith, which has to be paid for.
The additional of an option to charge a handling fee for succesful options would be a huge benefit - a module like this is great for adding stickyness to your site, but with stickyness comes increased bandwith, which has to be paid for.
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I have to agree, although this is the same with most Open Source CMS systems. As mentioned previously, it is relatively simply to edit out the number of reads etc from the module templates, but it would be nice to have the ability to switch such options off within the module administration. What we have to remember is that for lower traffic sites, seeing that an item has only had 2 reads can be off-putting to potential new users.
As for the smilies... I personally find bright, animated smilies offensive in more corporate functions. The only way I've found around this so far is to go into the smilies option at deselect the smilies that were selected to "appear in form".
At the moment I'm having to heavily customise my XOOPS installation to be suitable for the use I have in mind... although this does hold one major advantage - it won't look like "yet another XOOPS site" when it goes live!
As for the smilies... I personally find bright, animated smilies offensive in more corporate functions. The only way I've found around this so far is to go into the smilies option at deselect the smilies that were selected to "appear in form".
At the moment I'm having to heavily customise my XOOPS installation to be suitable for the use I have in mind... although this does hold one major advantage - it won't look like "yet another XOOPS site" when it goes live!
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The only problem with doing it that way is I want to offer the site in multiple languages eventually... that would mean making the same changes for every language I add. Not a total nightmare I know, but still...
Plus, you still get an unwanted '||' where the 'xxx bytes more' used to be...
Anyway, I managed to break down the array in index.php in the modules/news/ directory and got everything looking the way I wanted.
Plus, you still get an unwanted '||' where the 'xxx bytes more' used to be...
Anyway, I managed to break down the array in index.php in the modules/news/ directory and got everything looking the way I wanted.
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