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I have been reading up on installing smarty so that I can "get my feet wet with it". Dabble if you will. I have moderate web development skills and I know that I want to do some solid work with the XOOPS CMS. Problem is I look at the smarty download file and try to upload it to my shared host webserver from globalhosting.com. It is at this point where I do not know what the heck I am doing. I can not find no index.php or config.php or even an install.php file in the bunch. I am absolutely willing to learn about it, and in my past experiences "hands on" was my best strategy for learning about new tools. This is frustration me because this tool to me seems to have no interface. Am I just completely missing the boat on the whole smarty party?
Maybe I'm rambling, maybe I'm looking in the wrong direction for a "tight web theme" design tool, maybe I'm in over my head, maybe XOOPS isn't the right CMS for my retarded understanding, maybe I should go to bed and try again tomorrow.
What do I want?
I want a site that looks like
Winamp's site. I also like how Draven put together his portal page to
his site and how it packs a lot of content into a tight functional flowpiece. I do not need tons of bells and whistles. A forum (newBB), chat (flashchat), and news module would be the main focus of my online community site. A portal page with a constant header that follows the visitor thru the site. This header would include at the most a cached dhtml drop down menu (I purchased xara's menumaker a while back) that would allow the visitor access to all areas of the site with a single click.
Is that too much to ask for? Is smarty the right tool for this job? If not, what alternatives do I have?
Thanks for hearing me out.
My specs:
Globalhosting.com
NewBB RC3
Latest Xoops
MySQL 4.0.21-standard