JMorris ~

yes, YES! this is EXACTLY the answer to what i asked. thanks so much for the step-by-step! i have a better idea now of what to do for three column theme.


tjnemez ~
yes, i have looked at JMorris' 2cnt (two columns no tables) and am happy now i have a better look under the hood!


JMorris & tjnemez ~

i have just come from a fabulous site by carmen mardiros and read her article: liquid css layouts - design alternatives to table based websites [http://www.mardiros.net/liquid-css-layouts.html ] which is cross-browser and excellent, imho.

take care!

hey there, JMorris ~

oops, i did mean theme. my bad. i had a look earlier at your news article on the tableless two column layout and again just now following your link.

when you implemented your css modifications, what other directories/files did you look in to make sure the css changes would take? i didn't see any explanation in your article, so i ask.

dear JMorris~

which of the XOOPS default templates is yours based on? how did you tweak?

hi, tjnemez ~

i have visited your wonderful sites and savored your posts here. thanks a lot. i really love the concept and easy navigation of www.mindhealth.ca; it's really cool. & your graphic on www.dcdezines.ca is what lead me to read your posts. keep all that good energy coming! i really love your web design ability to maintain playful designs for *serious* sites.

as i promised in an earlier post to this forum, i have been reading the XOOPS documentation. to humbly offer my tableless css column tweaks (assumptions, right now) based on the XOOPS documentation file named: anatomy of the default template
[http://docs.xoops.org/modules/xdocman/manual.php?lang=en&doc=xn-103&file=index.html], i begin here. see if you have any feedback for me, okay, on all this?

from what i have read and understood, and the documentation paragraphs are quite clear and sweetly brief, theoretically all i need to do to adapt the tables in the default theme to pure tableless column css is to change the html <td> tags to css divs with similar names and define them in the xoops.css, making sure there are no conflicts. if my theory is correct, all i need do from there is two things: (1) be sure that all references in my XOOPS default theme folder (which is where i will put my trials and work from distribution install files _after_ copying/renaming the distribution default folder in themes default1 just in case i screw up) and (2) be sure the references to my <td> tag changes work everywhere else throughout the XOOPS distribution.

from what i've read:
The XOOPS default theme contains 6 HTML files: theme.html, theme_blockleft.html, theme_blockcenter_c.html, theme_blockcenter_l.html, theme_blockcenter_r.html and theme_blockright.html.

the documentation also notes where xoops.css is stored.

so i'll look through these for references to the tags i need to change first and then for what other in the XOOPS distribution files reference the <td> tags.

am i on the right track here? i hope so. i have only read the documentation once, but i'm going back now for a re-read.

~
merilene

hello, good people of xoops!

i would like to see examples of/links to xoops' three themes: default/, phpkaox/ and x2t/.

correction. since www.xoops.org is a good example of the default template, here i would like to see adaptations, etc.

after that, i would like to examples/links to/modifications of the phpkaox and x2t templates.

thanks in advance.

~
merilene
http://telepoetics.dyndns.org/a1/
http://www.telepoetics.com/a1/

hello, daddio!

i'm new to xoops, too. you probably have resolved your query by now but i want to thank you for asking the same question i am now asking.

what i got from reading this thread and visiting the suggested sites is the courage to check out XOOPS documentation. {lol at myself for hestitating!}

i found an excellent article, too -- anatomy of the default theme:
http://docs.xoops.org/modules/xdocman/index.php?doc=xn-103&lang=en

i'm still reading but wanted to post here before i begin my journey and forget to come back here. apparently, XOOPS has three default themes (all of them with css control). these themes seem to be based on three columns and so that may guide our searches through the references in these posts.

i have a favorite i have used in the past for tableless three column css: www.glish.com/css/ ! especially, see the blogger template, which i love! i have been using it athttp://telepoetics.dyndns.org/a1/ (eventually to be www.telepoetics.com) for a while and am now looking to do something similar yet more powerful with xoops.

www.glish.com is eric costello's site. he has a lot of useful links, especially for tableless three column css, all cross-browser, too.

well, ta for now. i'm going on to read more of the documentation. all my best to you and your project! and thanks everyone of this community for all you do!

~merilene