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JonBon
I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 0:01

  • JonBon

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I've made up a design I want to use for Xoops, but I can't seem to get it right.

heres what the i want it to look like.

Resized Image

so if anyone could help that would be great.

and I can make it bigger.

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hsalazar
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 1:13

  • hsalazar

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JonBon:

Well, the first thing you need to do is tell the nature of your problems, of course. If you can build this image with HTML, your almost there. Have you reached that point already?

Cheers.

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JonBon
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 1:50

  • JonBon

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yes I am able to put it into html. i already have to make it bigger, its just that getting all the other stuff is the problem, like the stuff that goes in the center, i have troubles with that.

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hsalazar
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 3:12

  • hsalazar

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JonBon:

Well, in this case my suggestion would be to watch closely the way the default theme is built, and to clone its structure and behavior. You have to make sure that you can splice your HTML in little autonomous blocks:

1) A block for the header
2) A block for the content area
3) A block for the footer

Also, within the content area, you need to splice the block in three sub-blocks:

2a) A block for the left column
2b) A block for the center content area
2c) A block for the right column

The usual path here is to put all this in a table, so 2a, 2b and 2c are TDs in that table.

Then, in 2a you need to define

2a1) A block head
2a2) A block content

In 2c you need

2c1) A block head
2c2) A block content

Then, in 2b, you need to define:

2b1) A block head full-width
2b2) A block content full-width
2b3) A block head half-with
2b4) A block content half-width
2b5) A block for the general content

If you see how theme.html is built on the default theme, you'll find it easy to grow from there.

Cheers.

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JonBon
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 4:02

  • JonBon

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i'm gonna try that. what if I just want the one in the middle, and not have 3 columns in the middle?

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chapi
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 8:49

  • chapi

  • Theme Designer

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  • Since: 2002/1/22


The Theme KickStart Guide in the Wiki should also help you a little in this case.

http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=ThemeHowTo

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tjnemez
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 10:28

  • tjnemez

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please provide an update or a link to your site.

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JonBon
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 22:06

  • JonBon

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ok I've coded the layout into the XOOPS files you said, but now it doesn't show up anymore

heres the link

http://www.catstep.net/xoops

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Bassman
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 22:19

  • Bassman

  • Friend of XOOPS

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  • Since: 2003/5/23


you have to make sure that all the links in your theme.html match what your theme is called - in all of the themes i've done, there's 5 html files besides theme.html. So if your theme is called Default, you have all the files in a folder called Default and the links in your theme.html will be to files in the Default folder: <{include file="Default/theme_blockleft.html"}> and so on. if it's different to your folder name, it will not work.

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JonBon
Re: I'm soooo new at this, having troubles
  • 2004/8/22 22:29

  • JonBon

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i checked that, and its in my default folder and the links are correct, still not showing up

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