How the heck do you get articles in Xoops! to look good?

I don't want the date it was posted or by who ect, just article teasers with the read more link.

Some of the sites that I've seen have done a great job at the like Fantasyasylum.com, but how??

I would really like to see more sites that have organized their content outside of the standard and if possible, what they used and how they got it to go.

- If you know of a site using Xoops! that has it articles displayed in a clean, nice format, please post the link here so that the rest of us can see whats posible!

I agree... thats what I am looking for too

thats the beauty of the template system, just open any template in your editor and play with the code.

Hi,

May be they are using spotlight but as tjnemez says, you can also do it by playing with the templates

Bye,
Hervé

This is interesting, this Forum post by Mr. Wizard (Mithrandir) refers to a very nicely done site (unfinished as yet), xoops.web-udvikling.dk who has his (/her) news laid out in an a nice, 2-collom format.

Mithrandir says that it's the "column" setting in the module preferences, but I don't see any column options in - the General Configuration options (which is where the module preferences link goes to). ??

- The standard NEWS module does seem to be the ticket though for simple, organized references.

Still, how do you get this 2 column look and how do you remove and or re-position these automatically added Elements such as the post date, read count, byte size and comments?

I looked through the templates under the news module and it only displayes these codes in the page - "<{if $displaynav == true}>, <{/if}> <{section name=i loop=$stories}> <{include file="db:news_item.html" story=$stories[i]}>
<{/section}>
<{$pagenav}>
<{include file='db:system_notification_select.html'}>

- So, nothing obvious like %%post_date%% etc...

do you have news 1.2, if not go here: http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1008

YES! YES! YES!!!

I updated this module, set the columns to 2, did a search in the CSS for the color code and changed it to my color, dropped in my own friend and print.gifs and it's fricken perfect!

The only thing I'm loven lately more than Xoops! is the people it attracts!

Thanks guys!