First off, my congratulations on a really, really easy to intuit package. Installation went like clockwork and a new template (for now) was more than easy to develop.

But!

First, I'm not sure I want to do this, but how can I make the format table be centered and of a specific length. I tried doing this in my theme.html file but it didn't "take". It's not critical. I really like the look I got modifying fiblack3d that's full width. I'd like to play with a centered page on a background but, as I say, it's not critical

What is critical is that I've somehow made my opening page block only visible to me if I'm logged in. I don't plan to allow registrations, have a forum and the like and I may have inadvertently set something that prevents viewing the pages. I want everything viewable by all unless otherwise specified. Eventually I will have some private directories but I don't think they'll be developed through XOOPS anyway.

So. In my logged in view, I have this very nice front page:

with home, contact us, web links, news, sections and headlines in the left menu.

But if I'm not logged in I (and the world at large) see only this:

with only home, news and sections in the menu.

What've I done?!?!

Again, this is really a very cool CMS. I don't know why I waited so long to try it. Silly of me.

Thanks much for any help.

Oreb

1st off, welcome to XOOPS and it's good that everything went smoothly..

you could easily find the info you need by using the search function on this site or browsing the forums, as people don't like repeating themselves every few days..

regarding the block permissions etc for anonymous users, goto adminCP and check the group settings and make sure that anonymous users have access to the modules & blocks you want them to.

regarding the centering of your theme..

make sure in admin, preferences that u tick the box that says update template files.. (remember to untick this box once ur site goes live) this will then show u the changes u make..

clear your templates_c folder if u edited the theme.html file otherwise you will only see the old compiled screen and not the theme with your new changes..

also your page maybe set in both theme.html and the style.css file so you may need to adjust both files to get the page centred on your screen etc..

You need to go into the admin panel and select System=>Groups. Then click on the "modify" link for the Anonymous Users Group. Inside there, you need to set the module and block access rights.

Thanks so much. Actually I did search but not for the right keywords. Never occurred to me that anonymice might be involved. Then again, this is the first CMS I've actually gone live with so I do confess to ignorance on a great many things.

But both the suggestions (one was from both helpers) worked just fine, TYVM

I had modified the stylesheet but forgot to remove the 100% from the table element.

Incidentally, the fiblack3 theme has an error in its stylesheet. The div.ZoopsQuote class has a closing bracket in the middle of what should be the descriptor for background. Thus:
Quote:

should be:
Quote:

Anyway, here's my newly redesigned site URL: http://www.mainefocus.com/ I have tons of work to do and not a lot of time all at once but finally I can go live with something new and I'm really excited. I'll add galleries and maybe a shopping cart at some point but for now, I'm a happy camper for sure!

I really appreciate the help. I'll try to intuit better search terms next time. Promise.

O.