Hello all:

I am a newbie to Xoops, and i have have a few questions:

How can set a static home page, and have news on the sidebar?
and where can i purchase a custom theme?

Thank you much in advance!

S

Please check the FAQ on this site and or use the search function. Al these answers you will find there. These are questions whcih are asked frequently.

what I think of XOOPS as an old user:

it has been (despite very esporadic ups and downs) under very good hands until now. Code wise, it's clearness, and advantages it can give, is being kept until today's date. Being it a process under evolution you must keep up to date with the activity that evolves until the current date.

to answer your questions:

A) static home pages: nothing is "STATIC" here.

WELCOME TO "WEB 2.0"

B) News on the side bar: search for the latest news module by Herve Thouzard

C) Custom Themes: not only do I make part of xoopsdesign.com, which makes custom XOOPS designs and offers other kind of XOOPS help, there are lots of other people worth mentioning like davidl2, bassman, among others you can find in the Themes news section.

How much of it do you want to be static? You can put news in via one of the news modules through a block. The FAQ will teach you how to do that. As for static content, you can use a block for that too. You have two options. One, you can create an Iframe and have an html page load into that. Or create the html page in the block. Most of what you want can be answered through the FAQ. I am fairly new myself, and outside of some install problems and bugs on the way, I managed to get my page the way I want in under a week.

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There is also the documentation now available on the link on the left specifically you need the administration doc and there is the search button on the top right...please use these tools as well. Check the read b4u post link below too