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Here's a quick tip on how to quickly edit the templates for each of your XOOPS modules. I know that you can just edit the template code directly through your browser window, but I find this confusing, and I like to see more of a "design view" of the page if possible, so I know where the tables are, and where things seem to be in relation to one another on the page.
(if you use Dreamweaver, you will know what I am taking about, it allows you to quickly switch back and forth between a "design view", and a "code view", for any page that you are working on).
So, this is what I do to edit the templates code for any module:
1. Open up a new, blank html page in Dreamweaver.
2. Go to the code view of this page in Dreamweaver, select all the code, and delete it
3. Go to your "edit templates" area of the XOOPS admin, and select the template that you want to edit. When you get to the exact template that you want to change, you will see an open editing window with the template code.
4. Cut and paste the template code from the XOOPS admin, to the blank Dreamweaver page you have created.
5. Use the Design view of Dreamweaver to help you edit the code as you want it to be, move the tables around etc.
6. When you have made the changes that you want to make in Dreamweaver, go back to "code view", hit the "select all" and then "copy" tabs.
7. Then erase all the code in the XOOPS template editor window, and paste your new code from Dreamweaver in.
8. Hit Submit, and your template code is updated!
(Note: somtimes when you do this, you get a "taking you back to where you were" message, instead of "database updated". In this case, just navigate to the template editing window again, and paste your code in again...it should be saved this time).