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Good-day,
The order you're experiencing can be explained by analyzing the index.html page in your site's "/themes/[your current theme]/index.html" file.
You'll find here the php template that defines how your page is put together. It includes loops to show each block element, and if you're at all familiar with HTML and source code, you'll quickly understand why your experience happens.
The issue lies in the following code:
Quote:
<td id="centercolumn">
<!-- Display center blocks if any -->
<{if $xoops_showcblock == 1}>
<table cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td id="centerCcolumn" colspan="2">
<!-- Start center-center blocks loop -->
<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_ccblocks}>
<{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_c.html"}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- End center-center blocks loop -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="centerLcolumn">
<!-- Start center-left blocks loop -->
<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_clblocks}>
<{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_l.html"}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- End center-left blocks loop -->
</td><td id="centerRcolumn">
<!-- Start center-right blocks loop -->
<{foreach item=block from=$xoops_crblocks}>
<{include file="default/theme_blockcenter_r.html"}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- End center-right blocks loop -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<{/if}>
<!-- End display center blocks -->
<div id="content">
<{$xoops_contents}>
</div>
</td>
This is the cell for the center column (as indicated by the css tag). Within this cell, there are divs and tables defined for particular block-types and content, the order seen above (which is from default theme set) is:
- Center Center column blocks
- Center Left column blocks
- Center Right column blocks, and
- Content (which refers to the actual content of this page).
With this information in-hand, there's two solutions:
1. Go into your active theme's index.html file and re-position the blocks as you wish (fir instance, you could cut out the Center-Center column blocks from the top and move them to the bottom). This is quite simple, so long as you have a basic understanding of HTML - it'll do exactly what you tell it to.
2. Download, install, activate, and order a module that displays news items in blocks. I know there are a few; I've only used "spotlight" myself (and I like it). I belive there's another called something like "lykoszine," as well as a number of block-packages I've ran into - I believe I tried and failed to install lykoszine in the past, but that doesn't mean it won't work for you.
Hope that helps,
Keith
