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I'm working on a XOOPS site which uses a customized version of the default XOOPS theme, and one of the things I did early on in creating my variant theme was to place a header graphic at the top, extending all the way across the page.
Looks great, but I am now discovering, just a few days before the site is due to launch, that that was where the banner ads were apparently supposed to go in the default layout. Oops. I had wondered why no ads were showing up anywhere. :)
I really don't want to mess with the design too much at this stage, but the client really wants banner ads, so I'm wondering if I can put them somewhere else. If I find the original theme files, from before I modified them, and copy the code that originally displayed the banner at the top, can I put it somewhere else in the template and have it still work? Is there anything in particular I need to know before doing that in order not to break anything?
Also: I've found that sometimes when I make changes to templates, they don't show up on the site at all. Like right now - I changed the footerbar in the theme.html file to include a custom copyright notice a couple of days ago, but it still just shows the default "Powered by Xoops" graphic there. And today I made a bunch of changes to the AMS templates (ams_item.html and ams_article.html), to remove all the extraneous stuff like article ratings, reads and ID numbers (since there appears to be no other way to disable those), but those changes aren't showing up either.
I thought at first it was a browser caching issue, but clearing my cache and even switching browsers didn't help. Any ideas? Is there something I have to do in the admin to make my changes show up?
Thanks,
Lynna