Adding Content To Custom Pages

[Zantheus]

Ok, I am baffled - yes I am a newbie to this system so please refrain from any jokes :cool:

I have added custom pages to my website and I cannot figure out how to get the content to show up, an example of this would be http://www.burning-legion.net/index.php?page=about how do I go about getting content to showing up on this page?

Thanks in Advance ;)

-Zantheus

[Brian]

Did you follow the instructions in the User's Manual? Just create a template with your content, create a page, add that template name to the 'Page Template' option when creating the page, and make sure your 'Custom Page Content' module is active on that page.

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[Zantheus]

What do you mean by 'Custom Page Content' ?

Edit - Nevermind I was unclicking everything from the middle column and right (could I be more stupid? :P ) thanks for the help!

[Brian]

No problem. Glad you got it figured out. :)

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[Megadeuce]

OK,
How do you create a template and where to put this template to be able to use it?

I'm amazed how people are newbies but create great looking pages.

[Brian]

You just create a new template in your Style Manager, add the content for that template, and then add the name of that template in the 'Page Template' option for that page.

[Megadeuce]

OK,
How much html/php do I have to know to create a template?

[Brian]

PHP, none. You have to know enough HTML to know how to create what you want to put on the page though.

[Megadeuce]

OK,
Once the template is created, how do I populate the page I create with content?

I've created a page and used the like to get to the page but I don't see where I can insert text or links.

[Brian]

Have you had a look at the user's manual available in the Member's Area here? It explains all of that in there.

[Morwyn]

All right...about same prob here. I figured how to let the content appear thx to the user's manual.

However, how do you get this content to show up in a block looking like modules in left and right columns ?

I suppose I would have to include some codes in my template (4 custome page) such as <table blablalba>, but isn't there a "quicker" way to do it ?

Actually I just want to do like this site: http://madmaddeals.com/
Have some text showing up in blocks having same look as blocks in columns. All i got is that:

http://www.fragfan.com/cmps_index.php see the black sentence, I just typed it in a template without any html tags.
Isn't there a way to just enter your text and having it displayed directly in the block, without any html formating ?
If not, how do I figure my block "html" style (I had a look at the modules templates html codes but...isn't there dummy way to do it ? - can give you temporary admin access if u wish to do a dummy block quickly, could be faster to show me ^^).

Thanks for your time

[edit] just saw ur location....not at GT by any chance oO ??

[Brian]

http://www.vbadvanced.com/membersarea.php?do=viewmanual&productid=4&pageid=5#generictemp

[Morwyn]

*mini-me mode: on* :rolleyes: