mmcgann
05-04-2005, 03:07 PM
Someone else installed my CMPS system for me — and botched it royally, leaving me to clean up the mess. We're talking Superfund site, here.
I've spent the last month fixing it and adding the gallery module, which works great except for a paths issue no one seems willing to explain. You can see it here: www.gothambaseball.com — hip, it's not. My html skills come from the way back years of 1994-95, so I know it still needs visual work.
I've got most of it functioning, although I'm still not thrilled with the ways the list of news stories is displayed — but the big problem is how the news/column/feature posts display as stories.
They look like freaking posts.
Basically, this makes my magazine staff look too amatuerish to even have a blog.
I know it's not supposed to work this way (hence the point of the CMS), that there's supposed to be a template call that excludes the proper forums IDs, in this case, forums 22, 23 and 24. But I can't figure out, a: which template calls should made out of the news module, and b: where they are to edit, so they don't look so bloody awful.
I'm ripping my hair out here on this, and having spent about $250 to get this up and running — it's taking away from time needed to design the magazine — and no one here seems willing to help.
This is what I want: the new stories (and archives, columns and features) to use an alternate template, with a large headline (the threadtitle), a byline of the poster and bodytype in a different font used in the rest of the forums, and as a nice touch, an indentation for each paragraph start, instead of skipping a line.
Failing that, if someone could explain to me what I need to look for in terms of templates and/or editing SHOWTHREAD.php (which seems to govern how the posts are displayed) I would really be happy.
Some response would be appreciated.
I've spent the last month fixing it and adding the gallery module, which works great except for a paths issue no one seems willing to explain. You can see it here: www.gothambaseball.com — hip, it's not. My html skills come from the way back years of 1994-95, so I know it still needs visual work.
I've got most of it functioning, although I'm still not thrilled with the ways the list of news stories is displayed — but the big problem is how the news/column/feature posts display as stories.
They look like freaking posts.
Basically, this makes my magazine staff look too amatuerish to even have a blog.
I know it's not supposed to work this way (hence the point of the CMS), that there's supposed to be a template call that excludes the proper forums IDs, in this case, forums 22, 23 and 24. But I can't figure out, a: which template calls should made out of the news module, and b: where they are to edit, so they don't look so bloody awful.
I'm ripping my hair out here on this, and having spent about $250 to get this up and running — it's taking away from time needed to design the magazine — and no one here seems willing to help.
This is what I want: the new stories (and archives, columns and features) to use an alternate template, with a large headline (the threadtitle), a byline of the poster and bodytype in a different font used in the rest of the forums, and as a nice touch, an indentation for each paragraph start, instead of skipping a line.
Failing that, if someone could explain to me what I need to look for in terms of templates and/or editing SHOWTHREAD.php (which seems to govern how the posts are displayed) I would really be happy.
Some response would be appreciated.