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BLIX TEMPLATE : trouble with editing the default page
i have installed the main textpattern blog and also downloaded the blix template. ive edited the default css to the blix css (although nothing changes), and then on the howto file it says:
3. Edit your default page in Textpattern (presentation->pages). – Create a new line under <div id=“head”>…</div> – insert the code in code_nav.txt – You should see something like <div id=“navigation”> … – Put your own links where it says “Blog”, “Archive” and “about” – Remove any references to “<div id=“left”>” – Put your stuff in “<div id=“right”>”
in the textpattern directory, there is no “presentation” folder – im assuming theres pages under a file called presentation? if not, could someone make it more clear what i should be editing (what is the default page named?) and where these files are under? it would help me a great deal!
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Re: BLIX TEMPLATE : trouble with editing the default page
In Textpattern, you don’t edit “files” and “folders” directly like you would if you were building your site from scratch — instead, you use Textpattern’s administrative interface to edit and post things. The “files” and “folders”, for the most part, don’t even exist, they’re just stuff in the database.
What the instructions mean is that you should log in to Textpattern’s administrative interface with the username and password you created when you set it up, and there you’ll see across the top of the page a row of tabs. One of them is called “presentation” and has a subsection under it called “pages”, which is where you go to edit your page templates.
Your Textpattern administrative interface will be the address of your site, plus “/textpattern/index.php”. So, for example, if your site’s address was “http://mydomain.com”, you’d want to go to “http://mydomain.com/textpattern/index.php” to log in to the administrative interface.
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Re: BLIX TEMPLATE : trouble with editing the default page
thanks, that cleared up a lot!
however ive got another problem. where it says:
– Remove any references to “ < div id=“left” > “ – Put your stuff in “ < div id=“right” > “i have removed the < div id=“left” > code, but i dont see where it says < div id=“right” > i only see: < ! —- right —-! > and what “stuff” should i put in it?
its looking like this: http://www.heartcrash.net/movies , very messy!
Last edited by dawn (2005-10-22 04:14:43)
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moves to top of topics
please help? :(
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Re: BLIX TEMPLATE : trouble with editing the default page
It means that it expects you to create a div with id “right”, I guess, and to put things in it.
Keep in mind that Textpattern, while meant to be easy to set up and use, does assume that the person handling a site’s design will be fairly knowledgeable with HTML and CSS in order to set up the page templates and styles correctly, and the various themes available continue in that assumption; they don’t tend to be something you can just “drop in”.
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Re: BLIX TEMPLATE : trouble with editing the default page
thanks. ive ..apparently.. finished everything that the readme file tells me too but its not aligning properly, could you tell me what im doing wrong? im willing to give someone access to my textpattern to sort it out if they would like to help me out more. :)
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Re: BLIX TEMPLATE : trouble with editing the default page
Dawn, assuming you have a newer version of TXP like 4.0.1 the “right” and “left” should now refer to “sidebar-1” and “sidebar-2” in the page templates. Can’t remember which way around they go but it is “commented” in the page templates. It’s something that has changed since Blix was originally ported to TXP. You will need to either change the “div id” names in the page templates to “right” and “left” or change the references to “right” and “left“in your CSS to “sidebar-1” and “sidebar-2”. Either way the div ids and the CSS need to match each other.
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Re: BLIX TEMPLATE : trouble with editing the default page
im even more confused than ever now. could you explain it a bit clearer?
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