Skinning it

[tgnc.org.uk]

Well I have tried and its not doing much. Despite editing the background image, nothing is showing.

In all honesty, this is not at all simple as the software claims.

It would be far simpler if the CMS was improved in this area with a site druid / wizzard tool that runs you through a batch of questions and then the site is skinned from those answers. So please consider that not all people who code use CSS or beginners who want to use this will have any kind of coding skill.

It is very easy to create pages and get content in to those pages, granted, but the biggest an most important aspect of it, the skinning of the site has been made difficult, confusing and unnecessarily complex and despite my efforst, to dat all I have managed to do is edit out the content from the +1 column and thats it.

So I could do with help on why the CMS is refusing to show the background image.

[replytomk3]

Include the code that you think should cause a background image to appear.

[tgnc.org.uk]

The bit where it says

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/* you can set your own image and background color here */
	background: #f4f4f4 url(uploads/ngrey/body.png) repeat-x left top;

I changed it to

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/* you can set your own image and background color here */
	background: #f4f4f4 url(uploads/ngrey/bg_image.jpg) repeat left top;

and nothing happened.

So do I need to change more than one element?

[replytomk3]

1) Are you sure you are working on the active stylesheet?

2) It is much easier to work in Firefox with the Web Developer Toolbar. You will be able to edit the stylesheet live and see what happens when you change something. This is probably the only thing that will help you.

[tgnc.org.uk]

Well its been a long up hill struggle but last week I managed to get the logo up that my friend wants to use.

I am now trying to find the parts of the site page scripts that output the news and page links as I would like to replicate the page number links at the page bottom as well.

I would also like to mask the author name field and omit part of the published time to just the date.

... any pointers on where I can find where that information is generated?

[tgnc.org.uk]

OK, thanks to fredp for the IM on where I find the relevant part of the template stuff for the removal of some bits I didn't need...

Anyone wanting to do similar...  Login to the admin console, then navigate... Content -> News -> Summary_Templates where you will then find code that controls the output of information for the news module and then change part(s) of the code that to suit your needs.


Now, I need to fix this issue with the logo, it is a white background and the template has a gradient and they clash. The other issue is the site name requires a colour change when the background gradient is removed or can the gradient be changed in colour and direction?

Can the gradient be changed in direction? Have a left to right fade to dark?

Sorry but CSS is not my thing.

[Dr.CSS]

The default gradient is an image so no CSS to change it's look you will have to make a new one and call it in css...

If by site name color change do you mean the one on the right if so you can change that in the css it is the h2 near the top of the style sheet right under the header parts...

Using Firefox with the Web Developers toll bar that has a Edit Css button works real good to help find and change parts of the CSS, once you get it to look like you want copy that part and paste it into the style sheet...

[tgnc.org.uk]

OK, cheers. Can you do us a favour, my post in another thread was meant to go in here... any chance you could move it . Not sure what I'd been smoking but WTF was I doing? Cheers.