Template, Menus and css problem

[nachthymnen]

Hello,

I just started to use the last CMSMS MLE with easyphp 2.0
I success to install it, create the few pages to start my project, but I have a problem with a template and its menus…
I read the User Handbook about Menu Manager and watch this really nice video
http://cmsmadesimple.org/uploads/media/ ... colate.htm

but I still not understand how to do to makes 2 menus : a top horizontal short menu (home,  contacts etc.) and a left vertical one with my other pages.

The template that I try to use is the following one

http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/thegathering

I tried to add the line {cms_module module=”menumanager”} instead of this code between the divs

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<div id="menu">
		<ul>
			<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Articles</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Links</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Contacts</a></li>
		</ul>
	</div>

but it seems that the result doesn’t follow my own css and write this code instead off :

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<div id="menu">
		<ul>
		<ul>

<li class="currentpage"><h3><dfn>Current page is 1: </dfn>Home</h3>
</li>

<li><a href="http://127.0.0.1/PNCMS/index.php?page=articles&hl=en"><dfn>2: </dfn>Articles</a>
</li>

<li><a href="http://127.0.0.1/PNCMS/index.php?page=links&hl=en"><dfn>3: </dfn>Links</a>
</li>

<li><a href="http://127.0.0.1/PNCMS/index.php?page=contacts&hl=en"><dfn>4: </dfn>Contacts</a>
</li>
</ul>		</ul>
			</div>

My css is the following one :

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#menu {
	width: 750px;
	height: 50px;
	margin: 0 auto;
	background: url(images/img4.jpg) no-repeat;
}

#menu ul {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style: none;
	line-height: normal;
}

#menu li {
	display: inline;
}

#menu a {
	display: block;
	float: left;
	height: 20px;
	padding: 10px 20px 0 20px;
	border: none;
	border-right: 1px solid #110F09;
	font-size: 85%;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #F4D1C5;
}

#menu a:hover {
	color: #FFFFFF;
}

Could anyone help me to obtain a correct result for this menu ? (for the vertical one we’ll see that later )

Thanks in advance for your help.

[RonnyK]

If you install the default content that comes with the installation, you could check the working of one of the default templates that does that. Find attached a link to Mark's website where you can login and see the default templates/menus/stylesheets.

****
If you just need to copy/paste some default install templates/stylesheets go here...

http://www.multiintech.com/CMSMSDemo/admin/login.php

Name: adman
Password: adman

****

Ronny

[nachthymnen]

Ok, thanks Ronny I'll check that 

[RonnyK]

The default template that does what you asks is:

"Top simple navigation + left subnavigation + 1 column"

Ronny

[nachthymnen]

Ok, now I understand how it works, thanks again for your help 

But now I have a second problem.
My first level menu Is : Home / Articles / Links / Contacts / Movies Database

My Second Level Menu is : Movies Database
-By Title
-By Original Title
etc.

Is it possible to hide  / Movies Database in the first level menu and to make the second level one always visible ?

For the moment I have to click on the first one to open the second one (if you understand what I mean)

I think that this problem is linked to the following code but I don't find where 

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          <!-- NB! The <ul><li> below is only added because several default templates use the same menu stylesheet, to "force" the subnavigation to act as if it's the second level in a list -->
          <ul><li>{menu template='simple_navigation.tpl' start_level='2' collapse='1'}</li></ul>
      <hr class="accessibility" />

Thanks again for your help.

[RonnyK]

Is your hierarchy:

- home
- articles
- links
- contacts
- Movies Database
  - By title
  - By original title

If that is the case, then only "By title" and "By original title" should be shown in the vertical menu. If you've them on "start_level='2'". If you have a level above, so if they're level 3 than you should adjust the start-level correspondingly.

Do you have a link to see?

Ronny

[nachthymnen]

No Sorry, for the moment I works on my local computer 
It's the first time that I use CMSMS and I prefer to make some tests and see if it's really the CMS that I need (and I think that this time it's the good one, except for this ##*!! menus  )

My Hierarchy is :
Top horizontal

Home / Articles / Links / Contacts / (Database)

and

Left Vertical

Database
  By Title
  By original title
  ...

So If I understand, the best way is to create a level 2 Database (is it possible to create it under a hided empty level 1 ?) followed by levels 3 (Titles etc), isn't it ? 

[RonnyK]

Is database in content-manager (5. Database) and by-title "5.1 By title", can you post your calling of the vertical-menu.

Ronny

[nachthymnen]

Top Horizontal Menu
{menu template='minimal_menu.tpl' number_of_levels='1'}

Left Vertical Menu
{menu template='minimal_menu.tpl' collapse='2' start_level='1'}

There is a screenshot of what I get for the moment :


I would like to Hide Home etc from the left menu and only have the level 2 submenus displayed (and maybe hide Database movies from the top menu if possible :p )

Really thanks for your patience Ronny

[RonnyK]

But at what level are these in the content, I also see two flags above, are they in the menu-root as well. Can you show a picture of the content, that shows the structure of the pages (in the admin-area)

I'll answer later (if others didn't answer in between) as I've to go off driving.

Ronny

[nachthymnen]

I finally find a solution with the following line :
{menu template='minimal_menu.tpl' start_element='5' start_level='2' }

It works great even it the level Movies Database appears again, but I find another way to make my menu .

Thanks a lot for your help !

Now I have to finish the website he he, it will takes a few days :s