Looking for a Theme Design - Please help

[Charlie]

I am looking for a CMS Made Easy template which meets the following guidelines. Anybody who might know of one and could point me to the download location I'd greatly appreciate it.

My website is divided into 10 categories and each of these categories has a few sub-pages. I'd like a banner picture at the top of the website to be different for each category but the same for all the sub-pages under a category.  I will design the pictures.

Basically, I would like to find a template which looks something similar to this:

http://web.archive.org/web/200412080027 ... /services/

The features I like in that design are:
1. CSSMenu top
2. Left Menu showing all categories + sub-pages under the present category with present page location highlighted (my idea is different from the sample link above).
3. 550 x 80 pixel image specific to each category

I just want one column for the content but I'd like to put a picture 300x220 pixel picture on each page located in the upper left hand corner, perhaps 1cm down from the top. The text in the column would wrap around this picture. It would be great if all of this could be programmed into the template.

Does anybody know of such a template design or something close which I could modify on my own? I am pretty good with HTML and PHP - this is my first website using a CMS.


Lastly, a note to the developers: CMS Made Simple is FANTASTIC. I made a comparison of Drupal, Joomla, Moodle, Nucleus CMS, Open-Realty, WebSiteBaker, phpWebSite looking for an easy / easiest CMS solution and CMS Made Simple won hands down. I installed it using FTP, made no changes to my standard web server configuration. I am more than overjoyed.

[Charlie]

Well, after doing some more research I kind of figured out that I can create 10 different templates and have different pictures at the top of each template. Does that sound like the way to go?

I guess I can figure a brute force way to do everything I want - I am really just looking for these two things:

1. CSSMenu top
2. Left Menu showing all categories + sub-pages under the present category with present page location highlighted

The purpose of the static Left Menu is to make the website compatible with non-javascript browsers

Can somebody please point me to a theme (or themes) which behave in this manner?

Thanks!

[RonnyK]

I wouldnt go for a template per page, but use some smarty to pull the specific image. Like $page_alias f.e. in the image-call in the template, where you would make some images with the same name as the template.

Another option would be to use the {content_image} tag inside the template, where you get a image-file per page you enter. So depending if you want different per page, or per area, could you go for one of the two.

Ronny

[Charlie]

I've once used the {sectionimage} tag to have a dedicated image in the header of each page.
You can download the tag here.

I downloaded the sectionimage tag but how does one use it? Is the theme you made in the public domain? I'd just like to see how you implemented it.

Thanks!

[Charlie]

SvenA:

Thanks for your outstanding help! I got it to work and the site is nearly done.

Would there be a way to use {sectionimage} conditionally so that if there is a picture for a page then it displays the picture on the website? But if there is no picture then nothing is displayed? I think this would be a great feature because then somebody could get the website up and running without having to get all the picture in order and then they could take their time uploading pictures until the got all the pictures uploaded.

My idea would be to use {sectionimage lowercase=1 levels=9 byname=1 image_path=uploads/images/page}. Since levels=9 sectionimage will always be working. But I don't know how to make it conditional so it only displays an image if there IS an image. Can you help with the code?