Newb Questions Plz

[spid77]

Hi,

Im sure you all have been asked these questions thousands of times so please forgive me in advance. That being said...

I have three people writing on my webpage. From what I can tell, it seems that all users seem to end up on one main giant blog page. Is it possible so that when a visitor to my site clicks on writer A 's link, they will be taken to a blog that only has entries from writer A. When they click on writer b's link on the homepage, they will be taken to writer b's blog only. Also I would like A B C to all have different titles. Is that possible ?

Next question-

Where would I find out info on how to change the blog backround color, text color, and add custon banners ?


Thanks
Mike

[d_cee]

Hi Mike

Where would I find out info on how to change the blog backround color, text color, and add custon banners ?

have a look at http://www.s9y.org/44.html
and Carl Galloway has some good tutorials on his site http://wwwcarlgalloway.com

HTH

Dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I have three people writing on my webpage. From what I can tell, it seems that all users seem to end up on one main giant blog page. Is it possible so that when a visitor to my site clicks on writer A 's link, they will be taken to a blog that only has entries from writer A. When they click on writer b's link on the homepage, they will be taken to writer b's blog only. Also I would like A B C to all have different titles. Is that possible ?

You can go two different routes:

One is, you can click on an author name of an entry and then only see entries by that author. You can also install a sidebar plugin "Authors" that will show links to all authors.

The other is that you can create 3 categories for each of your authors, and then make people go to the different categories. You can then use the plugin "Extended Options for Categories", with which you can assign a different template to each category, so that you can customize the title of the specific categories and their look.

HTH,
Garvin

[spid77]

Thanks. I cant seem to find the "extended options for catagories plugin". Where is it ? You rock.


Mike

Hi!

I have three people writing on my webpage. From what I can tell, it seems that all users seem to end up on one main giant blog page. Is it possible so that when a visitor to my site clicks on writer A 's link, they will be taken to a blog that only has entries from writer A. When they click on writer b's link on the homepage, they will be taken to writer b's blog only. Also I would like A B C to all have different titles. Is that possible ?

You can go two different routes:

One is, you can click on an author name of an entry and then only see entries by that author. You can also install a sidebar plugin "Authors" that will show links to all authors.

The other is that you can create 3 categories for each of your authors, and then make people go to the different categories. You can then use the plugin "Extended Options for Categories", with which you can assign a different template to each category, so that you can customize the title of the specific categories and their look.

HTH,
Garvin

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

This plugin can be found here:

http://spartacus.s9y.org/cvs/additional ... plates.zip

(I'm sorry, the exact name was "Properties/Templates of categories")

[spid77]

you are all awsome. Just one last question. Is it possible to make it so that each of my authors, in each of my catagories has their own top banner/ header/ thingy ?


thanks

Mike

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You can do that on a category-level, but not on an author-level, like I explained.

With some more manual customization you could though edit your smarty files and make IF-Checks like

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{if $current_author == 1}
<h1>Author 1</h1>
{/if}

{if $current_author == 2}
<h1>Author 2</h1>
{/if}

However that would be a quite unflexible solution, and would also require a custom config.inc.php file for your template.

Instead, you should go the category-only route as I explained.

Of course you can also just install Serendipity three times on your server, so that each author has his very own blog.

Best regards
Garvin