Ok Complete NOOB needs help

UrbanGrafix · Post by **UrbanGrafix** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:07 pm

Basically im helping out a school by making a website and ive done about 80% of it atm but as I need somewhere kids could update themselves etc Ive installed serendipity and got it working no problem.

Only problem is that I have no clue in hell how to get the blog and only the blog so really the writing to appear in the same page ive been using.

I will try to explain further. Im using Expression Web and im using a master.dwt file for my template basically is there anyway to turn this into use this as a theme or what ever in serendipity? (im using a free host atm for testing purposes but they only have php 4.0.0 - 100web and smarty says it needs 4.0.6 or higher)

I know basic HTML thats about it.

Thats the HTML of the master.dwt and this is a pic of its design

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="images/lolo.ico"/>
<title>St Joseph's School, Morrinsville</title>



<link href="styles/style3.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<meta name="description" content="St Joseph's School Morrinsville - Morrinsville's only Catholic learning environment." />
</head>

<body style="background-color: #FFFFFF; background-image: url('images/background1.jpg');">

<p class="style2"> </p>

<a name="top" id="top"></a>
<div id="container">

<div id="masthead" class="style2">
<img src="images/faded_end logo.jpg" alt="" width="630" height="115" /></div>


<div id="page_content" class="float_right">

<div id="sidebar" style="left: -5px; top: 23px" class="style15">
<a href="default.htm" style="width: 35px; height: 10px; color:navy">Home</a>
<a href="welcome/welcome.htm" style="width: 146px; height: 10px; color:navy">Principal's Welcome</a>
<a href="trustees/trustees.htm" style="width: 136px; height: 10px; color:navy">Board of Trustees</a>
<a href="about/about.htm" style="width: 67px; height: 10px; color:navy">About Us</a>
<a href="newsletter/newsletter.htm" style="width: 118px; height: 10px; color:navy">Our Newsletter</a>
<a href="staff/staff.htm" style="width: 66px; height: 10px; color:navy">Our Staff</a>
<a href="classrooms/classrooms.htm" style="width: 119px; height: 10px; color:navy">
Our Classrooms</a>
<a href="contact/contact.htm" style="width: 80px; height: 10px; color:navy">Contact Us</a>
</div>


<div id="content" style="left: -5px; top: 0px; width: 423px;">

<h2 class="style14">Headline 2</h2>
<p class="style15">insert content here</p>
<p class="style15"> </p>
<p class="style15"> </p>
<p class="style15"> </p>
<p class="style15"> </p>
<p class="style15"> </p>
</div>
</div>


<div id="footer">
<p><a href="#top" ><span class="style17"> ^ Top of Page</span></a> |
<a href="default.htm" class="style16">Home</a> |
<a href="welcome/welcome.htm" class="style16">Principal's Welcomes</a> |
<a href="trustees/trustees.htm" class="style16">Trustees</a> |
<a href="about/about.htm" class="style16">About Us</a> |
<a href="newsletter/newsletter.htm" class="style16">Newsletter</a> |
<a href="staff/staff.htm" class="style16">Staff</a> |
<a href="classrooms/classrooms.htm" class="style16">Students</a> |
<a href="contact/contact.htm" class="style16">Contact</a>
</p>
<p><span class="style16">
Copyright © 2007 St. Joseph's Morrinsville All Rights Reserved.
</span></p>
</div>



</div>
</body>

</html>

Is anyone able to help, if so it would be so appreciated

UrbanGrafix · Post by **UrbanGrafix** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:36 pm

Ok Ive followed a tutorial atm to the point where ive copied the defult template and renamed it stjoes and have applied it as my current style now how do i modify it?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:55 am

Hi!

You will now need to check out the various *.tpl files, mainly entries.tpl and index.tpl and modify it there.

It's definitely some work and requires some good HTML knowledge, and also some work for you to understand how Smarty uses "foreach" loops to print individual entries and how variable spaceholders work.

Did you alread ycheck out the www.s9y.org documentation about Styles and Themes? Also check out www.carlgalloway.com and www.s9y-users.com to search for some tutorials.

HTH,
Garvin

UrbanGrafix · Post by **UrbanGrafix** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:21 pm

I have checked the sy9 docs and figured out drips and drabs of it thanks for the other link I will check them out

Post by **Don Chambers** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:19 pm

Conceptually - you have 3 choices:

A) Revise/create a s9y template that imitates your website so that when the blog is called, it looks just like any other page on your site (Garvin addressed this). Might not be too difficult as you can review the HTML and CSS generated by Expression Web and make corresponding changes to the s9y tpl and css files.

B) Bmbed s9y output within an otherwise blank "content" page within your existing website. To embed, see this: http://www.s9y.org/123.html. It is a bit of a pain to accomplish, but it can be done.

C) The third option is to completely ditch Expression Web and power your entire website via s9y. You entries ("news items") are the dynamic portion, and your other pages (ie, "about us", etc) can be generated by the static page plugin. There is also a contactform plugin to handle that aspect of your site.

This could be an oversimplification, and perhaps I do not fully appreciate what you want to accomplish, but perhaps it will give you some keywords to search this site for ideas and answers.

UrbanGrafix · Post by **UrbanGrafix** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:50 pm

Thanks guys, the first idea looks the best only problem Is well its will take me too much time to learn and implement and therefore wont really be worth it. Thanks for your help though.

Ok Complete NOOB needs help

Ok Complete NOOB needs help

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