Layout problem when I install a new template

angelksk35 · Post by **angelksk35** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:03 pm

Hi guys,

When I am using the default template everthing is fine but when i download a new template and upload it to the server,the desugn is going messy and it doesnt work.

Do you have any idea about how I can solve this problem?

Cheers

Post by **yellowled** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:16 pm

angelksk35 wrote:When I am using the default template everthing is fine but when i download a new template and upload it to the server,the desugn is going messy and it doesnt work.

Do you have any idea about how I can solve this problem?

Any? I actually have a lot of ideas. But it's kind of hard to narrow them down to a reasonable amount without even knowing which template you're talking about here or having an URL to a live blog to see what might be wrong.

You gotta at least give us something here.

YL

Post by **Don Chambers** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:17 pm

Also - when you first switch a template, then return to the frontpage, you might need to reload your browser window to fully load the new template's stylesheet..... and as Yellowled said, we could use more information, beginning with a link to your site if it is publically viewable.

angelksk35 · Post by **angelksk35** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:41 pm

thanks for your replies I solved the problem I think it was because of the cache of my browser

I have another problem now.i want to add links to the navbar but some of the themes doesnt support it.is it possible to make them support and how?
And also in the ones which supports it asks

Enter the navbar link text #0 and Enter the full URL of your link #0

what should i exactly write there and how can I edit those pages afterwards?

I am sorry but I am not so experienced.I would appriciate if you can help me.

Cheers

Post by **Don Chambers** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:18 pm

Some templates have been designed to make navigation links a configuration option... bulletproof is a good example of that, and Yellowled and I are 2 of the contributors to that template. You specify the number of links you want, save your changes, and in bulletproof, reload the admin browser window. The numbering is zero based, so if you said you wanted 5 links, they would be numbered 0 through 4. Link text #0 is the text you want to display for the link. The "full URL of your link #0" is the path to that link, such as http://www.somewhere.com/ or http://www.yoursite.com/category.

If a template you wish to use does not have navigation built into it, it could be added fairly easily by any of us who know how to do it. If you are not going to change them frequently, it is often just as easy to hard code links directly into the template provided it has a file named index.tpl.

angelksk35 · Post by **angelksk35** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:41 am

thanks!

I dont want the nav pages to to be in another page.I want them to open in the place where there are the entries with the same layout

is it possible and how can i do it ?

Post by **Don Chambers** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:43 pm

Perhaps you can be more specific. What is the URL of your site? Next, what, specifically, would you want for links, where do you want those links to be placed on the page, and where do you want the links to point to?

angelksk35 · Post by **angelksk35** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:54 pm

I dont have a URL yet.I am trying to make it in local server.

lets say my url is www.myblog.com and i want to use serendipity so in the homepage there will be the blog with my entries.I want to have a "about me" page where I am planning to write some information about and a picture and its url would be www.myblog.com/aboutme/ for example.In this page i want the right navigation parts to exist and i want the info about me instead of my entries with the same layout

i hope I am specific enough right now

Cheers

angelksk35 · Post by **angelksk35** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:55 pm

and the place of the navigation links are not important they can be somewhere close to the header

Post by **yellowled** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:25 pm

angelksk35 wrote:lets say my url is www.myblog.com and i want to use serendipity so in the homepage there will be the blog with my entries.I want to have a "about me" page where I am planning to write some information about and a picture and its url would be www.myblog.com/aboutme/ for example.In this page i want the right navigation parts to exist and i want the info about me instead of my entries with the same layout

You can simply use the Static pages plugin to create those pages. It will create pages in addition to your blog entries which are not included in the chronological order or your blog entries but included in your blog's layout and design.

YL

Post by **Don Chambers** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:29 pm

I agree with Yellowled - static pages are probably what you are looking for if you want pages that are not related to regular entry content, and you want those pages to have navigation items that are not related to the site as a whole.

If you create a static page "About me", it could also have child pages. Each static page has an option where you can show navigation to child pages, or to other static pages. There is also a sidebar plugin that will create a sidebar item with navigation to your static pages too.

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