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Posted: **Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:52 pm**

Hello forum

I intalled this blog for multiple users. Everything worked fine. But there is one problem. I want to put my own header at the top of the blog so that it will be mixed up with my other pages.

The Installation Docs available on www.s9y.org are only for experts. These are usefull for 90% general people like me. They should be more descriptive and helpful. These should guide the user step by step. I request the community to kindly rewrite the manual and copy of installation manual should be with the software itsel.

Now my problem:

I could not understand what to do. I simly put my header code in the top of index file. But the header does not appear. When I choose the command 'embed' in admin area..... The header now appears but all the other content becomes unformated, means the css style does not work.

Now I request the users and experts please HELP me.

Posted: **Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:46 pm**

In what file do you insert your code?

You have to take the index.tpl of the template you have choosen.

Posted: **Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:36 pm**

Yes !
I have inserted the header in index.tpl of the theme i selected.
The header is comming.
But the real problem is that the style and formating are gone.
I am in trouble please help.

Posted: **Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:36 pm**

Hm, a) which theme and b) can you post the first lines of your index.tpl?

Posted: **Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:24 am**

You can fix the style problem by including

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

in your header and copy the style.css from your template map to the serendipity map, or you can change the path to the location where the right style.css is located.

However, having this fixed. If you click comments my header and footer are gone! How to have the page open the comments in the same table with my own content wrapped around it?

Posted: **Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:08 am**

Webber: The comment popup has its own template file: commentpopup.tpl - you need to insert your custom code there as you did with the index.tpl.

HTH,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:06 pm**

Here is the index.tpl

{if $is_embedded != true}
{if $is_xhtml}
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
{else}
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
{/if}

<html>
<head>
<title>{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle} {if $head_subtitle} - {$head_subtitle}{/if}</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={$head_charset}" />
<meta name="Powered-By" content="Serendipity v.{$head_version}" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$head_link_stylesheet}" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{$blogTitle} RSS feed" href="{$serendipityBaseURL}{$serendipityRewritePrefix}feeds/index.rss2" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/x.atom+xml" title="{$blogTitle} Atom feed" href="{$serendipityBaseURL}{$serendipityRewritePrefix}feeds/atom.xml" />
{if $entry_id}
<link rel="pingback" href="{$serendipityBaseURL}comment.php?type=pingback&entry_id={$entry_id}" />
{/if}

{serendipity_hookPlugin hook="frontend_header"}
</head>

<body>
{else}
{serendipity_hookPlugin hook="frontend_header"}
{/if}

{if $is_raw_mode != true}
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="780" border=0 >
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="100%">
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="780" border=0
>
<TR>
<TD><IMG height=49 src="http://www.ifrendz.com/header.gif" width=780></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=center bgColor=#2266BB height=20 align=center valign=center>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/index.php" ><img name="Image1" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but1.gif" width="50" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/inspirations/index.php" ><img name="Image2" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but2.gif" width="90" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/dosti/index.php" ><img name="Image3" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but3.gif" width="43" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/shaadi/index.php" ><img name="Image4" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but4.gif" width="57" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/freeads/index.php" ><img name="Image5" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but5.gif" width="70" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/ecards/index.php" ><img name="Image6" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but6.gif" width="55" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/mboard/mboard.php"><img name="Image7" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but7.gif" width="82" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/gallery/index.php"><img name="Image8" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but8.gif" width="100" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://ifrendz.ezthemes.com/jokes/index.php"><img name="Image9" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but9.gif" width="50" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/games/index.html"><img name="Image10" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but10.gif" width="55" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/fun/index.html"><img name="Image11" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but11.gif" width="36" height="20"></a>
<a href="http://www.ifrendz.com/blogs/index.php"><img name="Image12" border="0" src="http://www.ifrendz.com/but12.gif" width="46" height="20"></a>
</td></tr></table>
<div id="serendipity_banner">
<h1><a class="homelink1" href="{$serendipityBaseURL}">{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle}</a></h1>
<h2><a class="homelink2" href="{$serendipityBaseURL}">{$head_subtitle|@default:$blogDescription}</a></h2>
</div>

<table id="mainpane">
<tr>
{if $leftSidebarElements > 0}
<td id="serendipityLeftSideBar" valign="top"><div class="sideBarSpacer">{serendipity_printSidebar side="left"}</div></td>
{/if}
<td valign="top" id="content"><div id="contentSpacer">{$CONTENT}</div></td>
{if $rightSidebarElements > 0}
<td id="serendipityRightSideBar" valign="top"><div class="sideBarSpacer">{serendipity_printSidebar side="right"}</div></td>
{/if}
</tr>
</table>
{/if}

{$raw_data}
{serendipity_hookPlugin hook="frontend_footer"}

<div id="copyright">Design <a href="http://garv.in/">Garvin Hicking</a>, Icons <a href="http://tango-project.org/">Tango Project</a></div>

{if $is_embedded != true}
</body>
</html>
{/if}

Now please look it and tell me what to do?

Posted: **Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:28 pm**

Hina: What's your URL? I guess you have enabled the "URL Rewriting" option in your serendipity configuration, but your server can't handle it...so you need to use "NONE" as "URL Rewriting"?

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:59 pm**

Hm, on a first view, I did not see any fault in your index.tpl.

Do you use 'embed' now or not?

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:00 pm**

garvinhicking wrote:Hina: What's your URL? I guess you have enabled the "URL Rewriting" option in your serendipity configuration, but your server can't handle it...so you need to use "NONE" as "URL Rewriting"?

Regards,
Garvin

Dear Gravin,
My url is http://www.ifrendz.com/blog/

How can I know that the "URL Rewriting" option is enabled?

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:12 pm**

Hi!

By looking at your URL, I can tell you two things:

1. Your URL Rewriting is disabled (as it shuld be)

2. You have enabled the "Embed" mode of serendipity. That is why no header and footer is displayed. Do not enable this, if you plan on editing your index.tp file. Embed mode is only meant for advanced PHP redirection of custom scripts.

Best regards,
Garvin

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