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Posted: **Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:16 pm**

Just finishing of a football(soccer) tribute site.

Mostly used right out the box plugins as I'm no coder but I would love any ideas on what else I could do/include to improve it. Also looking for a calender plugin which will allow me to enter years events repeating events so I can show a monthly list of these - ie. The day G. Best Died, the day G.Best made his debut etc etc.

Current url - http://www.footballtributes.co.uk/dev/

Keen to hear what you guys think, as I only found s9y a few days ago I not upto speed on what's available and how to customise. Feel free to play around with the site.

Posted: **Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:31 pm**

If you're interested, I created a soccer template for Serendipity a while back, you can see the screenshot or download it here

Posted: **Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:53 pm**

carl_galloway wrote:If you're interested, I created a soccer template for Serendipity a while back, you can see the screenshot or download it here

Thanks for that, I had already tried your soccer templete carl and found it unsuitable for my needs. If you intend doing another version I would be happy to help you out with images or ideas.

Posted: **Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:16 pm**

Sorry it wasn't suitable for your needs, and thanks for the offer. I really would like to take you up on that. What did you have in mind?

Posted: **Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:04 pm**

carl_galloway wrote:Sorry it wasn't suitable for your needs, and thanks for the offer. I really would like to take you up on that. What did you have in mind?

Well I don't have a clue as to how you make a templete but I am regarded as a football history expert and have a large collection of memorabilia which we could use to inspire us. One idea I had was for a complete site in shades of gray using images taken from a football book I have from 1905.

In a templete with perhaps a image rotation in the header or in the sidebar.

Don't know really how to start, perhaps if you pop me an email to *******@fastmail.fm we'll sort some ideas out but no rush this end.

Posted: **Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:16 pm**

mmm, love your idea, I'd be happy to work on the template if you could provide the scans. I'll email you so we can throw a few ideas around.

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:33 pm**

Looks good; I especially like the Info Helper that searches Wikipedia. Is that an HTML nugget?

Posted: **Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:18 pm**

judebert wrote:Looks good; I especially like the Info Helper that searches Wikipedia. Is that an HTML nugget?

I suppose it's the Wikipedia Finder plugin

Posted: **Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:25 pm**

Sorry judebert, I didn't pickup on your question and thanks to mattsches for providing the correct answer.

Yes, as the site is about people I thought is a good idea to give people an easy access to futher info on those people. Luckerly the wiki plugin was there and it seems to work well so thanks to the coder on that.

Does anyone know how to put in a button to replace the text "Continue reading "blar blar blar" "

I don't think that is clear enough and some people might not find it and miss the full posting because of that.

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:42 pm**

Open entries.tpl and simply edit the line that contains

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{if $entry.has_extended and not $is_single_entry and not $entry.is_extended}
    <br /><a href="{$entry.link}#extended">    {$CONST.VIEW_EXTENDED_ENTRY|@sprintf:$entry.title}</a><br /><br />
{/if}

The bit that reads $CONST.VIEW_EXTENDED_ENTRY is a variable drawn from the relevant language found under the lang folder of Serendipity. You can easily change this by editing it, just look for

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@define('VIEW_EXTENDED_ENTRY', 'Continue reading "%s"');

Hope that helps,

Carl

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Football (soccer) Tributes

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