Several template questions

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08-08-2007, 07:35 PM
vito

Several template questions

I am trying to (radically) modify the look of my site and am having a great deal of trouble with the templates. They are not as user friendly as I had hoped. I would appreciate some assistance.

http://www.eskillet.com

1. On the home page, how am I able to remove the right column that displays recent tags, etc?

2. I created the design at 780 wide as per your original template, but I seem to have a problem with the left and right sides of the content area. I can't seem to be able to show a left and right border.

3. I don't want "new videos" or "recently viewed" on the home page. What I want is to show a list of all categories/channels (like it is shown on the channels page. So I copy/pasted the appropriate parts of channel.tpl into index.tpl but it doesn't work.

4. I built the search bar into my header. On the home page, how do I get rid od the search bar that appears in the content area of the page?

I have more questions, but this is a good start.

Vito
08-08-2007, 08:15 PM
vito

Geez, the more I work with this script, the more frustrated I get. These tpl files are one of the least user friendly I have ever come across (and I have worked with many).

Just about ready to give up and spend $300 on another script...

Vito
08-08-2007, 08:38 PM
leki

you will find that the templates for the $300 script you buy are prolly just the same

when i first started it editing them it can be a bit hard to find what your after, and the html code (mainly tables) was not that great but you get used to it and it becomes a lot easier and less annoying

1) edit right.tpl

4) you could remove all the code in search_box.tpl

dont have time to help with ur other questions....got loads to sort atm...maybe someone else can help
08-08-2007, 08:47 PM
vito

I am editing the right tpl files, I am no newbie to this process. But again, this is the most aggravating confusing set of tpl files I have ever worked with.

I'll give you one small example.

I am trying to get rid of the search bar that exists in the home page content area. It is neither in the header.tpl or the index.tpl file. Can you tell me where I would find that code?

Vito
08-08-2007, 08:51 PM
leki

comment out in right.tpl to remve recent tags

Code:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="5" height="24" background="{$baseurl}/templates/images/bg1_l.gif">[img]{$baseurl}/templates/images/bg1_l.gif[/img]</td> <td background="{$baseurl}/templates/images/bg1.gif" class="white_bold"> Recent Tags</TD> <td width="5" background="{$baseurl}/templates/images/bg1_r.gif">[img]{$baseurl}/templates/images/bg1_r.gif[/img]</td> </tr> </table> <div align="left"> {section name=i loop=$tags} {$tags[i]} {/section} See More Tags</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="20"></td> </tr> </table>

see my above post as i edited about the search
08-08-2007, 10:19 PM
spun2u

Quote:

Originally Posted by vito

I am editing the right tpl files, I am no newbie to this process. But again, this is the most aggravating confusing set of tpl files I have ever worked with.

I'll give you one small example.

I am trying to get rid of the search bar that exists in the home page content area. It is neither in the header.tpl or the index.tpl file. Can you tell me where I would find that code?

Vito

You should see a file called "search_box.tpl" that is where your search box is coming from. Blank it out if you want it gone.
08-08-2007, 10:24 PM
spun2u

Re: Several template questions

Quote:

Originally Posted by vito

I am trying to (radically) modify the look of my site and am having a great deal of trouble with the templates. They are not as user friendly as I had hoped. I would appreciate some assistance.

http://www.eskillet.com

3. I don't want "new videos" or "recently viewed" on the home page. What I want is to show a list of all categories/channels (like it is shown on the channels page. So I copy/pasted the appropriate parts of channel.tpl into index.tpl but it doesn't work.

I have more questions, but this is a good start.

Vito

3) Look for in the index.tpl and remove every thing after it until you get to this:

Code:

( Not yet rated ) {/if}

I would use the <! -- --> option just so that I could use it later.
08-09-2007, 06:39 AM
zeffer

Quote:

Originally Posted by vito

I am editing the right tpl files, I am no newbie to this process. But again, this is the most aggravating confusing set of tpl files I have ever worked with.

I'll give you one small example.

I am trying to get rid of the search bar that exists in the home page content area. It is neither in the header.tpl or the index.tpl file. Can you tell me where I would find that code?

Vito

The bar i think you are after is in templates/header_bottom/ folder
08-09-2007, 06:49 AM
vito

zeffer, I opened up every file in the head_bottom folder and I see nothing that refers to a search bar.

Vito
08-09-2007, 07:00 AM
zeffer

My bad, could have sworn it was there. It may be in css/style.css now since its on all pages.
08-09-2007, 07:02 AM
vito

The thing is that the search bar in not on all pages in the site.

Vito
08-09-2007, 07:32 AM
leki

Quote:

Originally Posted by leki

4) you could remove all the code in search_box.tpl

already answered ur search box probs...that should fix it.

i think the search_box.tpl is called from some of the encoded php files.
08-09-2007, 07:32 AM
zeffer

Re: Several template questions

Quote:

Originally Posted by vito

I am trying to (radically) modify the look of my site and am having a great deal of trouble with the templates. They are not as user friendly as I had hoped. I would appreciate some assistance.

http://www.eskillet.com

1. On the home page, how am I able to remove the right column that displays recent tags, etc?

2. I created the design at 780 wide as per your original template, but I seem to have a problem with the left and right sides of the content area. I can't seem to be able to show a left and right border.

3. I don't want "new videos" or "recently viewed" on the home page. What I want is to show a list of all categories/channels (like it is shown on the channels page. So I copy/pasted the appropriate parts of channel.tpl into index.tpl but it doesn't work.

4. I built the search bar into my header. On the home page, how do I get rid od the search bar that appears in the content area of the page?

I have more questions, but this is a good start.

Vito

To remove recent tags go into right.tpl

put this before and after the section you dont want: