Visual content grouping
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- Joe Hacobian
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Hi all,
I'm currently working on a website powered by joomla, with the bentobox dark template.
www.cinematicpictures.com
Everything is going well except for one issue I have.
We are going to have sections for services such as: commercial photography, graphic design, advertising management, website design and management.
For each section we want to have a landing page. If I click on "commercial photography" from the main menu, I want to go to a list of content items, which would be called for example: "Product photography services" "construction photography services" "real estate photography services" etc
Here's the catch, we don't want it to look like a list of articles.
To make this easier to understand I've mocked up a Current page and a Desired page which I've attached to this post.
I've been looking around the extensions section of the main joomla site looking for an extension that can do this and so far I've found only one that hints of the ability to display the initial article titles in a more creative way.
That extension is flexcontent
extensions.joomla.org/component/option,c...nk_id,999/Itemid,35/
I'm in the process of trying it out, but I thought I'de post here and see if anyone else has had any experience with modifying the look of the list of articles which appear in a given section.
I've spent about a week on this trying to get the stock joomla install to only display an image representing the article (some title text would be needed too, which I've not found the option for) As you can see in the example I'de like to be able to group the list of articles in a more non-linear way sequentially from left to right instead of the top to bottom sequential order in place for article now.
Really I'de like to have perhaps two rows of thumbnails representing different articles (which by now you've probably surmised arentreally articles at all but actually services and pricing pages, perhaps product pages for pourchase via a shopping cart., etc)
I know I can have each entry in the menu manager be a static page and then I can design the links to articles in dreamweaver and cut and paste the html but then that totally undermines the purpose of having a cms in the first place. This is supposed to be a browser based readily editable system, so I'de rather not go that route even though I'm able to. Don't get me wrong I love the hell out of joomla, this isn't a criticism, just some growing pains as we transition to web 2.0
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
--Joe - Last Edit: 17 years 9 months ago by Joe Hacobian.
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- I cant remember if alpha content allows for pictures but you might look at it.
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- Joe Hacobian
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Here's an update, I've installed mod_flexcontent and it displays a lot of parameters, however I'm not quite sure how it ties into the content.
I've set it to use articles as the source and set the order to image, title however I cannot for the life of me even get an image to sdhow up in the text based stock articles list.
I'll look up alpha content.
somehow I feel as thought this is a really simple thing to do that is for some unobvious reason beyond me.
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- phlux0r
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Ok, here's a couple of suggestions I can think off:
1. Using standard Joomla- make a blog category link to your category
- hide the display of the title, author, dates, read more, pdf, etc in the menu parameters
- create the intro text with your desired thumbnail (use insert image from the editor toolbar so you can create a link around the image) and your text below
- the main text will be the full page
- you can set the menu parameters to display 0 # of leading, x(= the total number of thumb links you want on the page) number of intro, 3 columns and Primary Order to ordering
So you would still have to put in the links to the full article manually unfortunately but if you use a SEF extension you could put int the friendly links...
2. Using the DeepPockets2 Extension you can create your own custom templates to display your categories. That means you can style the landing page exactly as you want to. However, this extension is not for the faint of heart and you'd need to be comfy with a bit of PHP code to do the template.
I don't know enough about Alpha Content, to help you with that.
HTH
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- Joe Hacobian
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Thanks a lot, I'll try the standard setup you recomended, I was hoping something like this would be available.
I'll report back on my progress!
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