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Let's Talk "Source Ordering"

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    Let's Talk "Source Ordering"

    Posted 16 years 1 month ago
    • While I am looking at templates for a new site, I revisited the latest templates that utilize 'source-ordered' code and I think I may be confused, so hoping someone could point out my logical fallacy with this concept.

      When doing templates for DotNetNuke, we used to put an empty, hidden "container" in the upper-left, as Google scans from top-left to bottom, right, so it hits the empty container and moves to the content area, per se...

      I assume this is the premise of these new "source-ordered" templates? I only ask, as they don't seem to be bringing main content up REALLY high in the code, so I assume the main content is just moved up ahead of the left container and is a relative concept; higher than it would have been otherwise, but not uber high in the top 100 lines of code or so, right?

      I took a look at a lighter page of Mynxx, one isn't laden with graphics or sliders or gizmos and gadgets (though I need to look at this on a test install with the shopping cart and the other stuff disabled), and the main content is buried (but perhaps higher than it would have been).

      demo.rockettheme.com/apr09/index.php?opt...icle&id=46&Itemid=54

      So menu, breadcrumbs, and headers aside, "Mynxx continues..." is the beginning of the main content area, a few inches down from the top and with no real content inbetween.

      Taking a look at the source, one would have to scroll down more than 550 lines of code to hit the first real word of the content. Sure, as mentioned before, I realize I need to remove the cart and the text buttons and the login and the like, but that seems, well, you know....

      So in the absense of this so-called "source ordering," am I correct in assuming that one would have had to scroll down, say, 600+ lines of code until you actually arrived at the content? You arrive at the content/article on the home page after more than 780 lines of code.
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  • Re: Let's Talk "Source Ordering"

    Posted 16 years 1 month ago
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    Re: Let's Talk "Source Ordering"

    Posted 16 years 1 month ago
    • James S! wrote:
      Kevin explains this in great detail at www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=18..._v=viewtopic#p314005

      Thanks, sir:
      its ["source-ordering] referring to the order of the main column content in regards to the side columns in the source for what is generally considered a site's content (left column, middle column, right column, etc).

      ...and answered my other questions, too. I was wondering if there is no way to use some absolute positioning and moving, say, the menu code to the bottom before the closing body tag, then do some css magic to position it up top.
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