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    Basic Blog Layout Questions

    Posted 14 years 10 months ago
    • Hi,

      Is there a way I can create some sort of global format settings for a frontpage blog layout?

      For example:

      1. I want the date to appear 1 line above the entry title.
      2. I want each entry title to appear in caps.
      3. I want everything left-justified.

      Is there a simple way to accomplish this?

      Thanks in advance,
      Matt
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    Re: Basic Blog Layout Questions

    Posted 14 years 10 months ago
    • The link in your signature is password protected.

      Also, although the the topic is general in nature, the changes you want to make may be specific to your template (along with some changes to the Joomla core files) so you'd be best off posting in the forum for the template you are using.

      If you let us know, we can move it for you, but most importantly, we'll need a link to a live site in the thread before we can suggest any changes.
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    Re: Basic Blog Layout Questions

    Posted 14 years 10 months ago
    • JEM wrote:
      The link in your signature is password protected.

      Also, although the the topic is general in nature, the changes you want to make may be specific to your template (along with some changes to the Joomla core files) so you'd be best off posting in the forum for the template you are using.

      If you let us know, we can move it for you, but most importantly, we'll need a link to a live site in the thread before we can suggest any changes.


      Thanks for the reply. The link to the live site is: www.heptone.com/

      I thought this was more of a general set of questions however, if you feel it's more appropriate to move this post to the Crystalline forum, please feel free to do so.

      Thanks,
      Matt
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    Re: Basic Blog Layout Questions

    Posted 14 years 10 months ago
    • So looking at the site, you have a Module then an Article beneath it with the title set not to show?

      You can use text-transform:uppercase; in the template.css

      However, all these items are grouped together, so you might want to create a new line with just the the css for the Article title and use text-transform:uppercase;

      #rt-mainbody-bg, #rt-mainbody-bg .title, #rt-mainbody-bg .rt-article-title, #rt-mainbody-bg ul.menu li > a:hover, #rt-mainbody-bg ul.menu li.active > a, #rt-variation .bg4, #rt-variation .bg4 .title, #rt-variation .title4 .title, #rt-variation .bg4 ul.menu li > a:hover, #rt-variation .bg4 ul.menu li.active > a {
      color:#666666;
      text-transform:uppercase;

      If you need further assistance on that, I suggest posting a new thread in the Crystalline forum, 'Article Titles only uppercase'

      As far as moving the date above the title, there's no way to do that through the template's css because the template displays titles and dates based on the Joomla core.

      So, I will leave this topic here, maybe somebody will know how to change that, but while you're waiting, you might want to search or post on joomla.org to see if someone has come up with a solution.
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    Re: Basic Blog Layout Questions

    Posted 14 years 10 months ago
    • JEM wrote:
      So looking at the site, you have a Module then an Article beneath it with the title set not to show?

      Correct. I wanted a space reserved to insert a text graphic (which is why I had title set to not show)
      JEM wrote:
      You can use text-transform:uppercase; in the template.css

      However, all these items are grouped together, so you might want to create a new line with just the the css for the Article title and use text-transform:uppercase;

      #rt-mainbody-bg, #rt-mainbody-bg .title, #rt-mainbody-bg .rt-article-title, #rt-mainbody-bg ul.menu li > a:hover, #rt-mainbody-bg ul.menu li.active > a, #rt-variation .bg4, #rt-variation .bg4 .title, #rt-variation .title4 .title, #rt-variation .bg4 ul.menu li > a:hover, #rt-variation .bg4 ul.menu li.active > a {
      color:#666666;
      text-transform:uppercase;

      If you need further assistance on that, I suggest posting a new thread in the Crystalline forum, 'Article Titles only uppercase'

      As far as moving the date above the title, there's no way to do that through the template's css because the template displays titles and dates based on the Joomla core.

      So, I will leave this topic here, maybe somebody will know how to change that, but while you're waiting, you might want to search or post on joomla.org to see if someone has come up with a solution.

      Thanks Jem! That's a lot to digest. :) I'll give it a try and if I encounter anymore issues, I'll be sure to post in the Crystalline forum.

      Cheers,
      Matt
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