News of the Odd
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- Chia Evers
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www.newsoftheodd.com
I'm using Bento Box (I suppose that's obvious
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Additional Extensions
Modules:- Content Item , to put random articles on the front page
- Mod HTML , to to control the placement/presentation of some other items, including the footer, the video clips, and the announcement on the front page. (It calls itself a Google Adsense module, but it's really so much more useful than that.
- Adsense Module (ClickSafe Special Edition) , by JoomlaSpan
- Bookmarks , by D. Jesus. This one's been lightly hacked (by me) to show the options the way I wanted them shown.
- GSearch Pro , by Joomlaspan, which replaces the default Google search option with Adsense for Google Search
- iJoomla Metatag Generator (though I do need to do some further pruning on the metatages, to make the related items work better)
- Related Items Bot and Module XTD . This is an absolutely brilliant plugin -- soooo much better than the built-in Related Items Module.
- SocialBookmarkerBot , by Patrick Wesey.
I'm still not entirely thrilled with the navigation (anyone know how to make the Related Items Bot show different related items for each item on the front page?), and the logo could use some work (I did try to bring in my old logo, but unfortunately I didn't save the PSD, and removing the background from the JPG just makes it messy), but it's coming along...
The old, static site, is archived at web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.newsoftheodd.com , if anyone would like to see News of the Odd pre-Rocket Theme. (You'll have to cut and paste that address, since the asterisk breaks it.)
(Edited to include Adsense-related extensions and incorporate The Muffin Man's excellent suggestion for listing out the extensions I used. And then edited again to add in the SocialBookmarkerBot.) - Last Edit: 17 years 8 months ago by Chia Evers.
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- James Spencer
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LOL - great edit there Chia
I really love your site. Ive never seen someone use content to the extend and manor that you have. I adore the feel of the entire site, it has a very unique strucutre which doesnt follow the traditional lines of typical joomla sites which is a bonus in my books.
On FF, theres nothing in this module Ads by... Yes, of course it's Google
The final touch would be a more extensive Banner then it would be perfect.
I am very impressed ;D
Great job Chia - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Chia Evers
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Thank you, James!
James S! wrote:On FF, theres nothing in this module Ads by... Yes, of course it's GoogleI think those ads may take a little while to populate. If they're still blank in a day or two, I'll fiddle with them some more.
The final touch would be a more extensive Banner then it would be perfect.I agree, but I haven't quite figured out how to do that in Bento Box (and I finally got to a point I realized if I didn't just put something in the header and call it good, I was never going to take the site live). I'll keep browsing the template forum for clues.
I am very impressed ;DAgain, thank you. You're making me blush. ;D
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- Gerald V.
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- In IE7 it's completely broken. the left menu hovers over the content and is jumps aroudn when i used your menu. Perhaps your playign with something and that caused it but when i checked it just nwo it was all jumbled about.
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Hey Chia
I would check out any threads from Mariela Vasquez in the Bentobox forum. I helped here extensively with her Banner in Bentobox ( one thread www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?t=9244&rb_v=viewtopic )
So if you need any help with CSS etc... Just post a thread and Ill give you a hand - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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Gerald V. wrote:
In IE7 it's completely broken. the left menu hovers over the content and is jumps aroudn when i used your menu. Perhaps your playign with something and that caused it but when i checked it just nwo it was all jumbled about.
Yeah, I had the same problem on mine in IE ... there is a solution somewhere ... I will attempt a find
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For the life of me, i cannot find it ... maybe it was released in updated version - Last Edit: 17 years 8 months ago by James Spencer.
- James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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I'll have to install IE7 on my laptop and see what it's doing...
And I'll definitely check out the link you posted there, James.
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Got it! I changed the width element from "fluid" to "100%", and it appears to be okay now. (Tip from
this thread
in the Bento Box forum.James S! wrote:
Gerald V. wrote:In IE7 it's completely broken. the left menu hovers over the content and is jumps aroudn when i used your menu. Perhaps your playign with something and that caused it but when i checked it just nwo it was all jumbled about.
Yeah, I had the same problem on mine in IE ... there is a solution somewhere ... I will attempt a find
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For the life of me, i cannot find it ... maybe it was released in updated version
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- Thanks for that Chia .... Thats getting marked ;D
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Might I add a request for a Comment system. I was reading through some of the news and I really wanted to add some comments - some really interesting and funny stuff
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