PRRI University Website - Template: Internet Gazette - Hints & Tips welcome!
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- Piet Nutbey
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PRRI University Website - Template: Internet Gazette - Hints & Tips welcome!
Posted 18 years 1 week ago-
Hi all,
(Edited.. forgot to read the new guidelines)
Website URL (temporary): http://prri.webprohost.nl
Additional Extensions (Components, Modules, Plug ins):- Joomla-SMF Bridge component
- SMF login Module
- RokMember
- RokGuest
- rt_loginmodule(sporticus)
- DocMan
- JCE Editor + JCE Filemanager
Custom Development:
Using the Internet Gazette template, I had to remake the header part. I left a lot intact but have made a green gradient header variant with menubar. Customer was totally happy with the header design. Except they did not want the Internet Gazette right column layout. And Internet Gazette has no left column layout. With the help of this forum it was an easy job to make a left column in the index.php template file. It is not showing right columns (collapsed), but they remained.
The Login module is a nice simple trick, better explained at the end. Guests see the RT Login Form, once logged in, members see the SMF login module with logged in time etc etc. (I think pretty much the same as on this RocketTheme website itself)
Next to this, I have of-course altered and edited the CSS for colour-consistency throughout the website
Additional Comments:
I have a new project for the University Leiden. They asked for a 'quiet' & easy to read website. As RocketTheme keeps building the greatest templates to (ab)use (thank you Andy!!!). I have been looking and looking into the latest RocketTheme tempates available. Gorgeous, all of them, but not satisfying for the customer.
Back to the old folders. There it was, Internet Gazette. Exactly what the client asked for, only the colour schemes were a bit off. As I am not the worlds most genious template re-builder and CSS is a thing I love, but the danger in CSS is, that I will work nights and nights on getting 1 item to move over 1mm to the left. I mean, I choose RocketTheme because what Andy does, I can't do. But now I had to go into mocking up Internet Gazette.
In the proces I found out this gorgeous RocketTheme website where RocketTheme runs on, is Internet Gazette too.
Then I had to prepare the installation of a forum. I chose SMF. Good Joomla bridge. That is the only reason. And with installing SMF I wanted to use their login module when showing members info. Yes, like on this RocketTheme website you are reading this.
I must admit, I had this idea much longer, but now seeing RocketTheme itself uses what I was planning on. I have taken the liberty to borrow this setup. In the end it was amazingly simple. Use ROKmember and ROKguest. Publish a new module. Use mosloadpositions to load the normal login module for guests, use smf login module for members. The code in your newly made module will look like:
{guest}{mosloadposition normallogin}{/guest}{member}{mosloadposition smflogin}{/member}
I am not entirely sure if this is what is being used on Rockettheme.com, but the solution is working perfectly for this website.
The website is still in the progress of being developed, but I would really like to ask for hints and tips that anyone might be able to give me on graphics, layout, css anything that someone notices and wants to make a remark about. Please feel free to do so.
I have attached 2 pictures of the website in progress. One with the normal login module, one showing the smf one. Hopefully someone can use these little gadgets and techniques for their login-structure. - Last Edit: 18 years 1 week ago by Piet Nutbey.
- Best regards,
Piet Nutbey
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