Wondering if there is a way to have a page of square blocks that have the properties of a menu. In other words, the main menu is actually a page of buttons that can be programmed the same way a menu is, linking to various category or article pages, with the same options for "menu item type" for that particular template.
thanks in advance.
hi there.
so i've included a jpg of what i'm thinking about. thought i could create this either with gk grid or with JA advanced custom module. then, create a menu with all the links to the different content, publish but don't assign a position. then, each square would be a custom module with the copied link from the invisible menu item it corresponds to.
started testing gk grid with the aiga template.
if you scroll down to the bottom, i've put in 7 squares to test the layout.
in a perfect world there would be 5 across and the grid would be centered as in the previous jpg.
don't know how to close the vertical gaps between squares.
http://subdo.listen.global/index.php/homepage
OR, using the category blog menu option you get this... just need to center it and close the gaps between the squares.
http://subdo.listen.global/index.php/testmenu
there are 2 different attempts.
module/testgrid - is grid gk5
mainmenu/testmenu - is a category blog
both have problems with margins... i changed the height in the grid module to .7, but because the horizontal uses the entire page's width it stays spread out. the weird thing is when i've used this module before, usually the grid automatically generates to the center of the page and not the outside edge. i must be missing something .
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thanks.
docgarry Don't put the info in your reply as it's in public.
About the width, it due to the section-bottom block where you're assigning this module to, it has big width so that each grid has larger margin.
I just edited this file: /templates/ja_aiga/tpls/blocks/sections-bottom.php
by adding the container class and removing the wrap class so the module can display in a container.
If you want to reduce the margin, you need to reduce the container width. Here is custom CSS code that you can use:
#t3-section-bottom.container {
max-width: 998px;
}thanks.
ultimately these squares won't be at the bottom so i guess i will have to edit whichever section i decide to put it in later. will keep testing.
also, was wondering how to send you login info... sorry about that.
in the future is there a way to DM that kind of information?
