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[mikebmuller Friend mikebmullerJoin date: July 2009Posts: 6Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

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How do I make a new module position? I want to make three 300px wide module positions for the homepage.
Thankyou for your input

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#317816

There are 847,000 pages telling you how to do it here… http://tinyurl.com/ltflk5

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1. mikebmuller

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#317818

I am aware. I have tried three different ways that have been shown online. The last thing I want to do is wait for a response on a forum. I just figured that since I paid for this “Premium Free Support” that I might as well use it. Thanks champ.

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#317821

Sorry Mike, it’s just that the question has been answered loads of times before both here and elsewhere.

I paid for this “Premium Free Support” I lol’d. I’m sure you didn’t mean to stick the word FREE in there but it was funny.

Take a screen shot of your site and photoshop in where you want the new positions to be and I’ll help you out. If you want, PM me an admin user/pass to your site. Will be sometime tomorrow before I get to it as it;s 2am here now.

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#318139

I have tried everything. I have been able to create a module position from the beginning. That is not too hard, I just can’t make it have its own specific size and location in the template. I can alter the current positions (left, right, content,) to create what i want. However i still want to be able to use those as they for structures on different pages. I need three new positions one on the left, one in middle, and one on the right all the same width. And i will probably want to do that for other positions down the road so I need to learn how to do this. Are you still up for me PMing you the info? I would really appreciate it.

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#318147

The positioning and sizing of positions is usually done with CSS.

If you want to have 3 beside each other and you want their widths to by dynamic (if two are published they’ll be 50% wide each, 33% if 3 are published) then you should look at a template like Mesolite or JA Purity and see how it;s achieved there. Look in index.php and in ja_temptools.php

Adding a basic module position is very simple (<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”position_name” />) but you should ALWAYS put new positions in a div that can be styled like

<div class=”mynewppos”>
<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”position_name” />
</div>

Then in your css something like…

#mynewpos {
height: 100px;
width: 400px
background: #ff0000;
}

Feel free to PM me the details and I’ll have a look. Don’t forget the pic of what you want the end result to look like.

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