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[mosim Friend mosimJoin date: March 2011Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 4]

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Hi, I’m new to T3F and struggling to understand the use and relationship between profiles, themes, and layouts. I’ve read over the wiki documentation but it’s still unclear how I would want to go about developing my site.

I’m responsible for buidling our schools website. We would like to have different color and layouts for different departments.

1) My first assumption is that T3F “Profiles” are similar to J16 “Styles”. Yes? My first reaction to j16 was to make different JA Purity II “styles” and then each style has it’s own layout and theme. But it looks like T3F handles this within a single “style”.

2) It seems only “profiles” (and not layouts or themes) can be assigned to menu links. Therefore, anytime we want a different layout and/or color we must create a profile for that change. Yes?

3) We are also interested in adding new mod positions (3 horz. column under main). Is this done by creating a new layout or editing the ja purity II template? t3f Plugin?

Thank you for the help.
Cheers,
m.

[thuanlq Friend thuanlqJoin date: October 2010Posts: 528Downloads:0Uploads:29 Thanks: 8 Thanked: 121 times in 99 posts]

#382678

Hi Mosim,

1, The “Profiles” of T3F are sample configuration files, they are similar to J16 “Styles”, because you can assign profile for each page. A profile have all template configs ( for example: menu setting, theme setting, layout setting..)
2, Yes, you can use profile to use layout and/or color for different pages.
3, Yes, the T3F group mod positions into blocks, and you must change position of block in content of layout,
for example:


<blocks name="top" style="xhtml">
...
<block name="topsl" type="spotlight" main-inner="1">user1,user2,user3</block>
</blocks>

The block “topsl” have 3 column ( 3 mod positions ) : user1, user 2, user 3

Regards,

[mosim Friend mosimJoin date: March 2011Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 4]

#383024

Hi thuanlq –

Thanks for your response. I think that might be a good idea to just move the topsl block below instead of trying to create a new block. Still learning T3F – the flexibility seems amazing but so many more files to understand now. I was very comfortable with the old joomla setup of only having to modify the html and css.

Thanks,
m.

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