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[dozza Friend dozzaJoin date: October 2007Posts: 149Downloads:0Uploads:21 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 8 times in 1 posts]

#339642

Provide a live link?

[mlohrey Friend mlohreyJoin date: April 2010Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#339652

Sorry Dozza, it isn’t live at the moment. I am just using my mac with an installation of MAMP and localhost. Could it be an issue with the php version? It says it is using php version 5.2.11.

Basically what happens is, if I change the first line of the php code as suggested above, and then preview, then home page just doesn’t load at all. But as soon as I change it back, it returns to normal

I am rather new to content management systems and am just at the experimenting stage. Trying to find out what the template can do and how I can use it for our school site.

[dozza Friend dozzaJoin date: October 2007Posts: 149Downloads:0Uploads:21 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 8 times in 1 posts]

#339653

I use the same platform for development too.

I’ll have a look how I have it setup tomorrow.

I did a school site for a local school and they use it really well. Used JA Purity template.

http://www.catfordhighschool.co.uk

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[mlohrey Friend mlohreyJoin date: April 2010Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#339654

HI Dozza,

What a great site. Very impressive. I would be pleased with something half as good. What calendar module are you using on it? I have tested a few but that one looks good. Does it have an “upcoming events” module?

Cheers

Mark

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#339658

I used jCal Pro and It can produce upcoming events. Or integrate with jEvents from same company. A good combo.

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#339689

Dear mlohrey!
<blockquote>I attempted this change as well, but as soon as I changed the PHP code the my site stopped working altogether. I assumed that if “moduleclass_sfx” is empty that default behaviour (default mask images etc) should be as normal.</blockquote>
you must to put add a blank character before the class suffix into the “moduleclass_sfx” parameter

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#339743

Miohrey

Make sure in the php file all you are actually adding is…

<?php echo $params->get('moduleclass_sfx');?>

to the existing code and place it correctly.

So that…

class="ja-slidewrap"

becomes

class="ja-slidewrap<?php echo $params->get('moduleclass_sfx');?>"

and make sure of the space before module class suffix in module parameter.

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[mlohrey Friend mlohreyJoin date: April 2010Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#339750

Thanks for the help, Dozza.

I actually just cut and pasted the php code from page one of this post. After I tried again using your code snippets it worked. For what ever reason, cutting and pasting was picking up some weird character or something. I couldn’t see any difference but it is repeatable. I checked again just to make sure I wasn’t going mad.

Do I need to create a separate entry in mod_jaslideshow2.css for the default slideshow mask if I have a site that has multiple slide shows with multiple masks or will a blank module class suffix assume the default?

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#339758

Glad it worked. Cut n paste assumes the post is correct. Better to analyse what they are explaining then implement manually, unless it is reams of code….

Yes, you need to add separate entries in the css file for each slideshow depth you are creating, and have created a separate mask image that it refers to (so you can round the bottom edge if it has a bevel or similar.

E.g. I have two depths on a site that’s going live soon, so i’ve created two different depth images (200px deep and 270 px deep) and then added this to the css file:

/* Custom Slideshow Mask depths ---*/

.thinmask .maskDesc {
background: url(../images/sl-200mask.png) no-repeat left top !important;
}

.medmask .maskDesc {
background: url(../images/sl-270mask.png) no-repeat left top !important;
}

And then i enter thinmask or medmask , preceded by a space, in the module class suffix parameter of the module.

Hope that helps. You’re almost there….

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#346511

I’ve set the site live now so you can see the modified JA Slideshow 2 depth and custom mask.

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[mlohrey Friend mlohreyJoin date: April 2010Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#346533

Love the site. The colours are great. Is it easy to set a background texture/image rather than the standard template one?

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#346535

<em>@mlohrey 182176 wrote:</em><blockquote>Is it easy to set a background texture/image rather than the standard template one?</blockquote>

It is time consuming – put it that way! If you want a dark background, you’ll need to update/edit the graphics for all the module/menu/content area/breadcrumb edges as the ones that ship with the template all have light backgrounds/edges which you’ll see when you change the page background colour.

Adding the texture at the site top is quite straight forward bit of CSS background image repeating horizontally – you could do that on a light background too!

So it will take time and a familiarity with image editing/pixel pushing in Photoshop/Fireworks.

Hope that helps

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#346538

Good job dozza, but just one thing: the HOME button has some corner borders in “hover” effect. Try to correct this. 🙂

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