btw, I really love this thing


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Jim

Posted: 1/22/2009
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I've posted two issues I'm having so I think I should also take the time say how awesome this tool is. It could quite possibly turn out to be the most important find of 2009. Creating wp themes that I would actually use right away is a breeze.

Not quite so for Joomla... (bearing in mind that I have been working with the beta, and J! support is brand new, this is one helluva good start.) Joomla is a completely different beast and most people are used to more flexibility (mod positions) than is typically found in a blog. Artisteer gives me a running headstart on the design, and although I would love to see it in the box, I can go in to the files and add what for me are the most important things - additional mod positions, fluid width, and collapsible modules.

I've been working with it for a few days now and already have created a dozen or so themes and templates that work and are stabile (more or less so depending on the amount of tinkering I have done :-) ).

So keep up the good work, I look forward to the final release.
 
wiboc

Posted: 1/23/2009
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Hello, I agree with you. With aristeer you've got a good foundation for a site and it's quite powerfull.

Nevertheless in Joomla you have a lot of work to do for the add-ons like mod postions and so on.

How did you go with that?
 
Jim

Posted: 1/23/2009
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Basically what I did was copy some code from another template.

I added a mod position "banner", three side-by-side modules (headleft, headmid, headright) above the content and left module position.

To add the banner position, I simply added the following under the heading section in index.php:

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="banner" />

and then to add the 3 mods I had to add a class to styles.css:

table.nopad {
width: 100%;
height: 50px;
padding: 10;
margin: 10;
margin-bottom: 15px;
}

And then the following above the contentlayout in index.php:

<table class="nopad">
<tr valign="top">
<?php if($this->countModules('headleft')) : ?>
<td>
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="headleft" style="artblock" />
</td>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if($this->countModules('headleft and headmid')) : ?>
<td class="greyline">&nbsp;</td>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if($this->countModules('headmid')) : ?>
<td>
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="headmid" style="artblock" />
</td>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if($this->countModules('headleft and headmid and headright')) : ?>
<td class="greyline">&nbsp;</td>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if($this->countModules('headright')) : ?>
<td>
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="headright" style="artblock" />
</td>
<?php endif; ?>

</tr>
</table>



I'm not a programmer, so I just copied the above code from another template... no guarantees :)

(btw, I'd like to add my voice to those pleading for a real forum here... the code function on this one leaves a whole lot to be desired)