Hi

Below are 5 questions that I have been banging my head over, I pray that someone can direct me as to how to accomplish them.


1. If I want the home page to have a flash element in the area above the main body (example, the Go to the Mountain template where the mountain image scene is), how can I do that using WEC-Typo3? I do not see where I can get to that part of the page just on the home page template. I was able to create a copy of that template and turn off the image for the sub-pages, but no luck so far with adding an extension that works on that part. I need just a flash slideshow not flv etc, so I found an extension called slideshow on the typo3 site and was trying to use that but can not figure how map the div id="flash_main" that I modified for the image correctly so as to use the slideshow extension with it since it is not a content area.


2. Do you know of any church site that have done that to their home page template using one of the WEC template and modifying it? If so, maybe I could contact them and see how they did it.


3. When I changed to the above mentioned template, the devotional area bleeds out over the right side of the template. How do I go about fixing that since it is an extension?


4. I tried using the rugged cross template, and when I did, the boxes for the username and password in the left content area, came out across into the main content area (they were too big and I could not see where to make them smaller, and this was an unmodified template), any ideas? (someone mentioned if I had it set somewher else, but when I had this happen it was right after installing that template and activating it on the website. I since have changed to a different template and that is not a problem now, but I was curious as to how to fix it if it happens again.


5. Lastly, where do I find information as to how the “page template structures” work? What I mean is, there are other structures there are ones like “WEC two column right” or “WEC two column + subcontent” or ”WEC two column + top”, but there are no template that match those that have the drop down menu like the “Go to the Mountain does. Can you point me somewhere to get a more in-depth understanding?


Thank you in advance for your assistance.

In His service

Bill

Here is some more info.

I can make the slideshow work (go to http://www.gtaog.net/home/) but it is in the main content area and not in place of the image that is displayed above (the pics are not sized correctly but they work, hoorah). What am I missing?

Thank you from a frustrated IT/Web Admin

Bill

Bill, these are all interesting questions. I think that there probably are a few of us who would like to find some easy way into adjusting templates in increasingly significant ways. There are various tutorials on templating for typo3 but they are not for the faint of heart. The difficulty is in pitching the tutorial at an optimum level that will allow people of limited technical background to understand the process.

Personally, I am disappointed by the decision to pretty much drop further work on three column templates. I would like to know how to add a third column to existing two column ones, such as the Go To the Mountain one. I have tried downloading extensions that seem as they if they might do the trick but I soon discovered that they were not going to be enough. Some of them seem more designed to reflow text over several columns rather for creating right and left sidepanels.

I thought this thread might be one in which to mention one of the items on my wish list

Cheers,

Calum

Hi all,

I've been experimenting with the templates etc, and have gotten a bit further. I have given up on trying to get that mountain image to be the flash element area, I actually commented it out in the template, and removed it's reference in the templavoila to/ds area. I now got it to work and it rotattes thru images

Now, I need a way to make the image that is displayed hot (have a link to a page on it). In the present system we have thru Elexio (www.gtaog.org), I just populate a folder with images, and add a number value to the beginning of the file name so that they display in the order I want, and they display. In the area that I upload the files to a their respective folder, there is an area for a description (that will display under a photo in the subpages) or I can put in an http address and it makes the image displayed in the main page flash hot and goes to the link if the image is clicked.

Does anyone have any idea about doing this? Should I be using a different extension other than the one I found on the typo3 site called slideshow?

Thanks

Bill

Have you considered the Advanced Banner Management extension?
it supports flash files
you can configure its location
you can set links

I haven't used it yet, but it does seems to be popular.

Jason

Thanks, I will check that out now. I also noticed that even though I got the flash slideshow to work, the menu items above it that drop down do not all display now on the home page when you hover over them. What's going on with that?


Bill

Bill,

Just to clarify: it is the Flash that does all that work you are referring to that includes looking at directories for files and perhaps linking to a page when you click on a different graphic. All TYPO3 (or Elexio) do is embed the Flash in the page. So I think the key is to find Flash that does what you want and then you can place it in the page. It can be placed in a page via the template, or via an HTML content element if it needs to go in a section of the template. In fact, if you are allowed to use the Elexio-provided Flash then you could even use that. You can peek at the HTML to know how to configure it.

In Him,
Mark

Mark

Thanks. I am looking into that now, I want the whole site to follow a template, but the home page will need to have some specific code in it to allow for those flash elements like on our present site (everyone loves them, so I don't want to get too radical in changes yet).

I'll check out the code and see what I can find. Thanks for the ideas. I may need some help implementing them once I find the flash, but I will ask then.

In His service

Bill

Mark

There flash element is tied into their cms, and the names they use (ss.swf and feature.swf) don't seem to match to anything I could locate on the net. I was looking for a way to do what your flash elements do on your site, where they can link an image to a page when you click it. Ours lets me just drop images that are sized, into a folder that is watched by the flash elements (a separate folder for each of the 3 flash elements), and then when you are in the maintenance area that you upload the images, you can click on an image and it shows a thumbnail, and then you can add http address in the info box, that makes it hot when you hover over it on the site. You can see it at http://www.gtaog.org

Let me know your thoughts or anyone elses.

In His service

Bill

Hi again

I found an imagerotator flash element from Jeroen Wijering (http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_Image_Rotator) that has a link variable in it, and uses a folder for files. The problem is that I would need this a an extension so that the features are easily usable by volunteers updating the flash. I do not know how to do it but I envision something where you have a default folder name setup, then upload the images to that folder and then in the extension for the page it is being used, you can select an image and fill in a field that would be the url link, and then the extension would generate the appropriate xml file for the flash element to read (and I believe someone on that site already did some php code to generate that xml on the fly too). Any assistance would be great. I'm looking to do the same thing with our sermons (you can check out the media library on our site at http://www.gtaog.org or check out the new one that elexio created at http://www.gtaog.org/306235.ihtml They are both database driven and have a management system to point to the flv, mp3, pdf etc files (even jpg thumbnails to display on the new one).
It's a cool player and I think that if someone good with flash and databasing in typo3 could do something like this it would be awesome.

Thanks again for everything.

In His service

Bill