mandrin Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Lo there,I know to edit the home page, I need to edit the "Home Text Editor"...I am looking to have a news box section with a scroll bar.Anyone know what/where to edit?Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Hi,Do you want the scroll bar to be embedded into the page code or linked from another site?What kind of 'news' will be displayed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrin Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 Hi there,Ye, I was a bit vague and non-descriptive. Sorry about that...Ok, the Search Bots love ever changing content on your website. My business is constantly getting news/e-mail flyers, so I would like to copy that content and dump it in a "news" section on my front page (Please see attached pic)Nothing fancy like active scripting etc.. Just a good old fashioned text box with scroll bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrin Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 Excellent!Got this sorted with a simple piece of HTML code. Works like a charm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudioWorkplace Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Could you share with the rest of the class?I'm looking to do the same thing LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrin Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 Lo there,Well, you just need to be able to insert/edit HTML code in a specific location. Now if you go to your Back Office Admin and go to modules, look for the "Home Text Editor" module. Hit the "configure" button and let the WYSIWYG editor load up. Click a spot in the "Introductory Text" box and click the "html" button (please see attached pic "news.jpg").Paste your html snippet and then edit it accordingly... <title>scroll</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here!text here! text here! text here! text here! </body> Hit "Update" and then "Update Editor"Your are all done... Just play with it to suit the width you want and font styes etc... This is basic simple and there is loads more you can do. Just google "html text boxes and effects" for example.Please look at attached "news2.jpg" to see how it looks on my site.Plus I made my own news header logo (news_logo.jpg) and have also attached it for use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrin Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 Now the other cool way to add "news" scroll bar boxes is to install the super excellent face stomping awesome mod called "SotEW's Adds v0.4" It's one of may fav modules as it lets you add text/html/swf/image files in a number of locations on your website. Install this module first (I have attached it here). Then open a text editor from your computer (Windows Notepad for example) and paste the following code: <title>scroll</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! text here! </body> Then save the file as news.html or whatever you want to call it, so long as you save it as an html file.Next, hit the "configure" button of the "SotEW's Adds v0.4" module. and when you configure it, hit the "html file" buttonand browse and upload the "news.html" file you just created.If you tick the "Display in a block" setting, it will display the scrollbar text in a box to match the defualt look of presta but it will have a heading called "advertising".If you want the box title to say "News", you need to edit the files called "sotewsaddsRight.tpl" etc for example and change the line: {l s='Advertising' mod='sotewsadds'} to {l s='NEWS' mod='sotewsadds'} Change the titles of the .tpl files as you need to.Also, play around with the text boxes and html text. Sizes, widths etc. There is so much you can do with html to make it look awesome.Attached is a screen shot of my test page with the news scroll box right ("news3.jpg") as well as a color and border edited html file that is in the footer location ("news4.jpg")Have fun, sotewsaddsV0.4.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairouz Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 thanks for sotewadds, it s really cool !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandrin Posted December 3, 2009 Author Share Posted December 3, 2009 Oh ye,It has got to be one of my favourite modules out there!Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairouz Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 yeah definitively, there is just got one thing i couldn t sort out.. as i wanted to change the title "advertising" to "news" that worked allright in english with editing the file sotewsaddsLeft.tpl. but i couldn t find the way to give to the title a french translation even after editing the file fr.php.could you help me please ? thanks a lot, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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