Please help a newb

Thursday 02 November 2006 9:18:51 am

Well, I have Ezpublish 3.8.5 installed.

I have got the basics down I believe. I have a nice clean layout going with some pics and PDF links working properly. I have a logo in the upper left corner.

The next steps I can't figure out.

Are there ways to include standard HTML content inside an ezpublish page?

I would like to add some rotating banner code and would like to imbed a sound file that automatically plays when the page is loaded.

I need to add a banner at the top of the pages too. There's a big emtpy space not being used with a tiny logo on the left, I need to add some content up there.

Also while I'm here, is there a way to incorporate a forum that shares the login with ezpublish and/or to imbed the forum inside an ezpublish page so the links/buttons are always available?

TIA.

Thursday 02 November 2006 10:46:30 am

Thank you, I have, but I still don't see where to add custom html.

And I found that the packages for such as the forum are no longer included in ez publish itself so those docs are out of date. I found the download for the forum and installed it but I do not see how to incoroprate it or activate it.

Thursday 02 November 2006 11:44:27 am

Thanks Mark.

Ok, I understand what you're explaining as far as editing the existing template files for certain modfications. So you're saying that is how to add custom HTML? I was hoping there were less involved steps to hand this over to a newbie (even more newb than me :)

I'm still confused about the forum. I have the package for the forum imported. I don't understand how to build a page from that. I go to Content Structure, I'm not given any options to build a forum, just add additional folders and the forum is not listed as a component.

Thursday 02 November 2006 2:14:23 pm

Ok, got the .tpl thing down for the most part. I've found the correct one and making some changes, all good.

Still need some assistance with getting the grasp of creating a new page for the forum package that I uploaded.

Thanks.

Monday 20 November 2006 3:32:21 am

Under sub-items select Forum from the drop down list of Objects and click create here