Layout Control
Last updated on July 4, 2009 at 10:22 pmGala Purity theme has a built-in template control for easy displaying different parts of the website. You can switch on and off up to 7 parts of the template.
On every page you can display news articles (1), news categories (2), sidebar with the sub-navigation of the website (3), search field (4), the list of recently updated articles (5), footer menu (6) and page details (7) consisting of create date, last update, breadcrumbs, title of the page, author, print button and links to previous or next page below the content.
Open any page for edit in admin panel and scroll down to the fields below the content field:
By default all the parts are shown on the page. You can replace "+" with "-" as shown above to hide the parts you would not like to see on this particular page. In combination of 6 different templates you have now a numerous number of different appearances and have pretty much control about your design.
Sure, you would like to replace logo in the left top corner of the page. You will find the original logo with FileZilla on your web space in the directory uploads/icms.info. There is a file named logo.png. Your image should be maximum 207x 80 pixel. Overwrite this file with your custom image and it will be displayed on every page of your website.
Additionally you can replace the rotating images in the header of the website to the right from logo. There are 3 images that are called header1.jpg, header2.jpg and header3.jpg. These images have 600 x 80 pixel. Replace them with your own pictures and they will be shown on every page while randomly rotating.
Later on you can assign an image to one specific page (see Image Manager) and customize copyright notice in the footer area of the layout.
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Paul
September 5, 2009 at 06:16 am
Did you build the page Layout Control or is it a CMS module?
Kelly
September 7, 2009 at 05:37 pm
I'm wanting to take my own design and make it work with CMSMS. I rarely use the typical sidebar, header, content, footer look so I'm wondering where a tutorial is that addresses that specific need?
Paul
September 8, 2009 at 10:37 am
Easy. Just don't include the specific tags in your template. Or download one from here and choose which parts to turn off.
Curious that you say you don't typically use these common components though. Makes me wonder why you require the power of a database driven site at all!
Sofia
September 15, 2009 at 05:34 pm
@Paul The layout control is built with standard features of CMS Made Simple. It just a power of Smarty and its integration in CMS Made Simple. You do not need any module or plugin to create layout control yourself.
Paul
September 16, 2009 at 05:24 am
Yeah, awesome. Just saw it all in the templates. They've certainly come a long way since the ones I developed back in pre 1.0 days. :)
Irma
December 14, 2009 at 02:13 pm
The template builder options in gala purity are awesome! Thank you!!! Being a non-programmer myself I couldn't think of an easy way to accomplish these settings.
thanks again!
Irma
Kiki
December 20, 2009 at 05:28 pm
Easy, it´s all in the templates. I use WP template, and I am very pleased. Thanks for this post, it is excellent.
Spiriralph
December 30, 2009 at 05:19 pm
Hi
Where is Gala Purity them for downloading?
Christine
April 21, 2010 at 04:17 am
Hi -
THANK YOU so much for this beginner's tutorial. It really helped me out and I was about ready to give up!
Also, your template is fabulous - Very easy to navigate. Thank you!
However, there are a few things that I would like to change... and I am unsure how to make the changes!
First, how can I make the top header (the dark grey one) to be white? And, also, how can I make the logo in the top left bigger than 207x 80 pixel?
Your help would be very much appreciated :)
-- Christine
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