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Topic: Left Menu how ?

Posted By: Guests
Subject: Left Menu how ?
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2007 at 5:33pm

Hi Scotty ! Just a stupid question but i am very new..

How to make the menu in the left fram and the forum in the right like yours

Can you explane it or share your codes ? Thank very much Scotty

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2007 at 2:03pm

I did a tutorial on how to get ../wwf/tips/look/links-on-left.asp - Links on Left-Hand Side .

hopefully this will help.

Posted By: MrTWS
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2008 at 11:06am

Hiya scotty

I tried following the "basic" tutorial on links on left hand side, but seem to have lost the plot. I think I will stick to fundamentals eh??? Thumbs%20Up

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2008 at 1:38pm

If you could tell me where you had problems so that I am able to improve the tutorial, please let me know.

Posted By: MrTWS
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2008 at 1:15pm

Right at the beginning I think. I love what you have done with your page layout, inasmuch as you can show direct links to other pages within your site. I assume from your bits I just need to modify header and footer asp files, but I'm just not sure how to do it right

If I PM you my header/footer files, can you see what I mean? What I really would prefer is for my images to remain across the top, as below:

But then have my additional links down the left just as you do
Am I missing something?

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2008 at 5:05pm

if you want a standard look like i have done then, as i did, you can simply create your own header and footer files outside the forum eg 'yousite.com/includes/header.asp'

Then inside the header file have:

<table width="100%">
<tr>
   <td colspan="2">Site Header Here</td>
</tr><tr>
   <td width="200">Site Links here</td>
   <td>

and the following in your footer

</td>
</tr><tr>
  <td colspan="2">Footer contents here eg Copyright</td>
</tr>
</table>

You then include these files into the forums header / footer files like so:

<!--#include file="../../includes/header.asp"-->

(this assumes you used the location i said earlier)

Though as with the tutorial you will need to customise it a little.

Alternatively you could simply include the forums look into your site as i have done with my other forum http://www.lyricalassault.co.uk/" rel="nofollow - Lyrical Assault (this is about rap music - so contains strong language)

You would need to include the common.asp file, includes/header.asp, includes/status_navigation.asp (i forget the actual name) and finally the includes/footer.asp file.

you will also need a bit of HTML between the common.asp and header.asp file.

If you choose this option let me know and i'll post the complete code needed to integate the forum look

Posted By: MrTWS
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2008 at 3:26pm

Scotty - I am completely thick mate cos try as I might tonight, this is the best I got -

http://www.justcheck.co.uk/forum/default.asp" rel="nofollow - See abismal effort by TWS Dead

I'm sure that you being a smart person think why cannot I not get it, but maybe I'm just tired mate. PS - I just tried so don't worry about Thanks for the info though

MrTWS

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2008 at 5:10am

the problem is here:

<li><a rel="nofollow" href="/about/advertise.asp">Advertising</a></li></ul></td></tr>

it should be this:

<li><a rel="nofollow" href="/about/advertise.asp">Advertising</a></li></ul></td><td>

also you may want to copy and paste the links from this section of the site Wink

as i assume my pages dont exist on your site

PS: I'll email you a new mod I'm working on called "Side Navigation" (very inventive name huh?) its not finished yet but it will allow you to have the links integrate with the forum look just as I did on my Lyrical Assault site.

Posted By: MrTWS
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2008 at 9:07am

Scotty32 wrote:

PS: I'll email you a new mod I'm working on called "Side Navigation" (very inventive name huh?) its not finished yet but it will allow you to have the links integrate with the forum look just as I did on my Lyrical Assault site.

Scotty I will be very pleased if you could help me with that, and I thankyou for offering to do this - cheers Doug Wink

and yes the links don't exist on my site (ie your links) I was just tinkering but got confused because my younger brother kept calling me every 5 minutes about his vista installation upgrade woes Ouch

and so I'm constantly being distracted, just like Jack Nicholson in the shining LOL

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Posted By: MrTWS
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2008 at 9:16am

In the mean-time I have updated the

<li><a rel="nofollow" href="/about/advertise.asp">Advertising</a></li></ul></td><td>

bit like you said, but what I seem to get at the moment, and please bear this is only a testing forum, hence I haven't changed links, is one moment the navigation will be up, down, level with the forum or forum topics you enter. If you click on Forum Home the layout does this:

If you click on FAQ it then changes to this:

Neither thing stays in one line - is this where a "wrapper" comes in?

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2008 at 12:41pm

on the <td>'s you need to enter:

<td valign="top">

Posted By: MrTWS
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2008 at 12:48pm

All of them? Or just the first one?

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Posted By: MrTWS
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2008 at 12:54pm

sussed it with your help Scotty

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Posted By: cmathis
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 10:23pm

MrTWS wrote:

Right at the beginning I think. I love what you have done with your page layout, inasmuch as you can show direct links to other pages within your site. I assume from your bits I just need to modify header and footer asp files, but I'm just not sure how to do it right

If I PM you my header/footer files, can you see what I mean? What I really would prefer is for my images to remain across the top, as below:
But then have my additional links down the left just as you do
Am I missing something?

Could someone please provide more information as to get the links on the side working. Seems to me that this is a valuable feature that is lacking in webwiz.( I am anewbie )

Can someone post more detailed info, or post btheir header and footer files?

I did go to your lyrics site which was great. I lived the links on the left and the right. Very well done. I did send you an email so hopefully soon! :)

Anyone?

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2008 at 4:54pm

Sorry, I did get your email but I tend to get side tracked with things so forgot to reply.

I will be releasing a "Side Bar" mod hopefully on Friday (after getting round to testing it). It will be exactly the same as on my music website but the links will all be forum related (such as member control panel links and private message links), these will be shown/hidden depending on if the feature is turned on or off.

cmathis, I will reply to your email once I've released the modification.

Posted By: cmathis
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2008 at 10:22pm

Scotty32 wrote:

Sorry, I did get your email but I tend to get side tracked with things so forgot to reply.

I will be releasing a "Side Bar" mod hopefully on Friday (after getting round to testing it). It will be exactly the same as on my music website but the links will all be forum related (such as member control panel links and private message links), these will be shown/hidden depending on if the feature is turned on or off.

cmathis, I will reply to your email once I've released the modification.

Thank you so much. I was so impressed how your forum looked like a full blown website. Thanks again.

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 1:13pm

Yeah, I built the music website around WWF so i just used the forum style as a template for the custom areas. But its a pain when new versions come out and I have to update them all.

I forgot that the links used on this website for the forum are the same links used in the mod - but it is extreamly easy to add your own custom pages.

Also, I have several /wwf/tips/" rel="no follow - web wiz forum tutorials which are designed to help integrate custom pages in the forum, such as how to make ../wwf/tips/intergration/member-only-pages.asp" rel="no follow - Member-Only Pages and ../wwf/tips/intergration/custom-pages-in-active-users.asp" rel="no follow - Custom Pages in Active Users .

Posted By: cmathis
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 9:53pm

Thanks, I did test, then guess I needed to totally delete the old header.asp and paste what you posted. But my link was in the very middle of the page, WAYYYY down from the top of the page. Then my banner/logo was gone! I guess this is why one uses the "include file" in the header.asp file. Is there a way to easily limit the left link section to a specific size, and so my links start at the top?

Sorry! I am learning!

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Posted By: cmathis
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 9:58pm

BTW, any realse date on the side bar mod?

Thanks!

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2008 at 3:40pm

This has now been released, you can download it from the ../wwf/mods/sidebar-navigation/" rel="no follow - SideBar Navigation page.

Let me know if you encounter any problems with this.

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