Per example when im trying to change the logo, i
searched and read in the geeklog website that you can change
{site_logo} in the header.thtml by
(site_url)/images/yourifile.jpg
That is working fine.
But if i do that, i will have to change all
"header.thtml" in each different layout. So all of them show the same
jpg.
How can i just change the variable to point it
where i want just once?
Then, i see variables all the time and i don't
know where they are, or where can i edit them.
Per example in header.thtml the {menu_elements)
variable. I read that you can change it and do it manually. I did
it and it worked. But what happend if i want to get rid of the calendar
in every theme? If i only do it manually in my default theme, then when
people switch from theme to theme they are going to see menu items that i
don't want them to see. etc. etc. Am i wrong?
Well, here i am waiting for
answers!!!
Thanks for reading!!
cya
FB
There should be more FAQ, so people
don't ask this kind of questions. Searching in the geeklog.com for
problems is not too friendly. Not everything is organized by
topics.
A forum will be the solution, but I have an idea
to simulate a Forum in 5 minutes with the already Geeklog system.
There should be a couple more Menus with a little
bunch of sections on it to keep messages way more organized.
Per example the actual "help sections" has 1738
disorganized messages (the advance search is the only way to look at something
on that section without a headache).
There should be a "Help Block" with 5
sections: * help installation* , * help plug-ins*
,* help theme* , * help hack* , *help miscellanea* .
I'm not in Plug-ins yet, but i think it should be
braked down too.
"Please let regular users to use the Introducion
field" ever time they send a message. "The introduction should
usually have no more than 5 lines". It's not nice to drag the
scroll bar for 10 miles or to turn 10 thousands times your mouse wheel to get
the bottom options of the page ( "Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next " ) to see
more messajes subjects. Some messages are huge, and only the
interested people should see all the text. ( after a specified # of lines
should appear the button "read more").
I think Making these changes will help people
surf better and avoid people asking more than twice the same, (i notice that
this last is happend a lot when i was reading the help section).
Then, there should be a "Contribute
FAQ". I know that writing the FAQ is not fun for
anybody, but they are really necesity and helpful for newbies and for
people that is not that much newbie. Also, they can act as
a reminder for more experienced users. So they are good for
everybody.
So, Why don't we let the FAQ create by
themselves???
This is the idea. You quickly create
another block called FAQ. Inside that Block you add theese
sections. *FAQ Installation*, *FAQ Plug-ins *,*FAQ theme*,*FAQ
hack*.
You put the FAQ at the beginning so when people
want to submit a Faq, they will easily find the FAQ in the "drop down Topic
menu".
As administrators you will only supervise that
the actual users upload messages to the FAQ section with a "Question in
the subject", "The messages won't have an introduction at all". So the only
way to see about them is by clicking the "read more" button. (putting
text bellow every question will bother).
You can design a new .thml file for the FAQ, so
you don't waste to much space in between questions, as sticky the
questions as better. And set the sections to show at least 30 questions
per page.
You can create a "Contribute HOW
TO" doing the same thing as in the help and in the FAQ.
I think lot of people will contribute to the all
of them (how to, faq). Suppose i found out something that i want to
share to the community. I can start my new discoverment with a
question: "How to do ...... " "HOw to create ..." etc. etc. Then I
write the answer that how to and i put it in the right topic (plug-ins, theme,
hack,etc.). Everybody will help this way, and everybody
will be happy.
Administrators won't loose more time
replying "somebody ask that before", "that question was answered two
month ago" etc. etc. etc.
The How to and the FAQ will be like a
documentatioin, tutorial and a global help. and automatically
created and updated.
The help block will be only for specific
subjects. Newbies will solve the stupid questions reading the FAQ and How
to, and they won't bother anymore. I don't thing they like to bother,
lot of them start their comments saying sorry, i don't want to bother, etc.
etc.. I bet all those guys wouln't be asking those questions if
the site have this kind of organization.
Geeklog Rocks the way it is, and with all these
non time consuming changes "will Rock way more", and "it will grow way
faster". Newbies are learning very slow right now, because
there are no documentations and the site is not well organized for them to
have a fast learning process. As better the documentation as fast people learn
and will contribute in an early future. If you let newbies
learn slowly, they won't contribute anything in an early future at
all.
I want to give special thanks too Dirk because of
being one of the fastest feedback guy from Geeklog.
I think you can implement all of this very fast,
i mean hours. create the menu blocks and sections can be done in
minutes. And the rest adjustments to increase the surfing flow will just take
you a couple of hours.
I'm not asking you to analize all those Help
messages and move each to the corresponding new organized sections . That
will be more than beautiful, but what is done is done!!!. Leave them
there untill nobody use them anymore, when they became old and obsolete delete
them. I think people won't even tend to read that unorganized
1738 messages section. They will directly
go to the new organized Menu blocks.
Very important to give to the users the intro
field, or you can just set the messages to stop rendering after the 5th line
and add the "read more" button. I bet you know how to do that very
quickly. both options work fine with me, whater you implement is
ok (but plese implement one of them).
I hope this help, the idea while i was writing
all of this was only helping and improve Geeklog. I wish i know
programming good enough to contribute with more than just ideas. But at
this moment the only thing i can give you are ideas, because my programming
skill suck. I can barely understand php to change it on my own.
Do you know a great site for begginer
programming or a book where they teach the logical basis of programing
before jumping to the code? I think learing the logical process of
programming is way more important than start playing with code without
knowing the basis. I remember 7 years ago i was learning
programming in a course, and before every pascal code we were drawing our
little schematic programs in a paper (we draw discriminators by houses, the
loops by squares, etc. etc.), and you could see if the program was going to
work or not before touching a computer. Do you know a site that
teach all of those basis?? I didn't need them to do html, but now i
was looking at the php code at some geeklog files and i think a review to
all that basis will help a lot to adapt the code to my need.
Thanks!!!
Thanks for reading.
bye
Fernando
Bernardini
