with a number of the modules they used they can't bundle them - there is a list to download other tools - and that's not a fault of RT...
there are a whole bunch of RT modules as well that should be installed too - did you download the included ones from the downloads page? -- Dan Horning American Digital Services - Where you are only limited by imagination. [email protected] :: http://www.americandigitalservices.com 1-518-444-0213 x502 . toll free 1-800-863-3854 . fax 1-888-474-6133 PO Box 746, Troy, NY 12181 ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Helvécio da Silva" <[email protected]> > To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:36:35 PM > Subject: Re: [joomla] RocketTheme: use it with moderation > Hi Dan > > I see your point. > > The problem is presenting a product with a misleading display. > > In this specific template, there's a position with a Latest News > header, titles, intros and images. > > I know Joomla for a while and I know it uses a module mod_latestnews, > usually named Latest News, that displays the title of articles only. > > I saw that and wondered: how did they do that? Could it be another > module? Or is it the intro text in the main component? Later I find > it's an article. The only one published on the frontpage. And it is > like a placeholder article, where they hard coded intros from other > articles. OK. Not the easiest solution from my point of view, but... > > Then, while looking for another answer on how to replicate what the > demo site displays, I came across an answer from one of the RT Team > claiming things are as they are and that we used to TRY to K2 to > replicate it! This doesn't make sense to me and I felt like they don't > care for their customers. > > I went the obvious way: I had the intros display on the frontpage only > with a CSS formatting that does the job. Not quite the same, but it's > looking good on the site. > > For me, this template misled me to think they were using Joomla basics > to make things happen. Actually, it was not for real or dynamically > created. It was just a fake article that looked good. > > I don't understand why they tried to reinvent the wheel and came up > with a square object and think it's all OK. > > Am I being too grumpy here? LOL _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
