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Hi,

hope I'm right here... I wondered if the current S9Y homepage is made with S9Y exclusivly or if S9Y is only embedded. I'm happy using it as a blog, but I would like to have a small CMS to create content for my (completely obsolete) homepage. I would like a navigationbar at the top, just like on this site where you can choose between blog, normal homepage and perhaps a guest book. Can I do this with S9Y and not too much work?

TIA, Jakob

jakob42,

You can totally do this using the static page plugin...you can even have the forum plugin as well...I've seen coppermine and gallery bridges and tons of neat stuff.

As far as a nav bar, check out my blog @ http://linux-blog.org

Carl's template made it relatively easy for me to configure things up...he provides well documented instructions for his templates on his website (if you get his themes, you'll know) that take you through how to customize things.

So, yes it is possible to have S9y be "CMS-like". However, if you're looking at collaboration for projects, etc...it probably wouldn't be as good as say...drupal or xoops. But for yourself, heck yes!

TKS wrote: Carl's template made it relatively easy for me to configure things up...he provides well documented instructions for his templates on his website (if you get his themes, you'll know) that take you through how to customize things.

Thanks for the answer, but thats not what I was looking for. I don't want to customize things manually, I would like to have a plugin, that creates the nav-bar and somehow communicates with the static-pages-plugin. Really simple and fast, so I don't have to put as much work into it, as I did for my old (now really old ) sites. I simply don't have the time, it would be hard enough to fill it with content.

I don't mean to be offensive, S9Y is great. I thought it could fill this need of mine as easy as it did with my blog.

But Carl has some really nice themes there.

Regards, Jakob

Hi Jakob!

You could do that by emitting the static page sidebar plugin within a HTML output of your template and then format its output via CSS as a horizontal menu.

See here: http://www.s9y.org/78.html - there it says how to use the {showPlugin} smarty markup to emit a plugin anyplace you want.

So, it's really all doable and not so much work - I'm quite sure you'll get the hang of it quite quickly. You seem to be good at logically putting things, I gather from your feedback.

Best regards,
Garvin

garvinhicking wrote:So, it's really all doable and not so much work - I'm quite sure you'll get the hang of it quite quickly. You seem to be good at logically putting things, I gather from your feedback.

That's not fair, my ego likes this!
Perhaps it's really not that much work. I'm a little short on time right now, I'll give it a try when the semester ends. Thanks.

Regards, Jakob

After a long time, I finally found time to try this out. And thanks to your answers and to a nice theme by David Cummins which I used as template I got it now! http://blog.jl42.de if someone wants to see it. I forgot what kind of content I wanted to put into the static pages, but I guess I'll remember soon. Thanks!

Hi

Glad you found one of my themes to your taste

Dave

Looks great!

Glad s9y worked well for you!