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Kyle93815



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:23 am    Post subject: Edit Component Heads - "Main Page" & "Sea Reply with quote

I've edited all my component heads to use title images I created. The problem is that I can't find where to edit either the "Main Pages" category list component, or the "Search" component.

Is it even possible? Thanks!
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Kyle93815



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This must be a real stumper! I've never gone a whole day without a reply.
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john
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not a stumper, just took a little while to get to this post today. Wink

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The problem is that I can't find where to edit either the "Main Pages" category list component, or the "Search" component.


The Category Tree or the Search component can not be customized at this time, through there is a touch of CSS you can modify on the Search component, namely the componentSearch class and likely the buttonWhite class which will change the look of the submit button. (View HTML source on your blog to make sure it uses buttonWhite for the submit button.)
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, and someday you can send me a private message to let me know the URL of your blog. It must look pretty cool by now and I would be very interested in seeing it!
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Kyle93815



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haha..thanks John. I promise when I get it tweaked a little more I'll post the address.
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Kyle93815



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, and I doubt it's gonna look anywhere near "cool". I don't know crapola about CSS or whatever, do I'm just trying to make it look simple and clean. I'm trying to look at as many other blogs as I can for inspiration.

I'm building the Frankenstein blog...ha.
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Kyle93815



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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just thought I'd mention that I found a way to edit the Search component. You can actually work around the category tree the same way, but I wanted to add a different sort of bullet so I went with the topics list.

Anyway, to make a custom search component...

1. Copy the search component code out of the HTML source of a live page. You can't grab it out of the base stylesheet, it has to be the live page.

2. Create a new component and paste the code.

3. Do whatever you want.


I wanted to add a custom image to the component head. It doesn't make a great deal of difference because my custom heads are just arial based titles, but I like the look better. It bothered me that I had one that didn't match.

My custom component code looks like this:

<div class="component">
<div class="componentHead">
<img src="/images/Search.gif">

</div>
<div class="componentContent">
<div class="componentSearch">
<form method=get action="/blog">
<input type=hidden name=cmd value="search">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="componentSearch">

<tr>
<td nowrap><input type=text name=keywords value="" size=20></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td nowrap>
<div style="margin-top:2px;">
<input type="submit" class="buttonWhite" value="Go"></div></td>
</tr>

</table>
</form>
</div> <!-- componentSearch -->
</div> <!-- componentContent -->
</div> <!-- component -->
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john
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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good post, Kyle. Yes, there are some components that are not yet modifiable as custom components; the reason for this is we are waiting to make sure that the code in those components gets "shaken out" and does not require further change before we allow users to make their own changes to the component. If we find that we need to add some other HTML input options to the Search component for example, it might break some users custom components so we want to avoid that where possible.

As the code gets to a point where we are confident that there will be no changes, then we will allow the Component to be modifiable as a Custom Component.
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Kyle93815



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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2004 10:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a good point about the code being broken.
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