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: General Template Tip : awev August 05, 2008, 06:06:42 PM Do you have trouble remembering where each module position is? Have you ever looked at the different module position names that Joomla will list for you, and still scratch your head as to where they go on the page? Do you know where you want a module to be positioned, yet you can't remember if it is user7 or advert3, or something else? Here is the secret to answer those questions, and makes a handy reference as you lay out your site. Add "?tp=1", without the quotes, to your site's location/URL. In my case it would look like the following:
http://www.informationsearch.biz/?tp=1 (http://www.informationsearch.biz/?tp=1) If you use dual monitors (or more) you can open this in another browser (or browser window), have it displayed on a second screen, and use it to assign the correct positions to the modules in the other window. It even uses the context from the main page of your site, so you can see how you are doing. Just refresh the window once in a while. I hope that at least one other person finds this as helpful as I do. Sorry, I can't remember where I picked up this tip, yet even so, I can't claim credit for it. : Re: General Template Tip : aussiemike August 09, 2008, 03:50:43 PM This has got to be the very top tip I have had for J! yet. Thank you very much.
If anyone else out there has good tips for J! maybe you could add them here. : Re: General Template Tip : channeling September 03, 2008, 06:16:31 AM Do you have trouble remembering where each module position is? Have you ever looked at the different module position names that Joomla will list for you, and still scratch your head as to where they go on the page? Do you know where you want a module to be positioned, yet you can't remember if it is user7 or advert3, or something else? Here is the secret to answer those questions, and makes a handy reference as you lay out your site. Add "?tp=1", without the quotes, to your site's location/URL. In my case it would look like the following: http://www.informationsearch.biz/?tp=1 (http://www.informationsearch.biz/?tp=1) If you use dual monitors (or more) you can open this in another browser (or browser window), have it displayed on a second screen, and use it to assign the correct positions to the modules in the other window. It even uses the context from the main page of your site, so you can see how you are doing. Just refresh the window once in a while. I hope that at least one other person finds this as helpful as I do. Sorry, I can't remember where I picked up this tip, yet even so, I can't claim credit for it. BIG thx for that one..coool ;D : Re: General Template Tip : awev September 14, 2008, 07:47:49 AM I'm glad at least two people found the tip helpful :D
: Re: General Template Tip : easy4u February 05, 2009, 02:46:39 AM Thats good man!
Any more tricks? : Re: General Template Tip : hjfutch March 26, 2009, 06:42:27 AM Make that three people who found it useful! What a crew! What a community! Keep it up!
--Harry : Re: General Template Tip : misrold April 07, 2009, 04:50:29 AM Kewl! ;)
: Re: General Template Tip : Robert Bytnar May 12, 2009, 03:10:51 AM ;) This really is a great tip...... especially once I understood that I needed to simply add the characters ?tp=1 to my website name to get an overlay of the content area names for my site.
This is a HUGE help to the novice users! Thank you so much. |