Radically Different Geekloog look.

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, March 20 2003 @ 04:48 PM EST

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 20 2003 @ 06:08 PM EST

Well then, I will try my best to prove you wrong :)

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 21 2003 @ 11:47 AM EST

Geeklog is really well coded... i am sure with some php experience you could hack into all of those templatehtmls and get i dunno... bubbles and stuff... i personally don't have the need to.

Geeklog is very powerful, hence the design, for everything else i just make my own code...

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Authored by: rawdata on Sunday, March 23 2003 @ 04:23 PM EST

That's the problem. People are creating their own little thing but aren't sharing it with the community to help spark other ideas or help those who don't have the skills to add new spice into their sites. If everyone had the same attitude of only building what they needed, Geeklog and other CMS' would not have the features they have today.

I think Blaine's challenge was to get people who have skills in other areas involved too. You don't have to create something you don't need. If you incorporated some neat feature or a really nice theme then package it up and share it. This is a great way of saying thank-you to those who spent many, many hours on the core, plugins, and blocks we all are using. It's through this collective sharing that the product grows and features expand.

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Authored by: watcorp on Sunday, March 23 2003 @ 04:53 PM EST

And lets not forget that you can mix in java applets by simply atting it the allowablehtml array in the config.php file, this can allow you to signifigantly modify the UI...

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 23 2003 @ 09:05 AM EST

Hey guys,
On this site I changed the theme around a little to incorporate some flash as the header as well as the navigation. When the person logs in, some of the navigation changes to allow the user to access their account info. I tried to move a little away from the default geeklog look and give it its own style. The theme still has some blocks, but I just wanted to show you a little of what can be done with using flash in the templates and getting a little creative.

Matthew

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 24 2003 @ 01:03 PM EST

Ever thought of sharing that template?

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Authored by: Creator on Friday, March 21 2003 @ 11:12 AM EST

I did toy with the idea of converting blocks to div layers and using some DHTML tricks on them like on this site. The idea of movable blocks is quite appealing. But it's gonna take a LOT of work to incorporate into GL, and I haven't had the time to get my feet wet. Maybe you'd like to check it out.

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Authored by: Blaine on Friday, March 21 2003 @ 11:34 PM EST

I posted a comment just a few days about challenging geeklog users to doing more with developing more unique and business oriented themes for Geeklog. I know there are many users that have benefited from the hundreds of hours others have contributed to develop plugins, blocks and support.

So now is the time for others that have skills and experience in DHTML, FLASH, HTML, CSS and other presentation level skills to contribute and help this community. There are a lot of excellent sites to draw examples from.

I can't emphasis enough that we need more business oriented themes and a way of softening the presentation of the interface and all the available features. I've seen too many new users get a very confused first impression of a Geeklog site - too busy -- too many links and options.

I can always configure a site with few blocks and plenty of white space. But how about a theme where you can hide or collapse blocks

Suggestions or ideas:
- 2 Column vs 3 view
- Block title with mini icons to allow blocks to be minimized or collapsed.
- A theme where I can collapse all of the Right column. Sort of the way Mozzila does it
- Movable blocks is nice idea as well for personalization
- Need to be able to store settings so preferences are maintained
- Integrated Flash or all flash based theme

Now if all of that plus a very clean and professional look would be the ultimate. A theme supporting some of these ideas would be great. Other theme users would be able to leverage the work.

I know there are users who don't want flash or want sites to be 100% XHTML complient. I'd just like to see more options and approaches.

But I'd be happy to see some new fresh, original clean looking themes

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 21 2003 @ 03:59 PM EST

I was actaully looking at taking the menu editor and tweaking it to work off of DHTMLCentrals coolmenus4. I haven't done it yet but I have started to design the concepts.

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Authored by: alinford on Sunday, March 23 2003 @ 10:40 AM EST

This would be very cool.

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Authored by: alinford on Sunday, March 23 2003 @ 03:40 PM EST

I have a site that I wanted to use DHTML menus with. I did this by creating a blank block called ddmenu with this as the content:
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><p>

I then put the java in the header and set it to line up in the ddmenu block. Because there were a few pages that I did not want to use the left block (or the DHTML menu) on, I created a second header that did not include the java for those pages. I tried this a few different ways (including putting the java in blockfooter-left.thtml so that I would not need to use a different header) and it seemed that this was the only way I could get the menus to work correctly in IE, Mozilla and Opera.

The problem is that you need to set this up with each template, lining up the java with the ddmenu block. Also, it does not work with some templates because the java uses absolute positioning.

What would be nice is if the DHTML Menus could be integrated with the menu plugin.

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Authored by: richschmidt on Monday, March 24 2003 @ 02:55 AM EST

You might check out www.trinityvineyard.org. It's a church site that uses Geeklog & looks very little like any other Geeklog site I've seen.

They put the two side columns both over on the right side & edited it in a bunch of other ways, too, apparently. You can tell it's Geeklog, but it looks VERY NICE. :)

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Authored by: os on Monday, March 24 2003 @ 05:03 AM EST

yeah, does anyone know who did this or how its done?
I am going to try to create a different look at my odots.org page, but playing with blocks etc its not that easy (relative, it all relative :)

ø.s

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Authored by: rawdata on Monday, March 24 2003 @ 02:04 PM EST

The header.thtml controls the left blocks and the footer.thtml controls the right blocks. I think if you remove the left table and then put the variables {left_blocks} and {right_blocks} both in the footer, they'll both appear on the right.

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Authored by: richschmidt on Tuesday, March 25 2003 @ 12:24 AM EST

I think the designer's name is ed gordon. A link to his email is at the bottom of their site.

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Authored by: alinford on Monday, March 24 2003 @ 03:30 PM EST

I am not very creative, but I am a really good editor. The sites I run work well with the current templates, so I am having a difficult time thinking of new layouts that would work better for me than the common 2 or 3 column layouts most weblog and nuke sites use.
Does anyone have some examples of sites with different layouts they like? Maybe someone has seen a nuked site that is very different from the norm. The examples given so far are not really that different.
I am getting set to do a Fraternity site that will need to use DHTML menus. I have added them to the clean template, but I would gladly hold up on creating the site and try something different if I had some good examples to follow.

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