derpir
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| 16 Nov 2008 12:51 PM |
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Hello
whats the diffrence between panes and containers?
Can I after buying a skin create additional panes?
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jncraig
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| 16 Nov 2008 2:35 PM |
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"Panes" are areas on a page into which modules can be placed.
"Containers" are decorations around modules.
So, you place a module in a pane on a page. You specify a container to style the module. Think of a container as a decorating wrapper for a module. Containers also provide items like "print" and the expandable visibility controls to the module.
To answer your question, yes. You can modify a skin to add additional panes. I'm not sure why you might want to do that, though. Typically a skin may have these sorts of panes:
- A "banner" pane above the menu for banner ads, or other content
- A "top" pane below the menu that extends the width of the page
- "Left," "Content Pane," and "Right" panes -- this is usually the main content part of a page with most of the content going into the central "Content Pane."
- "Bottom" or "Footer" panes at the bottom of the page. This spans the width of the page, and usually would appear above the page footer.
Other alternative will use only two panes in the central part of the page with a left or right pane and a main content pane.
I prefer not to add lots of panes. Instead, on the occasions when you need a non-standard "pane" layout, I like to use ZLDNN's ModuleWrapper module. Esstentially, you can use it to create a "table of panes" inside of an existing pane, and you can set these up to your liking.
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derpir
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| 16 Nov 2008 3:40 PM |
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Hello and thank you for you informative answer
I am building a sport website and I want to buy a skin that has or have the possibility to offer me this structure. Please Look at my attachted file and give me some feedback.
Is it possible? is their any shortcuts?
1. Banner pane
2. Top pane (image + company logo)
3. Vertical menu
4. Articles/news
5. Minor Article and news(older news)
6. Latest news (last 12h)
7. Advertising
Is it possible for me to buy a skin that has 7 or 8 panes and then organize them after my liking?
Any feedback? Does such skins exist or is it better to build one?
regards
Alexander
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derpir
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| 16 Nov 2008 3:43 PM |
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| sorry the picture got bigger than I thought |
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jncraig
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| 16 Nov 2008 4:13 PM |
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Yes, it's "possible" to buy such a skin, but you might want to consider getting a custom or semi-custom skin that meets your requirements exactly. I don't know a skin that fits this design off the top of my head, so I'd suggest that you look around -- check Snowcovered.
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Joe Craig
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derpir
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| 17 Nov 2008 4:45 AM |
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Thanks!
I think I´ll buy a skin with 5-7 panes and then organize 'em my way. Do you have any good suggestions or links to where I could find semi-custom services?
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leesykes
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derpir
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| 17 Nov 2008 5:06 PM |
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thanks Lee!
I will take a look |
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derpir
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| 19 Nov 2008 6:30 AM |
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Hello
Is it possible to buy two skins and combine them?
for example put one skins visual attributes on the second skin and keep the second skins structural attributes like panes and containers? I havn't found a video on that.
once again love this website!
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leesykes
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| 19 Nov 2008 10:44 AM |
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Hello,
It will be possible to a degree, but it depends on how both of the skins have been built. You should be able to strip elements out of each skin and build a skin from those elements. You just need to keep an eye on the skin.css code for each of the skins to double check how they have set up their layout.
The tutorials on here should give you a good background on how to manipulate the skins to suit your own needs.
Thanks,
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derpir
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| 19 Nov 2008 1:01 PM |
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Hi
thanks! yes I understand. I will deal with my skins more tomorrow, maybe some questions will arrive here by then.
//Alex |
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