Changing the Colors of the Section Buttons
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Last Post: March 17, 2009 (RSS)
By sidcam - March 13, 2009
Is there any way you can add the ability to individually customize the colors of the section buttons and/or create a "header/seperator" section that looks different in the menu bar? I've hit 50-60 sections and need a better way to break up the long row of blue buttons better than creating division sections in all caps or using dashes.
Re: [sidcam] Changing the Colors of the Section Buttons
By ross - March 16, 2009
Hi sidcam
Thanks for posting!
There isn't really going to be an easy way to change those buttons. I can see how managing 50-60 sections would be quite a long list to work with though so let's have a look at another idea.
What are all of your sections doing? Are they all just single updating a single page or are they all list pages?
Let me know and we can go over how to combine your single pages into just one section.
Thanks.
Thanks for posting!
There isn't really going to be an easy way to change those buttons. I can see how managing 50-60 sections would be quite a long list to work with though so let's have a look at another idea.
What are all of your sections doing? Are they all just single updating a single page or are they all list pages?
Let me know and we can go over how to combine your single pages into just one section.
Thanks.
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Re: [ross] Changing the Colors of the Section Buttons
By sidcam - March 16, 2009
There's quite a bit of table redundancy, actually. Maybe 2/3 of it is redundant.
There's two sections that have the same basic layout of a newspaper- i.e. sub-sections like Headline News, Business News, Entertainment, etc. There's a main section page (like the front page of a newspaper) that has summaries of each sub-section and then there is the sub-section list view pages and the individual article pages. All those sub-section tables and list view/article pages are just copies of each other setting in their own individual folders.
I was playing with list fields last week and realized I could probably set up radio buttons and sorts/search commands to create virtual sub-sections like I had when I was using Article Manager and then consolidate them all down to just one set of list view/article pages. Just haven't figured out how yet.
The biggest challenge I have in doing that is that I have a "site level" table that holds records with subsection data- i.e. custom data that changes with each sub-section like ads, navigation and links, header/footer differences, etc. I don't want my users when they are creating an article to have to go through a list of which subsection data needs to be added to the page. So I would have to have the page know that if the radio button category for table A is "Business News" then it should use the "Business News" record out of Table B. Right now I'm just calling that second table on every page but changing which record to look up in the table by hand based on what folder the page is in. (and that's where it's gotten over my head).
My real problem is that my main pages are accessing 15+ tables (i.e. all those subsection tables) and I'm concerned about performance times so I'm thinking reducing tables might help par that down as well.
Thanks
Sid
There's two sections that have the same basic layout of a newspaper- i.e. sub-sections like Headline News, Business News, Entertainment, etc. There's a main section page (like the front page of a newspaper) that has summaries of each sub-section and then there is the sub-section list view pages and the individual article pages. All those sub-section tables and list view/article pages are just copies of each other setting in their own individual folders.
I was playing with list fields last week and realized I could probably set up radio buttons and sorts/search commands to create virtual sub-sections like I had when I was using Article Manager and then consolidate them all down to just one set of list view/article pages. Just haven't figured out how yet.
The biggest challenge I have in doing that is that I have a "site level" table that holds records with subsection data- i.e. custom data that changes with each sub-section like ads, navigation and links, header/footer differences, etc. I don't want my users when they are creating an article to have to go through a list of which subsection data needs to be added to the page. So I would have to have the page know that if the radio button category for table A is "Business News" then it should use the "Business News" record out of Table B. Right now I'm just calling that second table on every page but changing which record to look up in the table by hand based on what folder the page is in. (and that's where it's gotten over my head).
My real problem is that my main pages are accessing 15+ tables (i.e. all those subsection tables) and I'm concerned about performance times so I'm thinking reducing tables might help par that down as well.
Thanks
Sid
Re: [sidcam] Changing the Colors of the Section Buttons
By ross - March 17, 2009
Hi Sid
Thanks for the update!
It does sound like you could set that up with fewer tables. It should help with the performance too which is nice.
Make sure you have a backup of both your template files and the MySQL database before you start making any changes.
It's hard for me to say exactly how you can condense the tables but it does sound like you have some ideas. As long as you have those backups, have a go at it and let me know how you make out.
If you wanted to post a link to your site, I might be able to give you some suggestions on how to setup the different sections.
Thanks!
Thanks for the update!
It does sound like you could set that up with fewer tables. It should help with the performance too which is nice.
Make sure you have a backup of both your template files and the MySQL database before you start making any changes.
It's hard for me to say exactly how you can condense the tables but it does sound like you have some ideas. As long as you have those backups, have a go at it and let me know how you make out.
If you wanted to post a link to your site, I might be able to give you some suggestions on how to setup the different sections.
Thanks!
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