Re: Re: Re: Help with linking pages/content
>How do you get the images on the left that give your menu a look that is more useful for the visitor?
Do you mean the menu folder icons? That's an option you can choose on the Admin/General page (tiki-admin.php?page=general): "Display menus as folders." Actually I want to replace these with Mac/BeOS-style triangles some day (pointing right for closed, pointing down for open).
> It would be nice to have something like the weather image on the left,
That's a custom user module. You can go to www.weatherpixie.com to get the code for your location, and then make a module with that information. I just put their code (basically an anchor tag with an image) in a div, along with a little subtitle text.
> a custom menu also.
Yes, that's handy, and actually a necessity for a lot of Tiki sites, I think. The default Tiki application menu really contains way too much information for most sites; I had people complaining that it was too confusing. Actually there are additional menu items in our custom menu, but they don't show up unless you're logged in.
>Is part of the reason that this is different on your site the fact that you used Articles as your home page versus the wiki?
No, the two things are actually independent. To be precise, I didn't use Articles as my home page, but rather a new file based on articles, but with a dynamic content block at the top of the template, and a hardcoded limit to the number of articles to display. Actually you can get a similar effect with the articles plugin in a wiki page, but with the customized template there are no icons across the top (print, edit, pdf, etc.) which gives a cleaner look for the index page.
But what goes on in the center column is separate from the treatment in the left and right columns.
-- Gary
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