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Basic Site Design: Complete Newbie question

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David Jones

Tuesday 01 August 2006 7:19:41 am

Hi, I am completely new to Exponential and have been asked to set up a site using it.

I think I have my head around the structure of the data etc for the admin side but I am lost with the templates. I would really appreciate some guidance as this looks like a really good product and one I hope to be able to use for future clients.

I have a site which needs several types of page template. Each has a slightly different look.

The pages types I need are:

Home
Text
News
Events
Form

Each of these 5 types needs a slightly different look so I assume I need 5 page templates.

However, when I look at the example sites that come with the installation there appear to be hundreds of different template files.

If you could give me some simple steps to creating a site with 5 templates to follow I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance.

Stephen Martin

Tuesday 01 August 2006 8:50:14 am

A good place to start is the documentation on templates:

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/templates

Also, you'll probably need to pay attention to template overrides as well to use the different templates you'd like to create:

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/templates/the_template_override_system

Softriva .com

Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:57:44 am

This is from an old documentation but I think it is still valid.

http://ez.no/products/ez_publish/documentation/building_an_ez_publish_site

Give it a shot. It will clear a lot of your inquiries.

Tim Dickinson

Wednesday 02 August 2006 5:01:54 pm

I found this article pretty useful:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/table-less-css-ez-publish

Tim

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David Jones

Friday 04 August 2006 4:06:04 am

Thanks.

That has been a great help