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Posted 03/09/21 by Kasey NortonHow do I create different headers for different pages? I want to keep the same layout/skin for each page but I want to design header graphics unique to many of the individual pages in my main links.
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Posted by Kasey Norton on 08/20/20 | |
Dan I forgot to tag you! And also wanted to reiterate how grateful I am for all your help! | ||
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Posted by Kasey Norton on 08/19/20 | |
Dan Okay yes it would be the banner then. I just want to be able to change the banner graphic on certain pages. :) | ||
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Posted by Kasey Norton on 08/19/20 | |
Dan I imagine you thinking I was a bit odd for having such a huge graphic there on the youth page. 😂 I actually just loaded that there to see if we liked it as a header so it was sized to fit the head area. I have another one loaded just to check and I left it there this time so you could see what I mean. If you look at this page page and imagine the oversized graphic sliding up into the place of the existing header above it (with the existing header removed) that is what I'm going for. I think this ⬇️ is what I'm asking.... If you don't want a standard header in a section, but want to put something different on every page, you simply empty the contents of the header zone and then put the graphic you want on each page. Not my recommendation, but it's certainly doable. But I'm not sure how to empty the contents of the header zone. I'm actually not even sure how to access the header zone because when I go in through "zones" that area isn't clickable. I have all the graphics made already because I kept them uniform and just went in and changed the titles so it only took a few minutes. I read through the Welcome Tour again about the page heirarchies. I think I may have to read it several more times to truly begin to get it but I see this: In addition to view and edit permissions, you can customize their headers, footers, and side menus, create specialized actions, enable various plugins, or skins, and set various configuration options as well, for any group of pages you wish. Learning to use page hierarchies effectively can make web administration much simpler, and accomplish some amazing effects. We'll look at a couple examples in the next guide. If I canfigure out how to access the header zone on a particular page (I can find it, just can't edit it) then I may be able to figure it out! :) |
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Posted by Dan Vis on 08/19/20 | |
Hi Kasey. I'm not 100% sure what you mean exactly but if you want to put graphics in the header for various sections of your site (like a blog graphic on all your blog pages) you put the graphic in blog.header. Same with other sections. Be sure to go back and reread the section on page names in the Welcome Tour. Especially the section on hierarchical page names and how they relate to zones. This is a very important and powerful concept in BoltWire. If you don't want a standard header in a section, but want to put something different on every page, you simply empty the contents of the header zone and then put the graphic you want on each page. Not my recommendation, but it's certainly doable. I'd also suggest, if you are just talking simple boxes like you have for the blog right now, you can create them dynamically which would be MUCH easier. Try putting something like this: <div style='width: 400px; height:50px; padding: 20px; margin: 20px auto; border: 2px red solid; font-size: 200%; font-weight: bold; color: blue;'> <center>SOME HEADER</center> on a testpage in your site, and see what happens. Here's what this one looks like, but you can tweak it however you want by fiddling with the numbers and colors. Then when you get it how you want, we can create a class so you just have to do <div class=fancybox>
SOME HEADER </div> Creating all those graphics can be time consuming and it's hard to get them all right. The youth one for example was way too big and I had to resize it in the code to get it to fit. But I think your site will look better if there's a consistency to it. Just my thoughts. Anyway, reread that section of the welcome tour and then let me know if you need additional help with something specifically. |
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