(1) formatting RSS (2) Newspaper Layout?
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Hi All,
Just discovered Concrete5 a couple days ago. I'm absolutely thrilled with it after attempting to learn joomla. Concrete 5 is something I feel I can really use without losing my marbles totally. :)
I have a couple questions - could you offer your suggestions please?
(1) I made an RSS feed on Dapper to get the movie cinema listings for one local theater. I was able to put them on my Concrete5 site, but the content is running together like a paragraph - when I would prefer to have each movie title on a separate line. How can I format the results of the RSS feed? Please see my page here:
http://hartfordguideonline.com/index.php... - see the right column.
(2) I am currently playing with the default template for Concrete5. It is nice, but if I could, I'd really like to have more of a newspaper like layout instead. I'm trying to do a magazine/newspapery type site. Is there a template out there I should use instead? I didn't see one among the offerings on the Concrete5 site. Help?
Hoping to be able to give back to the community somehow after I get to know how everything works.
Thanks in advance. :)
Just discovered Concrete5 a couple days ago. I'm absolutely thrilled with it after attempting to learn joomla. Concrete 5 is something I feel I can really use without losing my marbles totally. :)
I have a couple questions - could you offer your suggestions please?
(1) I made an RSS feed on Dapper to get the movie cinema listings for one local theater. I was able to put them on my Concrete5 site, but the content is running together like a paragraph - when I would prefer to have each movie title on a separate line. How can I format the results of the RSS feed? Please see my page here:
http://hartfordguideonline.com/index.php... - see the right column.
(2) I am currently playing with the default template for Concrete5. It is nice, but if I could, I'd really like to have more of a newspaper like layout instead. I'm trying to do a magazine/newspapery type site. Is there a template out there I should use instead? I didn't see one among the offerings on the Concrete5 site. Help?
Hoping to be able to give back to the community somehow after I get to know how everything works.
Thanks in advance. :)
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I'm not sure where else to look for answers except this forum.
Hi there,
For number 1, you can apply a custom template to the RSS displayer block and do all sorts of funky formatting, getting it to display the way you want.
For number 2, take a look at the marketplace and see if anything catches your eye. Depending on your confidence with html/css/php it's pretty simple to make your own theme. The best way would be to take a look at one of the default themes and see how it works. Then check out the help section for more details on how to build your own. Sky's the limit with themes!
For number 1, you can apply a custom template to the RSS displayer block and do all sorts of funky formatting, getting it to display the way you want.
For number 2, take a look at the marketplace and see if anything catches your eye. Depending on your confidence with html/css/php it's pretty simple to make your own theme. The best way would be to take a look at one of the default themes and see how it works. Then check out the help section for more details on how to build your own. Sky's the limit with themes!
