Individual side column Howto?

[pivey]

Hi,

i am working on a multilingual website with WB.
Since different pages will all have a right side column, i need for each page to have its very own sidebar content.
I was searching the forum without results.

Is there anyone out there who tried this before?
Otherwise i will need to embed the sidebar within my content and edit from there.

Could a slight modification to the "news module" do the job, so a sidebar could have its unique content via an additional module, working as "section"?

[pivey]

would content blocks do the job?
http://www.websitebaker2.org/en/help/designer-guide/content-blocks.php

or Global blocks?
http://www.websitebakers.de/tutorials/topics/global-blocks---globale-inhalte.php

[Prelocate]

Dear all

I have kind of the same problem like pivey. I'm working as well on a bilingual website (EN, GER) and I would like to show news in the right and left fixed side-columns (using an adapted Multiflex-template).
The only solution I figured out so far is to create single templates for the two languages. But this means changing the templates all the time if there are any news.

It would be more elegant to have a possibility with one tool that allows to show the English content in the EN-pages and the German content in the GER-pages (maybe according to the chosen site-language?). Is there anything like that?

Thank you in advance for your advices!!

[Argos]

Normally you have an independant site structure for each language, and matching templates for each language, and separate content for each language. Say you have a very simple site in English and German, then you could have this page tree in the backend:

-ENG
--Home
--Our Products
--Contact Us
-GER
--Startseite
--Unsere Produkte
--Kontakt

The English pages use an English template, and the German pages use a German template (if there are hardcoded texts in the template).

So the content is separated per language. Of course you have to write and publish all content twice, once per language. So for news you have to use the News module twice: once in each language section. Then the German news items show up in German section, and the English news in the English section. It's really as straightforward as can be.

Look also here for more info in multiple language sites: http://www.websitebaker2.org/en/help/designer-guide/multilingual-websites.php?lang=EN

[Prelocate]

Thanks Argos for your advice - it seems that I supposed right: the only solution is to build two separate templates... So I will do that then

Thanks!

[MarkPrima]

How about if one wants to eliminate the column for certain pages - say you want some pages full width?
I would think that a new template page would have to be made?
Say I wanted to get rid of the left column -
http://cms.ssmarts.org/

Almost the opposite to: http://www.websitebaker2.org/en/help/designer-guide/content-blocks.php

 

[Argos]

Yes, using another template is the easiest solution.