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Author Topic: Adding new pages manually  (Read 1104 times)
Pmaurer

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« on: May 02, 2008, 07:02:50 PM »
I'd like to start adding more pages to my site such as "Band".....but i need to do it manually and not through the admin interface. Since i want the band page to be pretty similar to the home page, i tried to simply copy and rename the index.php file (for home) into a band.php file in the same directory and then copying and renaming the style.css sheet to styleband.css. then making sure to call that css sheet into the band.php file. But, it doesnt work. I'm getting error messages galore when i click on band. Am i doing something wrong?
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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2008, 10:54:52 PM »
It looks like you try to use templates as static webpages, thats not how it should work when you use WB.

You should create (using the backend) a page "band" with a wysiwyg section.
Your template is using fixed links (behind the images), so you would need to create a link to /wb/band.php in there.
The page "band" should use the same template as your "home" page.
The "page_content()" in your template is now filled with the new created page data.

The same thing goes for all other pages of your website.

If this is all new to you, I would suggest to go back to step one.
Set your template to "round" and create some pages in the backend. Then look at your site to see what happend.

Ruud
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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2008, 10:56:15 PM »
Okay, Update, I was able to add the Band page but I can't figure out how to edit the content of it, since it obviously won't change if i try to edit it in the WB CP. It's duplicating the main page.
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2008, 03:12:54 AM »
Are you calling the page_content() in your template as RuudE indicated? That's what pulls the content into the template.
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Pmaurer

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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2008, 04:31:47 PM »
There is no such code line "Page_content ()" in my template.....how can I put it in? Please be specific!
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2008, 04:33:42 PM »
Hello,

the required steps for adding WB template functions to the index.php of your template are described on the WB Help site: http://help.websitebaker.org/pages/en/advanced-docu/designer-guide/adding-template-functions.php

Regards Christian
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« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2008, 03:41:02 AM »
Ugh, I'm sorry i keep posting questions, but im very new to all this, and nothing seems to be working for me.
</div><!-- sidebar -->
<div id="main">
<?php echo page_content(1); ?>

I put that in, I dont know what page_content is doing, or even if it's in the right place.

What I ultimately want to be able to do is keep the main page layout for the Band page, but be able to change the sidebar and main body content. And I would like to be able to do this with all the other pages too....thanks guys, i appreciate it.
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Stefek
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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2008, 10:55:57 AM »
Advice:
1) Download a template (no matter which one, just do it)
2) Open the index.php file
3) Study its source-code an at the same time study this one:
http://help.websitebaker.org/pages/en/advanced-docu/designer-guide/adding-template-functions.php?searchresult=1&sstring=template

Regards,
Stefek

P.S.If you are using a WYSIWYG editor like for example "dreamwever" or "golive" or even "NVU", you may want to see something in the preview.
Just add this line into your <head> section:
<link href="screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />

Thus you can better work with your template while creating it.  wink
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« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2008, 12:08:02 AM »
That didn't answer my previous post Undecided.
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marathoner

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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2008, 12:22:42 AM »
Stefek gave you a very good answer your question. You don't appear to have read the documentation or taken a look at existing templates and really don't understand how it's supposed to work. If you simply take a look at a couple of the templates you'll see different ways to do things and where you could call page content into your template. You can easily create new pages in WB and have both the content and the menu dynamically updated each time the page is displayed.
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