Pre Configured Joomla Install for Edugeek Members?

[Gatt]

Interested in this too

[jumpinjamez]

I am intrested , this would be a very nice freebie

[Guest]

Thanks for all the intrest guys. I am not giving out the link now until the next update which will be soon. Have been busy with work and a 9 week old so has gone on the back burner a little.

 

Just taking onboard what has been said in this thread and making some addtions.

 

One these are done and people are happy with the look of the site I will create some extra colour themes, plus bundle a photoshop PSD too.

 

If you have a colour shceme you would like to see let me know

 

Then all that is left is a install guide.

[MkII]

Looking forward to it sysman. I want one exactly like your sch site, only blue.. k? (and including flash banners, lighbox effects, and nice expanding menus)

[Guest]

Expanding menus?

[MkII]

yeah - y'know - you have a list of categories on the left menu, that when clicked, expand to show all sub-categories.

[SimpleSi]

@SYSMAN_MK

Nice to have you back - we were thinking of sending out a search party

 

Having had a large learning curve in installing and phpmyadmin etc what I like to know is how do you use all the facilities you've provided because it seems quite daunting to me

 

And as Grumbledook says - the things that we need to change could do with being in the same place if possible and obviously well documented (which if you are a true geek will never happen )

 

regards

 

Simon

[Guest]

yeah - y'know - you have a list of categories on the left menu, that when clicked, expand to show all sub-categories.

 

Ahh phew thought you ment some flash drop down menu I didn't realise I had made

 

@SimpleSi

 

Whats the daunting part mate? Do you mean editing the content?

 

Nice to be missed

[SimpleSi]

Well as a very small example

I login as Admin

 

I can se the edit button for middle area and I can change that - no prob

 

But I can see the school closed for snow at top right - how do i change it/delete it?

 

and that is the smallest of the questions I need to ask

 

How do I change the rotating pictures.?

 

How do I update the news - I tried changing it but none of my changes appeared!

 

etc etc etc

 

 

 

regards

Simon

[Guest]

Ok heres a quick answer to those Qs

 

currently to change the message to the right of the banner choose update urgent news from the user menu

 

Random image folder is located in images\stories\random_images just add / remove images from there.

 

To add news just choose submit school news from the user menu and then click on the publishing tab at the bottom of editing window and set status to published

 

Hope this is of some help. All this will be covered once site is comp;ete

[Guest]

Afternoon All

 

Have added the following to the demo site

 

http://edugeek.octoink.co.uk

 

RSS Feeds

 

Documents Section with sub menu

 

School Council (pupils) News Section

 

News items on front page under welcome message.

 

I haven't added a calendar compnent to keep things simple to start off with. Alot of schools have this information in word / pdf so having a link to this means just this single file has to be updated.

 

Anymore wishlist items then?

[MkII]

Looks great sysman

[Guest]

Cheers Mark

 

Right have added two colour themes to the live demo site. See first post for addy.

 

Have tried to give it a web 2.0 feel Plan to create a green theme plus 2 more to make a total of 5. Should be something for everyone then.

 

So aslong as people are happy with the theme then I shall begin the process of putting it all together.

 

Cheers again guys

[MkII]

Even better! Can't wait to have a go!

[tosca925]

I like the blue and red themes, can't wait to see the others. I have not had chance to sit down and have a play myself yet but this is on my list and will slowly get to the top.

 

I can't wait to see the green template.

[john316]

Is that the Simple Image Gallery plug-in on the home page? If so, how do you get that to display where the Header image used to be? It installs itself as a Mambot and can't be placed far as I can see using Joomla. Is it a case of messing with CSS as that isn't exactly my speciality

[Guest]

Smooth Gallery is used on the front page for the rotating images. It uses SIG for the gallery images in content menus.

[Guest]

!! Update !!

 

Next week will see this package finally available for download for all. The different colour themes have been created and can be viewed as usual here. I am in the process of finishing a high conttrast version too.

 

I will first make the site package available with basic install intructions to get the site running, for those with some Joomla knowledge / itching to have a look, with more detailed information to follow.

 

I will also be updating the demo site with more information regarding the package also.

 

Thanks again guys for support and intrest.

[MkII]

Wikked SYSMAN - you got a real designers touch

 

Roll on next week

 

 

PS With that base template, I notice that more often than not a little bit of stray code gets displayed in the footer..?

[Guest]

Thanks Mark.

 

Got a screen dump of the issue?

[MkII]

damn - can't gt it now. I do suspect our LEA filtering - it does do stuff like that - but I was sure I'd checked it from home too...

[Guest]

!! Update !!

 

Looking for a couple of people to test the installation of the package before I put the link up for everybody to enjoy. Have tried to make it as simple as poss. Just ftp to server, and run through install as normal and the site should then look exactly like the demo site.

 

PM for link.

 

Cheers

[gibb66]

I would love to have a test out of the website I'm really keen on using this template I think it would be really beneficial to alot ofschools out there.

 

[Guest]

Have got 5 users testing it for me now. Once they come back with an ok I'll post it up

[gibb66]

Great! do you have an ETA on this as I need one like yesterday as I need to hopefully have a proposal done for next week and would really like to use this template.