View settings Alphorn theme (homepage)

Submitted by Jokes on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 10:10

Hi!
I want to build my site just the way the Alphorn-theme demo was built. Someone who can provide me with the correct view settings for the homepage???
Thanx

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St Octavin banner will not position correctly

by Starbursts12 - 08/11/2010 - 16:58

Hi, I have been playing around with the St Octavin theme and I just cant get the views banner to align, as I always have a margin (a blank space of about 5/10px) on the left hand side.

I have used Firebug to compared my dev page 'http://shushey.com/devdir/' with the demo site 'http://demo.symphonythemes.com/index.php?theme=octavin' and  the only difference seems to be that I dont know how to apply '#block-views-view_image_slideshow-block_1 img {margin-right: 0;} to the block.

In addition, I have followed the guide to the letter (I've been throught it enough times :-)) but still no joy.

Finally, I did notice that the guide was for St Alphorn and not St Octavin.

Thank you. Steven

Hi Jokes

by admin - 04/09/2010 - 00:38

Did you read our documemt? It was attached in Alphorn Theme package, please read it to know how to built a drupal site with Alphorn theme.

Cheers,

Support -SymphonyThemes.

blog view: title. date and introtext doesn't go as demo

by cs02 - 07/06/2010 - 05:09

Hello.

First of all, I must thank you for your wonderful themes, documentation and tutorial which had helped me a lot building my first website. Being a newbies, those informations had helped me learn more of the power of Drupal, and inspires me a lot to be creative (later).

A little question about the blog view as explained in the PDF document coming with the download and also here, I learn that this has something to do with the CSS and styling in the blog view, but I cannot make it work like as I expected, i.e: the Content: image sits above the other nodes (Node: title, User: name, Node: post date, etc.).

In your demo here,the Content: image sits perfectly side by side with the rest of the nodes.

I do not know much about CSS nor PHP nor coding in general, but are there any conventions in naming the Views that can make these things work like your demo?

Again, I must say thank you for the great themes and tutorials, and I really appreciate your support.

Attached is the picture of my situation.

With best regards,

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Hi

by admin - 07/07/2010 - 05:03

What's name of image filed? The name must be "field_image".

Field name

by cs02 - 07/07/2010 - 09:09

Here is my setting under Label / Name/ Type, in 'Field name' view, of Page/Story type:

Title ... /

Menu ... /

image / field_image / file / File

Body ... /

introtext / field_introtext / Text

etc.

 

On the other hand, in View's view, I had tried several times using different names for the view, such as 'viewstory', 'view_story', and no luck. Under the View's view now I am using 'Blog' as the node view and 'blog' as the path. Probably I should change the node view into 'blog' (no capital)? I will try this method, anyway. And if it works I will report here again later.

I am so excited as this will be my first real website --pro bono for my brother in law (He seems satisfied already with the current result, 'tho, and no further action is deemed necessary actually).

I really apreaciate for your support and everything. If you can suggest me some files or documentations on which I should read more to solve this situation, I will be thankful.

Again, thanks for the themes and all, and my best regards.

CS

Problem solved

by cs02 - 07/07/2010 - 16:38

Ah, problem's solved! It is my own mistake from the beginning.

Under the View, I named the view 'Blog' instead of 'blog' (capital). I should have named it 'blog'!

I have read elsewhere in your documentation that I can not rename a view, and am aware of the risk of deleting a view (lost the whole content of such view), but it is still a dummy website anyway.

An easier method is to rename the files within the sites/all/themes/alphorn/templates/custom folder, such as views-view-blog.tpl.php into views-view-Blog.tpl.php (capitalize the 'B' on '...-blog.tpl.php) and so on, but I don't want to do that.

Now it looks perfect, but only for the ImageCache setting, where I put a different size to the small image setting, and the small image overlaps the introtext under the blog view.

But this one, I think I must look into the files within custom folder and learn a little bit more from there to adjust the small image (I don't want to change the ImageCache's small image setting) and the introtext to suit what I want.

What troubled me before, was that the whole display works fine when I change the theme into another one of yours, St. Octavin (no problem at all using that theme, although sometimes it doesn't go smoothly switching from St. Alphorn to St. Octavin. But that's another story).

Many thanks, again and again, and I wish both of us luck in the future.

Best regards,

 

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EDIT: I've looked down at the PHP codes and I don't understand any single character in there --my ignorance. I guess I'll have to stick with the smaller image than what I wished for and be happy with that.

 

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EDIT:

I changed <div class="grid_3 alpha image-wrapper"> inside views-view-field--blog--field-image-fid.tpl.php into  <div class="grid_4 alpha image-wrapper"> and I get the results that I had wanted since the beginning! (Don't even know what's that all about).