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My efforts at transforming a web site to GeekLog continue...

I'm trying to understand the Story part of it. When I was dealing with Static Pages, there was the option of using or not using the left and right blocks. It appears as I've created a couple of stories that the default is to ALWAYS use the left and right columns. Is that correct?

Also, my purpose in transferring this site to GeekLog is to make it possible for some of the members of this club to make updates of their own. However, they are for the most part NOT computer or Internet experts, and making a post that has formatting for proper display would be difficult for them.

We have need every two or three months to post a list of dog training classes and the people that have gotten a place in that class. (The web site is used to announce these class listings for those who have signed up for a class).

On the current non-GeekLog web site, I am using a handsome table, with centering and multicolored bars. I certainly could create at least part of this in a story post (the centering does not seem to work, but code for tables is supported); however, for these HTML-illiterates to make changes to such a table may be difficult.

How difficult would it be to have some formatting in a story, something that would be simpler than the typical code of an HTML table? All I need are two columns, one for the name of the handler and the other for the name of the dog.

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Steven Weyhrich --

If you're talking about the index page then that is correct. On the article page, the default is left blocks only - the What's Related and Story Options blocks aren't real blocks.


There are a variety of add-ons that integrate more user-friendly story editors (HTMLarea, I think, is one of them). Have you tried one of those?


Geeklog strips out all HTML tags and attributes that are not defined in the $_CONF['user_html'] and $_CONF['admin_html'] arrays in config.php. You could easily add what you're missing there.

bye, Dirk

Regarding the left & right blocks issue: What I've done is defined a topic called "Agility Class Roster", and then created a Story that is designated to go ONLY on that page (not on the Indxe page). It is on that topic page that I have left, center, and right blocks appearing, and I can't see a way to make it only show the left block.

Regarding the add-ons -- I'll take a look at those and see what would help me.

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Steven Weyhrich --